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¡Salva los snacks, salva el universo! ¡Los SpaceCowboys están de vuelta y más hambrientos que nunca! Lilli, la reina del caos con su batido de zogfruta, y Mia, con su tez morena profunda y una pasión por las frutas estelares, lideran a su colorido equipo de aliens esponjosos y heroes mariquita en una nueva aventura. Junto a Zippel, el torbellino de tentaculos con fiebre por la mantequilla de cacahuete, Noel, el Señor carmesi de las Mariquitas, y el descarado ejercito infantil Nopales, Avena, Brotes, Floc, Sera, Kip y Mila, se lanzan al Planeta Pelusin, donde los nopales lisos y los crujientes muffins de musgo estan en peligro. El malvado Alquimista de Sangre, Varnok, ha regresado con un nuevo plan: ¡quiere destruir los snacks galacticos con su papilla toxica de leche de vaca! Sus robots envenenan los arboles de zogfruta, capturan vacas sagradas y convierten las fuentes de leche de avena en un caldo apestoso. Pero los SpaceCowboys contraatacan ¡con galletas de zog como granadas, bombas de carmin y un monton de caos! Zippel cae en mantequilla de cacahuete, Floc resbala en nubes de hojuelas, y la oreja cactus de Brotes provoca un desorden galactico. Mientras Lilli y Noel hacen chispear corazones en las estrellas, luchan contra los robots de Varnok para salvar a los Pelusines y los snacks. ¿Podra su caos salvar la galaxia, o terminara todo en una catastrofe pegajosa? SpaceCowboys Volumen 2: El Llamado de la Cronoesfera es una aventura de ciencia ficcion salvaje y divertida, llena de slapstick, amistad y poder de snacks, que transporta a los jovenes lectores a un mundo de colores neon y geiseres galacticos.

Cuentos Románticos Cortos: Desde las olas bañadas por el sol de los Cayos de Florida hasta las calles nevadas de Boston, Olas del Corazón narra trece historias sobre la magia del amor. Una madre descubre una nueva pasion en un yate, una bailarina revela su secreto con un vestido rojo, una pareja baila bajo la luz de la luna en San Francisco, y un beso en la nieve se convierte en destino. En cada historia, la naturaleza, el anhelo y los toques tiernos susurran sobre la busqueda de conexion, ya sea en un club de jazz, en Santorini o a la luz de las velas en una residencia universitaria. Estas historias son un baile de corazones, llenas de momentos que tocan el alma y celebran el amor en todas sus facetas.

«Se me había restituido el podery la capacidad de chingar, y pues nome la andaba acabando de contento.»Jorge Macías es un pistolero al servicio del gobierno. Lo apodan el Europeo por el escrúpulo con

El retrato de un matrimonio abierto que ha sacudido la conversación sobre el sexo y el amor, escrito por una mujer felizmente casada.Molly tiene dos niños pequeños y un marido, Stewart, que trabaja hasta tarde y rara vez ayuda en casa. Una noche, decidida a escapar de la rutina, acaba en un bar donde conoce a un chico alto y de ojos verdes que intenta ligar con ella. Al volver a casa, se lo cuenta a Stewart, quien, contra todo pronostico, la anima a explorar su sexualidad con otros hombres. Asi comienza el inesperado matrimonio abierto de Molly, que se crea un perfil en una app de citas y se lanza a vivir aventuras apasionadas (y en ocasiones desastrosas) con desconocidos, siguiendo una serie de reglas que acabara saltandose una a una: no salir con un ex ni con gente del barrio, no ir a casas ajenas y, sobre todo, no enamorarse.Como tantas parejas, Molly y Stewart se enfrentan a los celos, la inseguridad y las dudas mientras se preguntan: ¿podemos querer a terceros sin traicionar el amor que nos une? ¿Podemos lograr lo imposible?Escrito por una mujer felizmente casada, este retrato tragicomico, desinhibido y antidogmatico de una relacion no tradicional pone a prueba algunas de nuestras ideas preconcebidas sobre el sexo y el amor.

Francisco Teodoro es un hombre ambicioso que está al frente de un próspero negocio de exportación de café. Para que el éxito sea total, necesita una esposa bonita, así que se casa con la bella Camila, una joven de origen humilde, para formar con ella una familia. Sin embargo, con los años la pasion de Francisco sigue siendo el dinero y la de su esposa, el doctor Gervasio. Ella se ha acostumbrado a la vida comoda que le proporciona el dinero de su marido y vive completamente ajena a sus negocios. Un dia, un giro del destino hara que toda esa prosperidad economica desaparezca, que todo se hunda y ella ¿conseguira sobrevivir a ese cruel giro del destino?

Una selección de cuentos de la obra más personal de Horacio Quiroga, cuya vida estuvo marcada tanto por el amor como por la locura y la muerte: A la deriva, Los buques suicidantes, Los Mensú, La meningitis y su sombra y El almohadon de plumas. Version adaptada a Lectura Facil.

