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La suma de los días por Isabel Allende.

Una obra al tiempo emotiva y escrita en el tono irónico y apasionado que caracteriza a la autora, en la que nos entrega la suma de sus días como mujer y como escritora

En las páginas de este libro, Isabel Allende narra con franqueza la historia reciente de su vida y la de su peculiar familia en California, en una casa abierta, llena de gente y de personajes literarios, y protegida por un espíritu: hijas perdidas, nietos y libros que nacen, éxitos y dolores, un viaje al mundo de las adicciones y otros a lugares remotos del mundo en busca de inspiración, junto a divorcios, encuentros, amores, separaciones, crisis de pareja y reconciliaciones.

También es una historia de amor entre un hombre y una mujer maduros, que han salvado juntos muchos escollos sin perder ni la pasión ni el humor, y de una familia moderna, desgarrada por conflictos y unida, a pesar de todo, por el cariño y la decisión de salir adelante. Esta es la familia que descubrimos en Paula y que desciende de los personajes de La casa de los espíritus. – barnsandnoble.com

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Las Hijas de Juárez : un auténtico relato de asesinatos en serie al sur de la frontera por Teresa Rodríguez, en colaboración de Diana Montané y Lisa Pulitzer ; traducción de Vicente Echerri.

Ciudad Juárez, México, queda en la frontera sur del Río Bravo, frente a El Paso, Texas. Por más de doce años, aquí se ha llevado a cabo un sinnúmero de crímenes atroces contra mujeres y niñas que incluyen secuestros, violaciones, mutilaciones y asesinatos. Según Amnistía Internacional, para 2006, se habían encontrado más de 400 cadáveres, sin contar centenares de desaparecidas.

Muchos creen que las muertes se deben a la violencia e impunidad que imperan en la ciudad. Entre las teorías que se proponen están uno o varios asesinos en serie, los sacrificios en rituales satánicos, el poderoso cartel del narcotráfico de Juárez y hasta corruptos funcionarios mexicanos que encubren a los responsables.

Las hijas de Juárez promete ser una reveladora obra literaria que revela no sólo la brutalidad tras estos sangrientos hechos, sino las violaciones de los derechos humanos de la mujer en México. – amazon.com

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El regalo del tiempo : cartas a mis hijos por Jorge Ramos.

Este Audio libro es leído por Jorge Ramos.

Hay cosas que todo padre siempre quiere decirles a sus hijos. Sobre el amor. Sobre la muerte. Sobre lo que es realmente importante en la vida. Sobre el sexo. Sobre dios y la religión. Sobre sus abuelos y sus raíces. Sobre vivir en un país extranjero. Sobre cómo salir adelante. Y Jorge Ramos no se quedó con las ganas.

En El Regalo del Tiempo nos recuerda que no hay que estar a punto de morirse para decirle a nuestros hijos todo lo que los queremos y enseñarles las lecciones que, esperamos, les permitan llevar una vida más plena, honesta y-¿por qué no?-alegre.

Jorge comparte en este libro lo que nunca antes se había atrevido, siquiera, a sugerir en público. El Regalo del Tiempo es una mirada íntima y conmovedora del mundo en que vivimos y del rol que debe cumplir un padre. A través de su experiencia como testigo de muchos de los horrores y alegrías del mundo, Ramos le ofrece a sus hijos consejos sólidos que necesitan no solo para vivir, sino también para sobrevivir en el turbulento mundo de hoy.

Sus sugerencias son universales. Este libro es de todos los tiempos y está cargado de emoción y de lecciones que sus hijos y sus lectores podrán llevar consigo para siempre.

Aquí conocemos no solo la filosofía, los valores y las convicciones del conductor de televisión sinotambién al hermano, al hijo y, sobre todo, al padre que quiere contarles a sus hijos todas las cosas que ha aprendido en la vida. “Al final de cuentas,” concluye el padre-escritor, “lo único que tenemos para regalarle a nuestros hijos es tiempo… nuestro tiempo.” – barnsandnoble.com

Tags: No Ficción, Relaciones Interpersonales, Biograpfías y memorias,

Libros en Español, Audio Libros

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Dijiste que me querías : cómo sobrellevar lo impensable / por María Antonieta Collins.

