Si digo muerte, digo vida

Shakira, una mujer que decidió construir su ser y trazar su propio rumbo Nadie como Shakira ha logrado tan rápidamente parecerse a sus propios sueños: ser famosa, rica, rubia, bella, amada, deseada, a la moda y respetada. Ésta es Shakira: el rostro desconocido de un ser humano que no llegó de la noche a la mañana a la cima. Tuvo que templarse en mil luchas, en mil obstáculos, en mil noches de insomnio que ella combatía con un sueño: cantar y ser reconocida por hacerlo. Este libro, suma de sorprendentes anécdotas de su vida, terminará por revelar a una estrella pero por sobre todas...

Una mujer que en la cúspide de su carrera se casó con un torero, Rafael El Gallo, el hombre a quien amaba y por quien renunció a todo. Su regreso fue en olor de multitudes. La generación del 98 le regaló el nombre de Pastora Imperio.

The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield oil workers gather regularly at the American Legion Bar to drink salted beer and spin long, improbable tales. They're the Liars' Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed champion mythmaker, they exude a fatal glamour - one that lifts her from ordinary life. But there are other lies. Darker, more hidden. Her...

The definitive annotated translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 CE) was the sixteenth emperor of Rome -- and by far the most powerful man in the world. Yet he was also an intensely private person, with a rich interior life and one of the wisest minds of his generation. He collected his thoughts in notebooks, gems that have come to be called his Meditations. Never intended for publication, the work has proved an inexhaustible source of wisdom and one of the most important Stoic texts of all time. In often passionate language, the entries range from...