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El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. There she meets Consuelo, the sister she has never known, who was stolen from their home before Graciela was born. The two spend years under the cruel El Gran Pendejo’s regime, unwillingly helping his reign of terror, until genocide strikes the community from which they hail.

This is the astonishing true story of Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, who shared a personal history for more than three decades - and didn't know it. In her mid-30s, Schein finally decided to call an adoption agency to learn about her biological mother. Not expecting much, she instead got the surprise of her life. Her identical twin sister, Bernstein, lived just minutes away.

Traditional stories endure generation after generation because, although they are not literal, they resound in truths on a human scale. Folktales remind us of wisdom so elemental it is often lost in the rush of everyday life - sometimes common sense makes no sense at all.

Abrazar nuestra individualidad y compartirla con otras personas es el resultado de decidir cada día lo mejor para nosotros, incluso si no siempre es sencillo. Este libro te acompañará en un viaje de introspección y te dará las herramientas para romper nociones falsas que has aceptado sobre el cariño, identificar tus necesidades para comunicarlas, y marcar límites que mejoren nuestra relación con la mente y con otras personas.

During the biggest Brooklyn snowstorm in living memory, Richard Bowmaster, a lonely university professor in his 60s, hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, and what at first seems an inconvenience takes a more serious turn when Evelyn comes to his house, seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant, Lucia Maraz, a fellow academic from Chile, for her advice.

"My American Privilege" is a deeply personal and inspiring memoir by Alma Ohene-Opare, a Ghanaian immigrant who embarks on a transformative journey to American citizenship. This gripping narrative begins with Alma's early years in Ghana, capturing the essence of his childhood, rich in cultural heritage, and shaped by the values and traditions of his homeland. His story is a tapestry of vivid memories, challenges, and aspirations that lay the foundation for his future endeavors.

Set in Northern New Mexico, an astonishing, beautifully rendered debut about living in a landscape shaped by love, loss, and violence. With intensity, dark humor, and emotional precision, Kirstin Valdez Quade's unforgettable stories plunge us into the fierce, troubled hearts of characters torn between their desires to escape the past and to plumb its depths.

This endearing story stars Maria, a young girl who is now old enough to help her mother make the traditional Christmas tamales. While kneading the masa, she spots her mom's precious ring lying on the table. Just to see what it feels like, she slips it on and continues her work. The real trouble begins later when she notices the ring is missing. Could it have been cooked into one of the tamales?

In Nothing Like a Dame, theater journalist Eddie Shapiro opens a jewelry box full of glittering surprises, through in-depth conversations with twenty leading women of Broadway. He carefully selected Tony Award-winning stars who have spent the majority of their careers in theater, leaving aside those who have moved on or occasionally drop back in. The women he interviewed spent endless hours with him, discussing their careers, offering insights into the iconic shows, changes on Broadway over the last century, and the art (and thrill) of taking the stage night after night.

Martina es profesora y se resiste a tener que comunicarse con las personas a través de una pantalla, algo que se está poniendo muy de moda en la España de los noventa. Los chats atraen a todo el mundo, pero, sin duda, comienzan a ser una gran fuente de problemas. Y justo eso es lo que se encuentra Martina cuando, animada por unos amigos, acepta que entre en su casa, en su salón y en su vida su primer ordenador. Chats, amigos, risas, noches interminables de diversión....

Camila Henríquez Ureña is about to retire from her longtime job teaching Spanish at Vassar College. Only now as she sorts through family papers does she begin to know the woman behind the legend of her mother, the revered Salomé Ureña, who died when Camila was three. In stark contrast to Salomé, who became the Dominican Republic's national poet at the age of seventeen, Camila has spent most of her life trying not to offend anybody. Her mother dedicated her life to educating young women to give them voice in their turbulent new nation.

In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Tibn delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often willingly cast adrift from their history. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town, to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence, each of Tibn's stories manage to contain whole worlds.

Comienza una nueva vida con mayor conciencia de ti mismo, de tu vida y de tu cuerpo. Comer sin medida y subir de peso descontroladamente pueden ser las formas en que intentamos protegernos del miedo, la angustia, la inseguridad y la incertidumbre que nos provoca entregarnos completamente a nuestra pareja, de sentirnos vulnerables ante ella.

Una mujer del reino le da al diablo tanta razón para temer como un hombre del reino. Ella vive con la seguridad de saber que Cristo murió y resucitó por ella para poder experimentar la importancia del destino al cual ha sido llamada.

Take It from Here (first broadcast between 1948 and 1960) was one of the most influential radio shows of all time, sweeping in a new era of comedy and introducing an enduring pair of writers: bright young things Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Their literate scripts, and the madcap adventures of the show's stars - Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards, Joy Nichols, June Whitfield and Alma Cogan - ensured 11 years of classic capers. The show is best remembered for introducing The Glums, who featured regularly.

In this session, you will learn the principles of investing and how you can start immediately with as little as $100. You will walk away understanding the most important financial terms, proven stock market strategies including index funds and dividend stocks and how to use new platforms to build your 6- to 7-figure portfolio in a simple and stress-free way.

The world of espionage is shrouded in mystery—even to those in it—but so much of what we think we know about spy craft is rooted in pop culture. Even though the true nature of espionage is quite different, that doesn’t mean history’s real spies are any less heroic, or less fascinating. In these nine episodes, go behind the shadows with a distinguished panel of historians—including a former intelligence case officer—in search of the secret meeting places, complex codes, stealth observations, and cutting-edge technologies spies have used throughout history.

Lo que conocemos como arte no sólo está encerrado en un museo o galería, el arte nos supera, nos invade presentándose en múltiples formas como la música, el cine, la actuación, la arquitectura, la pintura… En esta edición, los artistas y sus artimañas se dieron cita para crear un diálogo extraoficial del que será partícipe el lector.

In this L.A. Theatre Works original commission, playwright Jeanne Sakata has created a new audio adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic. Mary Lennox is an orphaned 10-year-old who is sent to live with her uncle in his country house on the moors. Her new life is almost unbearable, but when she hears stories of the estate’s mysterious, abandoned garden she’s determined to discover its secrets.

Take It from Here (first broadcast between 1948 and 1960) was one of the most influential radio shows of all time, sweeping in a new era of comedy and introducing an enduring pair of writers: bright young things Frank Muir and Denis Norden. Their literate scripts, and the madcap adventures of the show's stars - Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards, Joy Nichols, June Whitfield and Alma Cogan - ensured 11 years of classic capers. The show is best remembered for introducing The Glums, who featured regularly.