Libros a Descargar Gratis

Amazonia

Autor: James Rollins

Número de Páginas: 528

From the author of ALTAR OF EDEN and MAP OF BONES comes another fantastic mystery adventure, this time set deep in the Amazon jungle. Out of the inhospitable Amazon rainforest a man stumbles into a missionary village. Soon the CIA operative and former Special Forces soldier, his eyes wide with terror, is dead. The photograph of Agent Clark's corpse in the Brazilian morgue shows two intact upper limbs, yet Agent Clark had only one arm, the other lost to a sniper's bullet. Nathan Rand's father led a scientific mission into the rainforest and never returned - the same expedition that took Clark into the jungle. Now Nate is to follow the elder Rand's trail, along with a team of scientists and experienced US Rangers. For somewhere in the dark, impenetrable depths of Earth's most dangerous region lie mysteries that must be solved...whatever the cost. As Nate Rand and his party push on into the jungle, they are haunted by a truth: that they are not alone. But each step brings the team closer to an ancient, unspoken terror that even the native people dread. As madness, fear and horrific death descend upon the second cursed expedition, those still living must confront a power beyond human...

Sacramentum

Autor: D J G Berkeley

Número de Páginas: 354

On the edge of the Roman world, a dishonoured General fights, for his friends, his honour, and his very survival. It is the present day, in a world in which Rome never fell. Rome itself is a paragon of towering grandeur, but the brutal outskirts of the Empire are a lawless wasteland. Titus, a General with no army in a world without a war, is a mercenary. Work is easy to come by in the shattered town of Luguvalium, but when his work results a young man's death, Titus begins to question his world. He discovers a truth so shocking that it changes his life, and a conspiracy so dark, that it could bring down the Senate itself. Brilliantly interweaving ancient history into the present. This dark and epic tale combines adventure, courage, honour, ambition, friendship and rivalry to stunning effect. You see the grandeur, inequality and byzantine machinations of the modern day Roman world. You feel every gun-shot. Sacramentum is an outstanding novel of survival and triumph, against impossible odds.

The Algarrobos Quartet

Autor: Gerardo Mario Goloboff

Número de Páginas: 278

A series of four short novels from Argentina in which the rules of the game are mysterious and terrible events occur without warning.

Dark Shores

Autor: Danielle L. Jensen

Número de Páginas: 368

Piracy, blackmail, and meddling gods meet in Dark Shores, a thrilling first novel in a fast-paced new YA fantasy series by USA Today bestselling author Danielle L. Jensen. A PIRATE WITH A WILL OF IRON Teriana is the second mate of the Quincense, a ship beholden to the Goddess of the Seas. Her people are born of the waves, and they alone know how to cross the impassable oceans between East and West. A SOLDIER WITH A SECRET Marcus is the commander of the Thirty-Seventh, the notorious legion that has led the Celendor Empire to conquer the entire East. The legion is his only family, and even they don’t know the secret he’s been hiding since childhood. A DANGEROUS QUEST When a power-hungry ruler captures Teriana’s crew and threatens to reveal Marcus’s secret unless they help him conquer the unknown West, the two are forced into an unlikely--and unwilling--alliance. They unite for the sake of their families, but both must decide how far they are willing to go, and how much they are willing to sacrifice.

Primordial

Autor: David Wood , Alan Baxter

Número de Páginas: 290

"Bone-cracking terror from the stygian depths!" Sometimes, the legends are true. When eccentric billionaire Ellis Holloway hires renegade marine biologist Sam Aston to investigate the legend of a monster in a remote Finnish lake, Aston envisions an easy paycheck and a chance to clear his gambling debts. But he gets much more. There is something terrible living beneath the dark waters of Lake Kaarme and it is hungry. As the death toll mounts, Aston faces superstitious locals, a power-hungry police chief, and a benefactor's descent into madness as he races to find the legendary beast of the lake. Adventure, Science Fiction, and Horror converge in the Sam Aston Investigations series by the USA Today Bestselling author of the Dane Maddock Adventures and the Australian Shadows Award winning author of The Roo! Praise for the Sam Aston Investigations! "Everything you'd want from a monster story – great characters, a remote location and a creature with bite! Mixing history and lore with science and action, David Wood and Alan Baxter have penned a thriller that is hard to put down." Jeremy Robinson, author of Island 731 "Bone-cracking terror from the stygian depths! A creature thriller...