María Antonieta Collins vivía una vida plena y feliz junto a Fabio Fajardo, su esposo de diez años. Se adoraban y pensaban pasar el resto de sus días juntos, hasta que ocurrió lo impensable…

¿Cómo sobrevivir la noticia devastadora de que tu pareja tiene cáncer y que, a su vez, él sea la causa de un dolor descomunal por una infidelidad escandalosa? ¿Cómo balancear la tristeza de saber que perderás el amor de tu vida, con la furia al comprender que ese amor te traicionó? ¿Cómo manejar las ganas de acompañar a tu marido hasta el final y el despecho que te impulsa a largarlo todo? Y más allá de todos estos dilemas, ¿cómo se hace para comprender que tu esposo no solo te fue infiel, sino que se casó con su amante y en los últimos dos años había vivido una doble vida.

A María Antonieta le tocó vivir esta tortura emocional durante siete meses. Esta es la historia de una mujer que, traicionada frente a los medios y al ojo del público, sobrellevó el engaño y el cáncer de su esposo, y decidió permanecer a su lado hasta el final. María Antonieta, con toda la fortaleza de una mujer extraordinaria, pudo vencerse a sí misma para comprender que la tragedia mayor hubiese sido abandonar al hombre al que amó por encima de ella.

Dijiste que me Querías relata la experiencia devastadora de María Antonieta Collins, quien nos muestra las decisiones a enfrentar cuando el cáncer avanza desmedidamente y la traición se destapa lentamente antenuestros ojos. – barnsandnoble.com

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Thalia belleza! : lessons in lipgloss and happiness by Thalia ; with Belen Aranda-Alvarado.

Thalia, ¡belleza! : lecciones sobre el brillo labial y la felicidad / por Thalia, con Belén Aranda-Alvarado.

She’s had four number 1 hits and sold over 12 million albums worldwide. She’s adored by telenovela fans in over 180 countries. She has her own ABC radio talk show. The icing on the cake? She’s drop dead gorgeous. In this, her first book, Thalia delivers the ultimate guide to Latin beauty. Lavishly illustrated chapters on skin, hair, makeup, and inner beauty show Latinas how to make the most of who they are. Lush photos make techniques easy to master while dramatic before-and-after shots inspire la nueva belleza. Thalia’s electric personality is stamped on every page. She reveals her personal beauty secrets; she dishes on beauty dos and don’ts; and she shares tips gleaned from working with top makeup artists and hairstylists. Thalia teaches women to use every beauty tool at their disposal be it a mascara wand or a fearless approach to life. – barnesandnoble.com

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Lord John and…   Diana Gabaldon    books published 2003-2007

Lord John Grey is a secondary character in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander  series who the author has made the principle character of a series of mysteries set the eighteenth century. Lord John made his first appearance as a teen-aged adjutant to his elder brother Lord Melton in Dragonfly in Amber part of the Outlander series, and has been in each of the following books in that series.  Gabaldon has written the Lord John is “a very interesting character…and he appears only intermittently in the Outlander novels, no reason why he couldn’t be having interesting adventures off stage, on his own time”.
Beginning with the short story Lord John and the Hellfire Club, now included in last year’s novella collection, the first complete novel, Lord John and the Private Matter, then Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade and Lord John and the Hand of Devils, a novella collection both published last year. Gabaldon takes us to the one eighteenth century place the Frasers have never been, London itself. Peopled with her usual mix of astutely rendered fictional characters, and a sprinkling of actual people of the era ranging from Diderot to Horace Walpole and Sir Frances Dashwood, the novels follow Lord John Grey in investigating everything from murder to political intrigue.
Lord John is a  Major in his brother’s regiment, a loyal son to both his deceased father and lively mother, and the brother who must be both head of the family and commander of the family supported regiment.  He is well acquainted with the many layers and possibilities of both 1750s London and the German battlefields of the Seven Years War, indeed, he reflects in several places on the difficulties and stern honor required of a being a soldier. Those who have read the Outlander series know that Lord John is a homosexual, and this strand of his personality and its reflection in the plot is handled with sensitivity and an awareness of both the social mores of the period and the wishes of the human heart.

