La cara del miedo

An illustrated edition of the Brothers Grimm’s classic tale, this book features the beautiful princess Snow White and the seven dwarves who find her in the woods while she’s trying to escape her wicked stepmother. Having grown jealous of Snow White’s beauty, the queen makes several attempts to kill her until she finally succeeds in making Snow White fall into a deep sleep with the help of a poisoned apple. Presumed dead, Snow White is not reawakened from her stupor until a prince travels by her glass coffin and falls in love with her. Touching on the themes of vanity and jealousy, this...

In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest... The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D' likes to say--in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in...

Una ola de suicidios asola el mundo con una particularidad: aquellas personas que deciden quitarse la vida son las que detentan el poder económico. Héctor, un empleado de seguros, introvertido, de vida solitaria, es testigo privilegiado de este acontecimiento planetario que le retrotraerá a un pasado que creía olvidado. Su vida, pensada para no vivirla, sufrirá un vertiginoso cambio solo asumible gracias al amor que siente por Blanca.

Kenneth Malory se ha jurado que no descansará hasta matar a los asesinos que asaltaron su rancho y acabaron con la vida de su amada esposa. Por su parte, Abbyssinya St. James está cansada de no poder ejercer libremente su profesión en el periódico de Boston para el que trabaja, de modo que cuando hereda una pequeña publicación de Santa Fe no lo duda y acepta el desafío de dirigirla. Durante su travesía por el país, Abby no se imagina que además de enfrentarse a unos criminales, tendrá que acabar aceptando la protección de uno de los hombres más exasperantes de todo el Oeste: un...