Libro de familia

This is about the life of Candide, the illegitimate nephew of a German baron. He grows up in the baron's castle under the tutelage of the scholar Pangloss, who teaches him that this world is "the best of all possible worlds." Candide falls in love with the baron's young daughter and the baron catches the two kissing and expels Candide from his home. On his own for the first time, this is the begining of the real Candide's life.

Con un estilo intimista, oral y poético, Mónica Echeverría logra devolver a la vida a una de las mujeres más excepcionales de nuestra historia reciente

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.

El multimillonario Tanner King queria terminar con el negocio de arboles de Navidad de su vecino, que le molestaba mucho. King tenia el dinero y el poder suficientes como para conseguir que le cerraran el negocio, asi que a Ivy Holloway, la propietaria de la plantacion, no le quedaba otra opcion que ablandarle. Tanner no podia vivir tranquilo por culpa del negocio de su vecino y, ademas, no conseguia deshacerse de la guapa asistenta que le habia mandado su abogado. No era capaz de dejar de pensar en ella ni evitar besarla. El problema era que la duena de la plantacion y su asistenta... eran...