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Por el autor de Llámame por tu nombre , unas inolvidables memorias familiares donde renace el esplendor de un mundo desaparecido. En Lejos de Egipto , André Aciman rememora su infancia en la espléndida y multicultural Alejandría y las peripecias de su excéntrica familia, judíos sefarditas con raíces turcas e italianas, desde su llegada a la ciudad a principios de siglo hasta su expulsión en la década de los sesenta, cuando el autor era adolescente. Un clan compuesto por figuras tan cari...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-09-06 Género:Biografías y memorias 13,99 €

A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. This new translation by Marion Wiesel, Elie's wife and frequent translator, presents this seminal memoir in the language and spirit truest to the author's original intent. And in a substantive new preface, Elie reflects on the enduring importance of Night and his lifelong, passionate dedicat...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-02-07 10,99 €

El siglo XX ha estado marcado por choques ideológicos muy fuertes que influyeron en el modo de pensar de sus personajes más lúcidos, entre los cuales, sin duda, se encuentran los escritores.   Joseph Pearce estudia en este extenso libro las repercusiones que las teorías de Marx y Nietszche tuvieron en escritores como Bernard Schaw o H.G. Wells y en muchos otros, y como, en ese ambiente, se produjo un importante renacimiento artístico y espiritual que alcanzó a intelectuales y artistas...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2006-07-25 14,99 €

«Me dirijo al hombre de la calle, escéptico pero también comprensivo, y mi única esperanza, bastante vaga por cierto, es que si abordo la biografía de este gran santo por el lado llamativo y popular que evidentemente tiene, tal vez logre que el lector perciba la coherencia de una personalidad intachable, al menos un poco mejor que antes; y que acometiendo su historia de esta manera, quizá vislumbre por qué el poeta que alababa a su señor el sol se escondía a menudo en una cueva oscura; ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-01-24 3,49 €

Shalom Auslander was raised with a terrified respect for God. Even as he grew up, defying and eventually being cast out of his community, he could not find his way to a life in which he wasn’t locked in a daily struggle with Him. Foreskin’s Lament is a rich and fascinating portrait of a man grappling with his faith, his family and his community. ‘Bracing and witty . . . Never, frankly, can there have been a more blasphemous book . . . Foreskin’s Lament somehow expresses the ideas of Rich...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-11-30 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,49 €

The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller The incredibly moving and powerful memoir of an Auschwitz survivor who made headlines around the world. With a foreword by King Charles III. 'Unforgettable' – Daily Mail When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. And when her great-grandson, Dov, decided to use social media to track down the family of the GI, 96-year-old Lily found herself makin...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-09-02 Género:Biografías y memorias 4,99 €

In 2004, bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen, a homeless small-time drug dealer and addict in a state of drug induced euphoria ran into a busy intersection and was killed instantly by a speeding automobile. He left behind a grieving sister. For weeks she struggled with grief and tried to make sense of Billy's seemingly wasted life and tragic death. A few weeks after his death, William Cohen, aka Billy Fingers, woke his sister Annie at dawn. 'I'm drifting weightlessly through these glorious stars and gal...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-08-04 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,49 €

AVAILABLE NOW - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR FATHER'S DAY 'Delightful. A great, fun read.' DAVID JASON 'Mel Brooks is the king of comedy.' DAVID BADDIEL 'Riotous' DAILY MAIL 'A jaunty romp across Brooks's career' THE TIMES __________________________ At 95, the legendary Mel Brooks continues to set the standard for comedy across television, film, and the stage. Now, for the first time, this EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) winner shares his story in his own words. Here are the never-before-told, behind-t...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-11-30 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and believed he was the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he paid tribute to those who were lost by telling his story and sharing his wisdom. ‘Eddie looked evil in the eye and met it with joy and kindness . . . [his] philosophy is life-affirming’ – Daily Express Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-11-01 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,99 €

Más que una biografía de san Pedro, es una recreación literaria de la figura del apóstol. La autora se adentra con una narrativa ágil y rigurosa con los hechos históricos, en la conversión de Simón en Pedro. Describe la transformación de un adolescente impulsivo, curioso y con muchos defectos, pero dotado de afán de liderazgo y de un gran corazón. Un judío que vive el deseo de la liberación de su pueblo de los romanos y al conocer a Jesús, se transforma. Descubre en él aquello que...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-06-15 8,99 €

