LETRAS

La poesía puede ser tan hermosa como variada, puede hablar de amores, de sueños, de decepciones, de risas, de llantos. En este libro, Al viento de New York, del poeta y escritor cubano Armando G. Muñoz, el lector encontrará una poesía con la que disfrutará del amor o del dolor que se siente cuando se vive lejos de la patria que te vio nacer.

El silbido vulnerable del jilguero me despierta, a veces, desde la ventana de la habitación. Y, como las gotas condensadas, empiezo a deslizarme por la memoria. Viajo otra vez a la tierra que habité, ahora curtida por el presente, y recuerdo todas las heridas existentes. Creo que fue en ese instante cuando empecé a escribir. O había sido antes, no sé. La memoria a veces es confusa. A veces, sin embargo, no escucho su silbido y hablo con el silencio, que me recuerda las ausencias que no vuelan. Entonces, les escribo y dejo que vuelen sobre el papel.

Enemies should never get a second chance. But this one might. It’s been twelve years since June Broaden has seen her high school enemy (and secret crush), Ryan Henderson. That’s a long time to hold a grudge over some petty feud, but the sharp memory of him dangling a kiss at graduation, then pulling away at the last second, has fueled many angry fantasies since. Now it’s her chance to get even. Ryan, along with most of her high school class, is back in town for her best friend’s wedding, and June is eager to show the former bully exactly what he’s missed out on. A lot has changed since their teenage days; June is now the Southern queen of gourmet donuts, not to mention one of the most desired bachelorettes in her small town. What’s she’s not expecting, though, is for Ryan to show up looking like Adonis and touting his own career success as the youngest chef to ever win three Michelin stars. How dare he try to one-up her revenge plot? Luckily, June never backs down from a challenge.

On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s ship The Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon, The Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The crew, marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2,500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. Then, six months later, another, even more decrepit, craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with counter-charges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. While stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

Nora Mackenzie’s entire career lies in the hands of famous NFL tight end Derek Pender, who also happens to be her extremely hot college ex-boyfriend. Nora didn’t end things as gracefully as she could have back then, and now it has come back to haunt her. Derek is her first client as an official full-time sports agent and he’s holding a grudge. Derek has set his sights on a little friendly revenge. If Nora Mackenzie, the first girl to ever break his heart, wants to be his agent, oh, he’ll let her be his agent. The plan is simple: make Nora’s life absolutely miserable. But if Derek knows anything about the woman he once loved—she won’t quit easily.

En las emotivas páginas de esta obra, Quique Palomo (Vida y muerte de Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado: Ligero de equipaje) adapta la obra de Ian Gibson, en la que trazan un certero recorrido por las vidas de cuatro magníficos poetas de nuestro tiempo: Federico García Lorca, Antonio Machado, Miguel Hernández y Juan Ramón Jiménez, en un estudio estremecedor sobre la lealtad a la causa republicana de cuatro de las mejores voces poéticas de la España del siglo XX, represaliada con la muerte en el exilio, el fusilamiento sin juicio y la muerte en la cárcel.