Atria Books Español

Vive tu vida al rojo vivo (Make Your Life Prime Time; Spanish Edition): Secretos para triunfar en todo by Maria Celeste Arraras

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:07:00 +0000

Book description:

“Este es el libro que he estado escribiendo toda mi vida — el que hubiera querido tener para que me ayudara a navegar por el turbulento mar de la vida”.

A pesar de que le ha tocado enfrentar pruebas muy duras, María Celeste siempre ha sabido salir adelante y lograr lo que pocos logran: triunfar en todo — como mujer, madre y profesional. Aquellos que se preguntan “¿Cuál es su secreto?” encontrarán la respuesta en Vive tu vida al rojo vivo.

A través de una serie de anécdotas autobiográfi cas María Celeste revela aquí la fórmula para alcanzar el éxito en todos los aspectos de la vida. Desde cómo sobrevivir una desilusión amorosa y encontrar el verdadero amor hasta cómo triunfar en el campo profesional sin sacrificar el sueño de tener una familia.

En este libro, ella nos lleva tras bastidores al fascinante mundo de la televisión y comparte por primera vez las lecciones que aprendió de los acontecimientos que marcaron su vida: la adopción de uno de sus hijos en Rusia, el abuso que sufrió su hijo mayor a manos de una niñera, el dolor que le provocó la infi delidad del padre de sus hijos y las razones que la llevaron a hacer las paces con “la otra.” También cuenta cómo sobrevivió la traición de su asistente personal, quien en medio del divorcio le robó la identidad y miles de dólares.

Vive tu vida al rojo vivo es una lección sobre el poder del perdón y la importancia de luchar para alcanzar la excelencia. Es el testimonio de una extraordinaria mujer que alcanzó la cima guiándose por sus principios — algo que todos podemos lograr si primero aprendemos a ser exitosos como seres humanos.

“This is a book that I’ve been writing all my life—a book that I wish someone had given me to help me navigate the turbulent sea of life.”

Every day millions across America tune in to watch María Celeste Arrarás, one of the most trusted media personalities of Hispanic television who has successfully crossed over into the English-language market.

In spite of the difficult obstacles she has confronted in her life, María Celeste has been able to move forward and triumph against all odds as a woman, a mother, and a professional. What is her secret? You will find the answer in Make Your Life Prime Time, an empowering and uplifting guide for succeeding in all areas of life.

Through a series of autobiographical anecdotes, María Celeste shares with her fans the formula to achieve fame, fortune, and emotional fulfillment, all at the same time.

She is proof that it is possible to survive heartbreak and find true love, without sacrificing professional success and the dream of having a family.

María Celeste shares the lessons she learned from her parents’ divorce, the adoption of one of her sons in Russia and the abuse that her other son suffered at the hands of a nanny. She talks about the betrayal of her unfaithful husband and making peace with the “other” woman. And reveals how her personal assistant stole her identity and thousands of dollars in the midst of her divorce.

Make Your Life Prime Time takes you behind the scenes of the fascinating, fast-paced and cutthroat world of television like never before. This book is funny and moving, inspiring and powerful. It’s a lesson on the power of forgiveness and the importance of striving for excellence.

Available in Spanish, in the vein of One More Thing Before You Go and The Last Lecture, award-winning journalist, guest co-host of “The Today Show,” and host of the top-rated Spanish-language news magazine show Maria Celeste Arrarás shares advice through personal reflections. Motivated by the realization that one day she wouldn’t be around for her children, she vowed to create something that they could always turn to for support and guidance—something she wished she had. This book will serve all those who read it—young and old—as a compass to understand and navigate the world.

Author bio:

María Celeste Arrarás is the host and managing editor of “Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste” (Red Hot Live with Maria Celeste), produced by Telemundo/NBC. She is also a guest host for NBC’s Today show and has collaborated with Dateline and NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. This Emmy award winner is also the bestselling author of Selena’s Secret and The Magic Cane. She has been featured on the cover of People en Español more times than any other celebrity and was selected by Newsweek magazine to appear on the cover of its “20 Most Powerful Women of the Next Generation” issue.

El Secreto para adolescentes (The Secret to Teen Power) by Paul Harrington

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:06:00 +0000

Book description:

The Secret is an international phenomenon that has inspired millions of people to live extraordinary lives. El Secreto para adolescentes makes that knowledge accessible and relevant to today’s teens. It explains the law of attraction in relation to teen issues such as friends and popularity, schoolwork, self-image, and relationships. It explains how teens can transform their own lives and live their dreams.

The Spanish translation of The Secret to Teen Power, El Secreto para adolescentes is a teen book based on the groundbreaking international bestseller, The Secret.

Author bio:

Como productor de la película El Secreto, Paul Harrington aprendió los principios directamente de Rhonda Byrne, autora de El Secreto. Paul no sólo transformó su propia vida, sino también logró leer miles y miles de cartas procedentes de personas alrededor del mundo que habían utilizadoEl Secreto para comenzar a vivir la vida de sus sueños.

Sin embargo, fue la propia hija adolescente de Paul quien lo inspiró a tomar este conocimiento y adaptarlo para una audiencia adolescente. Con El Secreto para Adolescentes, el sueño de Paul es que los adolescentes en todo el mundo comprendan el poder que tienen sobre sus propios destinos para lanzarse confiadamente al mundo ¡y crear una vida que no sea menos que una obra maestra!

Picos y valles (Peaks and Valleys; Spanish edition): Cómo sacarle partido a los buenos y malos momentos en el trabajo y en la vida by Spencer Johnson

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:05:00 +0000

Book description:

Making Good And Bad Times Work For You — At Work And In Life

Peaks and Valleys is a story of a young man who lives unhappily in a valley until he meets an old man who lives on a peak, and it changes his work and life forever.

Initially, the young man does not realize he is talking with one of the most peaceful and successful people in the world. However, through a series of conversations and experiences that occur up on peaks and down in valleys, the young man comes to make some startling discoveries.

Eventually, he comes to understand how he can use the old man’s remarkable principles and practical tools in good and bad times and becomes more calm and successful himself.

Now you can take a similar journey through the story and use what you find to your advantage in your own work and life.

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Now in Spanish, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Moved My Cheese?, presents a brilliant new parable that provides insight into how to be successful in good times and bad, in work and in life.

Author bio:

Spencer Johnson, M.D., is one of the world’s most respected thinkers and beloved authors.

His eleven international bestselling books include the #1 titles Who Moved My Cheese?® An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change, the most widely read book on change, and The One Minute Manager®, the world’s most popular management method for over two decades, coauthored with Kenneth Blanchard.

Dr. Johnson is often referred to as “the best there is at taking complex subjects and presenting simple solutions that work.”

He recieved a B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Southern California, an M.D. degree from the Royal College of Surgeons, and performed medical clerkships at the Mayo Clinic and the Harvard Medical School.

He has served as Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and is currently Advisor to the Center For Public Leadership at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

His work has captured the attention of major media, including the Associated Press, the BBC, CNN, Fortune, the New York Times, the Today show, Time magazine, USA Today, and United Press International.

More than forty-six million copies of Spencer Johnson’s books are in print worldwide in more than forty-seven languages.