Confesiones es un libro en el que San Agustín escribió acerca de su juventud pecadora y de cómo se convirtió al cristianismo. Es ampliamente aceptada como la primera autobiografía occidental jamás escrita, y se convirtió en un modelo para otros autores cristianos de los siguientes siglos. No es una autobiografría completa pues fue escrita tras sus primeros 40 años de vida y vivió hasta los 76, tiempo durante el cual produjo otros importantes trabajos, entre ellos La ciudad de Dios. De ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-12-07 0,49 €

'"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller from the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad who convinced her that he was the man for her. A life with Mohammad meant moving into his ancie...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-09-02 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre santo Tomás de Aquino, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Conocer el contexto en el que vivió Tomás de Aquino y su biografía, en una época en la que nacieron las órdenes mendicantes • Comprender la influencia de la filosofía aristotélica y de los eruditos árabes en la obra de santo Tomás de Aquino, y analizar las teorías novedosas que apor...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-03-27 Género:Biografías y memorias 4,99 €

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it. Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mo...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-11-14 Género:Biografías y memorias 10,99 €

El cardenal Walter Kasper, es uno de los teólogos más influyentes en la actualidad. Su teología de la misericordia ha inspirado profundamente el pontificado del papa Francisco  desde el mismo momento de su elección. George Augustin presenta al Kasper teólogo, a través de su biografía, enlazada con los principales aspectos de su pensamiento. A través de textos clave publicados en los últimos años, nos acerca al profesor de Teología Dogmática y al ecumenista, pero también al auto...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-04-02 3,99 €

How to bring more love into your life by the Sunday Times number one bestselling author of Stairways to Heaven and A Message of Hope from the Angels. Lorna Byrne has become a bestselling author around the world because she sees angels as clearly as the rest of us see human beings. Now she reveals that she also sees love as a physical force. What Lorna has seen has led her to develop a 7 day path to help us all change our lives. She says: ' The more we love ourselves the more we can love others. ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-04-24 Género:Biografías y memorias 4,49 €

The Sunday Times bestseller ‘An utterly engrossing book’ Nigella Lawson ‘Remarkable and gripping’ Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of Jewish identity in the 20th century … I don’t hesitate to call it a masterpiece’ Telegraph After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America – defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-03-05 11,99 €

The powerful coming-of-age story of an ultra-Orthodox child who was born to become a rabbinic leader and instead became a woman Abby Stein was raised in a Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, isolated in a culture that lives according to the laws and practices of eighteenth-century Eastern Europe, speaking only Yiddish and Hebrew and shunning modern life. Stein was born as the first son in a dynastic rabbinical family, poised to become a leader of the next generation of Hasidic Jews. But Abby f...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-11-12 Género:Biografías y memorias 14,99 €

WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 'A masterpiece of history and memoir' Evening Standard 'Superb. This is a necessary book - painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting' The Times __________________________________________________ Little Lien wasn't taken from her Jewish parents in the Hague - she was given away in the hope that she might be saved. Hidden and raised by a foster family in the provinces during the Nazi occupat...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-08-02 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

During her lifelong service to the poorest of the poor, Mother Teresa became an icon of compassion to people of all religions, and none. Her selfless commitment to the care of the sick and the dying, as well as to thousands of others who no one else was prepared to help, has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world. Yet this impressive collection of her writings shows a different and unexpected picture of the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Her absolute conviction that she was doing God's wi...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-07-31 Género:Biografías y memorias 11,99 €

J Krishnamurti (1896-1986) was one of the most important spiritual leaders of his time. Discovered by the Theosophist as a boy in India, he was groomed by them as the new Messiah, a role he rejected when he set out independently on his own spiritual quest. Travelling the world, lecturing and teaching, he acquired an enormous following, including many eminent statesmen and intellectuals. As one of Krishnamurti’s closest friends and devotees, Mary Lutyens is uniquely qualified to write his biogr...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-05-31 Género:Biografías y memorias 12,99 €

