Las rosas olvidadas

La pasión le desveló la flor de su secreto. La primera novela de los Piratas. Christina Bennett conquistó enseguida a la mejor sociedad londinense. Sin embargo, guardaba afanosamente el secreto de su misterioso pasado hasta la noche en que Lyon, marqués de Lyonwood, le robó un sensual beso. El arrogante aristócrata con pasiones de pirata saboreó el fuego agazapado bajo el frío encanto de Christina y juró poseerla algún día. Pero la desafiante Christina no se va a dejar conquistar tan fácilmente. Celosa de sus afectos y de su fortuna, se resistirá a las sensuales caricias de Lyon. ...

Two literary geniuses coexist in the Barcelona of the sixties. Just a few meters separate their apartments, they see each other almost daily. They write about each other, share friendships, party nights, conversations about books and writing, and above all the brilliant start to their literary careers which, under the leadership of who would become one of the most powerful literary agents in the world, will lead them both to have millions of readers in all corners of the planet and to be awarded the Cervantes Prize and the Nobel Prize among many other recognitions. Until one day, in Mexico...

This English translation of Entre letras y ladrillos (Bilingual Press, 1996), an autobiographical novel written in the best of Miguel Mendez's baroque and conceptually intense style, evokes one of the most remarkable life histories of this century. Using his own "status as a Mexican Indian, wetback, and Chicano" as a yardstick, he takes us on a personal and collective voyage that culminates on a remarkable day in 1986 when he exchanged his job of full-time construction worker for that of full professor at the University of Arizona.

For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alices old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to her mothers whereabouts. Desperate to find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest: Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame...