54 Cicatrices

Examines the life and times of Manuelita Saenz, discussing her youth in Ecuador, her marriage to James Thorne, her relationship with revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar, and her later life of destitution. Includes a chronology.

From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...

Con el candor de siempre y la honestidad y el humor que la definen, María Antonieta Collins relata cómo su carrera periodística se esfumó de repente pero regresó mejor que nunca. Escribe sobre el camino espiritual que la ayudo a superar una época oscura y como su fe la ayudó recuperar y mejorar su vida. Tanto los éxitos como los obstáculos en la vida tienen varias facetas María Antonieta delinea paso a paso lo que debes hacer para maniobrar los retos tanto de tu vida personal como profesional, y vas descubriendo que los dos giran uno alrededor del otro.

This is the true love story of Joni and her husband of 30 years, Ken Tada. A love story showing what it truly means for a man and a woman to live in love ... in sickness and in health. Even the honeymoon wasn't easy. Did Ken realize what he was getting into when he proposed to Joni, a quadriplegic woman? As their marriage years moved on, Ken became increasingly overwhelmed by the never-ceasing demands of caring for Joni, who begins to experience chronic, extreme, nightmarish pain. Ken sinks into depression, and the couple finds themselves on parallel tracks in life, married and living under...

A partir de la investigación y de decenas de entrevistas -a referentes de la cultura, la política y demás ámbitos de la escena pública que comparten su verdad-, Fernando Amado construye un libro necesario, que no dejará indiferente a nadie. Hasta hace poco tiempo, un segmento importante de la población uruguaya ocultaba su verdadero yo. Hoy eso está cambiando; gais, lesbianas, trans y demás representantes de otras formas de orientación sexual e identidad de género se expresan, interpelan y están modificando el paisaje urbano. Este libro explora cómo se da ese destape de la...