Vuelo nocturno a Paris

Un amor de juventud, un embarazo inesperado, un título nobiliario que llega antes de lo deseado... Amor, desamor, soledad, trabajo, amistad, aventuras, éxito, solidaridad, celos, pasión... En Las tres vidas de la duquesa de Grosvencer, Violet, una mujer fuerte y decidida, lucha contra el qué dirán de la alta sociedad en la que le ha tocado nacer y decide que la vida en soledad es mejor que las fingidas apariencias de la vorágine londinense. Ni la fabulosa casa donde vive, ni el pertenecer a la nobleza cambian su original manera de ser con la que aprende a sufrir tanto como a...

Fish! told the story of a fictitious company that managed to eliminate the noxious energy that had been sabotaging its employees' work environment by applying the lessons learned from some very unusual fishmongers.

Referring to the street in the West Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago that divides the wealthy Jewish families from the middle class Jewish families, this 1980 novel is meticulous in its details and generous in its sentimentality. The intricate web of connections that link three neighborhood families—the Rovners, the Wasserstroms, and the Wills—traverses the class line and introduces a range of idiosyncratic characters: high school drama club queen Michelle Wasserstrom; aspiring rock star and ladies’ man Larry Rovner; and Muley Wills, a young disc jockey with a troublesome imaginary...

Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913) is the most prolific and important woman writer of the 19th century in Colombia. She is an exceptional representative of Colombian intellectual life of that century, not only for the caliber of her writing, the divergent disciplines that she researched and wrote about, and the intense cultural work that she undertook. An avid reader, in her travels to England and France, she personally lived the debates regarding the public presence of the woman writer, as well as the influence that women should or could exercise in society, especially in the lives of...