One of the military leaders of South America's long fight for independence from Spain, Argentinean general Jose de San Martin (1778-1850) is not well known outside Spanish-speaking lands. But his revolutionary spirit and legend as a great hero of Argentina-and of all of South America-makes him a brother in courage and character to the likes of George Washington. First published in 1943, this is one of the very few biographies of the general and political...

"MI5 officer Winnie Monks has never forgotten--or forgiven--the death of a young agent on her team at the hands of a former Russian Army major turned gangster. Now, ten years later, she learns that the Major is travelling to a villa on the popular Spanish holiday destination Costa del Sol, and she asks permission to send in a surveillance unit. They find an empty property near the Major's: the Villa Paraiso. It's perfect to spy from--and as a base...

"Two young buckaroos (a brother and sister) wake up with the sun and get ready for a fun-filled day! They sneak past the sheriff (Mom), grab some breakfast, and head outside, using Spanish words as they go along"--Front jacket flap.

A young African-American boy has a fun day outside in the snow.

Johnny Gault is a cold-blooded gunslinger who wasn't looking for trouble but finds it when he rides into a dusty little town. An escalating feud over land between ranchers and new settlers is ready to explode into violence. As tensions mount, Johnny gets involved with a beautiful settler and the fight becomes personal. Now it's the outsider who will need to settle the score in a final face-to-face showdown.

"Cuando sale el sol y el día comienza, el conejito dice buen día a todas las cosas familiares. A las aves del cielo y las abejas en sus colmenas, a todos uno por uno. Y cuando el sol comienza a ocultarse, es hora para que el conejito diga buenas noches. Buenas noches, gatito. Buenas noches, osito. Buenas noches, personas de todo el mundo. A little rabbit greets each day and says good night to the familiar things outside.

Tired of hanging around indoors, Benito and his little brother go outside where they head straight for the mudhole, despite their mother's orders.

"Juanito looked outside one dark night and discovered the moon was nowhere to be seen! Where could it have gone? Is it hiding under the bed or behind a great mountain? He wonders if the coyote took it to his lair, but the wily canine couldn't catch the slippery moon. "Aaah-ooooooh, aaaah-ooooooh, aaaah-ooooooh," he cries sadly. Maybe the cicada's deafening screeches made it disappear! Or did the owl bewitch the luminous moon? Perhaps the frog drowned...

A young woman wakes up after a terrible accident to find that she's locked in a cellar with a doomsday prepper, who insists that he saved her life and that the world outside is uninhabitable following an apocalyptic catastrophe. Uncertain what to believe, the woman soon determines that she must escape at any cost.

Durante generaciones, cuatro clanes de gatos salvajes se han dividido el territorio del bosque según las leyes de sus belicosos antecesores. Ahora, sin embargo, los gatos del Clan del Trueno se ven amenazados por el creciente poder del Clan de la Sombra, y cuando algunos de sus nobles guerreros mueren en extrañas circunstancias, la supervivencia del grupo corre peligro. Pero todo cambia el día que aparece Colorado, un gato de compañía criado...