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Más de 1 millón de ejemplares vendidos en USA, varias semanas en las listas del New York Times. • La cantante Adele ha hablado mucho en la prensa sobre este libro y cómo la ha ayudado a cambiar. • La publicación del libro ha generado un movimiento global en redes. El nuevo libro de Glenon Doyle, una autora superventas, activista y conocida bloguera que ha revolucionado las redes con una sencilla pregunta: ¿quién eras tú antes de que el mundo te dijera cómo debías ser? A los treinta y nueve años, casada con el padre de sus tres hijos, Glennon Doyle se enamoró de una mujer. Ese...

Great men were once children, and perhaps, they even desired to have everything we now have at arm's reach. Some were born into poverty; others were orphaned and cared for by relatives or institutions. Extreme scarcity or social turmoil was often a part of their daily lives. However, these greats allowed themselves to envision a better future and follow their dreams. They worked incessantly to make their visions a reality. As a result, they've gifted humanity with proof that dreams do come true.

"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...

Las apasionantes memorias de la madre espiritual de la Europa moderna. «Las desgracias sufridas, por mucha amargura que me hayan causado, son poca cosa al lado de los desastres públicos de los que hoy somos testigos.» «Mi imaginación concibe antes el dolor que la esperanza.» Escritas durante el destierro que Napoleón Bonaparte impuso a la autora, estas memorias registran con acuidad, ironía y elegancia los vaivenes sociales, políticos y militares de Europa durante el ascenso y apogeo del emperador francés. Diez años de destierro constituye, pues, una confesión íntima, sincera,...