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In the foothills of northwest Laos, an unreached tribal group lives unaware of the gospel—until an American army medic is captured and brought to their village. Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, Taking You Under My Skin imagines a mountain tribe’s encounter with Jesus and how it transforms their lives forever.

An historic thriller set in France with a son seeking revenge against his father for the death of his mother.

In 18th-century Venice, Minguillo Fasan, heir to a fortune, contrives to dispatch of his sister, Marcella, condemning her to the fate of a nun. But Marcella Fasan is tougher than Minguillo imagines, and, aided by a servant, a painter, a skin-obsessed doctor, a Scottish merchant and a cigar-smoking pornographer, she pitches her wits against her brother….

Brianda, a young engineer, leaves her comfortable life in Madrid to learn more about her ancestors. When she travels to a cold, isolated village high in the Pyrenees to explore her roots, Brianda discovers a family secret - and a new love interest. The mysterious Corso, who is challenging destiny by restoring the neglected manor he has inherited, offers to help Brianda in her research. Together they uncover another woman named Brianda in the family archives, a woman who lived four centuries ago.

Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient.

The Quest of the Fish-Dog Skin is a story of the adventures of two Indian boys or, rather, of an Indian boy and a white boy, Indian. These two set forth from the lodges of the Blackfeet, in company with an older Indian who acts as their guide, philosopher, and friend, on a far quest to the salt water to find the medicine-animal that is called "fish-dog" because it lives only in the water, swimming like a fish, yet has the face of a dog and barks like a dog.

Cuando a Sandra Valdés, joven historiadora en paro, le encargan que escriba la biografía de Ofelia Arráez -la gran empresaria y constructora, referente obligado en el mundo de la moda del calzado femenino-, ella acepta el reto sin imaginar los secretos que se ocultan en los noventa años de esa mujer contradictoria y poderosa, sin saber que lo que va a descubrir cambiará también su vida.

Quan el van desembarcar a la platja amb una xalupa, el va sorprendre que l'únic habitant de l'illa no sortís a rebre'l. Però aviat descobreix que apareixen cada nit molts visitants misteriosos i amenaçadors. Des d'aquest moment, la seva vida - que haurà de compartir amb el brutal Batís Caffó i Aneris, la de la pell freda - es converteix en una lluita frenètica amb ell mateix i amb els altres, on es barregen els sentiments de rebuig i de desig, de crueltat i d'amor, de por i d'esperança.

Piel de ébano es una novela que nos acerca a la historia de la época de la colonia en América, desde una visión femenina, la de Manuela, una esclava mulata valiente, voluntariosa e inteligente con ansias de libertad.

Manuela es una esclava mulata en la Cartagena del siglo XVIII. Se distingue del resto de las esclavas por su innegable belleza, pero también por la forma de hablar y porque a todos les extraña como es tratada por su amo español, Gonzalo de Ulloa, cuya esposa, María Catalina, la detesta porque supone que tarde o temprano él requerirá de ella favores sexuales.

Manuela es una esclava mulata en la Cartagena del siglo XVIII. Se distingue del resto de las esclavas por su innegable belleza, pero también por la forma de hablar y porque a todos les extraña como es tratada por su amo español, Gonzalo de Ulloa, cuya esposa, María Catalina, la detesta porque supone que tarde o temprano él requerirá de ella favores sexuales.