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Habiendo vivido una existencia dificil y abrumado por el terror a una nueva vida tras de su inminente fallecimiento, un multimillonario, firme creyente en el budismo y la reencarnacion, empleara sus ultimos dias en planificar su proxima vida. Obsesionado con la idea de encontrar el modo de transmitir a su yo futuro sus bienes actuales, buscara la ayuda de un conocido, un prestigioso experto en doctrinas orientales, con la intencion de que, a su muerte, sea el encargado de buscar a la criatura en quien se haya reencarnado, de procurarle un hogar perfecto y de conseguir que su fortuna vuelva a...

Florencia, 1470. El joven Ghezzo Bardi entabla amistad con un pintor callejero llamado Leonardo da Vinci, con cuya ayuda lograra entrar como aprendiz en el taller del reputado maestro Verrocchio. El vinculo entre ellos se fortalece, pero, cuando el padre de Ghezzo muere de forma misteriosa, junto con todos los demas cocineros de la taberna en la que trabaja y a la que se habia incorporado Leonardo como camarero, Ghezzo se adentrara en el estudio de las sustancias venenosas en un intento de descartar sus temores de que su amigo Leonardo, ascendido a jefe de cocina tras la muerte de todos los...

This novel is aimed at upper-intermediate students of English or Spanish. The left page is written in English with the Spanish equivalent on the right page so that the student can easily resolve any questions that may arise during the reading. The novel's rich vocabulary, the variety of dialogues (formal and casual), among relatives, friends, lovers and businessmen, the complexity of an exciting and multifaceted story (love, hate, revenge, blackmail, spirituality, crime ...) and the wide range of emotions and feelings displayed by the characters, will exponentially expand the student's...

After a poverty-stricken childhood, Robert Waller, now a successful businessman and firm believer in Buddhism and reincarnation, is obsessed with the idea of regaining possession of his fortune when he is reborn in his next life. When he finds out his death is imminent, he becomes terrified of repeating those impoverished years and so he devotes the time he has remaining to the task of assuring his comfort in his future life. To that end, he seeks the aid of an old acquaintance, Sir James Lorton, a well-known expert in oriental religions, to make a strange request: Waller asks Lorton to seek...

A few hours before her execution a woman narrates, in a fascinating confession to her priest, the story of her passionate love for a fallen angel. A story that plunges us into a world of terror from its beginning in 1212, during the French crusades, until its present-day ending. Through sensual and mysterious characters and settings, the protagonist reveals the amazing events that shape her supernatural existence. Loved by a fallen angel and tormented by others, Juliette lives through horrible, but also sublime experiences she confesses to only one mortal. This unforgettable story puts us in...