Por fin ha llegado la hora de acabar una intensa jornada de trabajo, llena de sinsabores. Una auténtica maratón para completar mi parte del gran engranaje que es la empresa donde laboro, en el cual no se puede malograr sin perjudicar al resto. Estaba recogiendo algunos papeles de mi despacho cuando escuché ese singular sonido que hace el ordenador cuando recibo un nuevo e-mail. A estas horas no suelo revisarlos, ya que prefiero estar fresco para...

In this illustrated picture book set in 1952, a young Métis girl anticipates the arrival of electricity in her small town. The river glowed with lights for the first time. On a cold winter morning in 1952, Patsy Lamondin wakes to the day electricity will finally be connected to her small town along the Magnetawan River. Patsy and her siblings buzz with excitement, eagerly awaiting the ceremony being held at the center of town. The Lamondins have...

A gentle story about facing change and carrying home in your heart The people on a remote island are happy with their lot, but learn that they must make new lives in less isolated surroundings. A story of social change, and the love that one carries for home. An island off the coast of another island is home to a small community; life is rich with joy and challenges, and the people who live there love their island home. One day they learn that the...

A Cajun girl tries to keep her family together on the Louisiana bayou. It's been almost 2 years since Suzette's father caught 2 bullets in his back. Since then, he's been bed-ridden, too sick to hunt or fish or do any of the things a bayou man must do to keep his family fed. While he heals, Suzette scours the swamps around her house for fish, gators, or anything she can sell to put food on the table. It's hard, but Suzette is a proud Cajun, and work...

"A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realizes he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn't recall either sister, nor their mother, the woman buried beneath the stone. As their stories...

"Share in the joyful, adventure-filled shenanigans of a child growing up in a small mud hut in Inner Mongolia in this charming, illustrated memoir for young middle grade readers"--

Elliot the little elephant and his best friend, Mouse, play hide-and-seek during an autumn vacation in the countryside.