Memorias de un vigilante

El 12 de octubre de 1492 Cristóbal Colón desembarcó en las costas del Nuevo Mundo, dando inicio a una de las mayores epopeyas de la Historia. Entre los nombres de los principales protagonistas que participaron en la gesta del descubrimiento de América nos resulta difícil encontrar el de alguna mujer. Este silencio obedece a una interpretación de los hechos desde un punto de vista exclusivamente masculino. Sin embargo, en los testimonios y crónicas de aquella época, podemos encontrar el rastro de la presencia femenina en tierras americanas desde los primeros pasos de un acontecimiento. ...

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...

Este libro relata la vida del autor; un viaje personal y profundo a su pasado. El Dr. Zacharias nos retrotrae a los tiempos de su infancia en el sur de la India y a los anos turbulentos de su juventud en Nueva Delhi."

Shares the chilling testimony of Mukhtar Mai, a 28-year old Pakistani woman, who, in 2002, was sentenced by Meerwala's tribal counsel to endure a collective rape in redress for an action committed by her 13-year-old brother, and who, after suffering nameless atrocities, decided to forego the tradition of committing suicide to denounce the crime.