El Milagro de Castel Di Sangro: Un Cuento de Pasion y Locura En El Corazon de Italia

Las doctoras británicas Flora Murray y Louisa Garrett Anderson lo dejaron todo cuando estalló la primera guerra mundial, incluyendo su lucha activa por el derecho al voto de la mujer, para trasladarse a Francia donde crearon dos pequeños hospitales militares. A pesar de que en su país las mujeres no podían atender a hombres, sus capacidades médicas y organizativas resultaron ser tan impresionantes que, en 1915, el Ministerio de la Guerra les pidió que regresaran a Londres y pusieran en marcha un nuevo hospital militar en un enorme y antiguo hospicio abandonado en la calle Endell de...

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...

Víctor Carranza, el Zar de Las Esmeraldas, el hombre del que todos hablan pero nadie se atreve a decir nada.

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....