Las Rosas Son Rojas, La Muerte Nos Ronda. Un misterio de Emma Flowers

El narrador fue engendrado para que los pechos de su madre amamantaran al infante Carlos, hijo primogénito de Isabel de Farnesio y de Felipe V de España. No cumplió esta misión; el nacimiento del príncipe adelantó una semana al suyo, pero sí acompañó al que ocupó el trono español con el nombre de Carlos III, en la infancia de éste y en las campañas italianas, que incluyen el reinado en las Dos Sicilias.Es un relato de la forja de un déspota ilustrado y de las intrigas cortesanas que llevan al poder a un rey que se considera designado por Dios. Esta creencia es la causa de la...

Domingo Bernel is a Colombian journalist who has lived a solitary life in Barcelona for many years. He writes a column for a prestigious newspaper, but far from leading the socially agitated life of a successful columnist, he spends most of his time alone due to a strange quirk: he can't stand to be in contact with objects. From a simple can opener to the garter belt used by his lover to seduce him, any object represents a tortuous challenge to Bernel, becoming increasingly more difficult to face and dragging him to unsuspected limits. Domingo Bernel es un periodista colombiano que lleva...

Twenty years ago Chelsea Green published the first trade edition of The Man Who Planted Trees, a timeless eco-fable about what one person can do to restore the earth. The hero of the story, Elzéard Bouffier, spent his life planting one hundred acorns a day in a desolate, barren section of Provence in the south of France. The result was a total transformation of the landscape-from one devoid of life, with miserable, contentious inhabitants, to one filled with the scent of flowers, the songs of birds, and fresh, flowing water.

Sometimes our exes are exactly how we remember them. Sometimes they’re better . . . Kathy and Jordan Treveryan used to have everything. They fronted the enormously successful rock band Blue Heron, they had two beautiful daughters, and they had a passionate marriage. But life as they knew it came to an abrupt end when their bandmate, Keith, was killed in an apparently accidental fire. Soon after, the band and their marriage fell apart. In this tale of unstoppable love, Jordan pursues Kathy as he tries to reunite the band and lay to rest the mysterious circumstances of Keith’s death. And...