El Secreto Enseñanzas Diarias (Secret Daily Teachings; Spanish Edition) by Rhonda Byrne

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:05:00 +0000

Book description:

VIVE EL SECRETO TODOS LOS DíAS…

LAS PÁGINAS DE EL SECRETO ENSEÑANZAS DIARIAS SON ETERNAS — EMPIEZA CUALQUIER DÍA DEL AÑO

El Secreto es un fenómeno internacional que ha inspirado a millones de personas a llevar vidas extraordinarias. Ahora, con El Secreto Enseñanzas Diarias, cada día ofrece una nueva oportunidad para traer armonía y felicidad a todos los aspectos de tu vida. En cada una de sus páginas te muestra cómo acceder al poder que llevas dentro tuyo para atraer salud, riqueza y felicidad. Ya sea como introducción a El Secreto o como una manera de recordar a diario sus principios, El Secreto Enseñanzas Diarias te permitirá atraer cada una de las cosas espléndidas que deseas para tu vida.

Nota para el lector: El texto utilizado en esta publicación es una traducción del calendario The Secret Calendar 2008.

Para más información sobre El Secreto visita: www.thesecret.tv

Now in Spanish, The Secret Daily Teachings is one of the most powerful tools you can ever use to transform your life into total joy. With its unique design and totally original content, it gives readers a daily opportunity to embrace more fully the concepts and principles that made The Secret an international publishing and cultural phenomenon.

On each page of this remarkable book, Rhonda Byrne provides a fresh insight, exercise, or quotation that will allow you to access the power within you to attract health, wealth, happiness, and every good thing you desire.

The text is inspired by the literally millions of email questions that Rhonda has received from readers all over the world since the publication of The Secret. Her warm, inspiring advice to them has been collected here for the first time and provides for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the principles behind The Secret than ever before. Topics include: gratitude; the law of attraction; transforming negative change into positive; personal relationships; visualization; prosperity and wealth; meditation; finding joy in life.

Designed to provide a new idea every day of the year, this book is unlike any other book or calendar on the market: each page is printed on a Post-It note, and thus can be removed and easily attached wherever the reader would like to see it — on a computer monitor, the fridge, the car visor, a mirror, anywhere at all! The pages are contained in a paper-over-board case that flips open at the top, making this unusual book a beautiful and durable object.

With 365 entries in all, The Secret Daily Teachings is a brilliant new way of using the principles of The Secret to increase you magnetic power and attract a magnificent life beyond your wildest dreams.

Now in Spanish, an inspirational new companion work to the #1 bestselling title in the world – The Secret. The Secret Daily Teachings offers a revolutionary new way to bring joy and harmony to all aspects of your life, every single day.

Author bio:

Author Rhonda Byrne, like each of us, has been on her own journey of discovery. Along the way, she brought together a superb team of authors, ministers, teachers, filmmakers, designers, and publishers to bring forth The Secret to the world, and through ver vision, bring joy to millions.

Rhonda Byrne, al igual que muchos de nosotros, ha seguido su propio viaje de descubrimiento. En el transcurso del mismo, ha logrado reunir a un fenomenal equipo de escritores, ministros religiosos, cineastas, diseñadores y editors para que El Secreto viera la luz y para que su visión transmitiera felicidad a millones de personas.

Captive by Clara Rojas

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:34:00 +0000

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“My book will reveal the incredible harshness of my daily existence: living in permanent darkness and humidity, washing in ice-cold water, having scarcely anything to eat, dreaming of some kind of vegetable…” Clara Rojas

Clara Rojas was a lawyer in her late thirties when she became her longtime friend Ingrid Betancourt’s campaign director for the 2002 Colombian presidential elections. When they were kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on February 23, 2002 the guerrillas were only interested in kidnapping Betancourt but Rojas refused to leave her friend of 16 years. Little did she know that this fateful decision would haunt her forever. Rojas recounts living in the jungle, surrounded by jaguars, snakes and tarantulas.

After over a year of captivity, deep in the Colombian jungle, miles from any town or hospital, Clara Rojas prepared to give birth in a muddy tent surrounded by the heavily armed leftist guerrillas who had taken her hostage. The guerrillas had promised that a doctor would be brought to the camp to help her. But when Rojas went into labor and began to suffer complications, the only person on hand was a guerrilla wielding a kitchen knife. The guerrillas had supplies of anaesthetic and Rojas was drugged while one of her captors slit open her abdomen with his knife. Her son Emmanuel was born by amateur caesarean section in April 2004. His survival was miraculous but her joy was soon cut short when the FARC took him from her when he was only eight months old. After six years of captivity she was finally liberated and reunited with her son – to whom this book is dedicated.

Clara Rojas was the campaign manager for the Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt when they were both kidnapped in 2002 by the FARC. Captive reveals the details of her six years of captivity, the birth and miraculous survival of her infant son in the jungle, and, finally, her emotional liberation and reunion with her child after he was taken from her eight months after his birth. Above all, Captive reveals the power of one woman’s faith in God and how much a mother will endure to be reunited with her child.

Author bio:

Clara Rojas is a lawyer and was the campaign director of Ingrid Betancourt’s presidential campaign when they were kidnapped by the FARC in 2002. She gave birth to her son Emmanuel during her captivity but he was taken from her when he was only eight months old. After six years of captivity she was finally liberated. Clara and her son currently live in Bogotá, Colombia.

Translator:

Adriana V. López is the founding editor of Críticas, Publishers Weekly’s sister magazine devoted to the Spanish-language publishing world. She is the co-editor of Barcelona Noir, a short story collection for Akashic Books, as well as the editor of Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles and Other Quinceañera Stories (HarperCollins, 2007). Lopez’s work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, among other publications and book anthologies. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Juicy Mangoes(Simon & Schuster, 2007), Border-Line Personalities: A New Generation of Latinas Dish on Sex, Sass & Cultural Shifting (HarperCollins, 2004), and Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (Seal Press, 2002). López is a member of PEN America and currently divides her time between New York and Madrid.

Daisy: Morning, Noon and Night: Bringing Your Family Together with Everyday Latin Dishes by Daisy Martinez

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:33:00 +0000

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Brilliant colors, sassy flavors and a respect for tradition are the hallmarks ofDaisy’s cooking. People always ask Daisy where she learned to cook andher answer is always the same. “I went to the French Culinary Instituteto learn classical technique, but I am primarily an alumna of theConchita and Valentina Martinez Cooking Academy.” In this collection of150 recipes, the classic dishes that Daisy learned to cook alongsideher mom and grandmother in their Latin kitchens mingle with the dishesDaisy has picked up in her travels around the Spanish-speaking world,whether it’s the spice of the Caribbean; the love of all things chilein Mexico and Central America; or the plethora of distinctly differentdishes throughout South America. Daisy sets out to demystify the stapleingredients of the Latin kitchen–which many people walk right byduring their trips to the supermarket–and turn the dishes she grew upwith into your family’s favorites. Simple recipes like Sofrito (10minutes, start to end) and Achiote Oil (4 minutes) add depth and flavorwhile keeping kitchen time to a minimum. These kitchen staples, alongwith a host of other flavor-boosting tricks Daisy has picked up whilecooking for her family of six, help “Daisyfy” everyday dishes as wellas form the building blocks of Daisy’s flavorful repertoire.

Daisyorganizes the cookbook by Morning, Noon and Night meals. The actiongets underway early in Daisy’s kitchen as she starts the day preparingmorning meals that are enjoyed all over Latin America, including sweetand savory breakfast tamales, filled with raisins and olives as theyare savored in Peru. Noontime means and snack might include Daisy’stake on Berengena con Coco (Breaised Eggplant with Coconut Milk) fromthe town of San Cristobal in the Dominican Republic. Nighttime mealsare the most fun of all including anything from family meals andbarbecues to cocktail parties and elegant dishes. Daisy offers recipesfor Arepitas de Yuca (yucca fritters) with pineapple-vinegar-chiledipping sauce and Tamarind Rum Glazed Chicken Wings. Daisy wraps thingsup with desserts like Guava-Cheese Pastelillos (turnovers) that aresure to satisfy the most serious sweet-tooth and the busy mom who madethem in under 10 minutes.

