Un sueño de papel

From National Book Award finalist Susan Straight comes a haunting historical novel about a Louisiana slave girl's perilous journey to freedom. Daughter of an African mother and a white father she never knew, Moinette is a house maid on a plantation south of New Orleans. At fourteen she is sold, separated from her mother without a chance to say goodbye. Bright, imaginative and well aware of everything she risks, Moinette at once begins to prepare for an opportunity to escape. Inspired by a true story, A Million Nightingales portrays Moinette's experience-and the treacherous world she must...

The Miscellaneous Fictions of Clark Ashton Smith gathers together the adventure, juvenilia and other non-fantastic fiction of Smith. While he is known best for his fantastic work, these adventure and mainstream stories shed light on the development of Smith’s writing and his constantly evolving style. The Miscellaneous Fictions is a perfect companion to the five volume Collected Fantasies set. As with that set, editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have prepared this volume by comparing original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith’s notes and letters, in order...

This is the last unpublished anthology of Isaac Asimov's science fiction, a work that brings together all those original stories that had never before been published in book form. Goodbye to Earth represents the latest and greatest achievement of the fifty-year career of this genius who transcends the barriers of genre, an internationally renowned author who laid the foundations of the field of science fiction literature not only for those who practice it, but also for its millions of readers and the world in general. The nature of the stories contained here ranges from the comic to the...

Una fría mañana de febrero en Escocia comienza con el descubrimiento de un cuerpo, cuando Héctor Mathewson es encontrado muerto en la sala de barriles de su propia destilería. Mientras dirige la búsqueda del asesino, el DCI Alex Warren necesita equilibrar su turbulenta vida personal. Sus abundantes sospechosos tienen motivos que van desde la codicia y el nacionalismo hasta el adulterio y la venganza. "Una medida de problemas" es un apasionante thriller de tartán negro ambientado en Glasgow. Este es una novela de misterio independiente y puede ser disfrutado incluso si no has leído...