Juan Calvino

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

"The Diplomite" is a compelling account of the author's life experiences growing up so far from home. From India to Vienna, Diana Carr was always an outsider, and learned what it is like to be the "other". This is a story about what it is like to be a young representative of the United States and staying calm in the face of danger. This is a story about how no matter what, the author's parents kept her family safe. This is a story about the strength and importance of family. Carr's father joined the Foreign Service in 1945. The world was in turmoil as it settled into the aftermath of World...

Cuando abracé la vida es un fascinante libro que no solo aporta la lectura de una gran experiencia biográfica, sino que además es una valiosa invitación a inspirar tu vida y transformarla. Tras recibir la inesperada noticia de su diagnóstico, un cáncer en fase avanzada, Ibán toma la decisión de seguir al corazón y descubrir su oportunidad. Hoy, desde un estado libre y sano, da voz a su blog de escritos diarios en este manual, a través de sabias reflexiones que inyectan de vida y de valores que necesitan contagiarse en el mundo: gratitud, alegría y esperanza. Ibán nos recuerda que...

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...