Enjoy empanadas filled withcreamed corn, a crispy-edged, juicy skirt steak doused in tangychimichurri, or the divine layers of moist angel food cake,strawberries, and whipped cream of the Strawberry Delicia, all of whichDaisy Martinez brings to life in this vibrant collection of recipes.

Growingup in her mother’s and grandmother’s kitchens, Daisy became an expertin traditional Latin-American cuisine. Here she “Daisifies” thoseclassics and includes a hearty sampling of dishes from her travelsacross Spain, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Peru, and Argentina.

ToDaisy, food is about bringing family together, and so she peppers hercollection with anecdotes and family vacation photos. Each recipe is asmuch about the memory the flavors recall as the love that goes intopreparing the dish; for her, the succulent grilled meats of aparrillada bring back memories of a Christmas spent floating in a poolin Argentina, while the flaky, gooey vegetable potpie recalls anextravagant dinner party in the Dominican Republic. As a busy mother offour, Daisy lives the time crunch every day and has crafted her recipesto be quick, adaptable, and easy to understand. She deftly demystifiesthe ingredients of the Latin-American kitchen, explaining everythingfrom the spectrum of color in plantains to the degrees of heat inchiles.

With this range of mouthwatering recipes, you canplan your day with Daisy: rise and shine with the rich aromas ofchile-spiked hot chocolate; power up with a midday empanada with yourpick of five savory fillings; and start a tradition with a night oftantalizing tapas. Why eat dull when you can eat delicioso?

Inthis upbeat, accessible and beautifully packaged cookbook, traditionmeets innovation as Daisy Martinez, Food Network star of Viva Daisy!,“Daisifies” the classic Latin American dishes she grew up with, mixingin tastes from her travels through Spain, Puerto Rico, the DominicanRepublic, Peru and Argentina.

Author bio:

In 2005 Daisy launched her new career with Daisy Cooks! on PBS, and hercookbook, Daisy Cooks! Latin Flavors that Will Rock Your World, whichwas an IACP nominee and winner of the Best Latino Cuisine Cookbook inthe World by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

AsDaisy’s star ascended she met the iconic Rachael Ray at an event. Thischance meeting lead to Ray’s production company, Watch Entertainment,producing Viva Daisy!, which debuted on the Food Network in January2009. Daisy’s newest show continues her focus on celebrating life andfamily through food, while demonstrating her knowledge of the broadspectrum of Latin cuisine. In addition to her new TV show, Daisy isalso a regular columnist for Every Day with Rachael Ray and Seleccionesmagazines.

Intensely proud of her Puerto Rican heritage,Daisy is very active in the Latino community and with manyphilanthropic endeavors. To date, just a few of her honors andactivities include: Latinas Unidas in Rochester, NY, and The Committeefor Hispanic Children and Families; mistress of ceremonies for TheAmerican Cancer Society Gala/Brooklyn Chapter, and judge for the StreetVendor Project’s Vendy Awards; promoting more fresh food in cornerstores through her heartfelt essay and recipe for the Bodega Party in aBox; working with the New York Fire Department Museum Cook-Off, Marchof Dimes/ Chicago Chapter, Easter Seals Miami/Dade County Chapter; andappearing at numerous career days at schools all over New York City.

A dedicated mother of four fantastic children, Daisy and her family reside in Brooklyn, NY.

www.simonandschuster.com

El camino de la iluminación by the Dalai Lama

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:57:00 +0000

Book description:

Now available in Spanish, Becoming Enlightenedby His Holiness the Dalai Lama returns to the cornerstone of Buddhism, laying out an accessible and practical approach to enlightenment.

He first presents the stages of Buddhist practices, which are aimed at increasing a person’s spiritual capacity. These reflections are formulated with step-by-step exercises to help readers expand their perspective, taking into account how present actions influence future experience. This shift to a longer range perspective—from concentrating on the pleasures of the moment to concern for the future—constitutes the first phase in transforming one’s spiritual perspective.

The next section deepens this perspective by exploring counterproductive emotions and how to overcome an exaggerated sense of your status, that of others, and that of objects of lust and hatred. The meditative steps presented in this section lead to direct realization of the true status of persons and objects so that, gradually, various levels of afflictive emotions are removed and replaced by positive emotions.

In the final section, the Dalai Lama paints a moving picture of the attitude of altruism that causes readers to expand to the highest level of spiritual endeavor. Here the emphasis is on developing totally unbiased compassion through a gradual series of cause-and-effect exercises. The Dalai Lama focuses on how to produce, maintain, and increase such a broad attitude while avoiding what undermines it.

Becoming Enlightened will provide readers with clear steps to mark their growth and progress, and comes alive through personal anecdotes and intimate accounts of the Dalai Lama’s experiences as a life-long student, a meditator, a political leader, and an international figure working with other Nobel Peace Laureates to address crises around the world.

En El camino de la iluminación, Su Santidad el Dalai Lama explora, de manera convincente, los fundamentos del budismo y presenta un enfoque accesible y práctico a interrogantes de todos los tiempos. Valiéndose de las tradicionales prácticas budistas de meditación, así como de prominentes ejemplos de la agitada actualidad mundial, presenta ejercicios creados para ampliar la capacidad de desarrollo espiritual del lector. También comparte sus propias experiencias como estudioso, pensador, líder político y ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz.

Ateniéndonos a este marco espiritual, podemos aprender a sustituir los sentimientos que nos atribulan por actitudes positivas y a emprender el camino para lograr un estado elevado de conciencia — dentro de nosotros mismos y en el mundo. El camino de la iluminaciónle brinda a los que indagan — provenientes de todas las religiones — la sabiduría, el sostén y la inspiración que necesitamos para llegar a ser exitosos y realizados en nuestra vida espiritual.

Now available in Spanish, BECOMING ENLIGHTENED by his Holiness the Dalai Lama returns to the cornerstone of Buddhism, laying out an accessible and practical approach to enlightenment.

Author bio:

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama,Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet and was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The world’s foremost Buddhist leader, he travels extensively, speaking eloquently in favor of ecumenical understanding, kindness and compassion, respect for the environment, and, above all, world peace.

Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D.,served for a decade as the interpreter for the Dalai Lama. A Buddhist scholar and the author of more than thirty-five books and translations, he is emeritus professor of Tibetan and Buddhist studies at the University of Virginia, where he founded the largest academic program of Tibetan Buddhist studies in the West.

Unforgettable You by Daisy Fuentes

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:57:00 +0000

Book description:

Everybody wants to be noticed and admired, they want to be unforgettable. The concept of what makes a person more desirable and appealing has always fascinated and intrigued model and fashion designer Daisy Fuentes. Early on in her career, Daisy became intrigued by the “it” factor that made certain stars more billable and bankable than others.

Unforgettable You will teach you how to create as much beauty, style, health and irresistibility as you could hope for. Daisy will show you how to be honest with yourself and give you some “tough love” advice and tasks to complete. The book will be full of Daisy’s personal stories and the advice that she has learned along the way from celebrities and experts. This will not be a preachy, “how to change your life” handbook; rather, it will be an encouraging, “friend to friend” field-guide. The intention of Unforgettable You is to help you to become the very best version of yourself. Daisy breaks her approach down to easy-to-follow areas on which to focus your improvements: Knowing Who You Are, Elegance and Etiquette, Relationships, Love, Spirituality, Sex, and Beauty.

In Unforgettable You, model, actress, and designer Daisy Fuentes, offers advice, personal stories, and tips on how to become unforgettable. This book is not so much about making yourself over. It’s a guide to tap into resources you already possess. Daisy believes that what and how you eat, your approach to style, your daily lifestyle choices and your mindset, all add up to how you feel about yourself.

Author bio:

Daisy Fuentes has been redefining health, fashion, beauty and fitness for almost 20 years. From MTV to network television, a slew of cable series and specials, she has the ability to move seamlessly between music, fashion, fitness and style, and to own these categories as a host, expert and guide.

10-10-10: Una idea que transformará su vida by Suzy Welch

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:56:00 +0000

Book description:

Now available in Spanish:

Today, the world offers us more options than in any previous era, but it also pushes us to have more priorities, to make more choices, and to make them faster. The result: a crisis of doing too much–or not enough–and making our decisions based on impulse, stress, or guilt.

Suzy Welch draws on her own experiences and poignant stories from the lives of others to reflect on how patterns of decision-making lead to an existence of accommodation, and often frustration or sadness. But Suzy offers an exciting, effective strategy that can change that course, using compelling real-life examples and tools to demonstrate how to clarify and confront your deepest personal goals, values, fears, and dreams in order to live life deliberately rather than reactively, replacing chaos with consistency, confusion with clarity, and perhaps best of all, guilt with joy.

10-10-10 offers an inspiring and practical new way to approach every dilemma, messy decision, or life choice and to reclaim your life. The rule is deceptively simple: when faced with a decision, determine the consequences and outcomes of your various options in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years; but the results are extraordinary. Using the framework of 10-10-10 will allow you to sort out the ramifications of your decisions and to match them with the expectations and values you hold dearest. Most importantly, it allows you to chart a path in the direction you want, and to head confidently towards it with focus, balance, and joy.

De la columnista de “O, The Oprah Magazine” y coautora del best-seller #1 “Winning” (“Ganar”), llega una nueva y poderosa estrategia para tomar decisiones difíciles y clarificar nuestras opciones en la vida.

En 10-10-10, Suzy Welch propone una novedosa solución para enfrentar la a menudo abrumadora presión de tomar decisiones, ayudarnos a retomar el control de nuestras alternativas y reclamar nuestra vida. A primera vista, su proceso es simple: cuando te enfrentes con un dilema confuso y complejo, detente y pregúntate, “¿Cuáles serán las consecuencias de mis distintas opciones en 10 minutos, 10 meses, y 10 años?” Sin embargo este viene acompañado por sus extraordinarias, luminosas e impredecibles observaciones.

Los lectores de “O, The Oprah Magazine” han confiado en este innovador sistema para organizar nuestra vida desde que Welch lo presentó por primera vez en su columna mensual. Ahora comparte con todos nosotros el poder de cambiar nuestra vida con 10-10-10.

Suzy Welch, previa Directora editorial de Harvard Business Review, escribe acerca de temas relacionados con el trabajo y la vida en la revista “O, The Oprah Magazine”. Junto con su esposo, Jack Welch, es coautora del bestseller #1 “Winning” (“Ganar”), “Winning: The Answers”, y “The Welch Way”, publicado en la revista BusinessWeek y lanzado internacionalmente por la agrupación The New York Times. Actualmente reside en Boston.

Now available in Spanish for the first time, from the coauthor of the New York Times bestsellerWinning, 10-10-10 is a high-concept and innovative new strategy for clarifying decisions and life choices by projecting the outcome and consequences in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years.

Author bio:

Suzy Welch, former editor-in-chief of the Harvard Business Review, is a work-life columnist for O The Oprah Magazine. She is the coauthor, with her husband Jack Welch, of theNew York Timesbestseller Winning and of “The Welch Way,” published in BusinessWeekmagazine and internationally by the New York Times Syndicate. She lives in Boston.

Suzy Welch es una destacada periodista, autora y oradora. Es columnista en temas de trabajo y vida para la revista O, The Oprah Magazine y colaboradora de O’s Big Book of Happiness (El gran libro de la felicidad de O) y ejerce como Ejecutiva Residente en el Centro de Liderazgo de Mujeres de Babson College. Suzy, madre de cuatro adolescentes, es ex editora deHarvard Business Review, y co-autora, con su esposo, Jack Welch, del libro Winning, que ocupó el primer lugar entre los libros más vendidos. La columna de ambos, “The Welch Way,” (El sistema Welch) se publica nacionalmente en la revista BusinessWeek y se distribuye internacionalmente por la agencia periodística New York Times Syndicate.

www.suzywelch101010.com

The Moses Expedition by Juan Gomez-Jurado

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:56:00 +0000

Book description:

The Moses Expedition is the ultimate page turner:

A lost treasure, a Nazi war criminal, and an expedition to find a legend…

After fifty years in hiding, the war criminal known as the Butcher of Spiegelgrund has finally been tracked to a small town outside Vienna. Father Anthony Fowler, CIA operative and member of the Vatican’s secret service, the Holy Alliance, has been sent to deal with him. But first he wants something – a candle covered in fine filigree gold that was stolen from a Jewish family many years before.

But it isn’t the gold Fowler is after. As Fowler holds a flame to the wax a metallic object is revealed – the missing fragment of an ancient map. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition to Jordan set up by the enigmatic head of Kayn industries, a reclusive billionaire who has links to the highest levels of the Catholic Church. But there is a traitor in the group who has links to terrorist organizations back in the US, and who is patiently awaiting the moment to strike.

From wartime Vienna to terrorist cells in New York and a lost valley in Jordan, The Moses Expedition is a thrilling read about a quest for power and the secrets of an ancient world.

The Moses Expedition by Juan Gómez-Jurado takes readers on a riveting journey to the deserts of Jordan to recover the Ark of the Covenant, the vessel that houses the Ten Commandment tablets. This intricate quest proves fatal when members of the Moses Expedition are systematically murdered by an infiltrator whose twisted soul is bent on revenge.

Author bio:

Juan Gómez-Jurado is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author. The Moses Expedition and his prize-winning first novel, God’s Spy, have been published in more than forty countries and have become international bestsellers. In 2010, Juan celebrated reaching 3 million readers worldwide. He is a recipient of the prestigious Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja. Gómez-Jurado lives with his family in Madrid, Spain.

To know more about the book:

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Take Me With You by Carlos Frías

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Carlos Frías grew up the son of Cuban exiles—only hearing about his parents’ homeland through parables. Sparked by the illness of Fidel Castro, he journeyed to Cuba for 12 days in August 2006 for the first time. There he learned about the life his family left behind nearly 40 years ago.

Take Me with You is written through the unique eyes of a first-generation Cuban-American seeing the country he has only heard about for the first time. This book expands on a five-day series that was published in The Palm Beach Post under the title, “Mi Familia: A Family Divided, Yet United,” which was submitted for the Pulitzer Prize. Take Me with You provides a fresh view of Cuba, devoid of overt political commentary, focusing instead on the gritty, tangible lives of the people living in Castro’s Cuba. As in the series, the book delves further into the effects his trip had on the family he met in Cuba and on his family in the United States. In the span of 12 days, Carlos takes in today’s Cuba and attempts to reconstruct what the past was like for his parents, retracing their footsteps, searching for his roots, and discovering his history.

