Mario Benedetti es una de las grandes figuras de la literatura en lengua hispana. La Tregua es una de sus obras más señeras. Brillante narrador y poeta, el autor dibuja con trazos finos la figura de un hombre inmerso en su ciudad y su vida, guiando al lector en un proceso de identificación tan intenso que la vida del protagonista se pega en la piel y la sensibilidad. Una novela que constituye una verdadera obra maestra, en la que el clima, los

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Cristina Pacheco has tracked down the stories that intertwine daily life with the corners of Mexican culture. The wealth of El oro del desierto resides in its multiple characters in transit through a territory that is both reality and literary invention. In these stories, the memory of Mexican towns, now inhabited by dust and forgetfulness, overflows with laborers separated from their land and language as they immigrate North. "Un libro esplendido...

Young Honduran actor Eduardo Lin has just come to New York City to pursue his thespian dreams. Driven by delusions of grandeur, he is soon dubbed "The Big Banana." While he works in construction to get by, he dreams of being discovered by Woody Allen. Meanwhile, his fiancée back home--who Eduardo met when hired to act out her James Bond fantasies--is getting lonely. "Eduardo Lin, actor, albañil y soñador, odia a New York Telephone. Busca en ser...

Bachaou's work is an indispensable tool for reconnecting with your more sacred essence: the intuitive language of your heart. Each of its chapters permits you to work with a concrete aspect of your emotions so that you can reconnect with your purer essence. "El lenguaje de la intuición es una herramienta indispensable para reconectar con tu esencia más sagrada: el lenguaje intiutivo de tu corazón. Emana sabiduriá, compasión, consejo y verdad,...

When a middle-aged philosophy professor lacks the discipline to get his ideas published, his relationship flounders and he is soon in the arms of another woman. Cuándo un profesor de mediana edad de filosofía falta la disciplina para conseguir sus ideas publicadas, su relación anda con dificultad y él es pronto en los armamentos de otra mujer.

The authors teach us how life, through the painful experiences of disappointment and betrayal, forces us to learn a new kind of trust, replacing the fantasy-like blind trust of childhood. By discovering the roots of our mistrust, we can learn to recover our lost sense of trust. "A menudo mostramos la tendencia de cerrarnos a quienes nos han herido; al hacerlo, también nos cerramos a nosotros mismos y a nuestra conexión con el Universo. Aunque no...

In the plains of the Himalayas, numerous expeditions arrive every year, all with the same stubbornness. Many return mutilated by gangrene, blinded by the snow or feverish with diarrhea. But nothing dissuades these eager people from trying to reach the bottom of Toscano's Grotto, which could contain the actual nine circles of Dante's Inferno. "Se han organizado varios grupos de expediciones para intentar adentrarse para encontrar el gran secreto que...

Doña Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer is one of the most powerful, respected and feared women of her city. Mayra Santos-Febres chronicles the social ascent of this woman in a novel that speaks of passion and ambition and the inequality between a rich bourgeoisie and a city filled with poverty. "Doña Isabel Luberza Oppenheimer es uns de las mujeres más poderosas, respetadas y temidas de su ciudad. Pero no siempre ha sido así. Abandonade por su madre...

Barry Long's essays on the spiritual process of dying will allow listeners to face their fears and unhappiness and change their lives for the better. "Sólo el miedo muere es una de las obras más importantes de este autor exceptional. A través de sus ocho ensayos nos transmite enseñanzas en relación al mondo en que dentro de nosotros se crea la infelicidad y qué hacer para apartarnos de ella"--Contaier.

In 2007, Mike Lowell of the Boston Red Sox led the world's most zealously followed baseball team to their second World Series title in four years. Told in Spanish, this is the memoir of a man who overcame testicular cancer and the struggles of his Cuban family under the Castro regime to become one of the best third basemen in baseball--and a true role model for his millions of fans. "En 2007, Mike Lowell, el jugador de tercera base de los Red Sox,...