-Titulo Original : Pista Helada (Tracy Crosswhite, 7) (Spanish Edition)-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: La ultima vez que la inspectora de homicidios Tracy Crosswhite visito su ciudad natal fue para poner entre rejas al asesino de su hermana. Ahora ha vuelto con su familia para intentar ordenar su vida. Pero enseguida resultara evidente que no es facil esquivar el pasado. Su esposo, Dan, abogado, tendra que representar a un comerciante del municipio y la autoridad local pedira a Tracy que ponga su talento al servicio de un nuevo caso: el cruento homicidio de una periodista, mujer de un agente de policia, que investigaba la muerte de una joven. Poco a poco, las dos lineas de investigacion del matrimonio comienzan a cruzarse y la pista por la que avanza la inspectora se va poblando de peligros. Ha despertado un pasado plagado de sufrimiento y una conspiracion que lleva decadas activa. La investigadora sabe que lo unico que importa es dar con la verdad, pero ¿hasta donde esta dispuesta a llegar cuando el asesino podria destruir todo lo que ama? About the Author Robert Dugoni ha recibido la ovacion de la critica y ha encabezado las listas de exitos editoriales de The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal y Amazon con la serie de Tracy Crosswhite, que incluye La tumba de Sarah, Su ultimo suspiro, El claro mas oscuro, La chica que atraparon, Uno de los nuestros y Todo tiene su precio, de la que se han vendido mas de cuatro millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Dugoni es autor tambien de la celebre serie de David Sloane, que incluye The Jury Master, Wrongful Death, Bodily Harm, Murder One y The Conviction; de las novelas La extraordinaria vida de Sam, The Seventh Canon y Damage Control; del ensayo de investigacion periodistica The Cyanide Canary, elegido por The Washington Post entre los mejores libros del año, y de varios cuentos. Ha recibido el Premio Nancy Pearl de novela y el de Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl por la mejor novela del Pacifico noroeste. Ha sido dos veces finalista del International Thriller Award y el Harper Lee de narrativa procesal, asi como candidato al Edgar de la Asociacion de Escritores de Misterio de Estados Unidos. Sus libros se venden en mas de veinticinco paises y se han traducido a mas de una docena de idiomas, entre los que se incluyen el frances, el aleman, el italiano y el español. Para mas informacion sobre Robert Dugoni y sus novelas, vease robertdugoni ...

-Titulo Original : Sin Reservas: Un Limite Al Poder Absoluto (Spanish Edition)-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Martin Redrado, ex-titular del Banco Central de la Republica Argentina, jamas penso que terminaria protagonizando la crisis institucional mas grave de las sucesivas administraciones de los presidentes Nestor Kirchner y su esposa, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Pero fue precisamente la posicion en la cual se encontro, cuando trato de defender las reservas internacionales del pais y la autarquia de la institucion que presidia de los propositos de un gobierno desesperado por conseguir fondos frescos, como consecuencia de la recesion de 2008-2009. En este libro revelador, el cual a pesar de ajustarse meticulosamente a los hechos, se lee mas como una autobiografia novelesca que como obra de un economista formado en la Universidad de Harvard, Redrado brinda detalles de los acontecimientos que culminaron en su renuncia como presidente del Banco Central argentino, despues de una brillante gestion como maxima autoridad monetaria de ese pais. Aqui explica, asimismo, en terminos sencillos, los principios clave de ser un banquero central y las razones por las cuales dichos principios se encuentran, muchas veces, en conflicto con las ambiciones politicas. Sin Reservas es la historia de un servidor publico honesto, quien puso sus principios y los mejores intereses de su pais antes de su carrera. Es la historia de como Redrado perdio la batalla por completar su periodo de gestion, pero gano la guerra al plantarse firme y revelar un ardid politico diseñado para fortalecer la popularidad de un gobierno a costillas de la salud economica de una nacion. Martin Redrado led the quiet life of a banker until 2008’s international recession threw Argentina’s Central Bank into the political spotlight. President Cristina Kirchner appointed Redrado President of the Central Bank in 2004, with a mission of improving the value of Argentina’s peso in the world market. When the financial crisis hit in 2008, Kirchner called upon the Central Bank to supply cash for public spending and the payment of national debts. Redrado resisted this order and was removed from his post by presidential decree, prompting a highly charged appeal that questioned the division between government and the Central Bank. In No Reserve, Redrado, a Harvard-educated economist who brought Wall Street experience home to lead the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, tells the gripping story of the events leading to his resignation from the presidency of the Central Bank after a record-breaking five-year term. His account clearly establishes the founding tenets of central banking and explains why they are often at odds with political ambitions. No Reserve: The Limits of Absolute Power is the story of an honest public servant who placed his principles and the best interests of his people above his career. It is the story of how Redrado lost the battle to finish his term but won the ideological war, teaching Argentina the importance of independent banking - free from political popularity contests and autocratic decision-making - to the nation and the people’s economic health. About the Author Martin Redrado is a rare blend of thinker and international policy maker. As a Central Banker in Argentina, his policies aided Argentina in overcoming the 2008-2009 world financial crisis. He resigned his position after the president made the decision to use Central Banks reserves to pay for current expenditures. In 1994, he created Fundacion Capital, an economic research house that has established itself as a top think tank in Latin America. He is the author of four books, Como sobrevivir a la globalizacion (How to Survive Globalization), Exportar para crecer (Exports for Growth), Tiempo de Desafios (Time of Challenges), and Sin Reservas (No Reserve)...

-Titulo Original : In The Heat Of The Moment (sandhamn Murders, 5)-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: What’s a lie among friends? It’s murder in this riveting thriller by Viveca Sten, bestselling author of Tonight You’re Dead… It’s Midsummer’s Eve, the celebration of the longest day of the year, and on Sandhamn it’s the longest party of the year. But the fun comes to a dead halt when a young reveler is murdered, a teenage girl is found drugged and dazed on the beach, and other young women vanish. So far, what links the victims is a mystery. For Nora Linde and her new boyfriend, Jonas Skold, the crimes are personal: one of the missing girls is Wilma, Jonas’s daughter. And her disappearance could test Nora and Jonas’s relationship in ways they never expected. Thrust into the investigation, they soon discover that it’s more than a case of bad blood between friends. But the truth, which has receded into a haze of carousing, drugs, and liquor, is getting harder to see. If Nora and Jonas are going to find out what happened to Wilma, they’d better do it fast before the ebbing tides sweep away all the terrible secrets of that night on Sandhamn Island. About the Author Since 2008, Swedish writer Viveca Sten has sold more than 4.5 million copies of her Sandhamn Murders series, which includes Still Waters, Closed Circles, Guiltless, Tonight You’re Dead, In Harm’s Way, The Price of Power, and In the Heat of the Moment. They have cemented her place as one of the country’s most popular authors, whose crime novels continue to top bestseller charts. Set on the tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn, the series has also been made into a Swedish-language TV miniseries seen by seventy million viewers around the world. Sten lives in Stockholm with her husband and three children, yet she prefers spending her time on Sandhamn Island, where she writes and vacations with her family. Follow her at vivecasten ...

