Loretta Lynn

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow at her husband's casket. Nancy Reagan has stirred passionate defenders and acerbic critics in many books and the media. James Benze, however, is the first biographer to discuss the effect of her acting background on her tenure as first lady. Unlike earlier biographers, he focuses on the way she applied her acting skills to meet the...

De los escombros de su problemática juventud, Lidia Yuknavitch teje una asombrosa historia de supervivencia. Una memoria que es un canto a la búsqueda de la belleza, la expresión personal, el deseo —hacia los hombres y las mujeres—, y el poder sanador del nado. En La cronología del agua la vida queda expuesta, desnuda. Es una vida que navega y trasciende el abuso paterno, la adicción, la autodestrucción y la insoportable pérdida de una hija. Es la vida de una inadaptada —una que recorre un camino feroz y no transitado hacia la creatividad— en un ejercicio de reconciliación y...

A birth that doesn't go as expected; a kid diagnosed with an incurable disease that keeps her in bed for more than a year; a teenage girl attacked by a stranger while strolling around the countryside; a woman that escapes a fatal accident by a hair's breadth. These are some of the episodes that are collected in this astonishing and intimate memoir: seventeen grazes with death, as the author calls them, that could have ended up in disaster.

El saldo de dolor y desolación que dejaron los bombardeos atómicos en las ciudades japonesas de Hiroshima y Nagasaki está consignado en estos testimonios de los sobrevivientes que recrean los instantes de horror padecidos tras las detonaciones.