The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

Author	Lorna Landvik
ISBN	1452959617

A bittersweet, seriously funny novel of a life, a small town, and a key to our troubled times traced through a newspaper columnist’s half-century of taking in, and taking on, the world


The curmudgeon who wrote the column “Ramblin’s by Walt” in the Granite Creek Gazette dismissed...

Author	Alisa Valdes
ISBN	0316013072

From the fist day at her new Southern California high school, Pasquala Rumalda Quintana de Archuleta ("Paski") learns that the popular students may be diverse in ethnicity but are alike in their cruelty. While Paski tries to concentrate on mountain biking and not thinking too much about ultra-hot...

Author	William McIlvanney
ISBN	0340407573

His face made a fist at the world. The twined remnant of umbilicus projected vulnerably. Hands, feet and prick. He had come equipped for the job.

Newborn Conn Docherty, raw as a fresh wound, lies between his parents in their tenement room, with no birthright but a life's labour in the pits of his...

Author	Leah Hager Cohen
ISBN	1594488053

Is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family? The Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven hours after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John and Ricky, try to return to their previous...

Author	António Lobo Antunes
ISBN	8478446141

La ironia del titulo -frase tomada de una estrofa del himno nacional- ya anuncia lo que sera el desarrollo y el proposito de esta novela de Lobo Antunes: mostrar el otro lado de ese B+esplendorB; , desvelar sin paliativos la verdad a uno y otro lado del espectro politico, a traves de dos espacios narrativos...