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EL ASTRONAUTA QUE PINTÓ EL ESPACIOThe book discusses writers who have been considered crazy and the romantic aspect attributed to mental illness when linked to the creative realm, addressing the fundamental question: can people who truly lose their minds write meaningful things? Neil Armstrong was a brilliant and reserved...
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A pedazosIn late 2022, in Rome, Hanif Kureishi had a fall. When he came to, he realized he could no longer walk. He could do nothing without the help of others and required constant care in a hospital. So began a yearlong odyssey through the...
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Fuera de la carreteraWritten by the woman who loved them all—as wife of Cassady, lover of Kerouac, and friend of Ginsberg—this riveting and intimate memoir spans one of the most vital eras in twentieth-century literature and culture, including the explosive successes of Kerouac's On the Road and...
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PattonGeorge S. Patton was an outstanding military leader and an extraordinarily controversial figure who transformed modern warfare to a large extent. A brilliant strategist, his tactical genius and audacity were decisive in the Allied victory on the Western Front during World War II. From...
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La maldición de los WindsorWhy do tragedy and scandal seem to follow the British Royal Family? What lies behind the crisis facing the world's most influential royal family? Charles III came to the throne with the promise of stability, but since he was crowned, his reign has been...
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Ni me gusta mi cuello ni me acuerdo de nadaNora Ephron is a literary genre in her own right. Known for her biting wit, her apt and comic analyses of the female experience and her ability to detect the absurdities of modern life, she is one of the most unique and influential New...
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Podrías hacer de esto algo bonito“Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” In You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself. The book begins with heartbreak, but its scope widens to become a reckoning...
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La joven artistaArt can be something encouraging, an inspiration, a catalyst; it can make us laugh, it can make us see the world from a different perspective. For Valérie Mréjen, it has also been, along with writing, her way of life since graduating from a prestigious...
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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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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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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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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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