-Titulo Original : Un Dia Maravilloso -Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Grace Gilmore lo tiene todo. A los dieciocho años, su mundo es un puzle en el que cada pieza ocupa su lugar preciso: padres ricos y afectuosos, novio tipo principe azul, proximo acceso a la Universidad de Yale... Hasta que tres golpes bajos del destino en un solo dia hacen que su universo se desmorone y la joven se rebele ante ese futuro perfecto que los demas han elegido para ella. Con su decepcion y los pedacitos de su antigua vida a cuestas, Grace se embarca en un road trip por Estados Unidos en busca de sus sueños y siguiendo solamente su instinto. En Nueva York conoce a Channing, un hombre mitad latino y mitad asiatico, de pelo sedoso y cuerpo escultural, y atractivamente irreverente a la vez que amable. Un rayo de ojos azules que desgarra el cielo gris del corazon de Grace. De Pennsylvania a Ohio, de Kentucky a Illinois, todos los caminos, incluida la mitica Ruta 66, parecen unir a los dos jovenes. Ella aprendera a conocer sentimientos nuevos y emociones autenticas, que nada tienen que ver con su vida pasada; el, sin embargo, debera saldar cuentas con el tragico secreto que podria hacer pedazos ese sueño de un dia maravilloso. About the Author Amabile Giusti es una abogada calabresa con alma y mente de escritora. Por eso, en el maravilloso entorno donde vive, entre el mar y las montañas, su espiritu se evade de la vida cotidiana para inventar constantemente historias llenas de aventuras, romance, amores contrariados y pasiones desatadas. Si quereis hacerla feliz, regaladle un ensayo sobre Jane Austen, un juguete de ceramica azul, un manga japones o una planta crasa. Espera envejecer lentamente (por lo visto es la unica manera de vivir muchos años), pero confia en conservar la juventud interior hasta el ultimo dia. Escucha mucho y habla poco, pero cuando escribe no hay quien la pare. Desde 2009 ha publicado numerosas novelas: Non ce niente che fa male cosi, Cuore nero, la serie de Odyssea (Oltre il varco incantato, Oltre le catene dellorgoglio, Oltre i confini del tempo), Lorgoglio dei Richmond, Treintañera y a mucha honra, La donna perfetta,Si me quieres, no me dejes ir o Hay algo en tus ojos...

-Titulo Original : Buried In Secret (sandhamn Murders, 10)-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: When two cold case disappearances are reopened, a decade of deadly secrets is unearthed on Sandhamn Island in the #1 bestselling thriller by Viveca Sten, author of In Bad Company.A woman’s skeletal remains are excavated on an uninhabited island in Sandhamn’s archipelago, and Thomas Andreasson is called to officially investigate. But his best friend, Nora Linde, can’t help but get involved.On leave after her last case took a dark turn, Nora is tortured by depression, nightmares, and guilt. Her marriage fractured, her pride chipped away, Nora could find redemption in this investigation. Then evidence suggests two possible cold cases linked to the grim discovery: two women who have been missing for ten years. Now Nora feels compelled to unearth a mystery someone has gone to great pains to bury. What could have happened to require such a cover-up?As the cold case vanishings converge, Nora follows a twisting trail of revenge, blackmail, and betrayal. She’s also inviting the watchful eye of someone determined to stop her. To free herself from the damaging grip of the past and the reach of a relentless killer Nora is going to have to brave the darkness one more time. About the Author Viveca Sten made her author debut in 2008 with the crime novel Still Waters, the first book in the Sandhamn Murders series. It became an overnight success, and her books about inspector Thomas Andreasson and lawyer Nora Linde have now sold over six million copies worldwide.The tenth book in the Sandhamn series, Buried in Secret, was published in October 2019. It, along with the other books in the Sandhamn series, still tops international bestseller charts today. Viveca Sten’s novels are also the basis of a hugely successful TV series set on Sandhamn Island. An estimated eighty million people around the globe have watched the adventures of Nora and Thomas unfold on their TV screens.Today, Viveca divides her time between Stockholm, Sandhamn, and Åre, a famous Swedish ski resort that also happens to be the setting for Sten’s new crime series, the Åre Murders. For more information visit vivecasten .Marlaine Delargy lives in Shropshire in the United Kingdom. She studied Swedish and German at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and she taught German for almost twenty years. She has translated novels by many authors, including Kristina Ohlsson; Helene Tursten; John Ajvide Lindqvist; Therese Bohman; Theodor Kallifatides; Johan Theorin, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2010; and Henning Mankell, with whom she won the Crime Writers’ Association International Dagger in 2018. Marlaine has also translated In Bad Company, In the Name of Truth, In the Shadow of Power, In Harm’s Way, In the Heat of the Moment, Tonight You’re Dead, Guiltless, Closed Circles, and Still Waters in Viveca Sten’s Sandhamn Murders series...

-Titulo Original : I Segreti Del Miliardario (I Sinclair, 6) (Italian Edition)-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Possono due anime tormentate trovare un futuro insieme?Xander Sinclair vive nella sua villa di Amesport come un recluso. In lotta perenne per non ricadere nel baratro dell’alcol e della droga, l’ex cantante rock e deciso a combattere i suoi demoni da solo. Fino all’arrivo di Samantha, la governante procuratagli dal fratello.Affascinante, allegra e perfidamente sexy, Sam sfida Xander ad abbandonare il suo isolamento. E la folle passione che esplode tra loro potrebbe cambiare entrambi per sempre.Fino alla scoperta che Samantha nasconde un segreto che rischia di mandare in frantumi il fragile futuro che hanno iniziato a costruire insieme. Sfuggire al passato pero non e piu un’opzione. Per Xander e arrivato il momento di affrontarlo. About the Author J. S. “Jan” Scott e un’autrice bestseller. Vorace lettrice, ha trasformato il genere rosa in un’arte, reinventando con passione e talento quello che lei stessa ama leggere. Jan e felice solo se riesce a tenersi costantemente in contatto con le sue lettrici: authorjsscott ; /authorjsscott; @AuthorJSScott...

