La vida en verde

Suplementera, dirigente sindical, regidora y diputada comunista, y ministra del Trabajo durante el gobierno de la Unidad Popular, exiliada y socióloga, Mireya Baltra, una figura legendaria de la izquierda chilena, nos entrega estas memorias que constituyen una invitación a revisitar, desde su mirada, episodios relevantes de nuestra historia del siglo XX. A través de sus páginas recorremos su biografía personal y política, en cuyo desarrollo desfilan una serie de insignes personajes.

Publicado originalmente en 1973 con el título El desertor, por la editorial venezolana Monte Ávila, la biblioteca de Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza crece en Planeta con esta reconocida colección de relatos. Los textos configuran la crónica nostálgica de cierta juventud intelectual que, deseando cambiarlo todo, terminó cambiando ella misma y que –cuando no desapareció o asumió un destino mediocre– ha quedado a la deriva, sintiéndose desertora, vagamente culpable. Fragmentos de historia, ellos exponen algunas formas de la vida política latinoamericana en la década de los sesenta e...

This book is in Spanish (este libro está en español). See Dr. Gutierrez reading the introduction and first pages: http://youtu.be/dB_fcF7NRjA. Dr. Gutierrez wrote letters daily from a small town in the jungle to his parents during his Medical Internship in 1950 and 1951 in the State of Chiapas, Mexico. He was 23 years old and the only doctor for many miles around. He encountered a myriad of diseases and challenges among his patients and describes his experiences in great detail. There was tetanus, diphteria, malaria, firearms, machetes, venomous snakes, rain, heat, mud. He helped and saved...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...