Literatura y Ficción

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.

The richest, most depraved man on Earth, Malachi Constant, is offered a chance to take a space journey....

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan....

STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John....

The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life....

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Celebrants comes the much-anticipated sequel, in which Patrick O’Hara is called back to his guncle duties…at a big family wedding in Lake Como, Italy....

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive.,,,

Tom Wolfe's best-selling modern classic tells the story of Sherman McCoy, an elite Wall Street bond trader whose one wrong turn leads to a humiliating fall from grace....

The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face....

It's 1939, in New York City. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat: smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague....

It’s 2011, and Samuel Andresen-Anderson—college professor, stalled writer—has a Nix of his own: his mother, Faye. He hasn’t seen her in decades, not since she abandoned the family when he was a boy....

As far as Jolene is concerned, her interactions with her colleagues should start and end with her official duties as an admin for Supershops, Inc. Unfortunately, her irritating, incompetent coworkers don’t seem to understand the importance of boundaries.

When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married....

Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage....

From author Rupert Holmes comes a devilish thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, a luxurious, clandestine college dedicated to the fine art of murder where earnest students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim....

My dying wish is for you to finish my bucket list. I refuse to die without knowing this list will be completed. And I refuse to die without knowing my family will be okay....

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness....

Mark Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us....

How can one man convince the highest powers in Washington that the president of the US is dangerously unstable - before it’s too late? Find out....

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking....

Stephanie Plum, New Jersey’s hardest working, most under-appreciated bounty hunter, returns with a bang in her latest adventure. While Stephanie’s personal life is hanging by a thread, a killer case lands on her doorstep that changes everything.

Sparks fly in this delightful novel about two burned out professionals who meet at a ramshackle resort on the British seaside....

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him....

Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough....

Well, this year, after the Spring Planting season, I’m really gonna relax and put down roots. It’s the slow life for me. Sure, the talking animals and cultivators coming to live with me are a bit weird, but this year everything is gonna be basically normal....

Desde aquel día no tan lejano en que Allan Karlsson saltó por la ventana de la residencia de ancianos y se lanzó a todo tipo de aventuras con la avidez de un jovenzuelo, el mundo ha sufrido una transformación radical que lo ha sumido en el desconcierto y la incertidumbre. Ante tal estado de cosas, un espíritu inquieto y una mente sin prejuicios, sumados a una tableta con acceso ilimitado a internet, impulsan al incombustible abuelo a emprender una singular cruzada a fin de salvaguardar la paz mundial.

Un clásico de la comedia. Según Las Buenas y Acertadas profecías de Agnes la Chalada Bruja (el único libro fiable de profecías, escrito en 1655, antes de que ella explotara), el fin del mundo tendrá lugar el sábado. El próximo sábado, para ser exactos. Justo antes de la hora de la cena. Los ejércitos del Bien y del Mal se están agrupando, la Atlántida está resurgiendo, llueven sapos y los ánimos están algo alterados así que... todo parece ajustarte al Plan Divino.

A partir de su debut en 1977, Bernie Rhodenbarr se ha ganado la entusiasta admiración de un público internacional cada vez más numeroso. Este caballero, con su corazón ligero y sus dedos más ligeros aún, cuyos talentos detectivescos lo sacan de los apuros en que lo meten sus habilidades de ladrón, se roba de paso los corazones y las mentes de los lectores. «Los ladrones no pueden escoger» es su primera aparición.

Es difícil ignorar a alguien cuando tienes sus manos dentro de tu boca. Bernie Rhodenbarr es todo oídos cuando el Dr. Sheldrake, su dentista, empieza a quejarse de su detestable casi-ex esposa, y de paso menciona los valiosos diamantes que ésta tiene mal guardados dentro de su apartamento. Como es cosa sabida que Bernie suele complementar sus entradas como dueño de una librería con algunas aventurillas no tan infrecuentes en el área del latrocinio de alta categoría, unas cuantas noches más tarde se encuentra dentro del apartamento Sheldrake con la idea de volarse algunas cositas –...

Me dieron el apodo de "Micro" en la clase de gimnasia y se mantuvo durante mis años de formación. Todavía está en mi cabeza como adulto, siempre presente, y un recordatorio constante de las burlas que soporté de los otros niños en la escuela primaria. Eventualmente crecí y seguí adelante, pero nunca pude quitarme de encima al comité de jóvenes que se reían de mi pene en el vestuario. Tuve un estudio exitoso en la universidad y pude tener relaciones normales durante la escuela secundaria y la universidad. Después de un maravilloso matrimonio y de tener tres hermosos hijos, mi ...