La rendición de un caballero (Familia Blackshear 2)

Wrong will be that one to suppose that the practice of heroic virtues and spiritual life are the privilege of monks and hermits, confused is people who think that the list of men and women who have been elevated to sainthood is composed only of missionaries, martyrs, priests or any other member of the clergy. Error, the list of saints that the church has placed on the altar is full of a multitude of ordinary people, men and women who have gone through life loving and serving others from a common profession, from his workshop from your home, from your regular life of governors or parents.

From the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain, comes Perla, a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history. Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of her naval officer father in a country still reeling from the abuses of a deposed military dictatorship. But when an uninvited visitor appears in Perla’s home, this encounter sets her on a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life—and to make a wrenching decision...

Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict and the girl he loves is engaged to his cousin. But his sympathy for the destitute miners and farmers of the district leads him to rescue a half-starved urchin girl from a fairground brawl and take her home - an act which alters the whole course of his life . . . 'From the incomparable Winston Graham . . . who has everything that anyone else has, then a whole lot more' Guardian

Emilia Pardo Bazán (1851-1921). España. Nació el 16 de septiembre en A Coruña. Hija de los condes de Pardo Bazán, título que heredó en 1890. En su adolescencia escribió algunos versos y los publicó en el Almanaque de Soto Freire. En 1868 contrajo matrimonio con José Quiroga, vivió en Madrid y viajó por Francia, Italia, Suiza, Inglaterra y Austria;sus experiencias e impresiones quedaron reflejadas en libros como Al pie de la torre Eiffel (1889), Por Francia y por Alemania (1889) o Por la Europa católica (1905). En 1876 Emilia editó su primer libro, Estudio crítico de Feijoo, y...