Mi hijo precioso/ Beautiful Boy

During 1994's World Cup in the United States, Joe McGinniss develops a passion that changes his life forever, going against North America's historical lack of interest in soccer as a whole. He discovers the intense emotions brought on by the sport and Italy's "calcio," succumbing to Roberto Baggio's style, which impresses and fails spectacularly in equal parts during that particular World Cup. Soon after, now a full-blown soccer convert, McGinniss understands the achievements of an underdog team from Castel di Sangro, a town of fewer than 5,000 residents lost within the rural Abruzos of...

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...

Aunque la figura del patrón de Irlanda se ha visto envuelta por la leyenda, lo cierto es que la verdadera historia de San Patricio es más atractiva aún que los mitos que se le atribuyen. En San Patricio de Irlanda, Philip Freeman da vida al Patricio histórico y a su época con gran agilidad, permitiéndole hablar con su propia voz, con una nueva traducción de las dos excepcionales cartas en las que expuso su biografía y sus creencias, y que todavía hoy sorprenden por su pasión y elocuencia. La vida de Patricio, nacido a finales del siglo IV en una familia de la aristocracia britana,...

Siempre hay una nueva oportunidad. Este libro demuestra que a pesar de las adversidades estamos a tiempo de aprender a valorarnos y ser felices.