Orquideísta es una novela breve, fragmentaria y poética que entreteje la historia natural y científica de las orquídeas, un relato inseparable del desarrollo capitalista y colonial, con la de Sylvain, un florista especializado en estas plantas y que regenta un pequeño local en el centro de Paris.Basada en una investigacion meticulosa que incluye relatos de exploradores y cientificos decimononicos y estudios botanicos contemporaneos, Narine expone las paradojas de nuestra epoca, al tiempo que nos ofrece una reflexion sobre la explotacion de los recursos naturales, la perdida y la transmision familiar.Con una prosa sinuosa y elegante, esta primera novela fascina por su profundidad y por la forma en que entrelaza erudicion y denuncia con la busqueda intima de su protagonista.

Aclamado por Isaac Bashevis Singer como «el padre de la literatura moderna», Knut Hamsun inspiró, de hecho, a autores de la talla de Thomas Mann, Maksim Gorki, Franz Kafka y Hermann Hesse, y se hizo

Un hombre contra un imperio. Una leyenda escrita con sangre.Huyendo de un destino impuesto —el de verdugo al servicio de su padre—, Hadrian Marlowe acabará varado en un mundo perdido en los márgenes

Claudia es profesora de historia en un instituto y, aunque lleva una vida tranquila y ordenada, una noche de copas con su amiga Moni puede ser impredecible. Sin saber cómo ni cuándo, pues no recuerda absolutamente nada de la salida nocturna con su amiga, Claudia termina la noche hablando con una desconocida, sentadas en la arena de la playa, frente al mar. Dicha desconocida es Majo, una paisajista con mucha labia y un carisma arrollador.A la mañana siguiente se despierta con una resaca importante, el bolso lleno de conchas y un mensaje en su telefono de un numero que no conoce. ¿Quien sera esa persona que tiene un leon marino como foto de perfil?

Neal Stephenson, en medio del desierto y bajo la protección de mezcalito, habla con un escorpión que le ofrece un arma para los niños perdidos del futuro. SH00TER es la historia de esos niños perdido

Edna OBriens wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.This new edition of The Country Girls was published to coincide with its revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2019.

The Thirty-Nine Steps is the original spy thriller, and the inspiration for countless books, films and games. Buchans most popular novel is the first to feature adventurer Richard Hannay. Here you can get all five of Richard Hannays continent-spanning adventures, from the Scottish Highlands to the Western front of the First World War. Polygons editions of John Buchans novels are the only publications which are authorised and endorsed by the John Buchan estate. Each one comes with a specially commissioned introduction by renowned writers. Titles included in this bundle are: The Thirty-Nine Steps Greenmantle Mr Standfast The Three Hostages The Island of Sheep

Welcome to Kathryn Grays Hollywood or Home, a poetry collection with as much ruthless glamour as any Old Hollywood movie. These worldly-wise poems explore celebrity culture in a mode that is both seriously playful and playfully serious. Here, melancholy and humour, irony and sincerity can be often found in the same poem, creating a rich experience for the film buff or fan of celebrity culture, as the book is full of easter eggs and movie references.Spectres of Hollywood haunt the collection: moguls, politicians, starlets, and monsters. They leap from screen and stage to page, as in Portrait of my Superego as Mommie Dearest: youre / the one swinging the axe, Mommie.Famous actors drop in to entertain, for example in Meryl Streep is my Therapist or Six Ways of Looking at John Cazale, while writers do their best to pitch their best ideas, working hard to convince: Its "relatable". / Its really "relatable" stuff (High-concept).Film memorabilia is explored, likeThe Deer Hunter s bandana, as well as movie-business secrets: the title of As told by Alan Smithee refers to the alter ego that directors use in movie credits when they want to disown their films.Stock characters and plots show up, like the Handome Weeping Boy, and The Meet-Cute, that scene in a romantic comedy where a couple have a first hilarious or cute meeting. Classic 1980s movies like Pretty in Pink andTop Gun make their cameos. Power couples take their place, like Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner in Night and Day, 1957, and melodrama heightens to Douglas Sirks grand levels in Love. All the stories and characters loom larger than life, and asthe narrator asks, contemplating celebrity Tweets in Fresh Hell,Why cant life be EVERYTHING IN CAPS LIKE CHER?.In decadent celebrity culture, where a star is born every minute and becomes a flop even more quickly, these fierce and funny poems open space for the writer to reassess failures and successes, to overcome writers block, and to remember that we never stop longing for our old dreams to come true. Gray is writing at the top of her game with her much-anticipated second collection. Out of Hollywoods brutal disdain for failure, Gray manages to find spectacle and survival.Grays long-awaited second collection both celebrates and accuses the glamour and imagination of the movies in particular, and of art in general. Whether its Meryl Streep or Ferris Bueller or John Cazale shes writing of, Gray is illuminating, funny, and frequently moving. Underpinning the comedy and satire, though, is a real pain at lifes jolts and times relentlessness: "What happened to the script?", Nick Laird, author of Feel FreeHollywood or Home shines a light on the filmic quality of daily life, reminding us just how thin the membrane between fiction and reality can be. Within its pages we encounter the Mind in various guises: as an invalid from the nineteenth century, a rain-streaked window-pane and (my favourite) a cabinet populated by indescribable figurines. Bristling with energy, humour and kick-ass bravura, at the same time these poems tremble with deeply felt emotion. - Julia Copus, author of Girlhood

