Los pícaros Borbones

"Cultiver les plaisirs de mes sens fut, dans toute ma vie, ma principale affaire ; je n’en ai jamais eu de plus importante." Il n’a pas fallu longtemps, un siècle tout au plus, pour que Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) prenne sa place au Panthéon des mythes. Fils d’une modeste famille de comédiens, il est devenu, à la faveur de ses Mémoires, Histoire de ma vie, une figure de référence dans l’art de la séduction. Mais qu’était-il vraiment ? Un agent secret, un aventurier cosmopolite, escroc à ses heures ? Pour aborder Casanova, il faut se garder d’appliquer à son histoire...

Instead of Forgetting rebuilds the intertwined memory of three families, the Ynsa's, the Pine's and the Bilbao's between 1872 and 1942. These years are not at random, the first one marks the start of the third Spanish Carlist War, after that, the establishment of the First Spanish Republic, and the second one, the strengthening of the Franco regime. With the backdrop of the Restoration, the monarchy of Alfonso the XIII, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the Republic and the civil war, the reader follows little and great stories of characters, ancestors of the authors, that reflect a unique ...

Más que un libro, es una joya que guarda entre sus páginas increíbles documentos fascímiles de la vida y los descubrimientos científicos de Albert Einstein. Más allá de la figura estereotipada del personaje público se encuentra el hombre que derribó los p

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...