Perhaps adolescent boys have had better reasons to run away from home than young Sammy Moore, but Sammy might never have done anything about it had he not encountered the tramp named Lefty and his trained bull terrier. The appeal that life on the road with these two offers is one of continuous adventure, so Sammy heads west. Swept along through a trail of unfortunate events, Sammy finds himself as front man for a giant hunchback named Jake and his...

Estos dos clásicos del siglo de oro español marcan el comienzo de la novela picaresca. La vida de ambos en Lazarillo de Tormes, y Rinconete y Cortadillo, está protagonizada por pícaros viviendo de su ingenio, sus aventuras y fortunas en ciudades y campos. El Lazarillo de Tormes, publicado en 1554, Lazarillo debe utilizar sus ingeniosas para trampear a una sucesión de amos de mala reputación. En Rinconete Y Cortadillo, dos hombres jóvenes aprenden...

Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon. But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished and her family is broken. As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail...