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Success-it's something everyone hopes for but few have the fortitude and endurance necessary to achieve it, especially when confronted by one adversity after another. Lupe Cordoba knows that hard work and determination are the traits necessary to achieve success, and she used these strong personal qualities to rise to her position as a nationally acclaimed restaurateur. Cordoba seemed to encounter nothing but hardships and obstacles throughout her life, and in La Morenita: The Story of Lupe Cordoba, she candidly illustrates how her life developed from an idyllic childhood in a small Mexican...

Con una forma singular —texto a dos voces, relato de viaje, diario— Un viaje a Salto narra hechos igual de extraordinarios. En los meses previos al golpe de Estado de Uruguay, una niña y su madre viajan para ver a su padre y esposo, preso político por asistir como médico al Movimiento Tupamaro. Tienen el dato de que será trasladado en un tren que se dirige a Salto y que esa puede ser una ocasión para verlo, sin las limitaciones de tiempo y espacio que rigen las escasas visitas permitidas a la cárcel. Es por eso se lanzan a la aventura. En una parada de madrugada se suben a un vagón ...

Contiene: -- 1. Highlander: el beso del demonio (978-84-9800-869-2). -- 2. Highlander: el pergamino oculto (978-84-9800-870-8). -- 3. Highlander: el conjuro olvidado (978-84-9018-046-4 ).

This story includes eleven short stories from one of the most heartbreaking French storytellers today. In one story, two girls risk everything by running away from home and their dead-end factory jobs in search of a more meaningful life. In others a man stands by helplessly as a place of great beauty and deep childhood memory is slowly consumed and destroyed by a quickly developing city, an illegal immigrant desperate for work finds himself the prisoner of a ring trafficking in human beings, and an adolescent girl encounters the violence of a gang of masked bikers in a hostile and desolate...