Author bio: Carlos Frías

Frías, today a special projects reporter for the Palm Beach Post, has been called one of the finest young journalists in the country. The Associated Press Sports Editors have awarded him seven top-10 awards in the past four years for his work on in-depth features and investigative stories. (The APSE award is similar to the Pulitzer for sports writers.) Among those, a Journal-Constitution three-day series examined the deaths of five high school athletes, and was submitted for a 2003 Pulitzer Prize.

A South Florida native who grew up just north of the Dade-Broward County line, Frías gained the perspective of a boy born of Cuban exiles, but raised among the “gringos.” He learned from watching the lights of Little Havana glitter in the distance and hearing the stories of Cuba stitched together in three decades of anecdotes. He says he is “assembled in America from Cuban parts.” Fully bilingual, he travels easily between these two languages and brings his unique cultural sense to his writings.

Frías, 31, resides in Pembroke Pines, Florida, with his wife, Christine, and their three daughters, Elise, Amelia and Catalina Angeles.
www.cfrias.com

Dancing With Butterflies by Reyna Grande

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Dancing with Butterflies is the story of four women who have immigrated from Mexico to the U.S. separately but share a love for their traditional culture as expressed in dance and music. They also share in the numerous challenges that one must face when settling in a the United States and a dominant culture that does not value your humanity, but rather renders you an invisible “worker.” The central characters, their families friends and enemies are true-to-life and unforgettable. They are women and women who want what we all do: to be loved, respected, safe and enjoy life. Their particular immigrant experience and their cultural heritage make their story unique and compelling.

As the lives of these women unfold in California where they live, they face questions of identity not just as Mexican immigrants–legal and illegal, but as women. They struggles, as we all do, with aging, marriages gone flat, dreams deferred or exploded. One woman sabotages herself travelling back and forth across the border, taking advantage of cheap plastic surgery in hopes that it will bring romance back to her life. Another is pulled back to her home country when a close relative succumbs to an illness. She then has to make the dangerous journey across a hundred mountains again. Others in their close community the struggle to keep their families together in a country and context that seems to work against them. Yet through their trials and tribulations, the women find strength in each other and are driven by their passions for Folklorico and the hope and comfort it brings them. Reyna Grande, once again, gives voice to the Mexican immigration experience that we loved in Across a Hundred Mountains.

Like a butterly Reyna Grande herself is emerging as an important writer not just one among the few who write from a Mexican American perspective. She dances folklorico herself in life and on the pages of this accomplished and fully satisfying second novel.
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Author bio:

About Reyna Grande:
Reyna Grande came to the United States at age nine to join her father, who had left her behind in Mexico for several years. She went on to become the first person in her family to obtain a higher education. She holds a B.A. and an M.F.A. in creative writing. Her first novel, Across a Hundred Mountains, received the El Premio Aztlan Literary Award in 2006 and an American Book Award in 2007. Her novel has been required reading at various high schools and colleges across the nation. She is currently at work on a memoir.
Here is the link to her website: www.reynagrande.com

A Conversation with Reyna Grande (Dancing With Butterflies by Reyna Grande)

1. Exquisite details about Folklórico appear throughout Dancing with Butterflies, from specific dances to the challenges of directing a group. How did you research Folklórico?

Researching Folklórico was one of the hardest things about writing Dancing with Butterflies. The public library had shelves upon shelves of books written about ballet and other popular dances here in the United States, but there were only three booklets about Folklórico, and they weren’t much help.
They were about how to choreograph a dance, but they didn’t contain specific historical details about Folklórico. At first, the two biggest sources for me were José Vences, artistic director of Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company, and Elías Roldán, its costume designer. Mr. Vences spent hours with me talking about the history of the dances, his experiences of starting his own dance group, and the trials and tribulations of running the group. He was also kind enough to read the 500-page manuscript and point out things that only a dance director would know. (This was very helpful in developing Yesenia.) Mr. Roldán shared his passion and knowledge of Folklórico costume-making, and I especially loved talking about cloth with him.

Books about Folklórico just aren’t available in the U.S., but very late in the writing process, I was lucky to get my hands on three books that helped me. The first is a self-published book called La Danza y el Traje en Mexico, written by Dr. María Guadalupe Castro y Páramo, created especially for the Danzantes Unidos Festival which I attended in February 200 in San Jose, California, a month before the final draft of thisbook was due! In June I got my hands on an anthology called Dancing Across Borders, published in May 2009 by University of Illinois Press. One of the contributors (and an editor) of the anthology was Olga Nájera-Ramírez, my Folklórico teacher at University of California, Santa Cruz. The third is a book called Music and Dance of México that a Folklórico teacher, Andrés de la Garza, wrote but hasn’t yet been able to publish. He was kind enough to share it with me.

2. Four distinct voices lead us through Dancing with Butterflies: each woman has her own, unique style of narrating. Please tell us about the experience of writing from four different points of view. How did you develop their separate voices? Was one narrator harder to envision than the others?

My first book, Across a Hundred Mountains, is told fromtwo points of view. It gave me the training I needed to tackle four different characters. I used the same techniques
I had learned in that book—pay attention to the voice, the way the characters talk, the way they see the world around them. I also worked on each character individually, spent a lot of time trying to get to know each woman, without the distraction of the other three. Having said that, writing from four points of view was a lot harder than I imagined! I think for my next book I will try just one. The hardest character for me was Yesenia. Since she’s ten years older than I am and is going through a different stage in her life, I was having a difficult time getting into her head. I ended up using my older sister as a model for Yesenia, and sometimes, when I was stuck, I would call my sister and say, “So tell me again about the time you . . .” Adriana was the easiest for me because I understood her. I grew up with an alcoholic father who physically abused me for many years, and later on, in my twenties, I too was looking for men who were like my father (not physically abusive, but controlling). Luckily I escaped those relationships and got over that very fast, and I found a wonderful man (like Ben!) to marry.

3. Each chapter opens with one of your graceful line drawings of Folklórico dancers. Why did you choose to include thesedrawings? Have you ever felt you had to choose between two art forms, as Adriana struggles to choose between dancing and ranchero singing?

The drawings came very late in the process, right before I turned in the final draft. I had thought about it for a long time. Because I was writing about such a visual topic—Folklórico—I felt that the drawings would complement the story. I couldn’t find someone to do them, and I didn’t feel confident enough to do them myself. But one day I said, why not? Why not at least try? So finally I decided to do them myself, just to see. And I ended up liking them enough, and when I showed them to my editor she liked them, too. Like Adriana, I felt torn between the passions I had. I loved music and from seventh grade up until my first year of college, I was a member of the marching band (I marched in the Rose Parade three times). From middle school to college, I took drawing and painting classes because I loved doing that, too. I also started writing when I was thirteen years old. At UC, Santa Cruz, I met a teacher who once told me that even though it was a good thing that I had many passions (I was also doing film and dancing at the time I met her), I needed to choose one thing that I really loved, above all others, so that I could focus on it and be great at it.
Otherwise, as the saying goes, I would just be a jack-of-alltrades. So I chose writing. I’m glad I listened to her, because otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to complete my first novel, which required a lot of discipline and commitment.
Once in a while I still dance Folklórico and I still draw. Having my drawings included in Dancing with Butterflies was, what can I say, extremely fulfilling—to see two of my passion come together, at last.