-Titulo Original : Vengeance Glacee (Bree Taggert) (French Edition)-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Le plus grand des dangers, c’est d’en avoir trop vu. Le nouveau sherif Bree Taggert repond a un appel durgence en provenance d’un camping ferme pour lhiver. C’est une fusillade. Pourtant, une fois arrivee sur place, la situation est deconcertante : pas de tireur, pas de victime, pas de sang. Bree est la seule a croire lunique temoin, Alyssa, qui dit avoir vu son amie se faire tirer dessus. Elle fait appel a son ancien adjoint, Matt Flynn, et a son acolyte canin pour suivre la trace du tueur et secourir lamie dAlyssa. Tous deux decouvrent alors le corps dun etudiant disparu sous la surface gelee de Grey Lake… mais ce nest pas la victime quils cherchaient. Peu apres, deux autres etudiants disparaissent et les cadavres saccumulent. Bree doit a tout prix comprendre ce qui relie ces meurtres. Une seule chose est certaine : pour torturer ainsi ses victimes, le tueur doit etre habite d’une rage intense. Lorsque Alyssa est kidnappee a son tour, Bree se lance dans une course contre la montre pour la retrouver avant quil ne soit trop tard… About the Author Melinda Leigh, auteure de best-sellers primes sur Amazon et le Wall Street Journal, est une banquiere repentie. C’est apres avoir rejoint lassociation Romance Writers of America qu’elle decide que lecriture lamuse plus que lanalyse de rapports financiers. Son premier roman, Traquee, a ete nomme pour le prix du meilleur premier roman des International Thriller Writers, et a reçu de nombreux prix aux États-Unis. Beaucoup de ses romans suivants ont egalement ete des best-sellers. Elle est ceinture noire deuxieme dan de karate Kenpo, donne des cours de self-defense feminin, et vit dans une maison en desordre avec sa famille et une petite armee danimaux domestiques. Pour plus dinformations, rendez-vous sur melindaleigh ...

-Titulo Original : Les Secrets Du Milliardaire (les Sinclair, 6) -Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Apres avoir suivi une cure de desintoxication, lex-star de rock Alex Sinclair sest refugiee dans sa villa dAmesport. Luttant pour ne pas replonger dans ses addictions, il croit combattre seul ses demons, jusqua ce que la charmante aide-menagere Samantha le mette au defi de rompre son isolement. Tous deux entament une relation enflammee qui pourrait bien changer leur destin. Alors qu’Alex est sur le point de reprendre sa vie en main, il decouvre que Samantha lui a cache certaines choses, qui pourraient bien mettre en peril leur fragile avenir. Pour Alex, il est temps daffronter le passe, meme si certains secrets semblent trop lourds a porter. About the Author J.S. - Jan - Scott est une autrice prolifique de romans sentimentaux, figurant parmi les meilleures ventes recensees par le New York Times et USA Today. Passionnee par tous les genres litteraires, la romance reste depuis toujours son domaine de predilection : des histoires damour torrides, contemporaines ou paranormales, dont le heros est generalement un male alpha et au denouement toujours heureux. Elle vit dans le magnifique decor des Rocheuses avec son mari et deux bergers allemands trop gates...

-Titulo Original : The Secret Piano From Maos Labor Camps To Bachs Goldberg Variations-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Zhu Xiao-Mei was born to middle-class parents in post-war China, and her musical proficiency became clear at an early age. Taught to play the piano by her mother, she developed quickly into a prodigy, immersing herself in the work of classical masters like Bach and Brahms. She was just eleven years old when she began a rigorous course of study at the Beijing Conservatory, laying the groundwork for what was sure to be an extraordinary career. But in 1966, when Xiao-Mei was seventeen, the Cultural Revolution began, and life as she knew it changed forever. One by one, her family members were scattered, sentenced to prison or labor camps. By 1969, the art schools had closed, and Xiao-Mei was on her way to a work camp in Inner Mongolia, where she would spend the next five years. Life in the camp was nearly unbearable due to horrific living conditions and intensive brainwashing campaigns. Yet through it all Xiao-Mei clung to her passion for music. And when the Revolution ended, it was the piano that helped her to heal. Heartbreaking and heartwarming, The Secret Piano is the incredible true story of one woman’s survival in the face of unbelievable odds and in pursuit of a powerful dream. About the Author Zhu Xiao-Mei was born in Shanghai, China. She began playing the piano when she was a young child, and by the age of eight was performing for Peking radio and television stations. She entered the Beijing Conservatory when she was eleven years old, but her education was interrupted by the Cultural Revolution. After five years in a labor camp in Inner Mongolia, she returned to Beijing, before moving to the United States and finally Paris, where she has lived and worked since 1984. She teaches at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique and has performed for audiences on six continents. She is one of the world’s most celebrated interpreters of Bach’s Goldberg Variations...

-Titulo Original : Divine Lola A True Story Of Scandal And Celebrity-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “Breezy, emphatic…This twisty chronicle of one woman’s quest for independence is mesmerizing.” Publishers Weekly An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity.Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous “Spider Dance” in the greatest performance halls across Europe, she dazzled and beguiled all who met her with her astonishing beauty, sexuality, and shocking disregard for propriety. But Lola was an impostor, a self-invention. Born Eliza Gilbert, the beautiful Irish wild child escaped a stifling marriage and reimagined herself as Lola the Sevillian flamenco dancer and noblewoman, choosing a life of adventure, fame, sex, and scandal rather than submitting to the strictures of her era.Lola cast her spell on the European aristocracy and the most famous intellectuals and artists of the time, including Alexandre Dumas, Franz Liszt, and George Sand, and became the obsession of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She then set out for the New World, arriving in San Francisco at the height of the gold rush, where she lived like a pioneer and performed for rowdy miners before making her way to New York. There, her inevitable downfall was every bit as dramatic as her rise. Yet there was one final reinvention to come for the most defiant woman of the Victorian age a woman known as a “savage beauty” who was idolized, romanticized, vilified, truly known by no one, and a century ahead of her time. About the Author Born in Barcelona in 1961, Cristina Morato is a journalist, reporter, and author dedicated to writing about the lives of great women innovators and explorers that history has overlooked. Her research, tracing the footsteps of these remarkable women, has led her to travel to more than forty countries and has resulted in eight biographies: Viajeras intrepidas y aventureras (Intrepid and Adventurous Women Travelers); Las Reinas de África (African Queens); Las Damas de Oriente (Ladies of the East); Cautiva en Arabia (Arabian Captive); Divas rebeldes (Rebel Divas); Reinas malditas (Tragic Queens); Diosas de Hollywood (Hollywood Goddesses); and Divina Lola (Divine Lola), Cristina’s first to be translated into English. She is a founding member and the current vice president of the Spanish Geographical Society and belongs to the Royal Geographic Society of London. For more information visit cristinamorato /home-2.Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Her full-length translations include novels, graphic narratives, and nonfiction, including works by Manuel Vilas, Tomas Gonzalez, Ines Pedrosa, Aura Xilonen, Juan Gomez Barcena, Paco Roca, and Marcelo D’Salete. Two of her translations have won Eisner Awards, and she has been the recipient of awards and grants from the Fulbright Program, the American Literary Translators Association, and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre...

-Titulo Original : The Man Who Played With Fire Stieg Larssons Lost Files And The Hunt For An Assassin-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “Having gained exclusive access to Larsson’s trove of research, Stocklassa presents an in-depth look into the investigation. Based on the findings, Swedish police now have a suspect for the first time in years. This well-crafted whodunit will keep readers engaged from start to finish…This story is sure to gain international traction as the investigation into the Palme assassination heats up again.” Library Journal“Larsson buffs won’t want to miss this one.” Publishers Weekly“It’s more than just a thrilling book…there’s a lot of evidence that points to an international conspiracy.” CBS This Morning Saturday“A fascinating ‘creative nonfiction’ account of the greatest unsolved mystery in Swedish history.” Wall Street Journal“It’s rare…to see true-crime narratives that convincingly and humbly enter the realm of spy thrillers, but Stocklassa’s book really, really does…Stocklassa certainly reveals the sinister underbelly of governmental operations.” NPR“Fans of the Millennium books will certainly enjoy this recreation of Larsson’s attempts to solve a real-life murder…Stocklassa succeeds in infecting us with the ‘Palme bug’. It is impossible to read and not yearn for resolution.” The Spectator (UK)“Stocklassa’s book has shone a new light on a tragedy that has haunted Sweden for three decades…reads like a spy thriller.” The New European (UK)“[A] Larssonesque take on the mystery…How [Stocklassa] manages to arrive at his conclusions in an investigation lasting eight years and recruiting a team of fellow journalists and shady Swedes and a honey-trap Czech woman called Lida, is riveting reading. You can’t make it up. Fact is not only stranger than fiction but even more fantastic.” The Independent (UK)“Fascinating undercover work.” AudioFile Magazine “A fascinating ‘creative nonfiction’ account of the greatest unsolved mystery in Swedish history.” Wall Street Journal“It’s more than just a thrilling book…There’s a lot of evidence that points to an international conspiracy.” CBS This Morning SaturdayThe author of the Millennium novels laid out the clues. Now a journalist is following them.When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister. It was the first time in history that a head of state had been murdered without a clue who’d done it and on a Stockholm street at point-blank range.Internationally known for his fictional villains, Larsson was well acquainted with their real-life counterparts and documented extremist activities throughout the world. For years he’d been amassing evidence that linked their terrorist acts to what he called “one of the most astounding murder cases” he’d ever covered. Larsson’s archive was forgotten until journalist Jan Stocklassa was given exclusive access to the author’s secret project.In The Man Who Played with Fire, Stocklassa collects the pieces of Larsson’s true-crime puzzle to follow the trail of intrigue, espionage, and conspiracy begun by one of the world’s most famous thriller writers. Together they set out to solve a mystery that no one else could. About the Author Jan Stocklassa is a Swedish writer and journalist focusing on large-scale conspiracies in international politics. In his books, Stocklassa uses a narrative nonfiction style to unveil unknown facts about important events in recent history.His breakthrough came with the critically acclaimed bestseller Stieg Larsson’s Archive: The Key to the Palme Murder, a narrative nonfiction book published in 2018 that has been sold in more than fifty countries and translated into twenty-six languages. Following its publication, Swedish police began actively pursuing the leads presented in the book in the assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.His professional career includes being a Swedish diplomat, launch...

-Titulo Original : The Boy Between Worlds A Biography-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: From the Amazon Charts bestselling author of An American Princess comes the true story of an unconventional family divided by war and prejudice during WWII.When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could not have been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands explodes their promising life.What unfolds is more than the astonishing story of a love that prevailed over convention. It’s also the quest of a young boy. Through the cruelty of World War II, he will fight for a connection between his father’s South American birthplace and his mother’s European traditions. Lost and displaced for much of his life, but with a legacy of resilience in his blood, he will struggle to find his place in the world.Moving deftly between personal experience and the devastating machinations of war, The Boy Between Worlds is an unforgettable journey of hope, love, and courage in the face of humanity’s darkest hour. About the Author Annejet van der Zijl is one of the best-known and most widely read literary nonfiction writers in the Netherlands. In addition to other works, she has written biographies of Dutch children’s author Annie M. G. Schmidt; Prince Bernhard, the husband of former Dutch queen Juliana; and Gerard Heineken, the founder of the famous beer empire. Her nonfiction has been awarded the M. J. Brusse Prize for the best work of journalism and has been nominated for the Golden Owl and the AKO Literature Prize. She is the author of An American Princess, which spent more than fifteen weeks at the top of the national bestseller list in the Netherlands and was short-listed for the Libris History Prize. In 2012, she was awarded the Golden Quill for her entire oeuvre.About the Translator Kristen Gehrman is from Charleston, South Carolina, and studied linguistics and literary translation at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. She now lives in The Hague, where in addition to her work as a literary translator, she teaches academic writing and translation. While translating The Boy Between Worlds, she enjoyed biking around The Hague and Scheveningen and visiting the places where Rika and Waldemar had been...

-Titulo Original : Never Stop Walking A Memoir Of Finding Home Across The World-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “Both candid and compelling, Rickardsson’s story is not only about a woman seeking to heal the fractures inherent in a transnational identity; it is also a moving meditation on poverty, injustice, and the meaning of family. A thought-provoking and humane memoir of survival and self-discovery.” Kirkus Reviews“A haunting story of balancing identities, Rickardsson’s debut is an unforgettable meditation on the weight of early childhood trauma and recovery.” Booklist An extraordinary memoir of one woman’s fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given.Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves outside Sao Paulo and then on the city streets, where they begged for food, she and her younger brother were suddenly put up for adoption. When one door closed on the only life Christiana had ever known and on the woman who protected her with all her heart, a new one opened.As Christina Rickardsson, she’s raised by caring adoptive parents in Sweden, far from the despairing favelas of her childhood. Accomplished and outwardly “normal,” Christina is also filled with rage over what she’s lost and having to adapt to a new reality while struggling with the traumas of her youth. When her world falls apart again as an adult, Christina returns to Brazil to finally confront her past and unlock the truth of what really happened to Christiana Mara Coelho.A memoir of two selves, Never Stop Walking is the moving story of the profound love between families and one woman’s journey from grief and loss to survival and self-discovery. About the Author Christina Rickardsson was born in 1983 as Christiana Mara Coelho in Brazil. At the age of seven, she was taken to an orphanage along with her younger brother and then out to Vindeln, a village located in the north of Sweden in a region called Vasterbotten. After Christina finished her memoir, Never Stop Walking, she founded the Coelho Growth Foundation, which brings awareness to the plight of child poverty...

-Titulo Original : The Man Who Played With Fire Stieg Larssons Lost Files And The Hunt For An Assassin-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “Having gained exclusive access to Larsson’s trove of research, Stocklassa presents an in-depth look into the investigation. Based on the findings, Swedish police now have a suspect for the first time in years. This well-crafted whodunit will keep readers engaged from start to finish…This story is sure to gain international traction as the investigation into the Palme assassination heats up again.” Library Journal“Larsson buffs won’t want to miss this one.” Publishers Weekly“It’s more than just a thrilling book…there’s a lot of evidence that points to an international conspiracy.” CBS This Morning Saturday“A fascinating ‘creative nonfiction’ account of the greatest unsolved mystery in Swedish history.” Wall Street Journal“It’s rare…to see true-crime narratives that convincingly and humbly enter the realm of spy thrillers, but Stocklassa’s book really, really does…Stocklassa certainly reveals the sinister underbelly of governmental operations.” NPR“Fans of the Millennium books will certainly enjoy this recreation of Larsson’s attempts to solve a real-life murder…Stocklassa succeeds in infecting us with the ‘Palme bug’. It is impossible to read and not yearn for resolution.” The Spectator (UK)“Stocklassa’s book has shone a new light on a tragedy that has haunted Sweden for three decades…reads like a spy thriller.” The New European (UK)“[A] Larssonesque take on the mystery…How [Stocklassa] manages to arrive at his conclusions in an investigation lasting eight years and recruiting a team of fellow journalists and shady Swedes and a honey-trap Czech woman called Lida, is riveting reading. You can’t make it up. Fact is not only stranger than fiction but even more fantastic.” The Independent (UK)“Fascinating undercover work.” AudioFile Magazine “A fascinating ‘creative nonfiction’ account of the greatest unsolved mystery in Swedish history.” Wall Street Journal“It’s more than just a thrilling book…There’s a lot of evidence that points to an international conspiracy.” CBS This Morning SaturdayThe author of the Millennium novels laid out the clues. Now a journalist is following them.When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister. It was the first time in history that a head of state had been murdered without a clue who’d done it and on a Stockholm street at point-blank range.Internationally known for his fictional villains, Larsson was well acquainted with their real-life counterparts and documented extremist activities throughout the world. For years he’d been amassing evidence that linked their terrorist acts to what he called “one of the most astounding murder cases” he’d ever covered. Larsson’s archive was forgotten until journalist Jan Stocklassa was given exclusive access to the author’s secret project.In The Man Who Played with Fire, Stocklassa collects the pieces of Larsson’s true-crime puzzle to follow the trail of intrigue, espionage, and conspiracy begun by one of the world’s most famous thriller writers. Together they set out to solve a mystery that no one else could. About the Author Jan Stocklassa is a Swedish writer and journalist focusing on large-scale conspiracies in international politics. In his books, Stocklassa uses a narrative nonfiction style to unveil unknown facts about important events in recent history.His breakthrough came with the critically acclaimed bestseller Stieg Larsson’s Archive: The Key to the Palme Murder, a narrative nonfiction book published in 2018 that has been sold in more than fifty countries and translated into twenty-six languages. Following its publication, Swedish police began actively pursuing the leads presented in the book in the assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.His professional career includes being a Swedish diplomat, launch...

-Titulo Original : Divine Lola A True Story Of Scandal And Celebrity-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “Breezy, emphatic…This twisty chronicle of one woman’s quest for independence is mesmerizing.” Publishers Weekly An enthralling biography about one of the most intriguing women of the Victorian age: the first self-invented international social celebrity.Lola Montez was one of the most celebrated and notorious women of the nineteenth century. A raven-haired Andalusian who performed her scandalous “Spider Dance” in the greatest performance halls across Europe, she dazzled and beguiled all who met her with her astonishing beauty, sexuality, and shocking disregard for propriety. But Lola was an impostor, a self-invention. Born Eliza Gilbert, the beautiful Irish wild child escaped a stifling marriage and reimagined herself as Lola the Sevillian flamenco dancer and noblewoman, choosing a life of adventure, fame, sex, and scandal rather than submitting to the strictures of her era.Lola cast her spell on the European aristocracy and the most famous intellectuals and artists of the time, including Alexandre Dumas, Franz Liszt, and George Sand, and became the obsession of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She then set out for the New World, arriving in San Francisco at the height of the gold rush, where she lived like a pioneer and performed for rowdy miners before making her way to New York. There, her inevitable downfall was every bit as dramatic as her rise. Yet there was one final reinvention to come for the most defiant woman of the Victorian age a woman known as a “savage beauty” who was idolized, romanticized, vilified, truly known by no one, and a century ahead of her time. About the Author Born in Barcelona in 1961, Cristina Morato is a journalist, reporter, and author dedicated to writing about the lives of great women innovators and explorers that history has overlooked. Her research, tracing the footsteps of these remarkable women, has led her to travel to more than forty countries and has resulted in eight biographies: Viajeras intrepidas y aventureras (Intrepid and Adventurous Women Travelers); Las Reinas de África (African Queens); Las Damas de Oriente (Ladies of the East); Cautiva en Arabia (Arabian Captive); Divas rebeldes (Rebel Divas); Reinas malditas (Tragic Queens); Diosas de Hollywood (Hollywood Goddesses); and Divina Lola (Divine Lola), Cristina’s first to be translated into English. She is a founding member and the current vice president of the Spanish Geographical Society and belongs to the Royal Geographic Society of London. For more information visit cristinamorato /home-2.Andrea Rosenberg is a translator from Spanish and Portuguese. Her full-length translations include novels, graphic narratives, and nonfiction, including works by Manuel Vilas, Tomas Gonzalez, Ines Pedrosa, Aura Xilonen, Juan Gomez Barcena, Paco Roca, and Marcelo D’Salete. Two of her translations have won Eisner Awards, and she has been the recipient of awards and grants from the Fulbright Program, the American Literary Translators Association, and the Banff International Literary Translation Centre...

