La vida es un regalo

One of the closest disciples of Yogananda Paramhansa, the author of the best-selling classic Autobiography of a Yogi, shares the notes he took during his personal training by Paramhansa and during conversations by the Yogi with others, along with his own insightful commentaries.

Written during the last eight months of his life, these diaries are an unfiltered narration of the life of Joe Orton, the extremely successful and famous British playwright. On August 9, 1967, Orton was murdered in London by Kenneth Halliwell, his lover of 16 years, who bludgeoned him with a hammer and then immediately committed suicide. Halliwell left a note that said that all would be explained if the police read Orton's diaries. In the diaries, Orton narrates his literary success, his sexual escapades—at his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers—and...

En solo cien días de 1994, extremistas hutus masacraron a más de un millón de tutsis en Ruanda. Ante una matanza tan atroz, un joven adventista tutsi se negó a quebrantar los mandamientos de la Biblia. Como con Daniel y sus tres amigos, Dios intervino vez tras vez, no solo para salvarle la vida, sino también para darle la oportunidad de testificar en el proceso.

Vividly evoking the political and social upheavals of post-Revolutionary France, Hibbert captures the vibrant characters who made history, not only on the battlefield but also in the bedroom, including Josephine, the charming Creole from Martinique; the plain and pliant Marie-Louise of Austria; and Marie Walewska, the sumptuous young Polish countess