La Mujer cubana

A powerful, honest memoir by two sisters -- one a star on Orange Is the New Black, one a trans woman and activist -- about transitioning, family, allyship, and the path to self-realization. When Selenis Leyva's parents adopted a baby into their warm, loving family, Selenis was immediately smitten. The pair were always close; Selenis showered her younger sibling with affection, who in turn looked up to Selenis and followed her everywhere. The siblings realized, almost at the same moment, that the younger of the two was struggling with their identity. As Marizol transitioned and fought to...

This is the true love story of Joni and her husband of 30 years, Ken Tada. A love story showing what it truly means for a man and a woman to live in love ... in sickness and in health. Even the honeymoon wasn't easy. Did Ken realize what he was getting into when he proposed to Joni, a quadriplegic woman? As their marriage years moved on, Ken became increasingly overwhelmed by the never-ceasing demands of caring for Joni, who begins to experience chronic, extreme, nightmarish pain. Ken sinks into depression, and the couple finds themselves on parallel tracks in life, married and living under...

In an outstanding philosophical work, Emil Cioran left at his death thirty-four handwritten notebooks. "I have the fragment in the blood," said the author. An intimate and uninhibited Cioran offers aphorisms, jokes, sketches of literary projects and a gallery of portraits, the result of his encounters with authors such as Beckett and Ionesco, of true anthology.

J.H. Newman es una figura esencial de la historia reciente del catolicismo, y en especial, del catolicismo en Inglaterra y uno de los principales referentes del pensamiento cristiano contemporáneo. Considerada una obra cumbre de la literatura autobiográfica universal, comparable a Las Confesiones de san Agustín, esta Apologia pro Vita Sua supuso para su autor la anhelada oportunidad de defenderse frente a la incomprensión y el rechazo que había causado en Inglaterra su conversión al catolicismo. Newman ofrece en este cálido relato de su itinerario vital e intelectual un ejemplo de...