-Titulo Original : Farewell The Greatest Spy Story Of The Twentieth Century-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “The reader of this wonderful book from Sergei Kostin and Eric Raynaud is in for a treat: an introduction into what President Reagan described as the most significant spy story of the last century...[an] exciting voyage into the murky world of espionage and counterespionage.” Richard V. Allen, United States National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan“Vetrov is 007’s opposite: a shambolic bear of a man, albeit with the requisite indestructible liver (and penchant for a basement quickie with the secretary).” The Sunday Times 1981. Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrand’s French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a file he would later call “one of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century.”Vladimir Ippolitovitch Vetrov, a promising technical student, joins the KGB to work as a spy. Following a couple of murky incidents, however, Vetrov is removed from the field and placed at a desk as an analyst. Soon, burdened by a troubled marriage and frustrated at a flailing career, Vetrov turns to alcohol. Desperate and needing redemption, he offers his services to the DST. Thus Agent Farewell is born. He uses his post within the KGB to steal and photocopy files of the USSR’s plans for the West all under Brezhnev’s nose.Probing further into Vetrov’s psychological profile than ever before, Kostin and Raynaud provide groundbreaking insight into the man whose life helped hasten the fall of the Communist Soviet Regime. Review A Q&A with Sergei Kostin The only childhood photograph of Vetrov (left). Although a little shy in front of the camera, the boy has an inquiring look compared to his companion. Teenage Vetrov (right) with a teammate. A talented sprinter, he was considered an Olympic hopeful. Gifted intellectually, Vetrov was admitted to the prestigious Bauman Institute, Russias leading engineering school. The typical portrait of a secret agent. This picture was taken when Vetrov was a student at KGB School #101. Vetrov in Canada, having a friendly chat with a Soviet colleague over bourbon. But not a word about work: The men knew they were being watched closely by Canadian counterintelligence. The last known photo of Vladimir Ippolitovich Vetrov, taken in Lefortovo Prison, Moscow. About the Author Sergei Kostin is a Russian documentary maker and writer living in Moscow. He is author of four nonfiction books, mainly about secret services, translated into eight languages, including The Man Behind the Rosenbergs and of four spy novels published in Russia, the USA (Paris Weekend), Bulgaria, and Serbia. First published in France in 1997 under the title Bonjour Farewell, Farewell was the fruit of two years of painstaking investigation in Moscow and Paris interviewing the key players and witnesses to this amazing adventure.Eric Raynaud is a French film writer who joined up with Sergei Kostin to contribute to Farewell after the release of the film L’Affaire Farewell, starring Willem Dafoe.Catherine Cauvin-Higgins is a French-Russian-English translator. She was Thomson-CSF interpreter during the Vetrov years, working directly with Jacques Prevost, Vetrov’s initial French contact, and Xavier Ameil, his first handler. She participated in trade negotiations with Vetrov’s peers, in Paris and in Moscow, during those years...

-Titulo Original : A Drop Of Midnight A Memoir-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review One of TranslatedLit ’s Most Anticipated Books of 2020“His writing has an ethereal, questioning quality, in sync with his background…the author’s prose is often nimble and observant, sharply considering the burdens surrounding race and masculinity. A vibrant, thoughtful memoir reflecting contemporary black cultural concerns.” Kirkus Reviews“This touching exploration of race and heritage is incisive, heartbreaking, and heartwarming.” Library Journal“Diakite smooths out the conflicting complications of his heritage and upbringing to create a positive form of complexity.” Booklist World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakite’s vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family’s history from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden.Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakite grew up between worlds part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man’s-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging.In A Drop of Midnight, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors’ origins as slaves in the antebellum South, his parents’ struggles as an interracial couple, and his own world-expanding connection to hip-hop helped him fashion a strong black identity in Sweden.What unfolds in Jason’s remarkable voyage of discovery is a complex and unflinching look at not only his own history but also that of generations affected by the trauma of the African diaspora, then and now. About the Author Jason “Timbuktu” Diakite is one of Sweden’s most well-known hip-hop artists. Born in Lund to American parents an African American dad and a white mom he has released eight solo albums and numerous singles, the majority of which have reached gold or platinum status. His accolades include eight Swedish Grammy awards and four P3 Guld (Swedish radio) awards. He has performed all over the world, from Africa to Svalbard, from the Apollo in New York City to the Roxy in Los Angeles and at the Polar Music Prize and Nobel Peace Prize award ceremonies. Jason is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir A Drop of Midnight, which has sold more than one hundred thousand copies in Sweden and was adapted by the author into a stage performance in 2017. For more information, visit timbuk.nu.Rachel Willson-Broyles is a freelance translator based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She received her BA from Gustavus Adolphus College and her PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her other translations include Malin Persson Giolito’s novel Quicksand; Jonas Jonasson’s novels The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden and The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man; and Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s novels Montecore and Everything I Don’t Remember, as well as Khemiri’s stage plays Invasion! and I Call My Brothers...

-Titulo Original : The Son And Heir A Memoir-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: A prize-winning Dutch journalist’s unsparing memoir of growing up amid the excesses, triumphs, and devastation of post-World War II Europe.What can a son say upon discovering that his father wore a Nazi uniform? Reporter Alexander Munninghoff was only four when he found this mortifying relic from his father’s recent past in his attic. This shameful memento came to symbolize not only his father’s tragically misguided allegiance but also a shattered marriage and ultimately the unconscionable separation of a mother and son.In this revelatory memoir, the author confronts his parents’ complex past as he reconstructs the fortunes and disillusions of an entire family upheaved during the changes of twentieth-century Europe. The Munninghoffs were driven by greed, rebellion, and rage. An embattled dynasty, they were torn between the right and the wrong side of history. Their saga haunted Alexander’s life for the next seventy years.Only in reconciling with them can this man find the courage to move forward as son and heir to the startling legacy of a flawed yet grand tradition. About the Author Alexander Munninghoff was born in Posen, Poland, in 1944. A journalist and expert on Russia, he won the prize for newspaper journalism (a Dutch Pulitzer), and is the author of Tropical Years in Moscow, about his time as a correspondent in the Soviet Union. A passionate chess player, Munninghoff wrote the biographies of Dutch chess grand master Jan Hein Donner, and the chess master he dethroned, former world champion Max Euwe. In the anti-German postwar years and throughout his career, Munninghoff never told his friends or colleagues about his family, the complex chronology of which he reveals in his memoir, The Son and Heir. The book went on to win the prestigious Libris History Prize in 2015 and the Litteraire Witte Award in 2016.Kristen Gehrman earned a master’s in language science and communication with a specialization in literary translation from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Originally from the United States, she now lives in The Hague, where she works as a freelance translator, editor, and teacher. In addition to Alexander Munninghoff’s The Son and Heir, her many translation credits include the Dutch-to-English translation of Annejet van der Zijl’s bestselling novel, The Boy Between Worlds. For more information, visit kristengehrman ...

