Padre Pío

Las esperadas memorias de Josefina Aldecoa. �En este libro hay una buena parte de mi vida hecha, deshecha, reconstruida, como un gran puzle. Irremediablemente faltan piezas, fragmentos. Hay espacios vac�os. Estoy segura de que alguno de ellos encierra en su oquedad un recuerdo intolerable que he tachado sin saberlo, que no merece el precio del recuerdo. Al final del viaje, cerca del puerto definitivo que se adivina entre la niebla, la memoria trabaja. El recuerdo reconstruye lo que fue real, adivina lo que aparece sumido en la oscuridad. Nos devuelve, en secuencias brillantes o brumosas,...

Revela la verdadera fuente del poder de este famoso misionero en su tarea evangelizadora en la China. [Reveals the true source of the extraordinary power of this missionary in his work in China.]

From the candid listeners of his beginning as the jubilant and Mediterranean singer, more than five decades have passed. Many of Joan Manuel Serrat's songs are stuck in the memory of various generations. They have become hymns and luminous landscapes in our lives, of dreams and desires that have crossed between singer and audience. The author understands the true universality of an artist is always rooted in his origins. Starting at Serrat's own chronicles as a child, in a melting pot neighborhood, mixed like his own Catalan and Aragon family, it tells the story of a singer that transformed...

In 1579 Philip II awarded a large territory in New Spain to a Portuguese man named Luis de Carvajal. That territory included a significant portion of present day Mexico, as well as portions of Texas and New Mexico. This remarkable man discovered, conquered, and settled most of that territory. He also brought a large group of settlers from Spain and Portugal whose impact on its cultural development was very significant. Many of those settlers were of Jewish descent and some of them were tried by the Inquisition for practicing the faith of their ancestors. This book is a biography of Carvajal...