La mensajera de la Divina Misericordia

From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...

Many of Ronald Reagan's ways were not only unusual, but seem to contradict his others. Some authors are so perplexed by his nature they are reluctant to even assign intelligence to his mentality. They suspect he operated on everything from instinct to hunches to gut feelings and guesses. Lawrence Nesbitt's six years of extensive research has revealed a single psychological key that makes sense of the anomalies and contradictions. He has uncovered a powerful and nearly unique mindset that directed almost all of Reagan's conduct then and causes the confusion now. This unusual belief also...

¿Fue Pío XII indiferente al sufrimiento del pueblo judío? ¿Tuvo alguna responsabilidad en el ascenso del nazismo? En esta devastadora biografía el profesor Cornwell plantea severas acusaciones acerca del papel de la Iglesia en los acontecimientos más terribles del siglo, extremadamente difíciles de refutar.

Las biografías escritas por Herbert Lottman constituyen todo un acontecimiento cuando aparecen publicadas en el mundo entero. No sólo porque elige cuidadosamente sus personajes, sino porque, al situarlos en un contexto histórico más amplio, investigado y analizado con meticulosidad, acaban convirtiéndose en libro de cabecera de lectores curiosos y en referencia ineludible para especialistas. Por ejemplo, para trazar esta historia de toda una dinastía que hace Historia, Lottman ha buceado enarchivos inéditos y en correspondencias privadas jamás consultadas hasta ahora. «Ser rico como...