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K.n.o.w O Conhecimento Nunca Irá Ofuscar A Sabedoria
By Andre Lexima, Crislaine Sanguino. 2014
Da ignorância ao autoconhecimento, das dúvidas sobre si mesmo ao poder da coragem. Este livro é mais que uma história…
de amadurecimento, é sobre o conhecimento de quem você é de como criar uma visão e manifestar o podem em si.El Conocimiento Jamás Opaca La Sabiduría
By Mariana De Mendieta, Andre Lexima. 2014
De la ignorancia al autoconocimiento, de la inseguridad a un poder intrépido. Este libro es más que una historia sobre…
la transición a la adultez, es sobre saber quién eres, cómo crear una visión y manifestar tu poder.Soar High
By Phil Ray Jack. 2015
Soar High is a collection of essays and poems addressing the complexities of life's experiences. The topics range from dealing…
with grief and anger to finding the love that is at the base of our being.Una noche en el Orient Express
By Veronica Henry. 2013
Un recado misterioso una promesa hecha a un amigo moribundo una propuesta inesperada un secreto que…
se remonta toda una vida Seis historias cuyo rumbo cambiar en un extraordinario viaje de Londres a Venecia Mientras el tren marcha salen a la luz relaciones confesiones y revelaciones Cuando los pasajeros lleguen a su destino su vida no volver a ser la misma www sumadeletras comVertigo
By Michael Hulse, W. G. Sebald. 2001
The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time. Vertigo,…
W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald--the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness--takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts--Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head," as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange," as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever."Our Lady of the Lost and Found
By Diane Schoemperlen. 2001
One Monday morning in April, a middle-aged writer walks into her living room to water the plants and finds a…
woman standing beside her potted fig tree. Dressed in a navy blue trench coat and white Nikes, the woman introduces herself as "Mary. Mother of God. . . . You know. Mary. " Instead of a golden robe or a crown, she arrives bearing a practical wheeled suitcase. Weary after two thousand years of adoration and petition, Mary is looking for a little R & R. She's asked in for lunch, and decides to stay a week. As the story of their visit unfolds, so does the story of Mary-one of the most complex and powerful female figures of our time-and her changing image in culture, art, history, as well as the thousands of recorded sightings that have placed her everywhere from a privet hedge to the dented bumper of a Camaro. As this Everywoman and Mary become friends, their conversations, both profound and intimate, touch upon Mary's significance and enduring relevance. Told with humor and grace, Our Lady of the Lost and Found is an absorbing tour through Mary's history and a thoughtful meditation on spirituality, our need for faith, and our desire to believe in something larger than ourselves.A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles
By Andre Maurois. 2012
"Dangerous, charming, and funny, this elegant miniature rediscovery will delight even brilliant minds."-Simon Van BooyAndré Maurois' novella, published in the…
same year as Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa, is about a couple who become shipwrecked on an uncharted South Seas Island and discover a race of literary zealots for whom every subject and feeling needs to be expressed as a form of literary art. As explained by Alberto Manguel, "An Articole will publish not only his Intimate Journal, but also his Journal of My Intimate Journal; and his wife will publish My Husband's Journal of His Intimate Journal."Any Deadly Thing
By Roy Kesey. 2013
Following the critical success of his debut collection, All Over, and of his debut novel, Pacazo, Roy Kesey now brings…
us a new gathering of short stories, Any Deadly Thing. These stories first appeared in magazines including McSweeney's, Subtropics, Ninth Letter and American Short Fiction, and have been widely anthologized; among them are winners of a Pushcart Prize special mention, an Honorable Mention in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and The Missouri Review's Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize in Fiction. With story locales ranging across the Americas to Europe and Asia, Kesey once again makes the full strange world his stage. "Perfect, masterful portraits of an international cross-section of wise, broken souls--hopeful, brutal, funny as hell, and heart-crushing, every last one." -Elizabeth Crane, author of We Only Know So Much "Roy Kesey is one of my favorite contemporary writers, and Any Deadly Thing is another triumph. These stories, reminiscent of William Gass in the remarkable way they combine a virtuoso playfulness and wit with an atmosphere of grimness and grief and heartbreak, range the world over for their brilliantly realized locales, but they share a deeper setting in what Gass calls 'the only holiness we have,' human consciousness. Kesey demonstrates once again that he is a spectacularly deft and empathetic priest of that creed, which is the only one for me." -Michael Griffith, author of TrophyLet the Church Say Amen
By Reshonda Tate Billingsley. 2004
Reverend Simon Jackson has always felt destined to lead, and he's done a good job of it -- having transformed…
his small Houston church into one of the most respected and renowned in the region. But while the good Reverend's been busy tending his flock, his family's gone astray. His nineteen-year-old daughter, Rachel, gives new meaning to "baby mama drama." David, the oldest at twenty-seven, has been spiraling into a life of crime ever since his promising football career came to an end. Blessedly, Jonathan, Simon's beloved middle child, is in control of his life and is poised to take his side as associate pastor -- or so everybody thinks. At the heart of the Jackson family is Loretta, the Reverend's wife. She has always been devoted to her husband, but she's beginning to realize that enabling him to give more to the church than to their children was her biggest mistake. As things continue to fall apart and secrets are revealed, will Loretta be able to help her husband reunite their tattered family...before it's too late?The Ultimate Gift
By Jim Stovall. 2001
What would you do to inherit a million dollars? Would you be willing to change your life? Jason Stevens is…
about to find out in Jim Stovall's The Ultimate Gift.Red Stevens has died, and the older members of his family receive their millions with greedy anticipation. But a different fate awaits young Jason, whom Stevens, his great-uncle, believes may be the last vestige of hope in the family."Although to date your life seems to be a sorry excuse for anything I would call promising, there does seem to be a spark of something in you that I hope we can fan into a flame. For that reason, I am not making you an instant millionaire."What Stevens does give Jason leads to The Ultimate Gift. Young and old will take this timeless tale to heart.Confusing Love With Obsession: When Being in Love Means Being in Control
By John D Moore. 2006
A must-read book for anyone involved in a dangerously obsessive relationship.Confusing Love with Obsession is a must-read for anyone involved…
in a dangerously obsessive relationship. Fueled by an overwhelming fear of abandonment, people involved in obsessive relationships will go to extreme lengths to control their partner. Here, John D. Moore draws from excruciating real-life stories and personal experience to reveal the inner workings of obsessive relationships. More important, Confusing Love with Obsession helps readers develop a new self-awareness and healthy relationship--free from preoccupation with an object of obsession.Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul on Love & Friendship
By Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger. 2012
Friends. You gotta have 'em, but sometimes they drive you crazy. You love 'em, but sometimes they make you mad.…
They'll help you through a crisis . . . unless they are the crisis. So what's the deal? Friends are more than just the people you hang out with. They make you laugh, they keep your secrets, they offer advice (some good, some bad), they give you a shoulder to cry on. Sometimes they move away, or betray your trust, or flake out, but mostly they are the people who are always there for you. And they know you'll be there when they need you most. Because that's what it means to be a friend. Sometimes friendship is overwhelming, sometimes it's confusing, sometimes you feel like you don't have a friend in the world, buy don't worry, it's like that for everyone. That's what the stories in this book are all about. They're from real teens, and they're about the bizarre, difficult, and wonderful things that really happened to them and their friends. Put that together with weird facts, cool graphics, fun advice, and quizzes designed to help you figure what you and your friends are all about, and you've got the real deal on friendship.Vivir a pulso: Diez relatos de superación y vida
By Autores Varios.
Diez relatos de superación y vida Luis Mateo Díez · Bernardo Atxaga · Marta Rivera de la Cruz · Fernando…
Aramburu · Lorenzo Silva · Mercedes Salisachs · José María Merino · Gustavo Martín Garzo · Soledad Puértolas · Juan Manuel de Prada · Valentín Fuster (prólogo) Desde 2007, en su colección Historias de la Clínica, la Clínica Universidad de Navarra presenta cada año un nuevo relato sobre el caso médico de un paciente narrado por un escritor de prestigio. El talento de los escritores que las firman convierte cada historia, siempre emotiva, en una gran narración literaria. En el décimo aniversario de la colección, Alfaguara reúne los diez relatos en un único volumen para leer, releer y atesorar. Vivir a pulso celebra la fuerza que, sin saber muy bien cómo, nos sostiene y nos impulsa, que nos arroja contra viento y marea a través de los obstáculos que otros consideran insalvables. Estos relatos cuentan, en la pluma de grandes escritores de nuestro tiempo, las conmovedoras historias de vida de personas que, a pesar de las enfermedades que padecen, convierten sus experiencias en inspiradores ejemplos de superación. Todos los beneficios que se obtengan de la venta de este libro se destinarán a Niños contra el Cáncer, una iniciativa de la Clínica Universidad de Navarra para promover la investigación en cáncer infantil y ayudar a las familias en el diagnóstico y tratamiento de la enfermedad. «Digo vivir, vivir como si nadahubiese de quedar de lo que escribo. Porque escribir es viento fugitivo,y publicar, columna arrinconada. Digo vivir, vivir a pulso, airada-mente morir, citar desde el estribo.» «Digo vivir», Redoble de conciencia (1951)Blas de OteroVertigo
By Michael Hulse, W G Sebald. 2001
The beguiling first novel by W. G. Sebald, one of the most enormously acclaimed European writers of our time. Vertigo,…
W. G. Sebald's first novel, never before translated into English, is perhaps his most amazing and certainly his most alarming. Sebald--the acknowledged master of memory's uncanniness--takes the painful pleasures of unknowability to new intensities in Vertigo. Here in their first flowering are the signature elements of Sebald's hugely acclaimed novels The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn. An unnamed narrator, beset by nervous ailments, is again our guide on a hair-raising journey through the past and across Europe, amid restless literary ghosts--Kafka, Stendhal, Casanova. In four dizzying sections, the narrator plunges the reader into vertigo, into that "swimming of the head," as Webster's defines it: in other words, into that state so unsettling, so fascinating, and so "stunning and strange," as The New York Times Book Review declared about The Emigrants, that it is "like a dream you want to last forever."El Conocimiento Jamás Opaca La Sabiduría
By Mariana Mendieta, Andre Lexima. 2014
De la ignorancia al autoconocimiento, de la inseguridad a un poder intrépido. Este libro es más que una historia sobre…
la transición a la adultez, es sobre saber quién eres, cómo crear una visión y manifestar tu poder.Voy
By Gabi Mart nez. 2014
Literatura de viajes, nuevo periodismo, autoficción, parodia y metaliteratura en el nuevo libro de Gabi Martínez. «El convencimiento de estar…
donde debes y quieres es una de las grandes experiencias de la vida. Sentí que había llegado a un lugar que de alguna manera buscaba desde hacía mucho. Encontrar un lugar es bueno. Sí, es bueno.» Un joven periodista intenta localizar a Gabi Martínez, el escritor desaparecido en Nueva Zelanda cuando seguía la pista de un ave invisible tan real, o tan imaginaria, como las leyendas que la nombran. El reportero necesita entender qué motivos le llevaron a romper con su vida y desaparecer sin dejar rastro. Como hizo su propio padre, como ocurre con todos aquellos que no creen pertenecer a ningún lugar, los que se marchan mucho antes de emprender un viaje. Pero nunca existe una única versión de la historia. Por eso, la figura del viajero se va componiendo a medida que avanza la investigación, y las voces de su exmujer, alguno de sus amigos, varios guías de sus expediciones, compañeros de viaje o una de sus últimas amantes van perfilando al hombre en esencia, tan mezquino como espléndido, a medida que responden a las preguntas del periodista. No hay sólo una perspectiva, sino tantas como personas compartieron su vida. De la misma manera, Voy no es un único libro sino varios al tiempo. Es ficción, pero también literatura de viajes; es un relato de anhelos, pero también de desengaños; es comedia y a la vez drama. Una obra caleidoscópica que profundiza en el descubrimiento del yo a través de los otros, en la identidad como juego de espejos y en la utopía como final del viaje. Reseñas:«Desnudo literario integral que ve y sube la apuesta autoficcional de Coetzee en Verano.» Daniel Arjona, El Mundo «Un libro que se sale de lo común. Impecable e implacable. Un libro de búsquedas y sueños,de risas y quebrantos, de radical exploración personal a través del espejo que habitan los otros.» Tino Pertierra, La Nueva España «Deslumbrante (e impúdico) cruce entre el making of literario y la autobiografía. Imprescindible.» Jorge de Cominges, escritor «Gabi Martínez es un escritor de viajes introspectivo que encierra un pequeño Homero dentro mucho más revolucionario que en otros escritores. Ha sabido encontrar la manera de renovar la literatura viajera mediante enfoques inusuales, dejándose llevar por la misma osadía -y lucidez- que tuvo su precedente más claro y confeso: Bruce Chatwin, con quien comparte la capacidad de ruptura y de recreación. Literatura en vena.» Adolfo García Ortega, escritor, crítico y traductor, Club Cultura FNAC «Amplía el campo de acción del Verano de Coetzee (...) Me quito el sombrero: debe tenerse libertad y valentía para hacer un libro como éste. Da fuerza.» Mercè Ibarz, escritora «Martínez dista mucho de ser un escritor de viajes al uso y de manual (...). Podemos disfrutar de su originalidad, de un soberbio estilo de escritura y de muchas reflexiones sagaces de quien ha recorrido mundo y sabe de lo que habla. (...) Auténtico e intenso porque también en la vida, como demuestra Gabi en este libro, no debemos conformarnos con hacer turismo en los demás y en nosotros mismos.» Ángeles Prieto, La tormenta en un vaso «Una obra maestra.» La petita llibreriaHector y el secreto de la felicidad
By Fran ois Lelord. 2014
Una as0mbrosa historia de descubrimiento personal. Un increíble viaje en busca de la felicidad. Érase una vez un joven psiquiatra…
francés llamado Hector que se sentía vacío, pues sabía muy bien que, a pesar de su buena voluntad, no era capaz de conseguir que la gente fuera feliz. Ser un buen profesional y tener un buen ojo para indicar el tratamiento adecuado no le llenaba. Necesitaba algo más.Pensó que, si hallaba el origen de la infelicidad, podría desvelar el secreto de las personas felices. También se planteó una larga serie de preguntas sobre la felicidad: ¿Por qué soñamos con alcanzarla? ¿Qué es más importante, el éxito o la relación con los demás? ¿Depende de las circunstancias personales o de una particular forma de ver las cosas?A raíz de estas cuestiones, Hector inició un viaje que lo llevó de China al continente africano, pasando por Estados Unidos... Estaba dispuesto a llegar hasta el fin del mundo para obtener una respuesta.«Una novela deliciosamente naíf, un pasatiempo iconoclasta que te reconcilia con el mundo. En vez de dar lecciones anticuadas de moral, Lelord nos ofrece una definición de felicidad diferente.» L'Express«Una caja replena de delicias filosóficas, cuyo efecto es sorprendentemente gozoso.»The Independent«Un libro que seducirá hasta al lector más erudito y contenido.»Cosmopolitan«Una historia magistral cuyo protagonista, tras la búsqueda en profundidad de valores, emerge como un fenomenal aventurero.» Aachener ZeitungThe Mistletoe Promise (The Mistletoe Collection)
By Richard Paul Evans. 2014
A love story for Christmas from the #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk.Elise Dutton dreads the…
arrival of another holiday season. Three years earlier, her husband cheated on her with her best friend, resulting in a bitter divorce that left her alone, broken, and distrustful. Then, one November day, a stranger approaches Elise in the mall food court. Though she recognizes the man from her building, Elise has never formally met him. Tired of spending the holidays alone, the man offers her a proposition. For the next eight weeks--until the evening of December 24--he suggests that they pretend to be a couple. He draws up a contract with four rules: 1. No deep, probing personal questions2. No drama3. No telling anyone the truth about the relationship 4. The contract is void on Christmas Day The lonely Elise surprises herself by agreeing to the idea. As the charade progresses, the safety of her fake relationship begins to mend her badly broken heart. But just as she begins to find joy again, her long-held secret threatens to unravel the emerging relationship. But she might not be the only one with secrets.I Suck at Relationships So You Don't Have To
By Bethenny Frankel. 2015
Bethenny Frankel, four-time New York Times bestselling author, self-made businesswoman, and media maven, offers her hard-won guidance on dating and…
relationships in the tradition of her breakout book, A Place of Yes.Bethenny is good at many things--being an entrepreneur, mom, and TV star--but when it comes to relationships, she is the first to admit that she has had many failures. The good news is, in working through the mistakes, she has already learned many things about what she doesn't want, that she won't accept, and that she shouldn't settle for. And most importantly, she still believes in love and that her perfect relationship is still to come. Filled with a mix of candid personal stories and the no-nonsense advice she's known for, I Suck at Relationships So You Don't Have To is the next step on Bethenny's A Place of Yes journey. This is a book by someone who has made many relationship mistakes and knows a thing or two because of it. Bethenny takes a deep look at her own dating and relationship history and gets to the heart of the mistakes women make and what it takes to find and sustain a meaningful connection. Look for Bethenny's take on hot topics such as: understanding your man; the dos and don'ts of dating; how to trust your gut; and much more. Despite all her relationship disasters, Bethenny remains an optimist; she keeps going, keeps trying, and continues to open her heart to love. She holds that failure ultimately adds up to something and, that in the end, all mishaps are stair steps to a greater success.God on a Harley: A Spiritual Fable
By Joan Brady. 1995
At thirty-seven, Christine Moore had a world-class case of burnout: frustrating career, a few dead-end romances, and a less-than-perfect figure.…
Little did she know her life was about to change completely...."Come out of the shadows, Christine. You've spent far too much time hiding in shadows." The man who spoke to her was gorgeous -- long sable hair, faded T-shirt, black motorcycle jacket -- all astride a 1340cc Harley-Davidson, mysteriously parked on a moonlit beach near her home. Christine was inexplicably drawn to this stranger -- who seemed to know everything about her -- and as a sweet serenity settled over her, she surrendered to his words: "We have a lot of work to do, but it won't feel like work. It will feel quite wonderful." So begins Christine's journey, a voyage of the spirit that frees her to appreciate each precious moment of life -- and reveals to her six wondrous precepts that lead to the deepest peace and fulfillment we can ever know. For every woman whose heart has ever been broken, but who believes in her soul that real happiness can be found, God On A Harley has arrived. Need a lift?