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On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur.

In these 12 masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. Stories include "No One Writes to the Colonel", "Tuesday Siesta", "One of These Days", "There Are No Thieves in This Town", "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon", "Montiel's Widow", "One Day After Saturday", "Artificial Roses", and "Big Mama's Funeral".

El escritor mexicano Gabriel Rodríguez Liceaga nos "hace el cuento largo" en su antología sonora de diez fantásticos y directos cuentos que nos transportan tanto a una parte de la juventud del propio autor como a las emociones y la vida de sus fascinantes personajes: "Sombras huérfanas", "El arte de la amistad", "Cielo, no lluevas", "Lunarejo", "El mal país (Pompín)", "Soledad", "Las tramas del frío", "Canta, herida", "Los leones de bronce" y "Pijamas de madera".

In her moving and elegant new collection, New York Times best-selling author Karen Joy Fowler writes about John Wilkes Booth's younger brother, a one-winged man, a California cult, and a pair of twins, and she digs into our past, present, and future in the quiet, witty, and incisive way only she can.

This collection of fiction includes six of Gabriel García Márquez’s short stories and a novella, Innocent Eréndira, in which a young girl dreams of freedom after her vicious and avaricious grandmother sells her into prostitution.

Una colección excepcional que reúne todos los cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel.

Un tremendo incendio se ha desatado en el centro de vacaciones donde se alojan las amigas. ¿Qué consecuencias tendrá para ellas? A Andrés parece interesarle Sara, y a ella el taxista, pero huye a hurtadillas de la pija, ¿qué habrá entre ellos?

Two years ago, the end began. In 2036, a rapidly destabilizing climate culminated in a worldwide snowstorm that froze the entire planet. Billions are now dead due to starvation, disease, civil unrest, and the plummeting temperatures. What remains of humanity now live in small settlements or isolated makeshift villages, carving out miserable lives in this grim new reality. Some, like Chris Weston, choose to travel among the vast winter wastelands between the bastions of civilization. In the aftermath of the great collapse, Chris finds himself strangely suited for this new world.

At the end of the Victorian era, a handful of public intellectuals advocated for tolerance of the "Uranian"—a man who loved other men. Some went so far as to propose that these "intermediate sexes" might, in fact, constitute a totally different species, even serve as intrepid guides in our march toward an uncertain future. The five speculative stories in Theodore McCombs's kaleidoscopic collection span several possible worlds, teasing the boundaries between coexisting realities and taking up the question of queer difference from one surprising vantage after another.

The world is changing, and it needs a new Alpha. It needs me. I was doing well enough before the Apocalypse, but fast cars and penthouses mean nothing when the world changes into a wasteland filled with parasite-infested mutants. Now, the iron will that made me king of the boardroom is going to make me king of this new world. I am going to unlock my true power, I’m going to cultivate it, and I am going to dominate!

Leaf Storm is the first book García Márquez wrote. Already we see the colorful historical background that forms the basis for his later work. It covers the history of Macondo from 1903 to 1928, ending the year the author was born. A man dies, and three people reflect on the story of Macondo’s boom and decline as shown in the family fortunes over three generations. As they attend the wake, the members of the family recall the tragedy that involves them all.

A Colombian writer is witness to a murder that will mark him forever. A woman sits alone in her house, waiting for her husband to return, while he lies in another woman's bed 20 kilometers away. Through blood-soaked betrayal, a love affair, murder, and long-meditated revenge, Vasquez achieves an extraordinary unity of emotion, morality, and landscape with these fragmented lives.

El enfrentamiento con las pijas no ha podido acabar peor, Sara debe dar su último adiós a alguien de una vez por todas y para siempre.

Las historias contenidas en este libro unen en su acción narrativa la reconstrucción intelectual y el drama cotidiano con adecuadas dosis de ficción y realidad, celebrando en cada cuento el gesto cómplice de la vida y la escritura...

Eyes of a Blue Dog (sp. Ojos de perro azul) is a collection of twenty-two death-themed short stories from the Colombian Nobel-winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist, Gabriel García Márquez. These early stories of the late Nobel Prize winner were written and published between 1947 and 1955, although, as a book, Blue Dog Eyes would not appear until 1974, when the writer had already published two other books of short stories and four novels, of which the last, One Hundred Years of Solitude, would provide him with his first great international success.

Gabriel García de Oro, gran maestro del Storytelling, nos narra numerosas historias que nos enseñan a poner distancia respecto a lo que nos preocupa, llevando la mente a escenarios de mayor placidez y sabiduría. Desde relatos atemporales hasta textos de su propia cosecha, esta deliciosa antología, locutada y comentada por el propio autor, nos ayuda a desconectar de las tensiones cotidianas, además de comprender mejor la vida.

Gabriel Mendes é um dos escritores brasileiros mais promissores na área do autoconhecimento e é reconhecido por muitos como o possível sucessor de Paulo Coelho. Escrevendo para os mais importantes sites de espiritualidade, ele angariou centenas de leitores que o acompanham desde então. Tornou-se um escritor best-seller da Amazon ao lançar seu livro sobre sua experiência em uma aldeia indígena, intitulado Os 2 Guardiões da Rainha da Floresta. Os textos de Seis Histórias Sobre Você abordam o que consideramos lições de sabedoria universal, com temas como humildade, coragem, companheirismo e disciplina.

Mykah had been the Empire’s greatest general before it had rotted to corruption. Now he builds his own empire in order to crush the greatest nation in the world. At his side is the stunning woman who leads the horned barbarians from the north, known as the oni. The Empire’s armies are limitless. They have dragons, vampires, scores of mages, space-bending foxes, and more patriotic knights than one can imagine. Their industrial network can outfit an army in days. Sometimes, winning requires a lot more than just a good army and tactics.

Go on the adventure of a lifetime with this boxed set from Dan Raxor and Tyler Bowman. When the galaxy is in peril, these heroes will do everything it takes to save the day. Full of vivid imagery, cunning and vicious opponents, deadly aliens, and gorgeous babes, this collection aims to immerse the listener in a sci-fi journey that won’t soon be forgotten.