T. S. Eliot took George Barker onto the Faber poetry list in 1935 with Poems, when Barker was only twenty-two. This was the beginning of a publishing association which would endure through nineteen further volumes. There was an earlier Collected Poems published in 1957, but this edition, published in 1987 towards the end of the writers life, is the definitive edition. Here, readers have access to the contents of all of those volumes together with lesser-known work published by smaller presses and journals both in the UK and abroad. The book allows us to follow the evolution of a major talent who subscribed to no school and scorned all affiliation, but whose work is uncompromisingly true in both its stylistic integrity and its unswerving conception of poetic responsibility.His work was passionate, intellectually challenging and highly original, his language incantatory and often hypnotic. Peter Wilby, Guardian

"Dr Finlays Casebook" is a delightful collection of episodic stories of Dr Finlay and his life in the fictional Scottish village of Tannochbrae during the inter-war years and based on A.J. Cronins own experiences as a doctor. The BBC went on to dramatise these stories on both television and radio during the 1960s and 70s, with the television adaption drawing weekly audiences of 12 million viewers. The characters were revived by ITV from 1993-96 and were adapted again for BBC radio in 2001 and 2002. This omnibus edition of "Doctor Finlay of Tannochbrae and Adventures of a Black Bag" revive Cronins masterpiece for a contemporary audience - stories which are tragic, funny and wry and which a celebration of Cronins tremendous talent.

A Scots Quair is revolutionary - innovative in its form, deft and humorous in its use of the Scots language, courageous in its characterisation and politics. Central to the trilogy is Chris Guthrie, one of the most remarkable female characters in modern literature. In Sunset song, Gibbons finest achievement, the reader follows Chris through her girlhood in a tight-knit Scottish farming community: the seasons, the weddings, the funerals, the grind of work, the gossip. As the Great War takes its toll, machines repalce the old way of life. Cloud Howe and Grey Granite take Chris from her rural homeland to life in an industrial Scotland and the desperate years of the Depression. The triology as a whole is a major achievment, a picture of society undergoing traumatic and far-reaching transformation. Always readable, never sentimental, A Scots Quair is one of the most important works of Scottish literature.

The first English-language collection from one of Indias most hard-hitting writers, these poems brilliantly exemplify writing as an act of resistance. Militant, satirical, and biting, Kalyani Charal pulls no punches in eviscerating paternalistic - and patriarchal - bourgeois socialists who speak on behalf of others.Writing from lived experience, Charal delineates the bourgeois values that fuel the social machinery of caste oppression, while drawing parallels with social and racial marginalisation around the world. Thus, in her poetry, the specificity of Dalit lives in Bengal, a region which prides itself on its Leftist history and enlightened culture, and whose partition into India and Bangladesh has left a legacy of communal tension, refugees, and statelessness, is at the same time the universality of precarity, marginality and dispossession. Finally, there is space for love - wistful and full-throated, with an attentiveness to the natural world that speaks to her claim that "all Dalit woman writers are eco feminists".

1984. Girlo Wolf is born into a world of pickets and poverty. Life on The Rock is precious, but growing up is far from easy. Struggling with her mental health and the backlash of childhood trauma, she falls into a dark underworld of sex, drugs and alcohol. Driven by the stories of home, Girlo finds freedom in writing and strives to become a poet, discovering that her words are a vehicle to recovery and survivorhood.A gut-punching tribute to the reality of life in post-industrial Britain, Gemma June Howells debut novel is an authentic portrayal of the intergenerational struggles of working-class communities and one womans journey to empowerment."A testament to the joy and redemption of breaking the rules and breaking the mould." Rachel Trezise"An omnivorous mind." Niall Griffiths"Fierce, furious and heartfelt, Howells The Crazy Truth explodes from the page" Carly Holmes

"And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair for that is what makes good literature while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son."A powerful novel from the author of Panty about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel. When she realises that her five year old son Roo has followed her, Ishwari struggles with her identity as a mother and the responsibilities that brings, versus the guilty knowledge that she cannot want her own child when his existence requires her to suppress her own dreams.Ishwari and Roo wander the streets at night, looking for a place to stay, until an elderly caretaker takes pity on them and offers them an empty room on the terrace of a guest house. Ishwari gets work as a caregiver to the handsome gentleman who lives next door, while Roo, who is lame, spends all day locked up in the room on the roof. Pulsating with raw energy, Abandon gives voice to the perpetual conflict between life and art.