Story of Holden Caulfield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex...

After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive. Estaba loca, pero él la necesitaba. Paul Sheldon es un escritor que sufre un grave accidente y recobra el conocimiento en una apartada casa, donde vive una misteriosa mujer, capaz de cometer los mayores horrores. Paul tendrá que luchar por su vida. Misery Chastain ha muerto. Paul Sheldon la ha matado. Con alivio y hasta con...

"They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of lonelinss and alienation. Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they...

LNo te pierdas la nueva y pica fantasa de Christopher Paolini-Eragon, prximamente 12.5.23! Un joven. Un dragn. Un mundo de aventuras. Eragon es el primer ttulo de la serie de Ciclo Inheritance, que tiene como protagonista a un valiente joven y a su indomable dragona Shapira. En el reino legendario de Alagasia la guerra se est gestando. Los Jinetes protectores de la paz del Imperio y los nicos capaces de controlar a los inteligentes dragones, se han...

Silver City, Colorado, in the 1880's, is the scene of love, wealth, and squalor in pioneer western days.

Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...

A thirteen-year-old girl struggles to cope with the loss of her beloved older brother, who disappeared four months earlier off the coast of Cape Cod.

Por muy guapo y encantador que fuera, Marta Wyman no iba a permitir que Evan Gallagher la obligara a ver a su abuelo. Marta no conseguía entender qué impulsaba a aquel hombre a convencerla de que tuviera buena relación con un pariente al que ni siquiera conocía, pero estaba empeñada en seguir adelante con su vida como lo había hecho hasta que él apareció. Evan Gallagher iba a tener que esperar pacientemente hasta que ella cambiara de opinión......