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Mi vestido verde esmeralda by Alister Ramirez Marquez recounts the life story of Clara, born poor in isolated, rural Colombia in 1900, who makes her way, after a mythic journey through forests, mountains and swamps to the western region of the Quindio, to the city of Armenia, now the heart of coffee and banana production. This remarkable novel, first published in 2003, is the tale of Clara's adventurous journey and subsequent rise to prosperity as the owner of a farm and restaurant and mother of six, ending with years of political strife and the dissolution of her family. The novel provides...

A middle-aged novelist devoid of inspiration alights on material in the form of an obsessive pet-shop worker from Cincinnati. A pregnant mother of two finds herself increasingly in thrall to her help, Nat. For Joad, the discovery of a haunting type-written document in an old desk in need of restoration is overwhelming. And when Roxanne rescues her sister from an institution, she comes to realise how vulnerable they both are.Each of the seven stories in Total is a full world, painted with vivid strokes. From the comforting mundanities of motherhood to a technologically infected near future...

Un año decisivo: 1492. Dos ciudades singulares: Granada y Barcelona. Tres mujeres extraordinarias: Beatriz Galindo, dama de la reina; Catalina de Dalt, una noble ambiciosa y sin escrúpulos; y Sara Dertosa, una joven judía con un destino incierto. Ellas son las narradoras y protagonistas de tres historias que se van entrelazando hasta converger en un acontecimiento histórico que pudo cambiar el rumbo de España y de Europa: el atentado sufrido en Barcelona por el rey Fernando II de Aragón. Por un instante, el destino del hombre más poderoso de su tiempo estuvo en las manos de tres...

Seductively feminine and shockingly fatal femmes fatales are introduced in a collection of seventeen sizzling masterpieces by an award-winning editor, featuring top writers such as Nelson DeMille, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Perry, Elmore Leonard, Ed