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From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...

La vida heroica y dramática de Pablo IV queda reflejada íntegramente en este libro, que nos revela a un Montini a menudo inédito y en ocasiones secreto.

"This definitive biography reveals the complicated inner life of the founding father of the Protestant Reformation, whose intellectual assault on Catholicism ushered in a century of upheaval that transformed Christianity and changed the course of world history. On October 31, 1517, so the story goes, a shy monk named Martin Luther nailed a piece of paper to the door of the Castle Church in the university town of Wittenberg. The ideas contained in these Ninety-five Theses, which boldly challenged the Catholic Church, spread like wildfire. Within two months, they were known all over Germany. So ...

�Me voy a morir!, fue la respuesta en silencio... un angustiante, furioso y temerario silencio de Fernando del Solar cuando, el 12 de julio de 2012, supo que padec�a c�ncer. Recibi� la noticia tres horas despu�s de ser presentado en cadena nacional como el conductor del reality show m�s popular de M�xico: La Academia. Este libro es su historia. Fernando ten�a un trabajo estable y ascendente que lo hab�a llevado a ser una figura estelar. Era tambi�n la pareja sentimental de una famosa y atractiva conductora, con quien reci�n se hab�a casado y que le hab�a dado los...