The author of Sellevision describes his bizarre coming-of-age years after his adoption by his mother's psychiatrist, during which he witnessed such misadventures as a fake suicide attempt, a pedophile's life in a barn, and front-lawn family/patient sleepovers. Reprint. (A Plan B Productions & Sony Pictures Entertainment film, written & directed by ...more
This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman?s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway?s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. For it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its te...more
La Segunda Hija refleja las transformaciones socio-económicas de Puerto Rico en los últimos cincuenta años en los personajes de Clara, su hija y su nieta y en cómo sus vidas giran alrededor de la figura del padre. Olga Nolla creo aquí a una narradora omnisciente que no juzga, sino que ayuda a comunicar los sentimientos e intimidades del supues...more
Through the life experiences of the protagonist, Tomás Alberto Herrera, we live the history of Puerto Rico during the early 20th century, a transitional period when the island becomes a commonwealth of the United States. Description in Spanish: Esta novela se alza como una metáfora histórica de Puerto Rico válida para toda América Latin...more
An erotic novel about women and secrets, about sensuality and pleasure. Sonia (the mother) and Mara Isabel (the daughter) are the characters of two parallel stories in which secrets bring desire and desire leads to clandestine affairs.
“Perrotta is that rare combination: a satirist with heart….Those who haven’t curled up on the couch with this writer’s books are missing a very great pleasure.”—Seattle TimesStonewood Heights is the perfect place to raise children: it’s got good schools, solid values and a healthy real estate market. Parents in the town are involved...more
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, served as the basis of an ...more
An arresting portrait of the struggles that women faced for control of their own bodies, The Birth House is the story of Dora Rare—the first daughter in five generations of Rares. As apprentice to the outspoken Acadian midwife Miss Babineau, Dora learns to assist the women of an isolated Nova Scotian village through infertility, difficult labor...more
El amor y la lealtad son puestos a pueba en esta novela llena de brío y agudeza de la reconocida autora puertorriqueña, Rosario Ferré, autora de La casa de la laguna. Se trata de la historia de una bailarina famosa mundialmente que, en el 1917, visita a Puerto Rico en gira artística y se enamora locamente de un atrevido revolucionario al que le...more
It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride of the Falls," begins a relentless seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side is confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby, who is unexpe...more
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