Cartas de Pierre - Tomo I

A los ocho años de edad, Ramona Treviño se trepó a un techo y allí le rogó a Dios que le diera una prueba de su existencia. Cuando recibió una señal, hizo un pacto consigo misma de seguirle siempre. Pero las dificultadas familiares y sufrimientos le hicieron difícil permanecer en ese camino. Cuando tenía 16 años quedó embarazada, dejó la secundaria y se casó con un hombre abusador, de quien finalmente se divorció. Su afán de querer ayudar a muchachas que pasaban por situaciones parecidas, la llevó a aceptar un trabajo como gerente de una sucursal de Planned Parenthood. Con el...

The memories of one of the great comic actors in Spain, Andrs Pajares, from his beginnings in the party halls to his stellar appearances in films of directors such as Mariano Ozores or Carlos Saura, which obtained great success, going through his musical career, where he worked on several albums.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.--history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty--is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich...