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LA wasn’t home. Just home for now. Transplanted here to model, I learned Hollywood isn’t where dreams survive the harsh reality of millions all sharing that same dream. Executive assistant is who I am now.

Este es un testimonio sobre los 18 años que viví cerca del presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador, al ser pareja de su entonces jefe de prensa César Yáñez. Ellos dos son los protagonistas de esta historia llena de traiciones políticas, ambiciones personales, infidelidades, abusos laborales, corrupción y autoritarismo. Mi propósito es evidenciar cómo el poder ha sido el gran amor y la obsesión de López Obrador, y cómo el odio y el resentimiento han sido el alimento que lo sostiene.

Despite having her own heart broken, wedding planner Hope Turner is a diehard romantic and has dedicated herself to Ever After Ranch and happily ever afters—other peoples. For Levi Langdon there’s only ever been one woman for him. Now that he’s back in town after ten long years, he plans on proving to Hope that those feelings have only grown stronger. Just when Hope starts to believe that a second chance at love and her own happily ever after might finally be possible, devastating news puts everything at risk.

In a tropical country where shadowy political affairs lurk behind the scenes of its glamorous film industry, three people maneuver inside a high-stakes game of statecraft and espionage: Lillian, a reluctant diplomat serving a fascist nation; Aristide, an expatriate film director running from lost love and a criminal past; and Cordelia, a former cabaret stripper turned legendary revolutionary. Each one harbors dangerous knowledge that can upturn a nation. When their fates collide, machinations are put into play, unexpected alliances are built, and long-held secrets are exposed.

When you fall in love with your best friend, it's the kind of love that's supposed to last forever. Jo Donovan was a true believer of happily ever afters - until her best friend, Christopher, was killed in Afghanistan, destroying her belief that fairy-tale endings existed. Destroying her. Destroying her world. Five years later.... Jo finds herself still stuck in the past, unable to find closure with Christopher's death. When she moves to Austin, Texas, with her son, Junior, she's finally given the fresh start she's been desperately seeking.

The Neopolitan quartet traces the friendship between Elena and Lila, from their childhood in a poor neighbourhood in Naples to their 30s, when both women are mothers but each has chosen a different path. Their lives are still inextricably linked, for better or worse, especially when it comes to the drama of a lost child.

The Story of a New Name is an extraordinary novel about two young women, Lila and Elena, growing up in Naples in the early 1960s. At 16 Lila marries the shopkeeper Stefano. She is filled with pleasure at her new wealth and horror at the life she has chosen. Elena’s own attempts at romance seem to be sabotaged by Lila’s turbulent affairs. As she tries to plot her way out of poverty via academic and literary success, her constant anxiety is that she is just a shadow of the brilliant Lila.

New York Police Department’s Sixteenth Precinct in Manhattan is under siege by the flu, and Detective Nick Larson and his partner, Detective Victor Sacco, are up to their armpits with work overload. The captain’s cigar is seriously chewed, and everyone is working around the clock. To complicate matters, on a personal level, things aren’t going smoothly, either. Laura Howard, the woman Nick loves, is also having issues with a psycho twin sister who is doing everything to ruin Laura's business and her life.

The story of Elena and Lila begins in a poor but vibrant neighbourhood on the outskirts of Naples. The two girls learn to rely on each other ahead of anyone or anything else, sometimes to their own detriment, as each discovers more about who she is and suffers or delights in the throes of their intense friendship. There is a piercing honesty about Ferrante’s prose that makes My Brilliant Friend a compulsively readable portrait of two young women, and also the story of a neighbourhood, a city and a country.

What’s the biggest thing that holds people back when it comes to weight loss? It’s carbs! Well, it’s not just carbs. You see, as you get older your age starts to play a factor in how you need to approach things. I’m sure you already knew both of those things, but the question is why isn’t your diet plan taking your age into consideration?

How Not to Manifest is designed to help you identify your manifestation blocks so that you can create a life full of happiness, abundance, and love. You see, it’s not only about the manifestation methods you use. In reality, the true secret to success resides in your energy, vibration, and mindset. You don’t attract what you want; you attract who you are.

In Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, the two protagonists are now in their 30s. Lila, married at 16, has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage and has now joined the workforce. Elena has left the neighbourhood in Naples, been to university, and published a successful novel, all of which has brought her into a wealthier, more cultured world. Both women are seizing opportunities to flee a life of poverty, ignorance and submission.

Neapel in den Neunzigerjahren: Die dreizehnjährige Giovanna ist Vorzeigetochter kultivierter Mittelschichtseltern und eine strebsame Schülerin. Doch plötzlich verändert sich alles, ihr Körper, ihre Stimmung, ihre schulische Leistung und ihr Verhältnis zu den Eltern. Zufällig stößt Giovanna auf ein großes Tabu: die Vergangenheit ihres Vaters, der aus einem ganz anderen Neapel stammt, einem leidenschaftlichen, vulgären Neapel. Die Geheimnisse, denen sie auf die Spur kommt, verstören Giovanna. Wem kann sie überhaupt noch trauen? Was soll ihr Halt geben?

In Amberlough City, out of the ashes of revolution, a traitor returns, a political campaign comes to a roaring head, and the people demand justice for crimes past. As a nation struggles to rebuild, who can escape retribution? Amnesty is a smart, decadent, heart-pounding conclusion to Lara Elena Donnelly’s widely praised glam spy trilogy that will have listeners enthralled until the very end.

Convertida en leyenda, tanto por su vida como por su obra, Tina Modotti tuvo una existencia llena de pasión y de furia, que encontró en la fotografía el medio ideal para expresar su disconformidad y compromiso con el tiempo que le tocó vivir. Tras dejar su natal Italia y después de un...

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Con una voz que ronda entre la parodia y el humor negro, la narradora nos invita a recorrer los rincones de su memoria. A través de los lugares que marcaron distintas etapas de su vida, conoceremos a personajes tan particulares y entrañables como el Padre, la Chica o El Niño. Desde el espacio de la reclusión, atravesaremos las puertas que formaron su carácter, acompañándola a tomar decisiones, a veces extremas y cuestionables que la llevaron a intentar salvar del sufrimiento a esos Otros tan queridos.

Álex sabe que algunas decisiones se pagan para siempre. Marcado por una mala elección, atrapado por una promesa cada día más difícil de cumplir y por una culpa que no deja de perseguirlo, vive en guerra consigo mismo. Acostumbrado a mantenerse al margen de todo lo que pueda romper su frágil equilibrio, no espera que Laura irrumpa en su vida con la fuerza suficiente para desordenarlo todo. Ella es imprevisible, luminosa y demasiado difícil de ignorar. Él, un hombre atormentado por el pasado, decidido a no volver a sentir.

Cinco arquitectos mexicanos Desde el principio de los tiempos, los seres humanos se han identificado con un espacio sobre la tierra al que llaman casa, pero, a lo largo de la historia, la utilidad de este hábitat ha trascendido lo meramente práctico hasta hallar un valor artístico. Este libro...

Publicado em 1964, o audiolivro consiste em treze contos que se associam ao realismo mágico, famosa corrente literária latino-americana. Suas histórias acontecem em diferentes espaços urbanos e rurais do México, trazendo como temas a injustiça social, a questão de gênero, a pobreza e a corrupção dentro de cenários e situações carregadas de magia – muitas delas associada à memória e a cosmovisão indígena.