El elefantito azul que se convirtió en niño

Mi vestido verde esmeralda by Alister Ramirez Marquez recounts the life story of Clara, born poor in isolated, rural Colombia in 1900, who makes her way, after a mythic journey through forests, mountains and swamps to the western region of the Quindio, to the city of Armenia, now the heart of coffee and banana production. This remarkable novel, first published in 2003, is the tale of Clara's adventurous journey and subsequent rise to prosperity as the owner of a farm and restaurant and mother of six, ending with years of political strife and the dissolution of her family. The novel provides...

Novela de iniciación donde una niña de 13 años se exilia con su padre en Ginebra, Suiza, huyendo de la dictadura. Allí, en medio de una lengua extraña y personajes sorprendentes, se inicia en el amor, la amistad y el lenguaje. «El agua de la tierra se evapora, el viento raspa las piedras, las hojas caen de los árboles, las palabras... ¿a dónde van a parar las palabras?» Novela del exilio con reminiscencias punk, novela de soledades y lenguas entrelazadas, Ginebra explora las vetas de la memoria de una niña de 13 años que debe huir del país con su padre y aterriza en una ciudad...

English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; they could command winds, mountains, and woods. But by the early 1800s they have long since lost the ability to perform magic. They can only write long, dull papers about it, while fairy servants are nothing but a fading memory. But at Hurtfew Abbey in Yorkshire, the rich, reclusive Mr Norrell has assembled a wonderful library of lost and forgotten books from England's magical past and regained some of the powers of England's magicians. He goes to London and raises a beautiful young woman...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action. For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison....