Mamá quiero ser sacerdote

The Texas refinery town of Leechfield, perched on the swampy rim of the Gulf, is famous for mosquitoes and the manufacture of Agent Orange - a place where the only bookstores are religious ones and the restaurants serve only fried food. A handful of the Leechfield oil workers gather regularly at the American Legion Bar to drink salted beer and spin long, improbable tales. They're the Liars' Club. And to the girl whose father is the club's undisputed champion mythmaker, they exude a fatal glamour - one that lifts her from ordinary life. But there are other lies. Darker, more hidden. Her...

Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in love with Oswald Mosley, the British fascist leader, and committed her life to his ideas. In Germany she became a friend of Hitler and Goebbels; by 1940, she was in a damp cell in Holloway prison. Jan Dalley's fascinating and undeceived biography cuts through the mythology that has been built up around the Mitford sisters and around the Mosleys and reveals the truth about both an extraordinary life and the web of...

This is the updated biography of one of the great artists of our history who reached to transcend his time, Miguel Ángel Buonarroti. A man who triumphed in his time, who was revered by pope, princes and cardinals.

Desde muy joven, Karoline quiso ir como misionera a la India o China, pero la congregación religiosa a la que pertenecía la envió a Chile, país al que llegó en 1968. Desde entonces, ha trabajado sin descanso para conseguir que los más pobres tengan comida, educación y salud, en un contexto sociopolítico complejo y sobreponiéndose al dolor y a las injusticias humanas. ¿Cómo logra una mujer nacida en la idílica Baviera superar las fronteras culturales, el absurdo y la crueldad de una dictadura y las rígidas estructuras institucionales? ¿Por qué decidió abandonar la orden y...