Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Este clásico del teatro universal nos cuenta la trágica historia de amor de Romeo y Julieta. El prólogo de la escritora colombiana Carolina Sanín ofrece una reinterpretación asentada en la actualidad y desde una perspectiva feminista. Las ilustraciones del artista Svetlin Vassilev enriquecen el texto dándole una atmósfera sublime, exquisita y terrible a la vez.
This universal theater classic tells us the tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet....
Author
Publisher
nubeOCHO
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Four friends creep through the woods, and what do they spot? An exquisite bird high in a tree! 'Hello birdie, ' waves one. 'Shh! We have a plan, ' hush the others. They stealthily make their advance, nets in the air. Ready one, ready two, ready three, and go! But as one comically foiled plan follows another, it soon becomes clear that their quiet, observant companion, hand outstretched, has a far better idea. Award-winning author-illustrator Chris...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Pulitzer-nominated The Devil's Highway and national bestseller The Hummingbird's Daughter comes an exquisitely composed collection of poetry on life at the border. Weaving English and Spanish languages as fluidly as he blends cultures of the southwest, Luis Urrea offers a tour of Tijuana, spanning from Skid Row, to the suburbs of East Los Angeles, to the stunning yet deadly Mojave Desert, to Mexico and the border fence itself....
Publisher
Studio Ghibli
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Description
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, including five noble suitors and the emperor himself, all of whom she rejects. The reason behind these refusals is none other than her own mystic origin, which has a very different destiny in store for her.
Author
Series
Harlequin Bianca volume 1408
Publisher
Harlequin Ibérica
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Para escapar de los bandidos del desierto, Abby Foster se comprometió con su misterioso salvador y selló el acuerdo con un apasionado beso. Meses más tarde, descubrió que seguía casada con él, y su "marido", convertido en heredero al trono, la reclamó a su lado. Pero sumergirse en el mundo de lujo y exquisito placer de Zain abrumó a la tímida Abby. ¿Podría llegar a convertirse aquella inocente cenicienta en la reina del poderoso jeque?
To...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Océano De Mexico
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age of thirty-six. He was a doctor treating patients one day and the next was struggling for his own life. On the verge of completing a decade's worth of training, he decided to begin writing this book to come to terms with and give closure to his life, and to face death with courage. What makes a life worth living in the face of death?...
7) Exquisita
Author
Series
Publisher
Océano exprés
Pub. Date
2017
Language
Español
Description
Since Siobhan has made it as an artist, she's ready to start a life in New York with the love of her life, billionaire Derick Miller. But their relationship has been a rollercoaster ride that has pushed Derick too far. Will Siobhan be able to win back her soul mate?
Author
Series
Harlequin Bianca volume 1193
Publisher
Harlequin Ibérica, una división de HarperCollins Ibérica, S. A
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando Sophie Griffin-Watt abandonó a Javier Vázquez para contraer matrimonio con otro hombre, él se juró que encontraría el modo de hacerle pagar. Sophie estaba desesperada por obtener la ayuda de Javier para salvar a su familia de la ruina, pero la asistencia que él le brindó tenía un precio: el hermoso cuerpo que se le había negado en el pasado. El delicioso juego de venganza de Javier parecía el Ãńico modo de conseguir olvidarse de...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the award-winning, much loved writer: a deeply moving novel about an American woman's place during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she took from it, and how her story will shape her granddaughter's path. Marian cut herself off from her conservative, wealthy Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War--experiences she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter...
10) El ruiseñor
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also...
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
In the boardroom men quake at Michael Finn's business prowess-- and in the bedroom women beg for his touch. Nothing eludes the Australian tycoon's grasp, except for free spirit Lucy Flippence, his employee's sister who tests his practiced charm. Vivacious Lucy is a fish out of water in Michael's corporate world, but once she gives in to the attraction between them, she seems made for his bed. It won't be long before Michael's ticked her off his to-do...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Experience the thrilling adventures of Lady, a lovingly pampered cocker spaniel, and Tramp, a freewheeling mutt with a heart of gold. This heartwarming tale now charms a new generation of families and fans with its exquisite animation, unforgettable songs, and one of the greatest love stories of all time.
13) Brickmakers
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A piercing and passionate novel, set in rural Argentina, about violence and masculinity Oscar Tamai and Elvio Miranda, the patriarchs of two families of brickmakers, have for years nursed a mutual hatred, but their teenage sons, P�ajaro and �Angelito, somehow fell in love. Brickmakers begins as P�ajaro and Marciano, �Angelito's older brother, lie dying in the mud at the base of a Ferris wheel. Inhabiting a dreamlike state between life and...
14) Still mine
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An exquisitely mounted and deeply affecting story about one man's determination to create a home for his ailing wife as they enter their twilight years. Based on actual events, that proves love is the ultimate triumph.
15) Lucy y el mar
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Vuelve la icónica Lucy Barton en esta deslumbrante novela sobre el amor, la pérdida y la esperanza. A medida que el miedo se apodera de su ciudad, Lucy Barton abandona Manhattan y se confina en un pueblo de Maine con su exmarido, William. Durante los siguientes meses quedarán ellos dos, compañeros después de tantos años, a solas con su complejo pasado en una pequeña casa junto a un mar impetuoso, una experiencia de la que saldrán transformados....
Author
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
"The Universe is on the brink of war and the young android Tim-21 is in the middle of the conflict. As his allies and enemies focus on the orbit of the oceanic planet Mata, nothing can prepare him for the series of underwater revelations he is about to receive. This volume of the hit series Descend is the prelude to the long-awaited finale. The Descend series has been critically acclaimed since its release. The dystopian future in which machines are...
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are on an all-expenses-paid trip for the Observer. Their tough assignment is to drive through beautiful Italian country, eat lavishly, and stay in exquisite small hotels, all so that one or the other can write high-toned culinary drivel for the paper.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
"From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There she meets Ichimei Fukuda,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
El Chef Yisus, de Despierta América, te invita a preparar recetas fáciles y cotidianas, y te revela sus secretos para que tú también cocines como un chef. A través de estas páginas, el Chef Yisus se cuela en tu cocina para ayudarte a preparar platos exquisitos de manera fácil y divertida. Cada receta está sazonada con fragmentos de su historia personal: los sabores de su infancia, las comidas de sus primeros años como emigrante, su experiencia...
20) Lolita (NR)
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Stanley Kubrick's sixth film is a brilliant, sly adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's celebrated yet infamous 1955 novel. It chronicles a middle-aged literature professor's unusual and doomed sexual passion/obsession for a seductively precocious pubescent "nymphet" named Lolita. Thanks to the film industry's production code, the film is mostly suggestive, with numerous double entendres and metaphoric sexual situations, while the story has been transformed...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request