-Titulo Original : The Son And Heir A Memoir-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: A prize-winning Dutch journalist’s unsparing memoir of growing up amid the excesses, triumphs, and devastation of post-World War II Europe.What can a son say upon discovering that his father wore a Nazi uniform? Reporter Alexander Munninghoff was only four when he found this mortifying relic from his father’s recent past in his attic. This shameful memento came to symbolize not only his father’s tragically misguided allegiance but also a shattered marriage and ultimately the unconscionable separation of a mother and son.In this revelatory memoir, the author confronts his parents’ complex past as he reconstructs the fortunes and disillusions of an entire family upheaved during the changes of twentieth-century Europe. The Munninghoffs were driven by greed, rebellion, and rage. An embattled dynasty, they were torn between the right and the wrong side of history. Their saga haunted Alexander’s life for the next seventy years.Only in reconciling with them can this man find the courage to move forward as son and heir to the startling legacy of a flawed yet grand tradition. About the Author Alexander Munninghoff was born in Posen, Poland, in 1944. A journalist and expert on Russia, he won the prize for newspaper journalism (a Dutch Pulitzer), and is the author of Tropical Years in Moscow, about his time as a correspondent in the Soviet Union. A passionate chess player, Munninghoff wrote the biographies of Dutch chess grand master Jan Hein Donner, and the chess master he dethroned, former world champion Max Euwe. In the anti-German postwar years and throughout his career, Munninghoff never told his friends or colleagues about his family, the complex chronology of which he reveals in his memoir, The Son and Heir. The book went on to win the prestigious Libris History Prize in 2015 and the Litteraire Witte Award in 2016.Kristen Gehrman earned a master’s in language science and communication with a specialization in literary translation from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Originally from the United States, she now lives in The Hague, where she works as a freelance translator, editor, and teacher. In addition to Alexander Munninghoff’s The Son and Heir, her many translation credits include the Dutch-to-English translation of Annejet van der Zijl’s bestselling novel, The Boy Between Worlds. For more information, visit kristengehrman ...

-Titulo Original : Never Stop Walking A Memoir Of Finding Home Across The World-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “Both candid and compelling, Rickardsson’s story is not only about a woman seeking to heal the fractures inherent in a transnational identity; it is also a moving meditation on poverty, injustice, and the meaning of family. A thought-provoking and humane memoir of survival and self-discovery.” Kirkus Reviews“A haunting story of balancing identities, Rickardsson’s debut is an unforgettable meditation on the weight of early childhood trauma and recovery.” Booklist An extraordinary memoir of one woman’s fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given.Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life with her loving mother in the forest caves outside Sao Paulo and then on the city streets, where they begged for food, she and her younger brother were suddenly put up for adoption. When one door closed on the only life Christiana had ever known and on the woman who protected her with all her heart, a new one opened.As Christina Rickardsson, she’s raised by caring adoptive parents in Sweden, far from the despairing favelas of her childhood. Accomplished and outwardly “normal,” Christina is also filled with rage over what she’s lost and having to adapt to a new reality while struggling with the traumas of her youth. When her world falls apart again as an adult, Christina returns to Brazil to finally confront her past and unlock the truth of what really happened to Christiana Mara Coelho.A memoir of two selves, Never Stop Walking is the moving story of the profound love between families and one woman’s journey from grief and loss to survival and self-discovery. About the Author Christina Rickardsson was born in 1983 as Christiana Mara Coelho in Brazil. At the age of seven, she was taken to an orphanage along with her younger brother and then out to Vindeln, a village located in the north of Sweden in a region called Vasterbotten. After Christina finished her memoir, Never Stop Walking, she founded the Coelho Growth Foundation, which brings awareness to the plight of child poverty...

-Titulo Original : Anger Is My Middle Name A Memoir-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “A courageous chronicle of abuse and redemption…Andersen writes with striking clarity…[her] candor about the trusted adults who repeatedly violated her illuminates painful yet vital insights about how to recognize and address the sometimes-contradictory and often undermining effects of childhood trauma. As she chronicles how she overcame years of extreme abuse to eventually thrive, Andersen’s revelations of intimate betrayals are often chilling, and many readers may be shocked or outraged. They should continue to read, however, because the book advances an important broader purpose: undergirding the value of survivors’ voices as instrumental to guiding future policies, advocacy, and change…Her history of trauma shaped her lifelong passion for protecting vulnerable populations, and this tightly distilled collection of memories serves as an urgent call to public action and reform with regard to children’s rights. This is a triumphant, empowering book that calls into question current patterns of intervention and challenges popular conceptions about what it means to believe young girls…A potent memoir of fragility and transcendence.” Kirkus Reviews“This inspiring story of overcoming unimaginable adversity will be welcomed by a wide range of readers.” Library Journal An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood.Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, then back again to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. For Lisbeth, it was a childhood without perimeters. It was blighted by poverty, sexual abuse, neglect, betrayal, and further victimization by the broken Danish social services system that forced Lisbeth to live where and how it saw fit. Coming of age with a myriad of fears and emotional disorders, Lisbeth had three things that would become driving forces in her life: she was extraordinarily bright, extremely willful, and exceptionally angry.From hell to liberation, this is Lisbeth’s emotional and galvanizing memoir told in two voices: that of a young girl who was unwanted, challenged, and defiant, and that of a woman who channeled her rage into a positive force as a passionate advocate for children’s rights. Whatever darkness defines the past, it can be used to change the future. Lisbeth’s heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting journey is proof. About the Author Lisbeth Zornig Andersen is a former children’s ombudsman in Denmark and the author of the bestselling memoir Anger Is My Middle Name, her first work to be translated into English. Already well known in Denmark for her advocacy and for My Childhood in Hell, a documentary detailing her early years, Lisbeth received global recognition in 2015 when she was charged and later sentenced for picking up a family of Syrian refugees in her car. This simple act of charity earned coverage in such publications as the Washington Post, Le Monde, the Guardian, and the Huffington Post and on air at the BBC and Al Jazeera, igniting an international debate about the ethics and legality of humanitarian aid. Lisbeth has also founded her own advisory consultancy and charitable foundation, where she continues her socially centered work.Mark Mussari has his PhD in Scandinavian languages and literature from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has translated Danish novels, short stories, and nonfiction for publication, including Dan Turell’s seminal crime novel, Murder in the Dark. A scholar of Danish literature, art, and design, Mussari is the author of numerous academic journal articles and the book Danish Modern: Between Art and Design. Mussari is also the author of numerous educational books, including books on Haruki Murakami, Amy Tan, Shakespeare’s Othello and sonnets, and popular culture. ...

