Rescatando a MartÕ

En este libro, Susanna Tamaro, nos describe, sincera y sencillamente, sus experiencias reales. Así, conoceremos de una manera directa a esta mujer, que opina sin teorizar, que comprende el mundo actual y que se enfrenta a sus contradicciones. Se nos invita a reflexionar sobre temas que van desde la espiritualidad a la literatura, pasando por las relaciones de pareja. En definitiva, asuntos que entretejen nuestra vida cotidiana y por los que Tamaro no ha cesado jamás de preocuparse. La autora de Donde el corazón te lleve se nos muestra tal y como es, sin tapujos, ofreciéndonos su...

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, ...

Imagínense el horror: Un día de mayo de 1941 que no presagiaba nada especial, un chico de un pequeño pueblo de Creta se enfrenta a una amenaza inesperada -- la invasión de las tropas alemanas. Corre a ponerse a cubierto -- su primer encuentro en una serie de reuniones con el destino. Imagínense la aventura: El niño y su hermano trabajan en nombre de la SOE, un núcleo secreto de la inteligencia británica. Cuando la organización patriótica entra en la mirilla con foco de cruz de los alemanes, recurren inmediatamente en las montañas de Creta, donde, incluso durante el día, se...

Calusas, timucuanos, guales, semnolas, creeks, were some of the tribes of Florida at the time when Pedro Menndez de Avils established there the settlement of San Agustn, the oldest city in the United States. Strong and ferocious warriors, who lived in almost permanent state of war and mutilated their enemies or made them slaves, offered a strong resistance to the Spanish who stepped on their territory. However, these, in exchange for many lives, hardships and suffering, managed to settle on their shores. That was the task in which the Asturian sailor insisted on starting in 1565, the...