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Theodore Roosevelt: president, naturalist, explorer, author, cowboy, police commissioner, deputy marshal, soldier, taxidermist, ornithologist, and boxer. Everyone knows about that.
But how about vampire hunter?
Or African king?
Or Jack the Ripper's nemesis?
Or World War I doughboy?
Mike Resnick (the most-awarded short story writer in science fiction history, according to Locus) has been the biographer of these other Teddy Roosevelts for almost two decades. Here you will find a familiar Roosevelt, but in unfamiliar surroundings stalking a vampire through the streets of New York, or a crazed killer down the back alleys of Whitechapel, coming face-to-face with the devastation of 20th Century warfare, waging an early battle for women's suffrage, applying all his skills to bring American democracy to the untamed African wilderness, or coming face-to-face with one of H. G. Wells' Martian invaders in the swamps of Cuba.
And, as Winston Churchill said of the Arthurian legends, if these stories aren't true, then they should have been.
`Tuve dos padres, uno rico y uno pobre. Uno, era muy inteligente y altamente instruido, había obtenido un doctorado y completado cuatro años de trabajo de postgrado en un período inferior a dos años. Luego, asistió a las Universidades de Stanford, Chicago y Northwestern, para realizar sus estudios avanzados totalmente becado. Mi otro padre, nunca completó el octavo grado. Ambos hombres fueron exitosos en sus carreras, y trabajaron arduamente durante toda su vida. Los dos ganaron ingresos substanciales, pero uno de ellos luchó financieramente de por vida. El otro, se convertiría en uno de los hombres más ricos de Hawai. Uno falleció dejando decenas de millones de dólares a su familia, iglesia, e instituciones de caridad. El otro dejó cuentas por pagar. Ambos hombres eran fuertes, carismáticos e influyentes. Y ambos me ofrecieron sus consejos, pero no me aconsejaron las mismas cosas. Los dos creían firmemente en la educación, pero no me recomendaron el mismo camino de estudios.`
Así comienza Robert Kiyosaki, la narración de este best seller, en el cual comparte con nosotros las lecciones que aprendió de su `padre rico`, el hombre que se convertiría en su mentor cuando -a la edad de 9años- tuvo la inquietud de aprender el proceso de ganar dinero. Siendo apenas un niño, tuvo la oportunidad de iniciar el aprendizaje de conceptos que lo convertirían más adelante en un hombre inmensamente rico. Estos conceptos son explorados a través de las páginas de este libro y ordenados en lecciones de una especial sencillez y claridad.
A través de frecuentes comparaciones entre las diferentes formas de pensar de su padre rico y su padre pobre, Robert analiza los esquemas mentales que suelen mantener a una persona instruida en la pobreza, y que en cambio pueden llevar a una persona sin instrucción a la riqueza.
La preocupación de Robert es complementar la deficiente formación escolar en lo referente a las finanzas.
Tal como él mismo lo expresa: La principal razón por la cual las personas luchan financieramente, es porque han pasado años en escuelas pero no aprendieron nada acerca del dinero, el resultado es que las personas aprenden a trabajar por el dinero… pero nunca aprenden a tener dinero trabajando para ellos.
Lo que los ricos enseñan a sus hijos acerca del dinero ¡¡¡y la clase media no!!!
“A mock self-help book designed not to help but to provoke; a chapbook to inveigle us into thinking about who we are and how we got into this mess.” —
Published at the height of the 1980s self-help boom, is Percy’s unforgettable riff on the trend that swept the nation. Filled with quizzes, essays, short stories, and diagrams, is a laugh-out-loud spin on a familiar genre that also pushes readers to serious contemplation of life’s biggest questions. One part parody and two parts philosophy, is an enlightening guide to the dilemmas of human existence, and an unrivaled spin on self-help manuals by one of modern America’s greatest literary masters.
“A modern knight-errant on a quest after evil; grotesque, convincing and chilling.” —
Fed up with the excesses of the 1970s, Lancelot Andrews Lamar, a liberal lawyer and distinguished member of the New Orleans gentry, is determined to stop the modern world’s ethical collapse. His quest begins with his wife — an actress who he suspects has been cheating on him for years. Though he initially plans only to gather proof of her infidelity, Lancelot quickly descends into a fog of obsession. And as he crosses the line from sanity into madness, he will try once and for all to purify the world or destroy it in the attempt.
Mesmerizing and unforgettable, is a masterful story of one man’s collision with the follies of modern culture, and a thought-provoking look at the nature of good and evil.
A jaded young man embarks on a journey of self-discovery with the help of an unusual family.
Will Barrett has never felt at peace. After moving from his native South to New York City, Will’s most meaningful human connections come through the lens of a telescope in Central Park, from which he views the comings and goings of the eccentric Vaught family.
