Fidel Castro: Birán to Cinco Palmas

Sujeta firmemente a Excálibur y adéntrate en un mundo de fantasía y épica medieval de la mano del Rey Arturo, el mago Merlín, la Reina Ginebra, Lancelot, Morgana y los caballeros de la mesa redonda.

The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of Love, a young Mexican guitarist took the stage at the Fillmore Auditorium and played a blistering solo that announced the arrival of a prodigious musical talent. Two years later -- after he played a historic set at Woodstock -- the world came to know the name Carlos Santana, his sensual and instantly recognizable guitar sound, and the legendary band that blended electric blues, psychedelic rock, Latin rhythms, and modern jazz, and that still bears his name. Carlos Santana's...

Mi primera aproximación a la vida y a la obra de Anibal Joel james Figarola (Guanabacoa, 1942-Santiago de Cuba, 2006), uno de los intelectuales y escritores más valientes que he conocido. Me he ajustado a la lectura de sus libros publicados y a mis vivencias en el largo periodo que arranca en 1968 en que nos conocimos en la Universidad de Oriente y se extiende hasta poco tiempo antes de su siembra en el cementerio Santa Ifigenia, de Santiago de Cuba. El autor es uno de los pocos fundadores vivos del Festival del Caribe (1981), Fiesta del Fuego, y de la Casa del Caribe, legalizada el 23 de...

When two plainclothes policemen arrested champion cyclist David Millar in a restaurant near Biarritz in 2004 for doping, it marked the beginning of a two-year exile from cycling and the end of everything else: his multimillion dollar contract with one of the biggest teams in the sport, his opulent lifestyle, the support of his teammates and closest friends, and the gold medal he’d won months before at the world championships. This candid memoir follows a young and idealistic cyclist from the early-morning streets of Hong Kong to the highest echelons of the sport in France where, overcome by ...