Premis Ones Mediterrània

Parlamentarios de Almería en la Transición a la Democracia quiere dar a conocer a la sociedad actual la biografía de las personas que representaron a los almerienses en las cámaras legislativas elegidas en una etapa histórica decisiva: la que permitió a España pasar de un régimen autoritario y centralista, a otro basado en una monarquía parlamentaria y en la autonomía de sus regiones. Tras explicar la dinámica electoral de la provincia en ese periodo, y a partir de fuentes diversas -bibliografícas, archivísticas, hemerográficas y, sobre todo, orales- los autores reconstruyen el...

I was born into the family of William Julius and Emilie (Baudat) Gayle on August 30, 1919 They decided to name me Luella Celestine for my two grandmothers...Luella Love (Sanders) Gayle and Celestine (Pichon) Baudat. I did not like the name and was very happy that they decided to call me “Celeste.” At the time of my birth, my brother Milton was almost two, having been born September 2, 1917. Unfortunately, he died with Diphtheria on December 11, 1921, when I was only two. Mom and Dad had previously lost a son, Dalton, who died April 13, 1915 at the age of 16 months. He was born December 8, ...

La edición actualizada del libro que cuenta la verdadera historia de la argentina que llegó a ser reina de Holanda.

"This is a story about how I was saved by love at a time when most people considered me beyond rescue," begins Victor Rivas Rivers in this powerful chronicle of how he escaped the war zone of domestic violence -- too often regarded as a "private family matter" -- and went on to become a good man, a film star, and a prominent activist. The Cuban-born author begins by recalling when he was kidnapped, along with three of his siblings, by his own father, who abandoned Victor's pregnant mother and took the children on a cross-country hell-ride that nearly ended in a fatal collision. This journey...