-Titulo Original : North To Paradise A Memoir-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “With unerring humanity, Umar brings instances of light to his sobering tale through moving recollections of the friendships that bolstered him and moments of ‘divine intervention’ that led him to finally find a new home in Spain. This is a stunning testament to the strength of the human spirit.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Both sobering and inspiring, this story about a young African man’s awakening to the realities of an often uncaring world offers a compelling portrait of humanity at its ignorant worst and enlightened best. A candid and provocative memoir from a determined man.” Kirkus Reviews The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to the streets of Barcelona and the path that led him home.Ousman Umar is a shaman’s son born in a small village in Ghana. Though his mother died giving birth, he spent a contented childhood working the fields, setting traps in the jungle, and living off the land. Still, as strange and wondrous flying machines crisscrossed the skies overhead, Ousman dreamed of a different life. And so, when he was only twelve years old, he left his village and began what would be a five-year journey to Europe.Every step of the way, as he traveled across the Sahara desert, through the daunting metropolises of Accra, Tripoli, Benghazi, and Casablanca, and over the sea aboard a packed migrant dinghy, Ousman was handed off like merchandise by a loose network of smugglers and in the constant, foreboding company of “sinkers”: other migrants who found themselves penniless and alone on their way north, unable to continue onward or return home.But on a path rife with violence, exploitation, and racism, Ousman also encountered friendship, generosity, and hope. North to Paradise is a visceral true story about the stark realities of life along the most dangerous migrant route across Africa; it is also a portrait of extraordinary resilience in the face of unimaginable challenges, the beauty of kindness in strangers, and the power of giving back. About the Author Ousman Umar was born in Ghana and immigrated to Europe when he was seventeen. In 2012 he founded NASCO Feeding Minds, an NGO dedicated to the principle that the most effective way to prevent migrants from leaving Ghana for Europe is to provide top-notch opportunities for education and advancement in Ghana. North to Paradise was originally published by Penguin Random House Spain in 2019. Ousman lives in Barcelona.Kevin Gerry Dunn is a Spanish-English translator whose recent projects include Countersexual Manifesto, by Paul B. Preciado, and Easy Reading, by Cristina Morales (for which he received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and an English PEN Award), as well as works by Daniela Tarazona, Cristian Perfumo, and Kike Arnal. He also heads the FTrMP Project, an effort to make Spanish translations of vital migration paperwork available for free online...

-Titulo Original : Out Of The Silence After The Crash-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “Strauch’s horrifying story of survival in the high Andes was the stuff of gruesome global headlines in 1972…But to Strauch, who kept silent about the ordeal for decades after he and 15 others endured 72 days stranded on a glacier, it was a spiritual experience.” New York Post A personal story of survival, hope, and spiritual awakening in the face of unspeakable tragedy.It’s the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance on a snowbound cordillera that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional true story by one of the men who found his way home.Four decades after the tragedy, a climber discovered survivor Eduardo Strauch’s wallet near the memorialized crash site and returned it to him. It was a gesture that compelled Strauch to finally “break the silence of the mountains.”In this revelatory and rewarding memoir, Strauch withholds nothing as he reveals the truth behind the life-changing events that challenged him physically and tested him spiritually, but would never destroy him. In revisiting the horror story we thought we knew, Strauch shares the lessons gleaned from far outside the realm of rational learning: how surviving on the mountain, in the face of its fierce, unforgiving power and desolate beauty, forever altered his perception of love, friendship, death, fear, loss, and hope. About the Author Eduardo Strauch Urioste was born in 1947 in Montevideo, Uruguay. In 1968 he opened an architectural studio with his best friend from childhood, Marcelo Perez. He has worked as an architect and painter, and for many years he has lectured about his experience surviving seventy-two days in the Andes after the legendary 1972 plane crash on the Chilean-Argentine border. He is married to Laura Braga; they have five children and live in Montevideo.Mireya Soriano is an award-winning Argentinean-Uruguayan writer. She is the author of The Rose of Tales, There Is No Time for More, Let the Sea Cry, and The Sky of the Owl.Jennie Erikson graduated from the University of Washington with a BA in history and anthropology; she earned an MA in medieval archaeology from York University in England; and she has worked on excavation sites in Easter Island, Jordan, England, and the western United States. She met Eduardo Strauch on an expedition to the plane crash site in the Andes and has been honored to translate Out of the Silence from its original Spanish and help bring his inspiring story to a wider audience.Jennie lives in Colorado with her husband, where she reviews history books for her website ( historybookreviews ) and reads voraciously on every historical subject she can find...

-Titulo Original : An American Princess The Many Lives Of Allene Tew-Fabricante : Amazon Crossing-Descripcion Original: Review “Set against the tumultuous history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this biography is certainly entertaining, but it is also a fascinating story about a remarkable woman’s indomitable spirit and will to survive. A concise, thoughtful, and well-researched biography.” Kirkus Reviews“Readers will love this captivating true story of triumph, and the pursuit of the American Dream.” SheReads“What could I choose, but Diarmaid MacCulloch’s masterly Thomas Cromwell: A Life, published by Allen Lane? For those less Tudor, An American Princess by Annejet van der Zijl (AmazonCrossing, trans. Michele Hutchinson) is the story of Allene Tew, a small-town banker’s daughter five times wed, to gamblers, stockbrokers, finally royals. Light and gracefully written, it dances through a century of history, costing out the American dream like a feminine complement to the National Theatre’s absorbing Lehman Trilogy.” Hilary Mantel, from the Guardian’s “Best Books of 2018” A Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestseller.Two-time Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel names An American Princess as one of her favorite books of the year: “light and gracefully written, it dances through a century of history…” (The Guardian)Born to a pioneering family in Upstate New York in the late 1800s, Allene Tew was beautiful, impetuous, and frustrated by the confines of her small hometown. At eighteen, she met Tod Hostetter at a local dance, having no idea that the mercurial charmer she would impulsively wed was heir to one of the wealthiest families in America. But when he died twelve years later, Allene packed her bags for New York City. Never once did she look back.From the vantage point of the American upper class, Allene embodied the tumultuous Gilded Age. Over the course of four more marriages, she weathered personal tragedies during World War I and the catastrophic financial reversals of the crash of 1929. From the castles and chateaus of Europe, she witnessed the Russian Revolution and became a princess. And from the hopes of a young girl from Jamestown, New York, Allene Tew would become the epitome of both a pursuer and survivor of the American Dream. About the Author Annejet van der Zijl is one of the best-known and most widely read literary nonfiction writers in the Netherlands. She has written biographies of Dutch children’s author Annie M. G. Schmidt; Prince Bernhard, the husband of former Dutch queen Juliana; and Gerard Heineken, founder of the famous beer empire; as well as other works. Her nonfiction has been awarded the M. J. Brusse Prize for the best work of journalism and has been nominated for the Golden Owl and the AKO Literary Prize. An American Princess spent more than fifteen weeks at the top of the national bestseller list in the Netherlands and was short-listed for the Libris History Prize. In 2012, she was awarded the Golden Quill for her entire oeuvre...