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En El amante turco, Esmeralda finalmente se libera y supera una lucha monumental con su madre?sólo para caer bajo la esclavitud de "el turco" y descubrir que la pasión romántica también puede ser una prisión. Su viaje de liberación y descubrimiento personal es atrevido, narrado de una forma sincera, y nos conduce hacia su triunfante graduación de Harvard. El humanismo desenfrenado, el humor, y el valor psicológico que le dieron tanto éxito a sus dos primeras memorias, están una vez más completamente expuestas en El amante turco, que satisfacerá al número de lectores fieles y lo aumentará. La suya es una voz fresca, apasionante, y necesaria. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this memoir, we become witness to the transformation of the little Puerto Rican girl who emigrated to New York with her single mother and ten siblings. Esmeralda Santiago finally breaks out of a monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to come under the thrall of "the Turk" and discover that romantic passion, too, can become a prison. Esmeralda's journey of self-liberation and self-discovery is a daring one, candidly and zestfully recounted, and leads, most improbably, to her triumphant graduation from Harvard. The expansive humanity, earthy humor, and psychological courage that made Esmeralda's first two books so successful are on full display again in El amante turco, which will both reward the author's faithful readership and extend it. Hers is a fresh, exciting, and necessary voice.
Why do some things heat up quickly while others don?t? How can heat cause matter to change form?from solid to liquid to gas and back again? Heat cannot be seen, but it can easily be felt. Looking at different objects? molecular makeup, this book describes the fundamentals of heat and furthers understanding through a series of easy experiments.
La organización que representa a los mejores pediatras de la nación, así como a las investigaciones y procedimientos más avanzados y actualizados en el área de los cuidados infantiles, responde a todas sus preguntas sobre la salud y educación de su hijo. Encontrará consejos útiles y tranquilizadores para educar y cuidar de su hijo, que abarcan desde los preparativos para el nacimiento del bebé y cómo enseñarle a su hijo a usar el baño, hasta cómo fomentar su autoestima. También encontrará una guía indispensable para identificar y tratar los problemas de salud más comunes durante la niñez, así como instrucciones detalladas para saber actuar en situaciones de emergencia. Completo, preciso y actualizado, El cuidado de su hijo pequeño le ofrece: - Recomendaciones fundamentales para cuidar de su hijo desde la lactancia hasta los cinco años - Una guía sobre los logros evolutivos en los aspectos físico, emocional, social y cognoscitivo - Una enciclopedia completa sobre salud infantil: lesiones, enfermedades, anomalías congénitas y otras discapacidades - Consejos útiles para la seguridad de su hijo, dentro y fuera de casa, y en el auto - Recomendaciones para elegir un buen programa de cuidado infantil - Reflexiones sobre temas familiares, como la rivalidad entre hermanos, adopción, formación de una segunda familia y consejos prácticos para las madres que trabajan fuera de casa - Y mucho más
The Spanish-language edition of The Great Kapok Tree.
En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20, un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más.
Con un estilo deslumbrante e impecable el autor de La Sombra del Viento, nos transporta de nuevo a la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para ofrecernos una gran aventura de intriga, romance y tragedia, a través de un laberinto de traición y secretos donde el embrujo de los libros, la pasión y la amistad se conjugan en un relato magistral.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom the author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes a riveting masterpiece about love, literature, and betrayal. Like his previous novels, Zafon's The Angel's Game, is set in Barcelona and also revisits the mysterious Cemetery. It is, however, neither a sequel nor a prequel, but an independent narrative that elaborates a coherent, increasingly complex fictional universe. In this powerful, labyrinthian thriller, David Martín is a pulp fiction writer struggling to stay afloat. Holed up in a haunting abandoned mansion in the heart of Barcelona, he furiously taps out story after story, becoming increasingly desperate and frustrated. Thus, when he is approached by a mysterious publisher offering a book deal that seems almost too good to be real, David leaps at the chance. But as he begins the work, and after a visit to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, he realizes that there is a connection between his book and the shadows that surround his dilapidated home and that the publisher may be hiding a few troubling secrets of his own. Once again, Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a breathtaking tale of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. The extraordinary tale that follows is many things at once: mystery, love story, supernatural thriller, historical drama, gothic romance, and meditation on the primal importance of stories, of narrative itself. As the author reminds us throughout this novel, books have souls, and reflect the souls of both their readers and their writers. The Angel's Game beautifully illustrates this proposition, and offers further proof that Carlos Ruiz Zafon was one of the most compelling--and unpredictable--storytellers of the modern era.
Este libro, resultado de conversaciones con Sergio Rubin y Francesca Ambrogetti, es un testimonio único y en rigurosa primera persona sobre los acontecimientos que marcaron la vida del actual pontífice. En él, de manera clara y cercana, Jorge Bergoglio explica el desembarco de su familia en el puerto de Buenos Aires en 1929, las circunstancias de su nacimiento y cómo fue su infancia, y cómo a partir de una pulmonía grave sintió los primeros signos de su vocación religiosa. Nos habla también de su ingreso en el seminario, de las primeras clases que impartió, de su experiencia como docente de psicología y literatura... hasta el fenómeno Bergoglio, luego de que Juan Pablo II lo consagrase cardenal. Bergoglio responde con sinceridad y valentía preguntas directas y claras que le permiten ir desgranando su pensamiento con la lucidez que lo caracteriza y sin eludir ningún tema incómodo: desde cómo debe ser la experiencia de orar, pasando por el celibato o el trabajo pastoral de la Iglesia, hasta los escándalos sexuales o su opinión sobre la dictadura argentina. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The only authorized biography of Pope Francis. Jorge Bergoglio explains how his family came to Buenos Aires in 1929. For the first time, we hear him give details about his life, including a severe pneumonia he suffered which led him to feel a calling to enter religious life. He describes what the prayer experience feels like, discusses celibacy, and the pastoral work of the church. On March 13, 2013, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, longtime Archbishop of Buenos Aires, now Pope Francis, was elected to succeed Pope Benedict. He is the first Latin American pope, the first Jesuit pope, and the first to take the name Francis, after St. Francis Assisi, the 13th century monk known for his charity and kindness. Elected in one of the shortest conclaves in history, the former Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina reveals, in a series of extensive interviews conducted over the course of two years, the very image of a humble priest, inspired teacher, and wise and adroit cardinal. What emerges is a portrait of a man more interested in substance over style, a compassionate cleric and teacher who has shunned the spotlight. In spontaneous, intimate terms, Archbishop Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, covers topics as wide-ranging as his childhood, family life, and the importance of his first job to discovering his calling and his early days in the seminary. Through his own words, we come to know a man whose actions and words reflect his deeply-rooted humility. The book concludes with the Pope's own writings and reflections, full of wisdom and inspiration.