4. Sibling rivalry is a prominent theme in the novel, with Elena and Adriana’s constant conflict, as well as Soledad and Stephanie’s less explosive rivalry. Why did you focus on siblings in this novel?

How can you write about siblings and not have rivalry thrown in the mix? I have four siblings, and there is always some drama going on. The only time we are drama free is when we avoid each other! The rivalry between Elena and Adriana was inspired by my relationship with my older sister—not the way our relationship is, but how it could have been if things had turned out differently. Like Adriana, my older sister left me in a hellhole—my alcoholic father’s home. She didn’t take me with her when she left, and the two years I was at my father’s without my sister were two of the worst years of my life. To this day my sister apologizes for not taking me with her. I forgive my sister. But Adriana isn’t as forgiving. When I wrote about Adriana and Elena, I asked myself: how would my relationship with my sister be if I had held a grudge and not forgiven or understood my sister’s choices? (She was only twenty-one and could barely take care of herself, but at the time all I thought about was that she had left me and saved herself.) With Soledad and Stephanie, I wanted to write about siblings who belong to two worlds. Most immigrant families have siblings who were born in this country and others born in other countries. Even in my own family, my two youngest siblings were born here, but the three oldest (myself included) were born in Mexico.

5. Soledad faces enormous challenges in her efforts to cross the
México–U.S. border. What inspired Soledad’s story? Soledad was the last character to make an appearance. One day when I was at Mr. Vences’s house (the director of the dance group I researched), Elías Roldán was there, showing Mr. Vences a costume he was designing for the group. As
I watched them talk about the costume and what changes needed to be made, I realized that I was missing a crucial part in my novel—the point of view of Alegría’s costume designer!
Mr. Roldán was very generous with his time, and I visited him at his house to interview him several times. Like Soledad, he used his dining room to do his sewing, and every corner of the living room and dining room was covered in bolts of cloth. In the interviews he not only talked about costumemaking and cloth, but he shared with me his dream of having his own shop and everything that was keeping him from making his dream come true. But now I’m happy to say that Mr. Roldán has his own shop in East L.A., and his business is thriving. Although Dancing with Butterflies ends before Soledad makes her dream come true, this is the kind of future I envision for her. In terms of the challenges she faced crossing the border, it was inspired by all the stories I hear from immigrants who have had to make the dangerous journey north (myself included).

6. Despite all the challenges that your characters face, there are many light-hearted moments as well. How did you manage to balance serious subjects and humor? Do you have a favorite humorous moment in the novel?

I tend to write depressing stuff, and writing funny isn’t my strength. Whatever funny moments appear in the novel were not planned. But a little humor goes a long way, and it gives the reader a break from all that sadness, so I’m glad I managed to have a few funny moments here and there. One of my favorite humorous moments is when Adriana and Ben go out
for sushi and she mistakes the wasabi for guacamole. I was twenty years old when I first had sushi, and like Adriana, I was very ignorant about what wasabi was. I put a lot of it on my sushi, and, boy, did that hurt!

7. Frida Kahlo is featured prominently in the novel, as Adriana’ favorite artist. How does Kahlo’s work affect you?

Frida Kahlo is an inspiration to many Latinas. She was a fighter. For most of her life she was in deep physical (and emotional) pain. Yet her passion for art helped carry her through the toughest moments of her life. Writing has been my salvation. When things got bad at home, I wrote. Writing kept mesane. Kahlo painted herself many times. When I write I use myself as the starting point for my characters. Elena, Adriana, Soledad, Yesenia, they are all facets of me. They are not selfportraits, no, not like Kahlo painted her self-portraits. My selfportraits (my characters) are drawn in a style like Picasso’s, very distorted, but somehow recognizable. Like Adriana, myfavorite Kahlo painting is “The Two Fridas.” When I lived with my father, I developed a second personality, another Reyna, so to speak. One Reyna was afraid, depressed, and lonely. But the other Reyna was strong, brave, and smart. When things got tough, that second Reyna was the one who would give me the push I needed to keep going. I could hear her in my head telling me, “Things won’t always be like this. One day they will be better.” When I saw “The Two Fridas,” I saw my dual personality represented in that painting, and I fell in love with the painting and with the woman who painted it.

8. Although the main characters in Dancing with Butterflies are
Mexican or Mexican-American, they face many of the same problems as women from other backgrounds and cultures. Which of the characters’ challenges do you feel are the mostuniversal? Which feel more culturally specific to you?

Just a few weeks ago, my older brother asked me why I don’t write books without Latino characters or themes. He said that I am “limiting my audience” and therefore (or so I read between the lines) I will never have a bestseller. At first I felt furious about his comment, especially because I was showing him the advance copy of Dancing with Butterflies and instead of just saying, “Good job, Reyna,” he asks me that question! (Sibling drama? Yes!) But the thing is that even though I write about Latino characters, ultimately I am writing about human beings. No matter what ethnic background we come from, first and foremost we belong to the human race. The problems the women in Dancing with Butterflies face are universal. Like Yesenia, who hasn’t thought about aging and being frightened by it? Who hasn’t thought about the body’s limitations and what it can and cannot do as we get older? Elena gave birth to a stillborn baby. What mother, at some point during a pregnancy, hasn’t feared the worst? And for some, no matter their ethnic backgrounds, the worst has come to pass. What culturehasn’t had sibling rivalry, dead relatives to mourn, dreams that haven’t come true, obstacles to overcome, marriages that fail, illicit love affairs, forbidden love?

9. At one point, Elena realizes that her ex-husband never understood her passion for dancing. Do you think artists need to connect with other artists in order to share their passions?

I think that it is very hard for nonartists to understand an artist’s inner world, needs, and thoughts. But it doesn’t mean you can’t try! I think it is very important for artists to build friendships with other artists. I have been lucky to have made many writer friends, especially female writers. We get together sometimes for coffee, or communicate through email or phone calls. We critique each other’s works, talk about our goals, our dreams, our troubles with our respective partners, our children, our editors, our publishers, our readers. I think that artists need to have a support network and spend time with those who understand, those who are walking the same difficult path. I have made it a point to reach out to other writers. For example, this year I am helping to organize the Latino Book & Family Festival in Los Angeles to reach out to other writers and have us come together, for at least one weekend, to share our passion for the written word, not only with each other but with the community. I love my writer friends. They understand me in a way my own family never will.

10. Your first novel, Across a Hundred Mountains, also centers on immigration and families. Do you plan to continue thesethemes in your future work?

I like to write about things that are important to me. My older sister once asked, “Why are you always writing about Mexico?” My father once said, “Why don’t you just forget about the past and move on? Why do you need to write about it?” I write about things that I care about, that matter to me. The immigrant experience is one of them. Right now, I am working on a memoir, in which I write about my childhood in Mexico, living in poverty, being raised by my grandmother because my parents were here in the United States working. I write aboutwhat it was like to come here as an illegal immigrant and the difficulties of trying to close the gap created by eight years of separation between me and my father. So to answer the question, yes, I do plan to continue writing about immigration and families, among other things. I am always looking for new ideas and topics. One has to grow as a writer, and one way to do that is to take chances and try new things.

Por la vida de mi hermana: Novela by Jodi Picoult

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In my first memory, I am three years old, and I am trying to kill my sister. Sometimes, the recollection is so clear I can remember the itch of the pillowcase under my hand, the sharp point of her nose pressing into my palm. She didn’t stand a chance against me, of course, but it still didn’t work. My father walked by, tucking in the house for the night, and saved her. He led me back to my own bed. “That,” he told me, “never happened.”
As we got older, I didn’t seem to exist, except in relation to her. I would watch her sleep across the room from me, one long shadow linking our beds, and I would count the ways: Poison, sprinkled on her cereal. A wicked undertow off the beach. Lightning striking.
In the end, though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own.
Or at least this is what I tell myself.