Matanza

Autor: Kerry Newcomb , Frank Schaefer

Número de Páginas: 377

A Texas bride crosses Mexico in search of the man who stole her heart His name is Maguire. Half Mexican, half Irish, he is equally at home at a society ball, at a cockfight, and on the driest plains of the Southern desert. Once he was an orphan, taken in by a Texas family that raised him until he was old enough to make his way in the world. He became a mercenary, battling his way across the South Pacific until disease and injury forced him home. There he reconnected with the lady of the house, Corinne, beginning an affair that destroyed her husband and forced Maguire back into the wilderness. Twelve years later, he is a notorious adventurer, known as one of the most dangerous men in Mexico, and Corinne cannot get him off her mind. Accompanied by an American reporter, she ventures south to find the man she loved—a quest that will sweep her off her feet all over again.

Espritu

Autor: B. K. Miller

Número de Páginas: 248

Take a peek into the spirit world as Sara battles the shadow-like sombras in her every-day life. Find out why being a "warrior of the King" is a great adventure.

Nocturna

Autor: Maya Motayne

Número de Páginas: 496

The first in a sweeping and epic debut fantasy trilogy—set in a stunning Latinx-inspired world—about a face-changing thief and a risk-taking prince who must team up to defeat a powerful evil they accidentally unleashed. Perfect for fans of Tomi Adeyemi, Leigh Bardugo, and V. E. Schwab. To Finn Voy, magic is two things: a knife to hold under the chin of anyone who crosses her…and a disguise she shrugs on as easily as others pull on cloaks. As a talented faceshifter, it’s been years since Finn has seen her own face, and that’s exactly how she likes it. But when Finn gets caught by a powerful mobster, she’s forced into an impossible mission: steal a legendary treasure from Castallan’s royal palace or be stripped of her magic forever. After the murder of his older brother, Prince Alfehr is first in line for the Castallan throne. But Alfie can’t help but feel that he will never live up to his brother’s legacy. Riddled with grief, Alfie is obsessed with finding a way to bring his brother back, even if it means dabbling in forbidden magic. But when Finn and Alfie’s fates collide, they accidentally unlock a terrible, ancient power—which, if not contained, will devour ...

Mirari

Autor: Lyndall Morgan

Número de Páginas: 368

Mirari is the story of Virgil, a man who has lost his capacity for wonder. Magically transported to the fairy tale world of Mirari, he is given the quest of retrieving a precious cup long ago stolen from his hosts of the Middle Kingdom. Journeying forth on horseback with a cat and a peregrine falcon as his companions, Virgil encounters many and varied creatures and adventures, gradually learning to see the world through new eyes. He falls in love with Lily, who is pursuing her own quest, and together they gain a renewed sense of wonder. [author bio]Lyndall Morgan lives in Colorado. This is her first novel.

Cargo

Autor: Jessica Au

Número de Páginas: 228

Gillian is fifteen, crippled by a tragic accident but dreams of swimming across oceans. Jacob is fourteen and yearns for his brother's life. Frankie is fifteen and in love with the new deckhand on her father's boat. As the story of these three desires intertwine over the course of one lazy summer in a small coastal town, Cargo is by turns heart-wrenching, beautiful and explosive. In a simple time of truth and change, these are characters who do not know themselves, yet through their innocence we come to understand what it means to be young, and have all the troubles in the world.

Fauna

Autor: Christiane Vadnais

In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species – humans included – are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous and terrifying in its likeness to our own. Fauna, Christiane Vadnais’s first work of fiction, won the Horizons Imaginaires speculative fiction award, the City of Quebec book award, and was named one of 2018’s best books by Radio-Canada.

Desideria

Autor: Nicole Kornher-Stace

Número de Páginas: 364

Built as a story within a story, the writer weaves the tale of the girl, Ange, in a madhouse and her questionable madness, with the story of Ange's past before her captivity when she was an actress of mysterious talent. Embedded throughout the story is the play, Desideria, that acts as both Ange's damnation and salvation and the hinge on which the story comes together.

Comestibles

Autor: Kathleen Burnham

Número de Páginas: 112

Comestibles is Burnham’s first full-length poetry collection, reviewing the ties that bind in life and literature, exploring the connections that food/consumption share with language, birth, sexuality, spirituality, death, and God. The work is a confessionary minefield of what it means to be “the other woman” and to navigate becoming a mother in the wake of a failed relationship. Burnham weaves themes of family, illness, loss, maternity, divinity, grief, existential angst, and hope into poems that are darkly humorous and—most of all—unapologetic and direct.

