La guerra es bella

In this harrowing and hilarious memoir, Jennette McCurdy, star of the television series iCarly and Sam & Cat, recounts her struggles as a child actress -- eating disorders, addictions and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother -- and how she regained control of her life. This life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she first auditioned for her to act. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star and Jennette would have done anything to make her mother happy. So she did what her mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five...

Um dos maiores campeões do jiu-jitsu, Rickson Gracie conta como foi crescer na família pioneira do esporte e relembra momentos marcantes de sua carreira. Com relatos que vão desde a infância no Rio de Janeiro, passando pelas conquistas nos tatames no Japão, até sua aposentadoria, Rickson explora a essência do jiu-jitsu e mostra como a filosofia da arte marcial mudou sua vida, ajudando-o a superar medos, enfrentar momentos difíceis e a aprender lições valiosas que ele agora compartilha. Com prefácio do cineasta José Padilha, fotos inéditas e revelações profundas sobre o esporte...

Biografía del tenista más singular, especie de Hamlet en la cancha, que deslumbró al mundo con su revés y lo desconcertó con sus soliloquios desesperados. Una obra que inmortaliza las genialidades de un deportista único. Talentoso, frontal, díscolo, algunas veces en un subibaja emocional, Gastón Gaudio, el Gato, creador de la frase "¡Qué mal la estoy pasando!", se diferenció de los otros integrantes de la Legión, una generación irrepetible de tenistas argentinos como Franco Squillari, Mariano Zabaleta, Mariano Puerta, Guillermo Coria, José Acasuso, Juan Mónaco, Juan Ignacio...

Called “a masterpiece” by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing. Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four...