El Ángel de Filippa

Una interesante colección con un cómodo formato que aborda una gran gama de temas, desde arqueología y arte pasando por cultura, historia y literatura hasta ciencia y religión, a partir de un punto de vista ameno. Se acompaña a la narración de ilustraciones y cuadros sinópticos con rigurosos datos históricos. Una documentada colección para todos aquellos que buscan una introducción exhaustiva al tema que se expone.

A powerful, honest memoir by two sisters -- one a star on Orange Is the New Black, one a trans woman and activist -- about transitioning, family, allyship, and the path to self-realization. When Selenis Leyva's parents adopted a baby into their warm, loving family, Selenis was immediately smitten. The pair were always close; Selenis showered her younger sibling with affection, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The siblings realized, almost at the same moment, that the younger of the two was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to...

Publicado originalmente en 1973 con el título El desertor, por la editorial venezolana Monte Ávila, la biblioteca de Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza crece en Planeta con esta reconocida colección de relatos. Los textos configuran la crónica nostálgica de cierta juventud intelectual que, deseando cambiarlo todo, terminó cambiando ella misma y que –cuando no desapareció o asumió un destino mediocre– ha quedado a la deriva, sintiéndose desertora, vagamente culpable. Fragmentos de historia, ellos exponen algunas formas de la vida política latinoamericana en la década de los sesenta e...

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the...