When Carrie Fisher recently discovered the journals she had kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved--plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. Today her fame as an author, actress, and pop-culture icon is indisputable, but in 1976, Carrie Fisher was just a teenager with an all-consuming crush on her costar. With these...

A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

Sigue la vida y el legado de Pura Belpré, la primera bibliotecaria puertorriqueña del ciudad de Nueva York. Describes the life and accomplishments of Pura Belpré, a Puerto Rican librarian who introduced the folk tales of her native island first to the children of New York and afterwards throughout the country.

"Cuando era una joven aspirante a escritora, Carmen Maria Machado conoció a una chica menuda, rubia, de clase alta, licenciada en Harvard, sofisticada y fascinante con la que inició su primera relación lésbica, después de varias experiencias sexuales con hombres. La chica poseía una idílica cabaña en Bloomington, Virginia: la casa de los sueños del título. Pero los sueños se convirtieron en pesadillas cuando la novia de Machado empezó...

"The Spanish edition of Margarita Engle's award winning memoir, Enchanted Air"--

A collection of writings by the poet, novelist, and essayist recalling her childhood spent shuttling between the land of her birth and the family's home in New Jersey.

A brief biography of the popular author, focusing on how she became a writer. Includes information on setting goals.

In March of 2012, over thirty years since having stepped on his homeland, Hisham Matar returns to Libya with his mother and wife to find his father. In 1990, Jaballa Matar, a prosperous businessman, leader of the dissident movement, had been kidnapped in Cairo and confined to a prison in Libya.

Rompiendo el molde de la autobiografía, Moore presenta veinticuatro relatos de distintos ámbitos, irreverentes escenas de los primeros años de su vida. En un momento es un niño de once años perdido en le Senado al que encuentra Bobby Kennedy, y al siguiente está en el cementerio de Bitburg con un Ronald Reagan aturdido y desconcertado. En un fast-forward hasta 2003, asombra al mundo desde el escenario de los Oscar con las palabras ...