But Will’s days as a spectator end when he meets the Vaught patriarch and accepts a job in the Mississippi Delta as caretaker for the family’s ailing son, Jamie. Once there, he is confronted not only by his personal demons, but also his growing love for Jamie’s sister, Kitty, and a deepening relationship with the Vaught family that will teach him the true meaning of home.
Siempre había pensado que si alguna vez me separaba de Ventura sólo me llevaría el cuadro de las espigas. Es lo único que tenía cuando me casé y lo único que quisiera llevarme cuando me descase. Mi corazón siempre ha bailado con las espigas de ese cuadro que adquirí al ganar mi primer sueldo. En realidad no es un cuadro, sino una copia de otra copia, pero en sus colores están contenidos todos los vaivenes emocionales que he sufrido en los veinte años de mi última existencia, el entusiasmo, los nervios, el amor innecesario, la ternura y, al fin, esa desazón que se ha apoderado de mí y me hace sentir como si tuviera el cuerpo burbujeando en alka-seltzer.` Así es Fidela, una mujer a la deriva en el ancho mar de los sentimientos, en un mundo y un ambiente en los que apenas hay lugar para ella. Sólo el tórrido romance que mantiene con un hombre casado consigue proyectarla más allá dé su desazón cotidiana y la invita a pasar revista a su azarosa vida. El resultado es un relato vibrante y arrollador en el que las relaciones afectivas de la vida familiar cobran vida propia y se convierten en puntos de referencia de nuestras propias vidas.
Widely acclaimed throughout Latin America after its 1992 release in Argentina, takes the form of a futuristic detective novel. In the end, however, it is a meditation on the nature of totalitarian regimes, on the transition to democracy after the end of such regimes, and on the power of language to create and define reality. Ricardo Piglia combines his trademark avant-garde aesthetics with astute cultural and political insights into Argentina’s history and contemporary condition in this conceptually daring and entertaining work.
The novel follows Junior, a reporter for a daily Buenos Aires newspaper, as he attempts to locate a secret machine that contains the mind and the memory of a woman named Elena. While Elena produces stories that reflect on actual events in Argentina, the police are seeking her destruction because of the revelations of atrocities that she — the machine — is disseminating through texts and taped recordings. The book thus portrays the race to recover the history and memory of a city and a country where history has largely been obliterated by political repression. Its narratives — all part of a detective story, all part of something more — multiply as they intersect with each other, like the streets and avenues of Buenos Aires itself.
The second of Piglia’s novels to be translated by Duke University Press — the first was —this book continues the author’s quest to portray the abuses and atrocities that characterize dictatorships as well as the difficulties associated with making the transition to democracy. Translated and with an introduction by Sergio Waisman, it includes a new afterword by the author.
After four novels and several years living abroad, the fictional protagonist of —Richard Powers — returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually more worldly, until it demands to know its own name, sex, race, and reason for exisiting.
CIA analyst Shelby Carson is tasked with uncovering a "traitor" within the organization, responsible for a disturbing series of assassinations. Top CIA Operative Kristina Bartley, codenamed "Blue" is pulled from the field to assist Carson, much to her reluctance. As both women delve deeper and more dangerously into the case, an attraction soon develops between them.
The was the biggest, most luxurious passenger ship the world had ever seen; the ads proclaimed it to be unsinkable. When it sank in April 1912 after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people, the world was forever changed and the public has been spellbound ever since. Now, a century later, the is about to disappear again: its infrastructure is set to collapse in the next few years. In this book, scientist Charles Pellegrino offers what may be the last opportunity to see the ship before it is lost to the seas for eternity. The last book to be written while survivors were still alive and able to contribute details, includes many untold stories about the sinking and exploration of the unsinkable ship.
• Author Charles Pellegrino provided source material for James Cameron’s Oscar-winning film, which is being re-released in 3D at the same time as the book
• Includes 16 pages of never-before-published full-color photographs of the sunken vessel
• Includes all-new information about the research that has been carried out in the last decade
• Written by a bestselling author who participated in the post-discovery analysis of the ’s remains during the expedition that immediately followed Robert Ballard’s discovery in 1985
El hallazgo del cadáver de una joven con una nota entre sus dedos que dice "He estado bajo tierra y ya es hora de que vuelva a casa", enfrenta al jefe de la brigada de homicidios de Hamburgo, Jan Fabel, con los designios de una mente oscura y enferma. Cuatro días después, dos cuerpos más aparecen en medio de un bosque, con unas notras entre sus manos que dicen "Hansel" y "Gretel", escritas con la misma letra roja, pequeña y obsesiva. Es evidente que los crímenes hacen referencia a los cuentos folclóricos recopilados doscientos años atrás por los hermanos Grimm. Pero los asesinatos de este cruel asesino en serie no son ningún cuento de hadas…
Finalista del premio Golden Dagger, el más prestigioso del mundo en la categoría de novela criminal
A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize.