Controvertibles

Autor: Quan Barry

Número de Páginas: 61

Quan Barry embarks on discursive inquiry in Controvertibles. She lifts familiar cultural moments out of their usual settings and repositions them in front of new, disparate backdrops, endeavoring to understand the essence of modern experience. Doug Flutie's famous Hail Mary pass and Rutger Hauer's role in Blade Runner are contextualized within the Tibetan Book of the Dead, while an ultrasound reading acts as a meditation on the limits of critical theory. Samantha Smith, the Shroud of Turin, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Beamon's world-record-setting long jump, the largo from Handel's Xerxes, the resurrection of Lazarus, the Salem Witch Trials, and the groundbreaking 1984 Apple Computer Super Bowl commercial are just some of the people and objects Barry uses to explore the multifaceted nature of being.

Carmina Crucis

Autor: Dora Greenwell

Anthropos

Autor: William Pratt Breed

Número de Páginas: 120

Celestina

Autor: Charlotte Smith

Número de Páginas: 603

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, exemplifying her hope that English society was on the verge of a great change for the better. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and primary source material relating to the novel’s reception, its political contexts (writings by Reverend Richard Price, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Thomas Paine), and the author’s life.

Aziyadé

Autor: Pierre Loti

Número de Páginas: 182

Pierre Loti was a young man of twenty-five when he first came to the great city that links Europe and Asia and he fell immediately under its spell, donning Turkish robes to pass unnoticed through the secret byways of the Sublime Port. "AziyadA(c)" is the result of his travels there -- a great Orientalist romance and a true story of forbidden love in fabled Constantinople in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

Esteban Vicente

Autor: Elizabeth Frank , Esteban Vicente , Ellen Russotto

Número de Páginas: 164

Esteban Vicente is the first book devoted to the life and work of the distinguished Spanish-born painter who, at age ninety-two, remains the only one of the original Abstract Expressionists still working at the peak of his powers. His luminous paintings and collages acknowledge the great Spanish tradition of Velazquez and Goya while simultaneously exploring the legacy of such modernist masters as Cezanne, Picasso, Mondrian, and Matisse. This magnificent volume reproduces all of Vicente's most important works from nearly a half century of constant evolution between cycles of austere painterly classicism and a passionate, explosive baroque. Oversize plates, including 84 in full color, present Vicente's paintings, collages, and drawings, capturing his rich, brilliant palette, elegant compositions, economy of means, and passionate clarity of feeling. Esteban Vicente is further enriched by extensive quotations from the artist's writings and interviews; rare documentary photographs; a chronology; lists of solo and group exhibitions and public collections; bibliography; and index. 89 colour & 48 b/w illustrations

La Maravilla

Autor: Alfredo Véa

Número de Páginas: 305

A nine-year-old half-Indian, half-Mexican boy struggles to find his place in the world in a novel set in the desert outside of Phoenix in 1958. A first novel. 12,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

Teresa

Autor: Neera

Número de Páginas: 200

A young woman in 1880s Italy is forbidden to marry a dashing young man because he has no money. Teresa Caccia is put to work by her father, looking after her younger siblings, and only when they grow up is she able to join her love.

Rosario Tijeras

Autor: Jorge Franco

Número de Páginas: 176

"Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of love with that of death." Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco's study of contrasts, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellín. Her very name-evoking the rosary, and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a woman who becomes a contract killer to insulate herself from the random violence of the streets. Then she is shot, gravely wounded, and the circle of contradiction is closed. From the corridors of the hospital where Rosario is fighting for her life, Antonio, the narrator, waits to learn if she will recover. Through him, we reconstruct the friendship between the two, her love story with Emilio, and her life as a hitwoman. Rosario Tijeras has been recognized as an admirable continuation of a literary subject that was first treated by Gabriel García Márquez and then by Fernando Vallejo. A work in the Latin American social realist tradition, Rosario Tijeras is told in fast and vibrant prose and with poetic flourish.

