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This collection of original essays covers the turf that made Didion a sensation - Hollywood and Patty Hearst; Malibu, Manson and the Mojave; the Summer of Love and the Central Park Five - while bringing together some of the finest voices of today's Los Angeles and beyond. Slouching Towards Los Angeles is a love letter and thank you note; personal memoir and social commentary; cultural history and literary critique.

Denise Hamilton writes the Eve Diamond series. Her books have been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony, and Willa Cather awards. The Los Angeles Times named Last Lullaby a Best Book of 2004, and it was also a USA Today Summer Pick and a finalist for a Southern California Booksellers Association 2004 award.

En el anterior libro hemos asistido al final más sorprendente de toda la serie. ¿Alguien se lo imaginaba? ¿Cómo terminarán todos estos sorprendentes misterios? Una cosa está clara, nada es lo que parece. Continuación de El final es el principio, la nueva serie Ángeles de Vicente Raga, el autor de Las doce puertas, una de las sagas de misterio histórico más vendida en los últimos años en España, México y Estados Unidos. Todas las novelas de esta serie han sido número 1 en España y México.

Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She's finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is...not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape. If only she could get rid of the ghost who's plagued her since the eighth grade.   

Young Australian artist Mia Moretti has been cancer free for nine months. But her battle with the illness has taken its toll, leaving her depressed and tormented by overwhelming fears. What's more, she can't seem to paint anymore. Mia needs a fresh start so when a surprise opportunity to travel to Tuscany presents itself, she takes it. With any luck, this trip will help her find whatever it is she needs to open her heart and start painting again.

Veronica and Stoker are practically dying for a new adventure, but when their wish is granted, they find themselves up against a secret society and a darkly seductive duo in this landmark historical mystery from beloved New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna...

Robert Langdon, experto en simbología, es convocado a un centro de investigación suizo para analizar un misterioso signo marcado a fuego en el pecho de un físico asesinado. Allí, Langdon descubre el resurgimiento de una antigua hermandad secreta: los illuminati, que han emergido de las...

«Se dice que, cuando uno piensa vengarse, debe cavar dos tumbas». Cuando el cadáver de la Sirenita de Ampurias, una conocida cantante, aparece destripado sobre el escenario del teatro en el que trabajaba, el inspector Adolfo Kobler y el médico forense Miralles se verán empujados a trabajar...

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Immigrato, attaccabrighe, ribelle, megalomane, sprezzante e perennemente in lite con tutti: Arturo Gabriel Bandini, l'eroe di Chiedi alla polvere, ossessionato dall'idea di scrivere un libro e animato dalla rabbia che si prova a diciott'anni, quando facciamo una vita che non ci piace e sogniamo le rivoluzioni che cambieranno il mondo. Un romanzo sfrontato, un inno alla spregiudicatezza amatissimo dai piú giovani, che vedono in John Fante il prototipo di tutti gli sbandati-sognatori che popolano la letteratura.

By the year 2017, a series of ecological catastrophes have eliminated most of the earth’s population while destroying the America we once knew. The few who have survived live in underground bunkers beneath the ruins of the nation’s major cities, controlled by ruthless corporate entities that have remolded the devastated society into USA, Inc. This is the nightmare into which crusading magazine publisher Glenn Howard awakens after 40 years of sleep.

In Speculative Los Angeles, 14 of the city’s most prophetic voices reimagine the city in very different ways. In this audiobook, you’ll encounter 21st-century changelings, dirigibles plying the suburban skies, black holes and jacaranda men lurking in deep suburbia, beachfront property in Century City, walled-off canyons and coastlines reserved for the wealthy, psychic death cults, robot nursemaids, and an alternate LA where Spanish land grants never gave way to urbanization.

México, finales del siglo XVI. Desde su niñez, la falsa beata Crisanta Cruz y el indio apóstata Tlacotzin, desarrollaron una férrea voluntad de sobrevivir y una refinada malicia para burlarse de sus opresores. Ellos son la columna vertebral de una hilarante intriga novelesca que desnuda los vicios privados y las virtudes públicas de la sociedad colonial: la teatralidad del misticismo, los laberintos barrocos del deseo reprimido, el culto clandestino de los Dioses prehispánicos, la sórdida lucha por el poder entre las órdenes religiosas...

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a comic tour de force from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of James and Erasure. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He is left with a name no one understands, an uncanny resemblance to an...

A mediados del siglo X, Sancho I, rey de León, conocido como "el Craso", pierde el trono por culpa de su extrema obesidad. La reina de Navarra, Toda Aznar, hará todo lo posible por restituir el poder de su nieto y para ello solicita al califa de Córdoba, su sobrino Abderramán III, que uno de sus sabios cure a Sancho. El califa accede, pero con la condición de que Toda se presente ante él y le rinda vasallaje. La reina tendrá entonces que emprender un viaje lleno de aventuras a lo largo de la Península, desde Pamplona hasta la lejana Córdoba.

Una condesa de la Bretaña francesa, tras el fallecimiento de su marido en el Año Mil, inicia una peregrinación a Compostela para postrarse ante el apóstol Santiago y que éste haga crecer a una hija que tiene de siete años y que es enana, de la que las malas lenguas sostienen que, pese a haber recibido exorcismo, continúa endemoniada.

Sevilla, 20 años después de la caída del Cielo En un mundo oscuro en el que los demonios vencieron a los ángeles y en que los escasos supervivientes humanos viven aterrados y sometidos, los demonios campan a sus anchas por Andalucía para defender un oscuro...

In 1926, musician Tom Hickey reads in a broadside about a lynching that the Los Angeles newspapers failed to report and discovers that the Negro victim was an old friend. When his neighbor, an LAPD detective, confirms that, officially, the lynching didn’t occur, Hickey decides to investigate the murder, earning himself beatings, gunfire meant to dissuade him, and warnings from a Klansman that he’s made some formidable enemies.

Bestselling author and beloved chronicler of Los Angeles D.J. Waldie reconsiders the city in a collection of contemporary essays. Becoming Los Angeles, a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir Holy Land, blends history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Angelenos...

Han pasado seis semanas desde que los ángeles del apocalipsis descendieron para demoler el mundo moderno. Las pandillas callejeras gobiernan el día mientras que el miedo y la superstición gobiernan la noche. Cuando los ángeles guerreros se van con una niña indefensa, su hermana Penryn, de diecisiete años, hará cualquier cosa para recuperarla. Cualquier cosa, incluso hacer un trato con un ángel enemigo. Raffe es un guerrero que yace destrozado y sin alas en la calle.