La Tirana (1755-1803)

A pesar de las afirmaciones vertidas por Florentino Castañeda en su libro “Entre Pinto y Valdemoro” sobre los hijos ilustres de los pueblos del partido de Getafe, Pinto sí ha tenido, y tiene, pinteños ilustres. Algunos de ellos nacidos aquí, y otros que decidieron establecer en Pinto su lugar de residencia. Otros, por causas del destino, terminaron en nuestro municipio viviendo episodios trascendentales para su vida. En esta publicación se desarrollan las biografías de diversas personalidades que han tenido importancia en la villa de Pinto. Con ella se pretende ampliar y divulgar...

The Late John Paul II was portrayed by admirers as one of history's great popes. But in The Pope in Winter, leading Vatican expert John Cornwell seriously questions the workings of his papacy and points to fundamental flaws - exacerbated by age and infirmity - that have alarming consequences for both the Catholic Church's future and John Paul II's successor.

From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four seasons.

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....