Diana Gabaldon’s ability to pull characters out of the background of her previous books and have them seamlessly take on additional roles is a talent that her readers can only wonder at. This series with Lord John Grey is a digression from the major Outlander series, but one that readers will welcome for the chance to spend time in her wonderfully well rendered world of the eighteenth century, and the chance to see the exuberance of London through her, and Lord John’s, eyes.

- M. Spore-Alhadef

The Jellybeans and the Big Dance

by Laura Numeroff and Nate Evans; Laura Numeroff, illustrator.

Starting on the cover with the adorable little creatures in their sparkly costumes then following their adventures and misadventures in dance school, readers will fall in love with Emily and her dance partners as they prepare to perform “Oh Little Bug.” Illustrations by Laura Numeroff (If You Give a Mouse a Cookie) dance on the pages and are sure to charm readers.

Blackie, The Horse Who Stood Still

By Christopher Cerf and Paige Peterson, illustrations by Paige Peterson

This is the true story of Blackie, who had the unique capability of simply standing still. His story, told in rhyme, tells of Blackie’s unique talent being put to good use by a rodeo bull roper, posing for photographs in front of the spectacular scenery in Yosemite Valley, and finally standing in a field above Richardson Bay so an oysterman could find his way home. There he stood for 28 years. After his peaceful demise, a life-sized statue was erected to honor Blackie. You can see in in Tiburon, California. Beautiful illustrations.

- C. Webster

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The Rake is William F. Buckley’s last novel, and the tale of a charming rogue who goes from calculating undergraduate to all-but-announced candidate for President of the United States. Set from the 1960s through 1991, the story of the charismatic but unscrupulous Ruben Castle is a political cautionary tale of what happens when driving ambition collides with a reality that includes an abandoned wife and unacknowledged child. The book can be read as a well-veiled roman a clef about a prominent political figure still very much in the public eye. Buckley’s amusing insights into academic life as well as political maneuvering, and his sympathetic portrayals of the characters and their moral compromises make this an entertaining book, as does his stylish and witty writing. One could say that this book proves the theory that reformed rakes make the best husbands, since the unreformed Reuben Castle makes a very bad husband, but a repulsively fascinating principal character.

- M. Spore-Alhadef

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A great choice for National Poetry Month. ”Poet laureate Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project was a stroke of genius. Americans were invited to share by letter a poem they treasured; then many were recorded reading their chosen poems for inclusion in a national video and audio archive. The response was tremendous, and as Pinsky notes, many of the matches between reader and poem defy stereotypes, and all attest to the vital role that poetry plays in more lives than seems possible in a country that appears to pay scant attention to this quiet art form. Here each poem is introduced in extraordinarily moving personal disclosures by the reader who chose it. Teenagers and octogenarians, a social worker, a farmer, a nurse, a truck driver, a commodities trader, a librarian, a judge, and an alcoholic who memorizes poetry to test her sobriety selected poems by Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Haki R. Madhubuti, W. S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, and Dylan Thomas. No one person, however well read, could have created this resounding collection, which may well become a favorite in its own right.” - Booklist

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Originally published in 1938, Miss Pettigrew has been rediscovered and reprinted in a beautiful paperback edition by Persephone, including gorgeous line drawings.  A fantasy screwball comedy a little like a Thin Man movie crossed with with an episode of Upstairs Downstairs gone mad, Miss Pettigrew has now been adapted as a major motion picture starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams. ”Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the movies. Over the course of a single day, both women are changed forever.  [The author] Winifred Watson (1907 - 2002) grew up in Newcastle, and was a secretary until, in 1935, she married Leslie Pickering, the manager of a timber firm. She wrote six novels in all, but after the birth of her son in 1941 she stopped writing and lived quietly in Newcastle for the rest of her life.  The Times interviewed her at age 94 when Persephone Books reissued the book in 2000. The headline was ‘Bodice-Ripping Fame at 94.’” - Publisher’s Description