Eduardo Barriobero

Alejandro is a real-life, non-fiction publication about real people; living and dead. The names in this publication have not been changed. Alejandro chronicles Alejandro Estrada's journey through a Hunger Game as he searched for answers after his partner, Los Angeles film producer Michael R. Goss, was murdered in 2009. Alejandro shares a very candid peek into the dark underbelly of corruption. Alejandro may have been one of the last people; beloved actor Robin Williams was in contact with prior to his tragic death. In this second part of his memoir, Alejandro shares the last words he and...

En el año 2000, un juez citó a la protagonista de este libro para decirle que su nombre no era Mercedes Landa, como ella había creído siempre, sino Claudia Poblete Hlaczik. Y que las personas que la habían criado no eran sus padres, sino sus secuestradores. Sus verdaderos padres, dos jóvenes militantes de izquierdas, habían sido torturados y desaparecidos en 1978, durante la dictadura argentina. Y ella, con solo ocho meses, fue entregada a una familia de militares para que la criase como a una hija propia. Este libro no solo reconstruye la gran mentira en la que vivió Claudia y la...

Cuyano alborotador devuelve a Domingo Faustino Sarmiento toda la entrañable humanidad que la historia escolar le había negado.

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...