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'Fresh, energetic, and completely hilarious, The Wangs vs. the World is my favorite debut of the year.' Jami Attenberg, author of Saint Mazie and The Middlesteins Charles Wang has just lost the cosmetics fortune he built up since emigrating to the US. Gone are the houses, the cars, and the incredible lifestyle. Faced with this loss, he decides to take his family on a trip to China and attempt to reclaim his ancestral lands. But first they must go on a cross-country journey from their foreclosed Bel-Air home to the Upstate New York retreat of his eldest daughter, Saina. Charles takes his other ...

Teruel 1981. En la comarca del Vallecico, el padre Bernardo—un laborioso y abnegado cura rural—se afana por llegar a tiempo a las cinco parroquias del valle, a bordo de su Mobylette Campera de color naranja. Recorre los caminos sin empedrar con una fe inquebrantable, protegido por el brazo incorrupto de Santo Toribio, patrón de la comarca. Las autoridades eclesiásticas deciden trasladar la reliquia a la catedral de Valencia pese a la insistencia del humilde cura. A pesar de sus súplicas es ignorado y el valle es víctima de la sequía, la despoblación, el éxodo, la tristeza. Año...

Success-it's something everyone hopes for but few have the fortitude and endurance necessary to achieve it, especially when confronted by one adversity after another. Lupe Cordoba knows that hard work and determination are the traits necessary to achieve success, and she used these strong personal qualities to rise to her position as a nationally acclaimed restaurateur. Cordoba seemed to encounter nothing but hardships and obstacles throughout her life, and in La Morenita: The Story of Lupe Cordoba, she candidly illustrates how her life developed from an idyllic childhood in a small Mexican...

¿Quién no se ha preguntado por la existencia de otros mundos y ha imaginado cómo descubrirlos? Escritos en la primera mitad del siglo XX, los cuentos de Judith Merril, Zenna Henderson, Joanna Russ, Doris Pitkin Buck, Wilmar H. Shiras, C. L. Moore y Mildred Clingerman muestran posibles vías para llegar a ellos. Ya sea a través de viajes que desafían el valor de sus protagonistas, la convergencia de dimensiones en la cotidianidad del hogar, las mutaciones genéticas o los pueblos escondidos, estas escritoras nos sugieren que hay universos distintos que se tocan, que multiplican el...