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Alza la vozDrew Afualo is best known as the internet’s “Crusader for Women” and is at the head of a new generation of entertainment’s rising stars. Loud is part manual, part manifesto, and part memoir. It makes it clear that behind her fearsome laugh is a...
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CartasOliver Sacks in his letters: a riot of talent, wit, curiosity, empathy, and passion. Sacks's correspondence evokes traumatic episodes from his childhood, discusses his hobbies—weightlifting and motorcycles—his travels, his scientific research into the mysteries of the brain, the upheavals of his private life, and...
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GratitudNo writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a...
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Breve aunque perfectamente humanaFor her clients and everyone who has been inspired by her humanity, Alua Arthur is a friend at the end of the world. As our country’s leading death doula, she’s spreading a transformative message: thinking about your death—whether imminent or not—will breathe wild, new...
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Hannah ArendtThis new biography, the first since 1982 based on archival research, explores Hannah Arendt’s multifaceted life and enduring influence. It offers a rich portrait of her as a thinker, activist, and provocateur, revealing why she remains a singular intellectual force of the twentieth century.
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Más fuerte que el odioAt the age of three, his mother abandoned him in the middle of the forest, tied to a post. At the age of five, his father beat him nearly to death. After a long recovery in hospital, he entered an orphanage, where he discovered...
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GritaSaviano pays tribute to exemplary people who have stood up to injustice and tyranny. What do Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Émile Zola, Martin Luther King and Anna Politkovskaya have in common? They all fought against injustice, each with their own tools. They raised their voices...
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La librera de TokioNanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet cafes, her work is going no better. Book sales at the eccentric Village Vanguard bookstore in Tokyo, which Nanako manages, are dwindling. Fallen out of love in...
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Los fracasados de la aventuraA story of the foolish adventurers, the inept pioneers, the incautious naturalists, the wild explorers, the obtuse navigators, the reckless pilots, and the brainless mountaineers...
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El español que enamoró al mundo. Una vida de Julio IglesiasAn image of seduction, success, wealth, and fame, Julio Iglesias has achieved global celebrity like no other Spaniard—except for Dalí and Picasso—in modern times. His career, however, has been marked by contradictions: with more popular impact than approval from cultural elites, Iglesias has faced...
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Dickinson y las violetasAuthor of 1,789 poems, Emily Dickinson is considered one of the pillars of modern American literature and one of the best poets in universal literature. Her work denotes an extraordinary ability to observe the world around her, from the subtle buzzing of a bee...
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Björk. Una constante mutaciónOur book presents a collection of essays on the life and work of the Icelandic artist, composed of articles and interviews from national and international media and from different periods. A work that serves both for beginners and fans, to frame and amplify knowledge...
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Fiesta bajo las bombasElias Canetti exiled himself to the United Kingdom in 1939 with his wife, Veza, both of Jewish origin, to escape the Nazi yoke. They lived through World War II in London and the countryside, where they were evacuated when German bombings hit the city....
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Dos o tres cosas que tengo clarasAfter the extraordinary Bastard, hailed as a masterpiece, Dorothy Allison returns as one of the most passionate and talented writers of her generation. And she succeeds with a work that links together, one after another, lyrical, cruel and sublime, a chain of hard-hitting truths:...
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La historia de un muroNasser Abu Srour, imprisoned in Israel since 1993 and sentenced to life imprisonment, writes a testimony about his life and suffering. His story revolves around the "wall", symbolizing both separation and isolation as well as a source of resistance and protection. From his childhood...
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Eso no estaba en mi libro de Miguel de CervantesWho was Miguel de Cervantes really? A literary genius or an adventurer more interested in trade than in letters? Why was he a late writer? Was his goal to enter the court? This book challenges the classic version of the author of Don Quixote,...
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Memorias de caza de un maestro armeroJosé Luis Varona, a master gunsmith, takes us into his world of responsible hunting, nature, and respect for the environment. Through his narrative, he immerses us in the majesty of the Spanish mountains, emphasizing the importance of ecosystem conservation and respect for animal life....
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Taylor Swift. Un libro para SwiftiesA global phenomenon that appeals across generations, recounted in an informative book, enhanced by carefully selected photographs and a large-format poster. Much more than a music superstar, Taylor Swift is a true cultural phenomenon, evolving from a young country promise to a global pop...
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Carta al padre (Obelisco)Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in...
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HoudiniHoudini was a complete artist and an inexhaustible innovator. In addition to his spectacular escapes, he mastered the art of stage illusionism to perfection: he was a great propagandist and a master of publicity and knew how to take advantage of the emerging power...
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