Artemisia Gentileschi

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...

El despertar de tu ser es una bella invitación a pensarte, descubrirte y conocerte. El despertar de tu ser te acompaña a transitar el dolor y a reinventarte desde otro lugar. Te invito a encender las luces que te habitan!

Este libro habla de la injusticia que me llevó a prisión por 28 años. Primero torturado por siete días y siete noches, la tortura fue así: toques eléctricos en los genitales y por todo el cuerpo, agua con chile piquín por boca, nariz y ojos, un galón de orines por boca y nariz, patadas y puñetazos, sin comer ni beber agua, tres madrizas en el día y tres en la noche. Si usted compra este libro se dará cuenta de algo más.

As an actress, Diana Quick was forever trying on the mask of other people's lives - raiding her own memory to service the character she was playing. Coming from a large, noisy family in Kent that seemed to be plain-speaking and straightforward, she was astonished to find on her beloved father's death that his childhood in India was far from idyllic. She was then thunderstruck to hear that he was to have a requiem mass. She had no idea he was Catholic. She discovered that his stepmother had got rid of him and his sister upon marrying his father and that he had grown up in almost total...