El misterio de la dama del cuadro


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Bárbara, la joven protagonista de este apasionante relato, descubre un terrible secreto encerrado durante generaciones en el retrato de una de sus antepasadas. A través de un sinfín de acontecimientos y sucesos sobrecogedores, acaecidos en la vieja residencia familiar, la joven trata de enterrar sus fantasmas y encontrar respuestas frente a tan extrañas señales




Un mar de historias: El Greco


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El nuevo libro de la colección "Un mar de historias" recorre la vida del Greco a partir de sus obras más conocidas. "El caballero de la mano en el pecho" cobra vida para explicarnos la historia de quien según algunas hipótesis fue su autor. Lo hace a partir de los detalles, paisajes y personajes que aparecen en retratos y pinturas del Greco, como "La dama del Armiño" o "El entierro del Señor de Orgaz".




Remedios Varo


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La Solidaridad


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Frequency Dictionary of Spanish Words


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Dancing to "Almendra"


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Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquín Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mobster's when a secretive zookeeper whispers to him that he "knows too much." In exchange for a promise to introduce the keeper to his idol, the film star George Raft, now the host of the Capri Casino, Joaquín gets information that ensnares him in an ever-thickening plot of murder, mobsters, and, finally, love. The love story is, of course, another mystery. Told by Yolanda, a beautiful ex-circus performer now working for the famed cabaret San Souci, it interleaves through Joaquín's underworld investigations, eventually revealing a family secret deeper even than Havana's brilliantly evoked enigmas. In Dancing to "Almendra," Mayra Montero has created an ardent and thrilling tale of innocence lost, of Havana's secret world that is "the basis for the clamor of the city," and of the end of a violent era of fantastic characters and extravagant crimes. Based on the true history of a bewitching city and its denizens, Almendra is the latest "triumph" (Library Journal) from one of Latin America's most impassioned and intoxicating voices.










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