A gripping biography by the author of Brave New World The life of Father Joseph, Cardinal Richelieu's aide, was a shocking paradox. After spending his days directing operations on the battlefield, Father Joseph would pass the night in prayer, or in composing spiritual guidance for the nuns in his care. He was an aspirant to sainthood and a practising mystic, yet his ruthless exercise of power succeeded in prolonging the unspeakable horrors of the Thirty Years' War. In his masterful biography, Hu...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-10-31 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything "at l...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2007-01-23 Género:Biografías y memorias 11,99 €

Never before published in Kerouac's lifetime, this 1955 biography of the founder of Buddhism is a clear and powerful study of Siddartha Gautama's life and works. Wake Up recounts the story of Prince Siddhartha's royal upbringing and his father's wish to protect him from all human suffering, despite a prediction that he would become a great holy man in later life. Departing from his father's palace, Siddhartha adopts a homeless life, struggles with his meditations, and eventually finds Enlightenm...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2008-08-28 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

“Fascinating...sheds light on the history of the twentieth century for everyone.”—New York Times Book Review Now, with an updated preface, the latest edition of the definitive biography of Pope John Paul II that explores how influential he was on the world stage and in some of the most historic events of the twentieth century that can still be felt today. Witness to Hope is the authoritative biography of one of the singular figures—some might argue the singular figure—of our time....

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-10-13 Género:Biografías y memorias 16,99 €

Who was Edmond J. Safra? “The greatest banker of his generation,” in the estimation of a former World Bank President. The founder of four massive financial institutions on three continents, and a proud child of Beirut’s Jewish quarter. An innovative avatar of financial globalization, and a faithful heir to a tradition of old-world banking. The leading champion and protector of the Sephardic diaspora.  In A Banker’s Journey, financial journalist and historian Daniel Gross, who, like ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-08-30 Género:Biografías y memorias 10,99 €

One of Wall Street Journal ’s Ten Best Books of the Year * Winner of the National Jewish Book Awards for Holocaust Memoir and Sephardic Culture * Recipient of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Award * Winner of the Sophie Brody Medal The remarkable story of ninety-nine-year-old Stella Levi whose conversations with the author over the course of six years bring to life the vibrant world of Jewish Rhodes, the deportation to Auschwitz that extinguished ninety percent of her community,...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-09-06 15,99 €

One of the most famous books ever written about a man’s search for faith and peace. The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most demanding Catholic orders—the Trappist monks. At the Abbey of Gethsemani, "the four walls of my new freedom," Thomas Merton struggles to withdraw from the world, but only after he has fully immersed himself in it. At the abbey, he wrote this extraordi...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 1998-10-04 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,99 €

Un hommage à la force indestructible de l'esprit humain Dans ces mémoires récompensées par la médaille d'or du Prix des lecteurs 2019, Nanette Blitz Konig raconte l'incroyable histoire de sa survie durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle retrace l'itinéraire de sa déportation - celle de sa famille, mais aussi de millions d'autres juifs - et du sort funeste que leur réservaient les nazis. Nanette est née en 1929, et était une camarade d'Anne Frank au lycée juif d'Amsterdam. C'est dans ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-06-01 Género:Biografías y memorias 4,99 €

“I don’t want you to rehabilitate me,” Philip Roth said to his only authorized biographer, Blake Bailey. “Just make me interesting.” Granted complete independence and access, Bailey spent almost ten years poring over Roth’s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and listening to Roth’s own breathtakingly candid confessions. Cynthia Ozick, in her front-page rave for the  New York Times Book Review , described Bailey’s monumental biography as “a ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-05-26 Género:Biografías y memorias 22,99 €

The memoir of a Holocaust survivor keeping alive the stories of his generation. For more than 30 years, Phillip Maisel has worked selflessly to record the harrowing stories of Holocaust survivors. Volunteering at Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre, Phillip has listened tirelessly to their memories, preserved their voices and proven, time and time again, just how healing storytelling can be. Each testimony of survival is a miracle in itself - earning Phillip the nickname 'the Keeper of Miracles'...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-07-27 Género:Biografías y memorias 10,99 €

This book is the story of a boy who grew up exponentially self-isolated from Judaism, Jewishness, and Israel — until a life-changing experience at the age of 23 catapulted him to move from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, and start a life mission of enhancing the world's relationship with the Jewish state. The purpose of this book is not just to celebrate Israel. It's to serve as a wake-up call that Israel is great "product" that severely lacks in "marketing" and "branding." By applying better, modern...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-12-27 5,99 €

