Un Bautizo Singular

"How can I tell him that he will never find her, after he has been searching for her all his life? If I could talk to him without breaking his heart, there is something I would tell him, in hopes it would stop his sleepless nights and wrongheaded search for a shadow. I would repeat this to him: 'Your Matilde Lina is in limbo, the dwelling place of those who are neither dead nor alive.' But that would be like severing the roots of the tree that supports him. Besides, why do it if he is not going to believe me." In the midst of war, the protagonists of A Tale of the Dispossessed are...

"Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beach-based marijuana operation, reaping significant profits from their loyal clientele. In the past when their turf was challenged, Chon took care of eliminating the threat. But now they may have come up against something that they can't handle--the Mexican Baja Cartel wants in, and sends them the message that a no is unacceptable. When they refuse to back down, the cartel escalates its threat, kidnapping Ophelia, the boys' playmate and confidante. O's abduction sets off a dizzying array of...

A la espera del desenlace de la aclamada trilogía de Glenn Cooper, formada por La biblioteca de los muertos y El libro de las almas, este relato inédito vuelve a sumergirnos en los misterios insondables de la abadía de Vectis y su siniestra colección de libros. Miami, 2020. Will Piper, ex agente del FBI, al fin disfruta de la tranquilidad que tanto le ha costado alcanzar desde que se cruzó en su vida el misterio de la biblioteca de los muertos y reveló a una atónita humanidad la fecha del fin del mundo que los escribas de la abadía de Vectis habían predicho. Pero ese ansiado retiro...

En tiempos muy antiguos hubo una hermosa ciudadela en el cielo. No era una un lugar como cualquier otro, era muy especial porque hab'a sido construida con el material de los m+s lindos sue-os, de la gente. En sus jardines florec'an las esperanzas y las ilusiones de los seres de coraz-n limpio. As' pues, aquella ciudad era el lugar m+s bonito que ha existido jam+s.