Lapadula

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...

Traducción de Marta Rebón Tras la publicación de Esclavos de la libertad, Shentalinski se sumerge de nuevo en los archivos literarios del KGB en la Lubianka para sacar a la luz casos que oscilan entre lo grotesco -el asalto que sufrió Lenin en pleno Moscú y que puso el destino de la Revolución en manos de unos hampones- y lo épico: el auge y caída en desgracia del célebre terrorista Borís Savinkov, que participó en la vida literaria rusa con el seudónimo de Ropshin. O la historia del deterioro mental y físico al que fue sometido Mijaíl Bulgákov y que le impidió salir del país ...

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...

Ph.D. in History from the University of Oxford, a professor of Spanish Contemporary History at the prestigious London School of Economics, author of a dozen titles on the recent Spain, Paul Preston as nobody knows the figure of Francisco Franco. In the great manipulator, Preston offers us an updated and accessible biography, covering all aspects needed to understand the figure of the general (his ascension into the army during the Republic, the Civil War and postwar relations with Hitler, the forty years of dictatorship) and shows how he was always haunted by the image control, progressively...