Winner – Best of Los Angeles Award's "Best Holocaust Book - 2021" “A must-read that hopefully will be adapted for the screen. Greene lets Wilzig’s effervescent spirit shine through, and his story will appeal to a wide variety of readers.”   - Library Journal Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon dep...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-03-23 16,99 €

An arresting memoir of the final years and tragic suicide of one of twentieth-century Europe’s greatest poets, published on the centenary of his birth. "Daive's memoir sensitively conjures a portrait of a man tormented by both his mind and his medical treatment but who nonetheless remained a generous friend and a poet for whom writing was a matter of life and death."—The New Yorker "Jean Daive's memoir of his brief but intense spell as confidant and poetic confrère of Paul Celan offers us u...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-11-03 Género:Biografías y memorias 10,99 €

' Brilliant and riveting. This book shows us that freedom is a choice we can all make ' Gelong Thubten, author of A Monk's Guide to Happiness ' A fascinating story of an incredible life, told with unflinching honesty ' Dr John Sellars author of Lessons in Stoicism ___________________________________________________________________________________ Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was fifteen years old. In his quiet village, he and other children ran through fields with yaks and mastiffs. The ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-08-27 Género:Biografías y memorias 11,99 €

This debut memoir about a Jewish family pursuing the American Dream in the early twentieth century South is “vividly told and captivating in its humanity” ( Kirkus Reviews ). In small town America, in 1920, the ubiquitous dry goods store—selling suits and coats, shoes and hats, work clothes and school clothes, yard goods and notions—was usually owned by Jews and often referred to as “the Jew store.” That’s how Bronson’s Low-Priced Store, in Concordia, Tennessee—owned and run by...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2001-09-14 Género:Biografías y memorias 13,99 €

A PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ–WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE “A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever—and a reminder, in our own troubled era, never to forget.” — People An “exceptional” ( The Wall Street Journal ) and “poignant” ( The New York Times ) book in the tradition of rediscovered works like Suite Française and The Nazi Officer’s Wife , the powerful memoir of a fearless Jewish bookseller on a harrowing fight for survival across Nazi-occupied Euro...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-12-03 Género:Biografías y memorias 14,99 €

A New York Times bestseller A USA Today bestseller The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939 Renia began a diary. “I just want a friend. I want somebody to talk to about my everyday worries and joys. Somebody who would feel what I feel, who would b...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-09-24 Género:Biografías y memorias 10,99 €

A hospice chaplain's lessons on the meaning of life, from those who are leaving it What are the top regrets of the dying? That's what Kerry Egan, a hospice chaplain, learned as she listened to her patients on their deathbeds, witnessing what she calls the "spiritual work of dying" - the work of finding or making meaning of one's life, the experiences it contained and the people who have touched it. In this book she recalls the stories she heard - stories of hope and regret, shame and pride, myst...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-05-04 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

***Genomineerd voor de Hebban Awards 2017 in de categorie Beste Non-fictie.***De Dalai Lama en Desmond Tutu hebben beiden veel tegenslagen moeten overwinnen. Ondanks hun ontberingen - of zoals ze zelf zeggen dankzij hun ontberingen - behoren ze tot de vrolijkste mensen ter wereld.Ter gelegenheid van de 80e verjaardag van de Dalai Lama reisde Desmond Tutu naar Dharamsala om samen HET BOEK VAN VREUGDE te maken als cadeau voor iedereen. Tijdens deze bijzondere week toonden ze met hun eigen uitbundi...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-09-21 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,99 €

'A compelling biography of one of the greatest men of the modern age. Stanford is particularly brilliant on the tensions inside Luther's private and spiritual life. This is a very fine book, written with a flourish.' Melvyn Bragg The 31st of October 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther pinning his 95 'Theses' - or reform proposals - to the door of his local university church in Wittenberg. Most scholars now agree that the details of this eye-catching gesture are more legend than ham...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-03-16 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €

Nesara Ley para la Recuperacin de la Estabilidad Econmica Nacional es de la mayor importancia, y est en vigor en Estados Unidos desde el 9 de marzo del ao 2000. Envuelve un proyecto de prosperidad para todo el planeta, que incluye la reformulacin de todo el sistema financiero y de la actuacin de los bancos; el establecimiento de una moneda nica, totalmente respaldada por una riqueza real, en oro, plata y piedras preciosas. La extincin del Federal Reserve Board, la Reserva Federal de Estados Unid...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-12-05 4,99 €

When she first saw Schindler's List --to whose premiere in Germany she was invited--Roma Ligocka suddenly realized she was witnessing a part of her own life. She felt instinctively that the little girl in the red coat--the only spot of color in the film--was her. When she had lived in the Krakow ghetto during the Second World War she had worn a strawberry-red coat given to her by her grandmother. Unlike the girl in Spielbeg's film, however, Roma survived the war. Startled by this eerie conjuncti...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-01-12 10,99 €

Andreas Englisch über den mutigen Kampf des Papstes »Spiritueller Alzheimer« – diese Diagnose hat zweifellos das Zeug dazu, in die Kirchengeschichte einzugehen. Dass es ein Papst ist, der seiner Kurie diese Form der Demenz attestierte, hat selbst den Kenner des Kirchenstaats Andreas Englisch überrascht. Mit der Weihnachtsansprache 2014 eröffnete Papst Franziskus den Kampf gegen den Teil der Kurie, der ihn seit seiner Wahl mit Spott, Verachtung und arroganter Ablehnung überzieht. Er seine...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-10-19 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,99 €

Was 1985 und 1986 im Iran geschah, wissen Millionen Leser des Weltbestsellers "Nicht ohne meine Tochter". Doch mit der Rückkehr in die USA war die Geschichte der damals erst vierjährigen Mahtob noch nicht ausgestanden. Jahrelang musste sie sich vor ihrem Vater verstecken, lebte unter falschem Namen, musste ihr Schicksal vor den Schulfreundinnen verschweigen - denn die Angst vor einer erneuten Entführung war groß. Wie geht Mahtob Mahmoody heute mit ihrer Vergangenheit um? In poetischen Bilder...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-03-01 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

The memoir of popular BBC Radio 4 SATURDAY LIVE presenter and former member of the Communards, the Reverend Richard Coles. 'I love @RevRichardColes SO MUCH' Caitlin Moran FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles's warm, witty and wise memoir in which he divulges with searing honesty and intimacy his pilgrimage from a rock-and-roll life of sex and drugs in the Communards to one devoted to God and Christianity. The result is one of the most unusual and readable life stories of recent times,...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-10-16 Género:Biografías y memorias 4,49 €

Born to parents who were enthusiastic naturalists, and linked through his wider family to a clutch of accomplished scientists, Richard Dawkins was bound to have biology in his genes. But what were the influences that shaped his life? And who inspired him to become the pioneering scientist and public thinker now famous (and infamous to some) around the world? In An Appetite for Wonder we join him on a personal journey from an enchanting childhood in colonial Africa, through the eccentricities of ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-09-12 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was chosen as the next Pope in one of the shortest conclaves in history. He is the first Pope Francis, the first Jesuit Pope, the first Pope to come from Latin America. Who is this man, and how did he come to such high position? This book begins with the arrival of Bergoglio's family in Buenos Aires in 1929, travelling from Italy, explores his childhood as one of a family of five, his first job as a factory cleaner and the bout of pneumonia which forced him to reassess h...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-06-06 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €

A mix of Tony Hawk and Brian Welch comes together in skateboarding legend Christian Hosoi, who reveals everything about his rise, fall, and redemption, in this amazing tell-all—from being named the greatest skater of all time to bottoming out on drugs to finally finding redemption through God. Fans of Slater Kelly’s Pipe Dreams and Brian Welch’s Save Me From Myself, and followers of Tony Alva, Jay Adams, and Steve Caballero, will be captivated by this extraordinary, star-studded story, a g...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-06-12 Género:Biografías y memorias 21,99 €

From Thomas Becket's early life as a merchant's son and his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury to his assassination in the Cathedral itself, this enlightening book brings to life a colossal figure of British history. 'Lively, effortlessly readable, superb. A beautifully layered portrait of one of the most complex characters in English history' The Times ____________________ This is the man, not the legend . . . Thomas Becket lived at the centre of medieval England. Son of a draper's merchant, ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-04-05 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €