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He aquí las cartas que escribió a Dios un niño d diez años enfermo terminal de leucemia. Las encntró Mamie-Rose, la dama rosa que va a visitarloal hospital de niños. Describen doce días de la ida de Oscar, doce días originales y poéticos, dce días llenos de personajes divertidos y conmovdores Estos doce días serán quizá los último pero, gracias a Mamie-Rose que establece un fuetísimo lazo de amor con Oscar, serán días de leynda.

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

Charles Darwin laid the foundation for a new interpretation of the plant and animal kingdoms with his demonstration that all species--including the revered Homo sapiens--result from older forms. This collection of essential texts includes Darwin's most important writings and concepts, including the origin of species, natural selection, and the survival of the fittest.

Describes the relationship between twentieth-century Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, discussing the political, social, and cultural upheavals that impacted their relationship.