Mujeres líderes en política

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...

A veces la vida nos golpea con los caprichos que el destino tiene guardado para nosotros, en este caso fueron muchas las batallas que se tuvieron que lidiar, pero mejor aferrarte a la vida y luchar porque mas vale enfrentarte al destino y perder que haber perdido como cobarde.

La biografía autorizada de Alejandro Sanz, el artista español más influyente de las últimas tres décadas. Alejandro Sanz. #VIVE es un relato colectivo en forma de historia oral del que puede considerarse el artista español más influyente de las últimas tres décadas. Escrita por el experto musical Óscar García Blesa, ejecutivo discográfico que vivió en primera persona el nacimiento del disco MÁS y que comparte una estrecha relación con Alejandro Sanz desde hace más de veinte años, el libro se construye con testimonios de más de doscientas personalidades relevantes en la vida...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...