La tumba del héroe

In 1894, Paul Gauguin left what he considered to be a culturally bereft Europe to live an unfettered life in a tropical paradise Tahiti. It was there that he produced some of his most beautiful and best-known paintings, as well as another masterpiece: this enchanting journal. Complete with sensuous woodblock prints and sketches, this exquisitely designed edition first published by Chronicle in 1994 and now reissued with a beautiful new jacket is still the only translation to contain all of Gauguin's richly colored illustrations of the Tahiti diary. Including Tahitian myths and legends,...

Cuando Kelsey Graham bajó del autobús en Maple Juction, Wisconsin, Ethan Taggert decidió que aquella vez no la dejaría escapar. Diez años antes, Kelsey había cargado con la responsabilidad de un accidente de tráfico que no había sido culpa suya y se había marchado. Ahora acababa de volver y era el momento de arreglar las cosas.Ethan se había dado cuenta de que jamás debió haber permitido que Kelsey se marchase. Aquélla podía ser su oportunidad para ser feliz… si Kelsey dejaba que la ayudase. Tal vez se diera cuenta de que él era el hombre que debía haber tenido siempre a su...

At the onset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family and his frustrations with the Bureau's outdated methods.

From the author of the international bestseller, The Invisible Mountain, comes Perla, a coming-of-age story based on one of the darkest chapters in Argentinean history. Growing up as a privileged only child in Buenos Aires, Perla Correa learned early on not to discuss the profession of her naval officer father in a country still reeling from the abuses of a deposed military dictatorship. But when an uninvited visitor appears in Perla’s home, this encounter sets her on a journey that will force her to confront the unease she has suppressed all her life—and to make a wrenching decision...