El hotel de los Corazones Rotos

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...

En Crónicas de Nueva York, Maeve Brennan nos ofrece certeras y evocadoras viñetas de la vida neoyorquina en los 50 y los 60, revelando al lector las mil caras fugaces de esta fascinante ciudad, todas las pequeñas historias sin nombre que palpitan en su seno, las pequeñas alegrías y tragedias que transitan sus calles y que ella, no en vano admirada por escritores como John Updike o Alice Munro, supo captar como nadie.

'¡Ooh Matrona!' Es el primer libro de The Nomadic Nurse Series (Las series de la enfermera nómada). Cada libro de la serie te lleva a un viaje a través de especialidades médicas y ambientes que formaron parte de la carrera de enfermería de Sarah Jane. A lo largo de la serie, Sarah Jane usa su estilo de escritura honesta y entretenida para compartir ideas sobre sus pensamientos, reflexiones y los cambios en su vida personal y en sus circunstancias a medida que avanza en su carrera. ¡No estoy segura de lo que Florence Nightingale habría hecho con Sarah Jane! La historia comienza con una...

The "Lazarillo." offers a sound and credible vision of the colonial life between 1771 and 1773, as well as practical details of the trip from Montevideo up to Lima, through Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Potosi, Chuquisaca and Cuzco. According to Jose Luis Busaniche, the argentine born historian, "through its pages flows a new feeling about nature, far apart from the previous letters and documents of the colonial era" Its first edition circulated in a clandestine way in America. The text is the transcription of don Alonso Carrio de la Vandera's writings during his royal commission of fixing...