Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

From the publisher. Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixote -- pursuing his vision of glory in a mercantile age -- and his shrewd, skeptical manservant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on...

"Esta sátira de la Revolución Rusa y el triunfo del estalinismo, escrita en 1945, se ha convertido por derecho propio en un hito de la cultura contemporánea y en uno de los libros más mordaces de todos los tiempos. Ante el auge de los animales de la Granja Solariega, pronto detectamos las semillas del totalitarismo en una organización aparentemente ideal; y en nuestros líderes más carismáticos, la sombra de los opresores más crueles."--Amazon....

"Se supone que la Navidad es una epoca llena de alegria. Pero la vida ha sido dura para Mark Smart: tuvo que dejar de estudiar, su madre murio en un accidente, su novia lo abandono, y ahora, en plena nevada, su coche ha dejado de funcionar. A duras penas consigue llegar a una cafeteria en busca de un telefono. Pero lo que encuentra, en cambio, es una hermosa joven, que, a traves de un simple acto de amabilidad, cambia su vida para siempre..."--Dust...

A distraught young woman living in Seville, Spain, Alicia has just lost her husband and only child in a horrible accident. She suffers from terrifying nightmares of wandering through a nameless city whose monuments and inhabitants begin appearing to her during waking moments. This psychological thriller and debut novel in English for young author Ruiz delves into the most arcane reaches of the occult.

When La Maga, his mistress, disappears, Horacio Oliveira, an Argentinian writer living in Paris, decides to return home to Buenos Aires

"Tras un grave accidente de coche, Alma, una joven de diecisiete años, sufre un shock postraumático y es ingresada en una clínica psiquiátrica ubicada en un antiguo edificio rehabilitado. Allí convive con otros internos y sus patologías y se cruza con unos niños a los que solo ella puede ver. Poco a poco, la historia del edificio y sus antiguos ocupantes se enreda con la realidad de Alma y la lleva a desentrañar oscuros secretos encerrados...

The inspiration of the blockbuster film, starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, is available in this Spanish language edition. Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, ward superintendent Paul Edgecomb is compelled to help every prisoner walk "the green mile" to execution with his humanity in tact. As narrator, Edgecomb tells the tragic tale of John Coffey, a gentle giant with preternatural ways.

At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the arelier 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 into her neatly mapped-out life: an attractive salesman and the father she never knew. With the Spanish Civil War brewing...

En este libro ilustrado para niños, animales graciosos presentan colores y ropa. Humorous animal characters introduce the basic colors and familiar items of clothing.

Celebrate Cervantes? Masterpiece, Don Quijote de La Mancha, the greatest novel in Spanish Literature Launched simultaneously in Spain and the Americas, this work aims to divulge the great novel of Spanish Literature by means of a high quality, well-taken care of edition at a very reduced price. The book contains a prologue by Mario Vargas Llosa, an introductory text and complementary analysis by other academics, along with an extensive glossary of...