Hijo de Dios

Una santa moderna, una mujer tenaz y valiente, que fue escuchada por soberanos y eclesiásticos. Fundó una orden religiosa (las Brígidas) y ha sido declarada por Juan Pablo II, junto a Catalina de Siena y Edith Stein, patrona de Europa. Brígida de Suecia (1303-1373) fue una santa moderna y una mujer tenaz y valiente que desarrolló multitud de actividades a lo largo de su vida. Fue esposa, madre de numerosos hijos y dama de corte escuchada por soberanos y eclesiásticos que solicitaban sus consejos. Cuando se quedó viuda fundó una orden religiosa (las Brígidas) y se trasladó a Roma,...

These biographies introduce young readers to important figures in American history. Ideal for reports and correlated to the social studies curriculum, the series presents a straightforward account of each individual's life and times and describes how each person contributed to the shaping of our nation.

Collected here are journal entries culled from 18 notebooks that Allen Ginsberg kept during the 1950s and early 1960s, when he and his fellow Beat poets led an insurrection that profoundly altered the American literary and cultural landscapes. The diary notes, dreams, poems, reflections, and thoughts included in this book intimately illuminate Ginsberg's travels and his mental journeys. They reveal conversations with William Carlos Williams, drug experiences, a chance meeting with Dylan Thomas, stays in Mexico and the cities of San Francisco and New York, first impressions of Naked Lunch,...

It's a pretty long story, Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, so I'll try to make it simple. This hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi's own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life story and keep the memory of the Holocaust alive, answering innocent questions with hard truths....