Moving House

One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation.

Este es el libro inédito que Alfredo Molano Bravo le escribió a su nieta durante más de una década, en el que reúne sus historias y pensamientos más íntimos para explicarle el país en el que nació, y le relata muchos de los viajes que lo llevaron a recorrer casi 14.000 kilómetros del territorio colombiano, a pie, subido en sus Converse de colores.

When her husband is offered a post at a small northwestern university, Maye Roberts is only too happy to pack up and leave the relentless Phoenix heat for the lush green quietude of Spaulding, Washington. But when you're a childless 30-something freelance writer who works at home, making new friends can be quite a challenge. Her attempts to do so lead her to enter a kooky beauty pageant - and to uncover a sinister mystery.