El hombre improbable

Until recently, Zvi was a happily married seventy-year-old engineer with no worrisome ailments beyond those of age. His road projects connected one place to another and opened tunnels of light deep in the mountains. But lately he forgets some names. A visit to the neurologist confirms it: first signs of his decline. Zvi, encouraged by his wife and the specialist, will not give up. His latest work will reveal to you one of the advantages of aging: with memory loss, it increases our ability to understand complex ideas, what is hidden under the surface of all things. From the wonderful pen of...

Herencia (1895) set in the city of Lima during the last decades of the XIX Century, is the third deliberately controversial novel written by Clorinda Matto de Turner (Peru, 1852-1909), well known by then for her novels, Aves sin nido (1889) and Indole (1891), which take place in rural Andean Peru. An experienced writer of essays, historical fiction and biographies, Clorinda Matto had a sociologist's sharply observant eye, but by 1895, when she published Herencia, Clorinda Matto's days as an aggressive journalist in Lima were numbered. Only a few months later, she fled into exile in Argentina...

En una historia de gran pasión y conflicto, Claudine Bisson regresa al equipo de las Valquirias. Ella convence a Tess y a sus colegas para que proporcionen tácticas de adversarios a la Fuerza Aérea, un plan que requiere aprender a volar aviones de combate. El Equipo adquiere los aviones excedentes y contrata a un equipo de especialistas rusos dirigidos por el abrasivo coronel Peter Brusilov, un duro jefe de tareas. Laurent Belcour, el famoso villano, ha vuelto y sigue creando obstáculos. Claudine complica aún más las cosas porque tiene un motivo oculto: recuperar a Jake socavando a...

Estas cualidades conducen a Los Demonios Voladores a la Primera Guerra Mundial, los unen para integrar un Circo Aéreo y, finalmente, a volar como mercenarios para Pancho Villa. Encontrando su causa noble, convierten cinco aviones obsoletos en aeronaves capaces de realizar memorables hazañas. Implacable, la muerte se lleva a cinco de ellos, y sólo sobrevive Frank, para disputarle honor y gloria a Antonio, un aviador mexicano, y el amor de la hermosa Florentina. La pugna romántica no se resuelve hasta la última página del libro que, además, traza un vigoroso y veraz retrato del...