Robert Laxalt

"Exceptional bridge between anglophone and francophone cultures, the historian Herbert Lottman explores the relationship that brought Oscar Wilde with Paris, which was deployed along the half-life of the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. Indeed, Oscar Wilde (Dublin, 1854-Paris, 1900) visited the French capital on numerous occasions, the first one in his twenty years before joining Oxford, and in 1884, for their honeymoon after his wedding to Constance Lloyd."

When I saw her again later, I revised my first judgment. I fell under the spell of her "Maori charm." Notwithstanding all the intermixture, the Tahitian type was still very pure in her. And then the memory of her ancestor, the great chief Tati, gave her as well as her brother and all her family an appearance of truly imposing grandeur. She had the majestic sculptural form of her race, ample and at the same time gracious. The arms were like the two columns of a temple, simple, straight; and the whole bodily form with the long horizontal line of the shoulder, and the vast height terminating...

Baltasar Garzón es uno de los jueces más admirados, temidos y denostados de la España democrática. Su trayectoria le ha convertido en protagonista de una infinidad de causas de gran interés mediático, la lucha contra ETA, la lucha contra el narcotráfico, la guerra sucia de los GAL, el caso Pinochet o la memoria histórica. Tres causas abiertas contra él el año pasado le han acabado apartando de la Audiencia Nacional sin que siquiera se haya celebrado el juicio. Isabel Coixet y Manuel Rivas, recogiendo el sentir de gran parte de la sociedad española, se reunieron para dar al juez...

In this harrowing and hilarious memoir, Jennette McCurdy, star of the television series iCarly and Sam & Cat, recounts her struggles as a child actress -- eating disorders, addictions and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother -- and how she regained control of her life. This life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she first auditioned for her to act. Her mother's dream was for her only daughter to become a star and Jennette would have done anything to make her mother happy. So she did what her mom called "calorie restriction," eating little and weighing herself five...