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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...

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman...

Despu�s de su graduaci�n en Cuba como Psic�loga, sale de Cuba ilegalmente hacia M�xico a trav�s de un red de contrabando humano, sus familiares no tienen el dinero para pagar su entrada en los estados Unidos, un capo de la mafia mexicana se enamora de ella , se ve enredada en una red de prostituci�n, drogas y violencia. Es testigo de un horrible homicidio de uno de los l�deres del cartel del golfo, quiere denunciar ante el mundo el contrabando humano y el sufrimiento de los inmigrantes. En su escape hacia la frontera de USA por territorio mexicano es perseguida por la mafia para ...

Una vida malgastada en ver pasar, desde la barra de un bar, a mujeres yendo y viniendo del baño. El lo sabe: si dejo de cometer algun error durante su trayectoria vital, fue por pura dejadez. Tras tomar veinte o treinta decisiones equivocadas en momentos cruciales, Ernesto Lumbier cree que su vida esta definitivamente truncada. Pero siempre queda algo de suerte en el fondo del saco: aun puede alcanzar el Paraiso, aquel lugar donde nos esperan las oportunidades perdidas en espera de ser vividas.