Libros de Biografías y memorias 2382 resultados

Alberto Enriquez Perea

Poeta de la naturaleza tropical, enamorado de la vida y del amor; poeta de Nuestra América martiana, apasionado de la belleza y sus colores; poeta del mar y del cielo divino, pendiente del Cristo y de Simón Bolívar, Carlos Pellicer (1897-1977) fue no sólo un artista sino un titán de fuerza telúrica. En estas páginas se reúne por primera vez una generosa muestra de su poesía jun...

Josefina Estrada

Ricardo Garibay fue uno de los escritores más prolíficos y polémicos del siglo XX. Esta antología ofrece una colección de sus textos memorables y entrañables dentro de los géneros de cuento, memoria, crónica, semblanza, diálogos y paraderos literarios.Garibay fue un maestro del lenguaje empleado en todos los niveles de la sociedad mexicana. Con un oído finísimo, nadie como él h...

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Berrett-Koehler

In this book, Seth Adam Smith expands on the philosophy behind his extraordinarily popular blog post Marriage Isn t for You which received over 30 million hits and has been translated into over twenty languages and shares how living for others can enrich every aspect of your life, just as it has his. With a mix of humor, candor, and compassion, he reveals how, years before his ...

Branch, John

The much-anticipated debut from the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, Boy on Ice is a moving human story and behind-the-scenes account of a life lived in the glare of sporting fame. ...

Lucas, Geralyn

Futerman, Samantha

Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, "I think we might be twins...don't freak out..." It all began when design student Anais Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anais found that the Los Angeles actress Samantha Futerman was born in a South Korean port city called Busan on November 19...

Knapp, Jennifer

Jennifer Knapp's meteoric rise in the Christian music industry ended abruptly when she walked away and came out publicly as a lesbian. This is her story--of coming to Christ, of building a career, of admitting who she is, and of how her faith remained strong through it all. At the top of her career in the Christian music industry, Jennifer Knapp quit. A few years later, she pub...

Williams, Marie

Katz, Jon

In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, "New York Times" bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people. In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call that would challenge every idea he ever had about mercy and compassion. An animal control officer had found...

Katrovas, Richard

A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, "Raising Girls in Bohemia" chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves into a range of intricately related yet far-flung subjects including fine dini...

Bebergal, Peter

This epic cultural and historical odyssey unearths the full influence of occult traditions on rock and roll--from the Beatles to Black Sabbath--and shows how the marriage between mysticism and music changed our world. From the hoodoo-inspired sounds of Elvis Presley to the Eastern odysseys of George Harrison, from the dark dalliances of Led Zeppelin to the Masonic imagery of to...

Stark, Lizzie

Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA, a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In "Pandora's DNA," Stark u...

Herbie Hancock

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time In "Herbie Hancock" the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on a life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator, Hancock has had an enormous influence on both acoustic and electric jazz, R&B and hip-hop, with his ongoing exploration of different musica...

Kyle, Chris / Scott Mcewen / Jim Defelice

Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills (officially a record 155, though the real number is even much higher) in the history of the United States military, any branch, from 1776 to present. Nicknamed "The Legend" by his fellow SEALS, Kyle's service in Iraq and Afghani...

Bragg, Rick

For nearly sixty years, Jerry Lee Lewis has been a monumental figure in American life. The wildest and most dangerous of the early rock and rollers, he electrified the world with hit records such as "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Great Balls of Fire," and "Breathless." His music was raucous, exuberant, slyly sexual; his wailing vocals were grounded by the locomotive force of ...

Hunt, Nick

"Nick Hunt has written a glorious book, rich with insight and wit, about walking his way both across and into contemporary Europe. . . . So many memorable encounters with people and places! A book about gifts, modernity, endurance and landscape, it represents a fine addition to the literature of the leg."--Robert Macfarlane, award-winning travel writer, author of "The Wild Plac...

Wang, Val

A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider's perspective to China's shift from ancient empire to modern superpower Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed in a Chinese dance troupe--until she shaved her head and became a leftist, the stuff of many ...

Kasischke, Lou

Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. Now he tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before including why the climbers were desperately late and out of time. His personal story, captured in the title AFTER THE WIND, tells about the intense m...

Safran, John

An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson. A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came t...

Robert Baer

What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, "It's a bullet with a man's name on it." Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict--one bullet, one death, case closed. Assassination has been drama...

Gildiner, Catherine

Picking up her story in the late '60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London's swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh country estate. After Oxford, Cathy returns to Cleveland, Ohio, which was still reeling from...

Lisa Lovatt-Smith

Born in Spain and raised by a struggling single mother, Lisa Lovatt-Smith became an editor at British "Vogue" at nineteen, the youngest in Conde Nast history. She helped launch Spanish "Vogue" and partied across Europe with celebrities, fashion designers, photographers, and supermodels. By her thirties, Lisa has her dream career and a glamorous life in Paris, but when her adopt...

Domingo Martínez Hedmann

With his trademark tragic-comical voice and arresting storytelling, Domingo Martinez once again delivers a deeply personal memoir full of wry asides and poignant, thoughtful reflections in his new book My Heart Is a Drunken Compass. His first book shockingly ended with his fiance Stephanie plummeting off the side of an overpass in Seattle, after having a seizure while driving. ...

Golinkin, Lev

A compelling story of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past. In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only ten suitcases, $600, and the vague promise of help awaiting in Vienna. Years later, Lev, now an American adul...

Kyle, Chris

Kyle, Chris

Miguel Ángel Campodónico.

La relevancia de la figura de José "Pepe" Mujica no ha parado de crecer y despertar admiración en los últimos años desde que en 1999 se publicó en Uruguay la primera edición del libro de Campodónico. Hacía cuatro años ya que el viejo tupamaro era diputado en el Parlamento de Uruguay y faltaban diez años para que ganara las elecciones presidenciales; en ese momento, «había adqui...

Samet, Elizabeth D

As the post-9/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peace Elizabeth D. Samet, a professor of English at West Point and the author of the critically acclaimed "Soldier's Heart," came to question her settled understanding of post-9/11 America as a clear arc from peace to war. Over...

Toumani, Meline