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"El gran Gatsby es un retarto de la Jazz Age que captura el espírtu de la generaciÃçn de Scott Fitzgerald y le concede un trono permanente en el Olimpo de la literature norteamericana. El millonario hecho a sí mismo., Jay Gatsby, personaliza una de las obsesiones del autor y de la sociedad de su país: la combinaciÃçn de dinero, ambiciÃçn y lujuria como promesa de nuevos comienzos. Una extraordinaria fábula--y como tal, no exenta...

Retells some of the legends of John Henry, an African-American hero who raced against a steam drill to lay railroad tracks on a mountain.

The legend of Sleepy Hollow: A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman. Rip Van Winkle: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

The former president looks back on his life and career, discussing his youth and education, his early public service, his years as governor of Arkansas, and his accomplishments during two terms in the White House. Bill Clinton será, sin duda alguna, uno de los personajes políticos más polémico y complejo de todos los tiempos, en su país. El cuadragésimo segundo presidente de los Estados Unidos de América lideró un período de bonanza económica,...

Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....

Fabian Escalante is a former head of Cuban counterintelligence and a respected and much-sought-after authority by US researchers on CIA activities. Following the Watergate scandal and the 1975 US Senate commission, which revealed an extensive program of CIA plots against foreign leaders, the US government established a congressional committee to re-examine the Kennedy assassination. As there was growing speculation about the role of anti-Castro exiles...

Escrita en el espanol original, es la novela clasica escrita por Tomas Rivera. Se trata de una familia Mexicano-Americana como trabajadores imigrantes durante los 1950's vista por los ojos de un nino. Explotado por campesinos, propietarios y aun companeros mexicano-americanos el nino tiene que esforzarse por el mismo al encontratse con la cara de la explotacion la muerte y las enfermedades. (A Mexican-American family's life as migrant workers during...

A las doce de la mañana del 14 de diciembre, una joven llena de magulladuras se presenta desnuda en las instalaciones del FBI en Nueva York. El inspector Bowring, jefe de la Unidad de Criminologia, intentara descubrir que esconde una nota amarillenta con el nombre de una mujer que horas despues aparece decapitada en un descampado. La investigacion lo sumira de lleno en una trama en la que el destino, el amor y la venganza se entrelazan en una...