El gran aviso

Title: Memorias para la historia de la guerra de Tejas. Author: Vicente Filísola Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin...

Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El...

La vida acaso nos da la oportunidad, al detener la marcha y mirar el camino andado, de reflexionar sobre lo que hemos hecho; éste es el caso de Andrés, que al acercarse la muerte reflexiona sobre las experiencias y aprendizajes que la vida le ha regalado...

"Me busque a mi misma y encontre a Dios. Busque a Dios y me encontre a mi misma." Proverbio sufi. Cruce los mares y los cielos infinidad de veces en pos de mi felicidad, pero sobre todo por el afan de hallar lo material: el lujo y el dinero, la fama y el poder; a veces todos ellos escondidos tras los multiples disfraces del amor. Vivi en el torbellino de muchas aventuras. Probe demasiadas veces la dulce miel del placer pero tambien probe la amarga hiel de la desdicha. Invito al lector a que venga y camine un rato conmigo y comparta las glorias y las vicisitudes de una mujer que ha luchado,...