Grano de trigo

Con gran cantidad de informacion a la mano, Alain Derbez lleva a cabo un recorrido desde las primeras huellas del jazz en nuestro pais, hasta fines del siglo XX, pasando lista a opiniones de notables conocedores e interpretes de este genero como Henry West, Juan Jose Calatayud, Chilo Moran, Enrique Nery, Tino Contreras, Francisco Tellez y Gerardo Batiz, entre otros.

Al caminar por las calles de Londres, el joven musico Joe Beck conoce a Candy, prostituta unos anos mayor que el y adicta a la heroina. Enamorado de ella, dejara su mundo comodo y tranquilo para ayudarla, aunque eso implique arriesgar su vida para que ella escape de Iggy, el hombre que la vende. Segunda novela publicada por el Fondo de Kevin Brooks, Candy es una novela para el publico juvenil que ha sido descrita por el diario ingles The Guardian como una historia cuya agudeza contrasta con lo dulce de su titulo, sin respuestas faciles y con algo oscuro al acecho.

She was little and quick and pretty. Her mother nicknamed her Colibri, Spanish for "Hummingbird". At age four she was kidnapped, torn from her parents on a crowded bus in Guatemala City. Since then, she's traveled with "Uncle," the ex-soldier and wandering beggar who has renamed her Rosa. Uncle has always told Rosa that he searched for his parents but had no success. There's almost no chance Rosa will ever find them--but Rosa still remembers and longs for them. When she was young, Uncle consulted fortune-tellers who told him that Rosa would bring him luck--a treasure big enough to last him...

A young girl must return to her grandmother's house to pick up a birthday cake, and encounters some scary creatures along the way who end up wishing her a happy birthday.