Rasgos biográficos de los próceres y mártires de la independencia

Galán el comunero es, como ya lo dijimos, una novela histórica por su temática. En ella encontrará el lector la vida del líder revolucionario de la revuelta comunera de 1781; desde sus años mozos hasta su muerte. Los sucesos elegidos y destacados por el narrador parten de las primeras manifestaciones en pro de la libertad y contra las injusticias sobre los guane acaecidas en Charalá s y concluyen con la conocida captura del revolucionario, el proceso que se le siguió, su ejecución, desmembración y distribución de la cabeza y extremidades en distintos lugares de la provincia; la...

A powerful memoir by two sisters about transitioning, family, and the path to self-realization. When Orange Is the New Black and Diary of a Future President star Selenis Leyva was young, her hardworking parents brought a new foster child into their warm, loving family in the Bronx. Selenis was immediately smitten; she doted on the baby, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The little boy became part of the family. But later, the siblings realized that the child was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to define herself, Selenis and the...

Paperback edition of this definitive biography of Churchill, which was previously published under the Arrow imprint.

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...

The Late John Paul II was portrayed by admirers as one of history's great popes. But in The Pope in Winter, leading Vatican expert John Cornwell seriously questions the workings of his papacy and points to fundamental flaws - exacerbated by age and infirmity - that have alarming consequences for both the Catholic Church's future and John Paul II's successor.