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since she was a child. Anna was born for this purpose, her parents tell her, which is why they love her even more. But now that she has reached an age of physical awareness, she can’t help but long for control over her own body and respite from the constant flow of her own blood seeping into her sister’s veins; “the nurses holding me down to stick me for white cells Kate might borrow; the doctor saying they didn’t get enough the first time around. The bruises and the deep bone ache after I gave up my marrow; the shots that sparked more stem cells in me, so that there’d be extra for my sister. The fact that I’m not sick, but I might as well be. The fact that the only reason I was born was as a harvest crop for Kate. The fact that even now, a major decision about me is being made, and no one’s bothered to ask the one person who most deserves it to speak her opinion.”

Anna makes a decision that for most would be too difficult to bear, at any time and at any age. She decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.

Using her sensitive, wise touch, Jodi Picoult once again probes into the love and heartache of a young girl and a modern family. As the Washington Post declares, “t is impossible not to be held spellbound by the way she forces us to think, hard, about right and wrong.”

Por la vida de mi hermana es la primera novela de Jodi Picoult traducida al español.

Anna Fitzgerald no está enferma, aunque pudiera parecerlo. Con trece años ha pasado por incontables operaciones, pruebas y transfusiones para que su hermana mayor, Kate, sobreviva a la leucemia que le diagnosticaron a los dos años. A Anna la seleccionaron genéticamente para ser la perfecta donante para Kate y ésta ha sido su vida desde que nació.

Como la mayoría de los adolescentes, Anna está comenzando a plantearse quién es realmente. Pero a diferencia de los demás, a ella siempre la han definido en función de Kate. Y aunque Anna nunca se ha enfrentado al papel que le ha tocado representar en la vida, ahora ha tomado una decisión que desgarrará a su familia y que puede tener consecuencias fatales para su hermana, una hermana por la que daría la vida.

La decisión más difícil es la historia de unos padres que luchan por la vida de su hija sin importar el precio que haya que pagar por ello. Se trata de una provocadora novela que pone el dedo en la llaga de cuestiones éticas fundamentales ante las que nadie podrá permanecer indiferente.

Sales handle:
Available for the first time in the U.S., this Spanish-language translation of Jodi Picoult’s huge bestseller tells the story of a girl who decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.

Número uno en la lista de los libros más vendidos del New York Times nos llega, de la aclamada autora Jodi Picout, la apasionante y turbulenta historia de una joven adolescente que demanda a sus propios padres por poseer la potestad y los derechos ante su propio cuerpo.

About the Author:

JODI PICOULT is the author of seventeen novels, including Handle With Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper, now a major motion picture. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.
Visit her website at www.jodipicoult.com

El Secreto by Rhonda Byrne

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:52:00 +0000

The Secret is released to the world! The groundbreaking feature length movie that revealed the great mystery of the universe, The Secret, is now a book, and everything you have ever wanted – unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, youth – is now at your very fingertips.

The Secret is an enigma that has existed throughout the history of mankind. It has been discovered, coveted, suppressed, hidden, lost, and recovered. It has been hunted down, stolen, and bought for vast sums of money. A number of exceptional men and women discovered The Secret and went on to become regarded as the greatest human beings who ever lived. Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo, Napoleon, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln, Edison, Einstein and Carnegie, to name but a few. Now for the first time The Secret is revealed to the world between the covers of this captivating book. In it you’ll find all the resources you will ever need to understand and live The Secret.

Fragments of The Secret have been found in oral traditions, literature, religions, and philosophies throughout the centuries. For the first time, all the pieces of The Secret come together in an incredible, life-changing revelation. The riveting, practical knowledge leads readers to a greater understanding of how they can be the masters of their own lives.

Like the film, the book features some of the world’s leaders in the fields of business, economics, medicine, psychology, history, theology, and science sharing their experience of The Secret and imparting this special wisdom that has been known by so few. Each of these teachers is living proof of The Secret; each a walking marvel of achievement and success.

Included are: ‘Miracle Man’ Morris Goodman, who tells his awe-inspiring story of how he recovered from paralysis by using The Secret; Dr. Denis Waitley, who used various aspects of The Secret in training Olympic athletes and Apollo astronauts to reach new heights of human endeavor; Bestselling authors and philosophers, including Bob Proctor, John Assaraf, James Ray, and Joe Vitale, who explain how they have created lives of phenomenal success utilizing The Secret; and several doctors in the fields of medicine and quantum physics, who explain the science behind The Secret.

The Secret shares amazing real-life stories and testimonials of regular people who have changed their lives in profound ways. By applying The Secret they present instances of eradicating disease, acquiring massive wealth, overcoming obstacles, and achieving what many would regard as impossible.

The Secret offers guidance on how to apply this powerful knowledge to your life in every area from health to wealth, to success and relationships, so you can obtain everything you’ve always wanted. No matter who you are, no matter where you are right now, no matter what you want – when you realize The Secret you can have anything.

El Secreto siempre ha estado parcialmente presente en las tradiciones orales, en la literatura, en las religiones y en las distintas filosofías de todos los tiempos. Por primera vez, todos estos fragmentos han sido reunidos en una increíble revelación que transformará la vida de todo aquel que lo experimente.

En este libro aprenderás a cómo utilizar El Secreto en todos los aspectos de tu vida: dinero, salud, relaciones, felicidad y en todas tus interacciones con el mundo. Empezarás a entender el poder oculto que hay en tu interior, El Secreto te traerá felicidad en todas las áreas de tu vida.

El Secreto encierra la sabiduría de los grandes maestros actuales-quienes lo han utilizado para conseguir salud, fortuna y felicidad. Al aplicar el conocimiento de El Secreto los maestros nos revelan increíbles historias de sanación, de generación de riqueza económica, de superación de obstáculos y de cómo alcanzar cualquier logro que pueda calificarse de imposible.

Once known only by the elite–unwilling to share their knowledge of power–”the secret” of obtaining anything you desire is now revealed by prominent physicists, authors, and philosophers through the understanding of the Law of Attraction. By unifying leading-edge scientific thought with ancient wisdom and spirituality, The Secret, now available in Spanish, reveals the mystery of all that is and the hidden potential contained within each and every one of us.

Author bio: Rhonda Byrne

Author Rhonda Byrne, like each of us, has been on her own journey of discovery. Along the way, she brought together a superb team of authors, ministers, teachers, filmmakers, designers, and publishers to bring forth The Secret to the world, and through ver vision, bring joy to millions.Rhonda Byrne, al igual que muchos de nosotros, ha seguido su propio viaje de descubrimiento. En el transcurso del mismo, ha logrado reunir a un fenomenal equipo de escritores, ministros religiosos, cineastas, diseñadores y editores para que El Secreto viera la luz y para que su visión transmitiera felicidad a millones de personas.

Sweet Mary by Liz Balmaseda

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:52:00 +0000

Dulce Maria “Mary” Guevara is a woman with nothing to lose. She’s already lost the life she once loved. Wrongly accused of being a cocaine queen, she’s lost her job, her reputation and custody of her son. Suspicion lingers even after charges were dropped.

