Sueños y Aspiraciones de una Mujer

“Somos pioneras de Los Llanitos, después de Melchor Ocampo.” María Teresa Vizcaíno Con un lenguaje sencillo y ameno, las veinte mujeres protagonistas, nos relatan momentos de sus vidas, de sus familias y de su comunidad, correspondientes al periodo comprendido entre los años de 1930 y 1970, principalmente. A través de estos monólogos podremos conocer hechos y costumbres de los primeros pobladores de Melchor Ocampo del Balsas, hoy Lázaro Cárdenas, y de sus poblaciones aledañas en los estados de Guerrero y Michoacán. Es relevante descubrir que la mitad de las protagonistas son...

Tango, trips, Paris, the United States, victory, women, feuds, friends and naturally, Buenos Aires are some of the issues that Oscar mentions in this moving and peculiar biography. There are numerous photographs and appendixes that cover all his works.

Maryse Condé takes up the story of her life and invites us to accompany her on the exciting journey that marked her youth: a journey that begins in Paris, with an accidental pregnancy and the abandonment of the man she loves, and that leads her to wander through different African countries in search of that identity that was already beginning to glimpse with the discovery of blackness. Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Ghana and Senegal make up the polyhedral scene of the vital transformation of Maryse, who walks through the revolutionary circles of African socialism and surrenders to the fever of...

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...