Cruzando El Desierto Descalza

Describes the author's experiences asn undocumented, illegal immigrant int he United States, chronicling his secret odyssey across the border, his struggle to build a new life amid the unwelcoming 'promise' of the United States, his work at an endless stream of menial jobs, and the people he meets along the way. (Biography)

In this entertaining homage to the golden age of the cocktail, illustrator Edward Hemingway and writer Mark Bailey present the best (and thirstiest) American writers, their favorite cocktails, true stories of their saucy escapades, and intoxicating excerpts from their literary works. It’s the perfect blend of classic cocktail recipes, literary history, and tales of the good old days of extravagant Martini lunches and delicious excess. When Algonquin Round Table legend Robert Benchley was asked if he knew that drinking was a slow death, Benchley took a sip of his cocktail and replied, “So...

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

La idea de este libro no es solamente el que ustedes vean que tanto saben acerca de la vida y obra de Pedro Infante. Sino que también es una herramienta para que ustedes conozcan en una forma diferente todas las facetas de este gran actor y cantante, así como los actores, actrices, actores de reparto y extras que aparecieron en cada una de sus películas sin dejar desde luego de mencionar a los productores, directores, argumentistas, camarógrafos, escenógrafos, músicos, fotógrafos y todos aquellos que de una forma u otra tuvieron que ver con el lucimiento personal de Pedro Infante....