Set in colonial India during the 1920s, Heat and Dust tells the story of Olivia, a beautiful woman suffocated by the propriety and social constraints of her position as the wife of an important English civil servant. Longing for passion and independence, Olivia is drawn into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in gang raids and criminal plots. She is intrigued by the Nawab's charm and aggressive courtship, and soon begins to spend most of her days in his company. But then she becomes pregnant, and unsure of the child's paternity, she is faced with a wrenching dilemma. Her reaction to the crisis humiliates her husband and outrages the British community, breeding a scandal that lives in collective memory long after her death.
Lennox, un detective que podría ser el hijo del mismísimo de Philip Marlowe, -cínico por fuera pero con un corazón de oro- vuelve a las calles de Glasgow para resolver un caso que no pinta nada bien para él.
Cuando el corredor de apuestas ilegales y criador galgos Calderilla MacFarlane aparece con la cabeza machacada en su estudio, más de uno empieza a levantar un dedo acusador. Sin embargo, Lennox tiene una coartada sólida como el oro: ha pasado la noche con la hija de MacFarlane. Esto, lejos de ayudar, inevitablemente provoca que Lennox se vea envuelto en la búsqueda del asesino de MacFarlane y que descubra los otros muchos negocios turbios que el corredor de apuestas tenía. Algunos de ellos con Willie Sneddon, uno de los Tres Reyes del lumpen criminal de Glasgow. Y con éste más vale no meterse si uno no quiere acabar tiñendo la alfombra de casa con un brillante tono 0 negativo…
«Lennox es una novela negra que transciende el género. Craig Russell utiliza a este personaje duro, divertido y esperanzado para proporcionarnos los ojos y los oídos que nos transportarán a otro lugar y época. ¡Esto es lo que yo llamo una novela!» Michael Connelly
But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know?
Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There's still the yellow brick road, though—but even that's crumbling.
They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.
I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.
El detective Jan Fabel se encuentra ante el caso más sanguinario y macabro de su historia profesional. Los cadáveres de dos mujeres a las que han arrancado los pulmones y las notas desafiantes de alguien que firma como «Hijo de Sven» son las únicas pistas de un asesino cuya motivación va más allá de la ira, acercándose a una suerte de ritual donde lo sagrado y lo monstruoso se dan la mano para teñir de escarlata toda la ciudad. Mientras Fabel avanza en la investigación, va quedando claro que se trata de algo mucho más complejo que el trabajo de un simple psicópata.
A mesmerizing tale of love and jealousy by Portugal’s most acclaimed young novelist.
Set in an unnamed Portuguese village against a backdrop of severe rural poverty, is told from the various points of view of two generations of men and women, hardened by hunger and toil and driven by a fate beyond them to fulfill their roles in the never-ending cycle of violence, retribution and death.
José, a taciturn shepherd, sees his happiness crumble when “the devil” tells him he is being cuckolded. Old Gabriel offers wise counsel, while a different kind of love story develops concerning Moisés and Elias, conjoined twins attached at the tips of their little fingers. Unable to live without each other, they find their tender communion shattered when Moisés falls in love with the local cook. And, of course, there is the Devil himself. Love may be a luxury, but there are moments of the greatest tenderness among even the most unlikely lovers.
Written with subtle prose and powerful imagery, draws us into this unique and richly textured world. It is a novel of haunting beauty and heralds the arrival of an astoundingly gifted and poetic writer.
En la tercera novela de la serie de Jan Fabel, un temible asesino que cree haberse reencarnado, se venga de aquellos que le traicionaron en una vida anterior…
El detective Jan Fabel y su equipo se enfrentan a una serie de homicidios: un político de izquierdas y homosexual confeso, y un prestigioso científico. Ambos fueron asesinados siguiendo el mismo método: los cuerpos tenían el cuero cabelludo seccionado y, sobre ellos, un pelo rojo teñido en la escena, procedente de la misma cabeza y cortado veinte años antes.
Fabel descubre que las víctimas pertenecían a un grupo anarquista de los años 70. Mientras tanto, los demás miembros del grupo, que habían tratado de dejar atrás su pasado, se dan cuenta de que un temible asesino va tras ellos.
The extraordinary story of two generations in a Lisbon family of carpenters and of a father’s attempt to outrun his fate in the marathon at the Stockholm Olympics in 1912.
Set in the working-class district of Benfica in Lisbon, tells the story of a family, and especially of the hopes and fears of the fathers who pass the baton of the generations on to their sons.
The Lazaro family are cabinet-makers who would rather be piano-makers. They have a carpentry shop in the Benfica district of Lisbon and there at the back is the ‘piano cemetery’ piled high with broken-down pianos that provide the spare parts needed for repairing pianos all over the city. It is a mysterious and magical place, a place of solace, a dreaming place and, above all, a trysting place for lovers.
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