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For sheer storytelling delight and pure adventure, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From young Jim Hawkins’s first encounter with the sinister beggar Pew to the climactic battle with the most memorable villain in literature, Long John Silver, this novel has fired readers’ imaginations for generations. A stirring tale of treachery, greed, and daring, Treasure Island continues to enthrall readers of all ages.

Un accidente trunca brutalmente la idílica relación entre una niña y su caballo. La madre deberá recurrir a un hombre muy especial, de quien se dice que posee poderes para comunicarse con los caballos y sanar su espíritu... La solidaridad entre las personas, la armonía con la naturaleza y la fuerza de los sentimientos subyacen como motor de esta novela inolvidable, adaptada al cine en una superproducción dirigida y protagonizada por Robert Redford.

At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When epidemiologist Henry Parsons travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will have staggering repercussions. Halfway across the globe, the deputy director of U.S. Homeland Security scrambles to mount a response to the rapidly spreading pandemic leapfrogging around the world, which she believes may be the result of an act of biowarfare. And a rogue experimenter in man-made diseases is preparing his own terrifying solution. As already-fraying global relations begin to snap, the virus slashes across the United States, dismantling institutions and decimating the population. With his own wife and children facing diminishing odds of survival, Henry travels from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to his home base at the CDC in Atlanta, searching for a cure and for the origins of this seemingly unknowable disease. The End of October is a one-of-a-kind thriller steeped in real-life political and scientific implications, filled with the insight that has been the hallmark of Wright s acclaimed nonfiction and the full-tilt narrative suspense that only the best fiction can offer. A swift and all-too-convincing chronicle of science, espionage, action and speculation that moves from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia to the U.S. as it eerily evokes real-life current events.

In 1996, the town of Laurens, South Carolina, was thrust into the spotlight when a white supremacist named Michael Burden opened a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan in the community’s main square. Journalists and protestors flooded the town, and hate groups rallied to the establishment’s defense, dredging up the long history of racism and injustice. What came next is the subject of the film Burden, which won the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. Shortly after his museum opened, Burden abruptly left the Klan in search of a better life. Broke and homeless, he was taken in by Reverend David Kennedy, an African American leader in the Laurens community, who plunged his church, friends, and family into an inspiring quest to save their former enemy. In this spellbinding Southern epic, journalist Courtney Hargrave further uncovers the complex events behind the story told in Andrew Heckler’s film. Hargrave explores the choices that led to Kennedy and Burden’s friendship, the social factors that drive young men to join hate groups, and the difference one person can make in confronting America’s oldest sin.

En 1697, a la edad de sesenta y nueve años, Perrault publicó Historias o cuentos de tiempos pasados, con moralejas (Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités). Los personajes que emplea son hadas, ogros, animales que hablan, brujas, princesas y príncipes encantados, entre otros. Esta colección incluía cuentos como Cenicienta, La Bella Durmiente y Caperucita Roja. Aunque muchos de estos cuentos ya existían, la versión de Perrault los popularizó y les dio un enfoque literario distintivo. Una característica de los cuentos de hadas de Perrault es la inclusión de moralejas al final de cada historia, el autor incluye una enseñanza moral referente al contenido de cada historia, para destacar los valores de estos.

Hemos partido en esta selección de cuentos de Jacob y Wilhelm Grimm —más conocidos por su nombre conjunto de «Hermanos Grimm»— de la traducción histórica que realizó José Sánchez Biedma para la que fue la primera publicación de estos cuentos traducidos al castellano desde su original en alemán, que la casa Gaspar y Roig de Madrid publicó en 1867 con una selección de 46 de los ya muy famosos cuentos bajo el título Cuentos escogidos de los Hermanos Grimm.