La Tierra de Los Corazones Negros

Published here for the first time in a modern edition, Charlotte Smith’s third novel is both rivetingly plotted and unique for its time in its powerful depiction of a gifted Romantic woman poet. The novel’s heroine, Celestina, abandoned as a child in a French convent, becomes an independent, witty, and accomplished elegiac poet who, in a reversal of the usual pattern of the courtship novel, acts as a mentor to several men in her life. Written at the beginning of the French Revolution, Smith’s novel depicts characters challenging both corrupt authority and conventional morality,...

Savanna Gray necesitaba otra oportunidad. Su vida se había desmoronado cuando su esposo fue detenido por violar a tres mujeres. Tras divorciarse, se llevó a sus dos hijos a Silver Springs, buscando refugio en la granja que su difunto padre siempre había querido rehabilitar. Gavin Turner comprendía muy bien la dificultad de empezar de nuevo. Abandonado a los cinco años en un parque, no halló paz hasta que llegó al rancho para muchachos New Horizons, siendo ya adolescente. Y en cuanto Savanna necesitó ayuda no dudó en ofrecérsela. A pesar de la creciente atracción que sentía hacia...

In his latest "New York Times" bestseller, Koontz delivers "a good, old-fashioned, barn-burning, beat-the-clock thriller that pits an innocent man against the worst sort of evil" ("Denver Post").

This book is a tribute to the neighborhoods, a concrete landscape in which the author finds himself torn; compelling stories that make unforgettable his sentimental education. Personal memory and urgent chronicles, with humor and poetry, this book is a search of roots that the author, will only find in a handful of words, no longer in use, of his mothers.