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Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...

"El maestro revolucionario del tango, Astor Piazzolla, se esta transformando rapidamente en un verdadero mito. Maria Susana Azzi y Simon Collier han revelado muchisimos detalles significativos acerca de su vida y su musica. Cada pagina de su libro rebosa de aciertos en torno a la personalidad de Piazzolla, y nos recuerda el afan creador, el teson y la diablura que son necesarias en la creacion de la verdadera belleza."DAVID HARRINGTON, FUNDADOR DEL KRONOS QUARTET"Un documento extraordinario sobre to vida y la musica del maestro argentino del bandoneon. Piazzolla entendia muy bien mi pasion...

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...

El Camino de Santiago vive un auge sin precedentes. Cada año, centenares de miles de peregrinos se aventuran en la milenaria ruta con sus mochilas rebosantes de motivaciones, en busca de sí mismos. Sin saberlo, todos comparten los mismos sueños: encontrar la luz, cerrar los círculos, vencer las incertidumbres y tapar sus huecos. Jose F. Danvila, Caballero de la Orden del Camino de Santiago y peregrino en numerosas ocasiones, comparte sus andanzas por el Camino con la intensidad con la que él lo siente, sin tapujos ni artificios. Desprovisto de tópicos, nos regala una visión intimista...