Plato

Autor: Richard Mervyn Hare , Formerly White's Professor of Moral Philosophy Oxford University Graduate Research Professor R M Hare , White's Professor Emeritus of Moral Philosophy R M Hare

Número de Páginas: 82

Offers a look at Plato's life and discusses his philosophy and teachings

Yucatán

Autor: Andrea De Carlo

Número de Páginas: 213

A famous filmmaker, his young assistant director, and a Hollywood producer discuss a film they may produce

Aquí Estamos-- --ya Nos Vamos

Autor: Francisco J. Bustos , Michael Cheno Wickert

Número de Páginas: 95

Francisco Bustos eloquently writes of Colonia Ruiz Cortinez and Barrio San Ysidro, waiting in la linea to be scrutinized by U.S. Customs officials, and of the bi-national journey of living both in the United States and Mxico. His melodic tone defies the fast-paced world of schedules, while being actively engaged in the moment, and then fleeting down another street to encounter another tale. As es la vida qu no?, Bustos says, As es. Michael Cheno Wickert focuses mainly on living in the barrios of Southeast San Diego where life often turns toward violence and suspicion is commonplace. It is a place where identities are shattered and reconfigured from the broken pieces into a kaleidoscope. It is a land of churches, liquor stores, and taco shops. It is where paint, blood, sweat, and salsa drip from the body and splat on weather-worn sidewalks to tell the stories of an America often ignored.

Libra

Autor: Don DeLillo

Número de Páginas: 456

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.

Aves

Autor: Gerry Cambridge

Número de Páginas: 51

Aves - the Latin name for the zoological class we know as Birds - becomes, without the 's', an expression both of welcome and of farewell. Aves is a lyrical yet clear-eyed flock of homages to the winged, beaked kingdom. Twenty-two prose poems offer glimpses into the world of wild birds and the psychology of watching them. The book includes 'A Dropped Feather', a personal essay about a lifelong fascination for these vivid creatures that hover and circle above, and dart through, our days.

Santa Evita

Autor: Tomás Eloy Martínez

Número de Páginas: 371

In a novel based on the life and death of Eva Pero+a7n, her husband, Argentine dictator Juan Pero+a7n, has her body preserved after her death and has her enshrined as Saint Evita, but his enemies steal the body and her corpse begins its bizarre odyssey. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

Magdalena

Autor: Maureen Gibbon

Número de Páginas: 65

"Gibbon offers a fresh and profound voice to American poetry. . . . I loved it."-Jim Harrison

Victoria

Autor: Sami Michael

Número de Páginas: 343

A family saga set in the courtyards of Jewish Baghdad before World War I. The book portrays a family exploding with power struggles and intrigue, seductions and betrayals, witches and hunchbacks, ghouls and spirits of flesh and blood. At the centre is Victoria, who is in love with her cousin.

Liuba

Autor: Sam Hunter , Liuba

Número de Páginas: 115

An in-depth essay by art-history luminary Sam Hunter frames the work within the story of the artist's life, and provides a focused analysis of Liuba's sculptures from early in her career to the present day."--BOOK JACKET.

Conversaciones

Autor: Mariana Romo-Carmona

Número de Páginas: 166

Comprised of 25 original essays by the parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered children--accompanied by commentary from their sons and daughters--"Conversaciones" furthers the dialogue among Latinos and Latinas on sexuality, acceptance, and family life.

Dominguín

Autor: Keith Botsford , Luis Miguel Dominguín

Número de Páginas: 260

Zenobia

Autor: Gellu Naum

Número de Páginas: 192

A full-length novel by a member of the Romanian literary avant-garde, Zenobia is the evocation of the singular quest of a Surrealist knight-errant who strives to be true to the gentle demands of his lady in a landscape of snares, desolation, incipient madness, and material poverty magically interrupted by moments of extreme beauty. Love, in all its intimate, carnal communion, lights the path through the dark forest, the streets of Bucharest, and the desert swamps. The narrator, speaking from the depths of love and despair, invites the reader to share his quest.

Cláper

Autor: Alicia Freilich de Segal , Alicia Freilich

Número de Páginas: 182

A novel of Venezuelan Jewish life told in two voices: one depicting immigrant life and the other sharing a journey of self-discovery.

Xala

Autor: Ousmane Sembène

Número de Páginas: 114

A biting satire about the downfall of a businessman-polygamist who assumes the role of the colonialist in French-speaking Africa.

Gabriel García Márquez

Autor: George R. McMurray

Número de Páginas: 182

Traces the thematic and stylistic development of the Latin American writer's work, from the early short stories through his most recent novel, The Autumn of the Patriarch, with a full chapter on One Hundred Years of Solitude

Mezcal

Autor: Charles Bowden

Número de Páginas: 152

The author of "Blue Desert" meditates upon the emotional, spiritual, and political shambles of the late 1960s and early 1970s and upon the strength of the land, particularly the desert Southwest, and its ability to prevail despite modern efforts to exploi

Misericordia

Autor: Benito Pérez Galdós

Número de Páginas: 280