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Declared "a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author Maria Duenas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances.

A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled...

Kontynuacja losów Siry, bohaterki bestsellerowej Krawcowej z Madrytu Sira Bonnard (wcześniej Arish Agoriuq, wcześniejSira Quiroga) nie jest już niewinną krawcową, która oczarowała czytelników pośród wykrojów i szpiegowskich intryg, ale jej urok pozostał niezmienny. Wraca Sira, charyzmatyczna i niezapomniana. Wraca Krawcowa z Madrytu. Cztery miejsca. Dwie misje. Jedna kobieta. Zanurz się znowu w niezapomnianej epoce. Druga wojna światowa dobiega końca i świat rozpoczyna trudną odbudowę. Po wypełnieniu swoich zadań jako współpracowniczka brytyjskiego wywiadu, Sira...

The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II.

Between Youth and Adulthood...

At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. But everything changes when two charismatic men burst unexpectedly...

La mejor historia esta siempre por vivir. Un giro al destino. Un viaje. Una segunda oportunidad.

Incapaz de recomponer sus propios pedazos, la profesora Blanca Perea acepta a la desesperada lo que anticipa como un tedioso proyecto academico. Su estabilidad personal acaba de desplomarse, su matrimonio ha saltado por los aires. Confusa y devastada, la huida a la insignificante universidad californiana de Santa Cecilia es su unica opcion. El campus que la acoge resulta, sin embargo, mucho mas seductor de lo previsto, y la labor de catalogar el legado de su viejo compatriota y profesor Andres...

Aged 12, Sira Quiroga was apprenticed to a Madrid dressmaker. As she masters the seamstress's art, her life seems to be clearly mapped out - until she falls passionately in love and flees with her seductive lover. But in Morocco she is betrayed and left penniless. As civil war engulfs Spain, Sira finds that she cannot return and so turns to her one true skill.

An outstanding success around the world, The Time in Between has sold more than two million copies and inspired the Spanish television series based on the book, dubbed by the media as the "Spanish Downton Abbey." In the US it was a critical and commercial hit, and a New York Times bestseller in paperback.

La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona el Madrid agitado de los meses previos al alzamiento arrastrada por el amor desbocado hacia un hombre a quien apenas conoce. Con el se instala en Tanger, una ciudad exotica y vibrante donde todo puede suceder. Incluso la...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Time in Between returns with a magnificent new novel set in 1860s Mexico City, Havana, and Spain about a self-made man who loses his fortune overnight but finds his destiny as he works to restore a legendary vineyard to its former glory, and to win the love of the combative widow who once owned the property.

Now available in Spanish.

Mauro Larrea sees the fortune that he had built after years of hardship and toil come crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debts and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his...

This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America.

Examines organisational management through a new perspective that considers corporate social responsibility within the relationship between companies and society. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as organisational innovation, corporate strategy, and cultural enterprises, this book is aimed at professionals, economists, students of business and finance, and policy makers.