Mi hijo precioso/ Beautiful Boy

Este libro supone un recorrido profundo y analitico a traves de la carrera personal y profesional del compositor ingles John Williams, compositor de las bandas sonoras tan famosas como ET, Star Wars o Indiana Jones.

This is a pondered biography, free of fanaticism, about the most famous and influential Mexican bishop of the 20th century, a man of action who grew up listening to stories about the Mexican Revolution and religious persecution. He was both well-loved and criticized in and outside the church. This passionate historical study gathers many documents inaccessible until now and includes first-hand accounts from members of the Catholic hierarchy. It discusses whether Samuel Ruiz promoted a theology that incited violence or, on the contrary, if he preached against the armed struggle and defended...

El jugador, escrita en 1866 y publicada en 1867, refleja la propia adicción de Dostoyevski al juego de la ruleta durante su estancia en Wiesbaden, presentada como la ciudad ficticia de Roulettenbourg de la novela;​ y su pasional estadía en Europa con Apollinaria (Polina) Prokófievna Súslova, de quien se enamoró perdidamente. El jugador contiene todas las características de sus novelas más famosas: dramatismo, tensión casi intolerable, agresividad y revelación punzante y sutil de estados anímicos vividos y superados por el genial escritor. Dos pasiones principales campean en este...

This is the true story of a family forced to live halfway across the world from their homeland. Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer and her husband Carl, lived in Germany before the Nazis forced the couple to flee with their two daughters. After finding Backwoods Farms in Vermont, Alice wrote this memoir about their time there building chicken coops and breaking up duck fights. Despite endless work, brutal winters and melancholy, she discovered that they had found a home.