When Frank and Joe are assigned to safeguard the children of a visiting dignitary as they go on a visit to the National Library of Education, they look to their librarian mother for aid.

En El Arte, Juanjo Saez nos cuenta, a traves de dialogos imaginarios con su madre, como el entiende el complejo mundo del arte. Para Saez, el arte es emocion, sentir, ademas de una forma de evadirse de uno mismo y fundirse con el mundo. Segun su vision, no se le deberia dar mas importancia que la que tiene, ni enaltecer a los artistas como si fuesen seres superiores. Ademas, para el, el arte debe ser libre para evolucionar y llegar a otros lugares....

"When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way to bring her back was through reading. Reading My Mother Back is a genre-bending memoir that explores a life marked by trauma, illness, religion, and abuse through a focus on the books Baker and his mother shared. The book combines accounts of rereading childhood classics with true and apocryphal stories...

"What's a nice, proper dame like Joan Parker doing in a place like Dick Moonlight's office? The scar running down her face-- from the business end of an axe-- has something to do with it. Shortly after the attack that killed her husband and left her for dead, she pointed the finger at her son Christopher, who now sits in jail. But the woman insists the police have it all wrong-- Christopher didn't do it-- and she just needs the private eye to prove...

In compliance with a deep desire, a mother wants her dead son to come back to life.

Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic--about the year before her son goes to college -- and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along the way. The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son Jamess soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4...

Tres millones de dólares bien valen una misa. En el México de los años noventa, buena parte de la población enfrenta la mayor crisis financiera que el país ha visto en la historia reciente. Entre las víctimas están los hermanos Oroprieto Laguna, dos muchachos que huyeron de su pueblo --y de su tiránica madre-- antes de cumplir la mayoría de edad. Pero ahora la tremenda inflación y la caída del peso los llevarán de vuelta a sus raíces,...