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El trabajo de los ojos es un libro fragmentario, hermoso e inclasificable sobre la mirada. Con un estilo elegante y depurado, Mercedes Halfon nos habla de la forma en que sus problemas de visión determinaron una cierta manera de acercarse al mundo y cómo eso ha condicionado su escritura. Construido a base de escenas breves y heterogéneas, siempre reveladoras, la autora examina su propia mirada, como en una oftalmología de la conciencia, una delicada...

Frank Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the twentieth century, with more than 100 charted songs and a successful film career, as well as the recipient of an Academy Award and nine Grammys. As the icon to millions of fans around the world, Sinatra was the subject of countless tabloid stories as well as several unauthorized biographies. This is the only authorized biography of the charismatic superstar, as told by his daughter, Nancy...

In the 1960s and 70s, actor Steve McQueen was the king of cool, appearing in such classics as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Bullitt. McQueen left the world at age 50, a film legend who went from abandoned child to glittering superstar to a haunted man. In My Husband, My Friend: A Memoir, Steve' s wife of more than 15 years, Neile, rode the dazzling Hollywood roller coaster with him. Anecdotally, she details the actor's private...

Over the centuries there have been people able to influence the course of events to the point of changing history. Sometimes they are bulky personalities who have directed the course of events, changed economies, or evolved entire generations; or sometimes they're great statesmen who have been able to bring politics to a level of world power. In this audiobook, we will analyze some figures who, each in their own sphere, have changed the future and...

A powerful book that creates a conversation around the topic of blindness Look at It This Way answers questions we all may have been reluctant to ask, it gives us a glimpse into what blind people experience living in a sighted world, and it breaks through barriers that may cause people to think that differences equate to superiority or inferiority. There is an open discussion about the challenges blind people face and how those challenges can be...

A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure-the painter Lucian Freud-and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art. One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India...

An artist in every sense of the word, Lhasa de Sela wowed audiences around the globe with her multilingual songs and spellbinding performances, mixing together everything from Gypsy music to Mexican rancheras, Americana and jazz, chanson française, and South American folk melodies. In Canada, her album La Llorona won the Juno Award and went gold, and its follow-up, The Living Road, won a BBC World Music Award. Tragically, de Sela succumbed to breast...

This is a picturesque and moving account of the life and work of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton , the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. This widowed mother of five established schools in New York and Maryland and was the first to found a congregation of Religious Sisters in the United States, the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph, whose motherhouse stands today in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illustrious figures of London society in her time, among others the famous Samuel Johnson, to whose biography her diaries added valuable details. After surviving Mr. Thrale and her second husband Gabriel Mario Piozzi, at the age of 80, she fell in love with William Augustus Conway, to whom she wrote these letters.