Dear America \ Querida América (Spanish edition)

"Fascinante y valiente. Este libro de memorias debe ser lectura obligatoria para todos". —Michelle Alexander, autora de The New Jim Crow, bestseller de The New York Times. "Lloré leyendo este libro, comprendí plenamente lo que mis padres tuvieron que aguantar". —Amy Tan, autora de Club de la Buena Estrella, bestseller de The New York Times “Este libro no puede ser más relevante y necesario.” —Dave Eggers, autor de El Círculo Periodista Jose Antonio Vargas, el ganador del Premio Pulitzer conocido como “el inmigrante indocumentado más famoso de los Estados Unidos,” aborda una ...

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...

En sus memorias, la top model Waris Dirie narra sus primeros años de vida en el desierto somalí, el dolor y el trauma de la ablación, y su epopeya hasta convertirse en una de las modelos más reconocidas del mundo y embajadora de las Naciones Unidas a favor de los derechos de las mujeres y los niños en África.

This book is about my life but honestly that is not what the reader cares about The main interest would depend upon what one gets out of it? Therefore I am writing some wise words of great masters which actually played vital rolls in my checkered life I hope my grandkids and/or readers would learn from my knocks in life, and how I overcame my nerve wrecking and dilapidating days of my scuffle with Lady death on more than two occasions. I am thankful to Lady Luck plus my attitude, and character built at childhood. Remember we have two ears and one mouth, use them as such. Guard your tongue,...

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."