Desperate to get it all back, she has embarked on the only mission she believes will prove to the world she’s innocent: she is on the hunt for the real drug queen. And she must travel an unseemly path to get there.

The one person she knows may be able to help her is the man she left 10 years ago — her ex-fiancee, Joe Pratts. This man was her first real love, and the love of her life, but Joe dabbled in drugs and associated with known delinquents, friends from the old neighborhood. Mary wanted a bigger life. As much as it broke her heart, she dumped him.

When she returns to ask Joe for help, she opens a door to her most vulnerable self. The woman who had been on a fast track to super-success now feels lost in the past. As she allows Joe to accompany her on part of the investigation, she does her best to fight off old feelings, but falls hard again.

Through some of Joe’s contacts and her own real estate investigator skills, Mary tracks down the Drug Queen’s primary associate in a Central Florida beach town. And in the process, she finds the fugitive queen herself.

The twist is this: The Drug Queen has reinvented herself as an upstanding suburban citizen, very much like Mary used to be. She cooks, crafts, spas, decorates. This is her way of hiding in plain sight. Mary learns the woman is not only running from the feds — she’s running from her abusive drug lord husband. Turns out she stole his money and fled.

Posing as a real estate agent new to the neighborhood, Mary befriends her and begins to plot her takedown. And just as Mary makes her move to bring in the Drug Queen she learns something that rattles her to the bone: the Drug Queen has a little girl the same age as her own son.

Her dilemma tears her apart: does she bring down the Drug Queen and regain her life, or does she let the woman keep running with her little girl?

Sweet Mary by pulitizer prize-winning journalist Liz Balmaseda follows the story of a woman with nothing to lose. Wrongly accused of being a cocaine queen, she’s lost her job, her reputation and custody of her son. Suspicion lingers even after charges were dropped. Desperate to get it all back, she embarks on a hunt for the real drug queen. And she must travel an unseemly path to get there.

Author Bio: Liz Balmaseda

Liz Balmaseda (born January 17, 1959, Puerto Padre, Cuba) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a writer for The Palm Beach Post and a former columnist for The Miami Herald. She was awarded her first Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1993 for her writings on the plight of Haitian refugees and the Cuban-American population. She shared a second Pulitzer for breaking-news reporting in 2001, for the coverage of the federal raid to seize refugee Elián González.

Siempre París by Fabiola Santiago

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:51:00 +0000

Switching perfumes whenever she changes lovers, a woman seeks refuge from the loss of family and country in this beguiling debut novel from Miami Herald prize-winning journalist Fabiola Santiago.

“Men are like perfumes. In an instant, with nothing but a whiff of a judgment, I either love them or hate them.”

Marisol is an exuberant poet and historical archivist living in contemporary Miami. Like her adopted city, she’s a sensual free spirit. Born in Cuba and transplanted at an early age to Florida, she nurses a nostalgia for the legendary island birthplace she barely remembers. She also harbors a passion for scents, donning a new perfume each time she takes on a new relationship. After the death of her beloved grandmother and a series of sensuous but disappointing romances, Marisol realizes that she must break free from the shackles of her history, abandon lost causes, and embrace the only real home she’s ever had her own wandering heart. Freed at last from yearning for old Havana, “the Paris of the Caribbean,” this romantic exile must embrace a new life. Although she cannot reclaim Havana, she can experience the real thing – Paris – and so Marisol sets out with an open ticket to chart the course of her future.

Bridging the divide between the effervescent Miami of today and the mystical Cuba of yesteryear, Reclaiming Paris
is a paean to place and memory whose humor, passion, and unforgettable characters will resonate with readers
everywhere.

“Los hombres son como los perfumes. En un instante, sin más juicio que mi ágil olfato, o me enamoro de ellos o los echo a un lado”.

Marisol es una exuberante poeta y archivista de historia que vive en el Miami contemporáneo. Al igual que su ciudad adoptiva, ella es un espíritu libre y sensual. Nacida en Cuba y transplantada a una temprana edad en la Florida, lleva dentro una nostalgia por la legendaria isla en que nació y que apenas recuerda. Su pasión por los olores la inspira a adoptar un perfume diferente cada vez que se embarca en una nueva relación amorosa. Tras la muerte de su querida abuela y una sucesión de malogrados romances sensuales, Marisol concluye que debe liberarse de las ataduras de su historia, abandonar causas perdidas y refugiarse en el único santuario que siempre va con ella: su propio corazón errante. Liberada al fin de su añoranza por la vieja Habana, “el París del Caribe”, su romántico exilio está llamado a emprender una nueva vida. Privada de reclamar La Habana como suya, opta por su verdadero destino: París. Y es así que Marisol se lanza a desbrozar el camino hacia su futuro.

Salvando la distancia entre el Miami efervescente de hoy y la mística Cuba de ayer, Siempre París es un canto a la geografía y la memoria, una obra repleta de humor, pasión y personajes inolvidables.

Author bio: Fabiola Santiago

Fabiola Santiago has been a writer and editor for The Miami Herald since 1980. She was the founding city editor of the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald, and shared in a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the EliánGonzález story at The Miami Herald in 2001. Her writing on culture, arts, and identity has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Her stories and essays have been published in many U.S. newspapers, magazines, and anthologies, and in Latin America, Canada, and France. She lives in Miami.

La píldora del amor: Novela by Anjanette Delgado

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ERIKA LUNA is a thirty-something scientist living and working in Miami. When her husband of seven years; the very successful, very smart, very good-looking, founding partner of one of Miami’s most successful Public Relations firms falls in lust with another woman, their marriage spirals to hell and Erika’s practical nature leads her down the strangest of paths.

What is a scientist to do when slapped with pain so deep it interferes with breathing? Try to cure it, of course. Is it really necessary to suffer for love? What if we had a switch…somewhere in an unobtrusive part of our bodies that could turn love off and on at will? Her journey to a pill against heartbreak also takes us through her search for her own sense of self and the place of love in human life.She moves into a new apartment and, turns it into her personal laboratory with herself as the guinea pig. As she navigates the murky waters of the recently-divorced Erika successfully creates the heartbreak pill.

Eight months later, things could not be better. Her research is finished. Her pill works and she has a choice… from a position of strength… to have her marriage back. Only, her pill works better than she thinks. She doesn’t feel like rushing back and wonders, is it better to try to save a love that once made you happy than to move on and take new risks?

¿Es realmente necesario sufrir por amor? Imagina tu vida si tuvieras en algún lugar de tu cuerpo una píldora, palanca o botoncito que controlara tu corazón. Ya no sufrirías por Jacinto, Carlos o Gumersindo. Tendrías tu versión personal de “santo que no me quiere con no rezarle tengo” y cuando al hombre al que amas con toda tu alma te dijera “hasta aquí”, podrías reaccionar como la mujer adulta, inteligente y moderna que eres.

Erika Luna vive en Miami. Es doctora en química, atractiva e inteligente: la imagen misma de la mujer moderna. Pero cuando tras siete años de matrimonio, su súper-atractivo, súper inteligente y súper exitoso esposo Martín se enamora de otra mujer, su matrimonio se destruye de la noche a la mañana y amenaza destruirla con él.

¿Qué hace una científica de vocación cuando el dolor del mal amor amenaza con convertirla en una lunática descontrolada y pone en riesgo su carrera, su cordura y su fe en la vida? Inventar una cura, por supuesto. Para ello, Erika arriesgará hasta su vida para convertirse en su propio conejillo de Indias. Su misión: librar para siempre al mundo del mal amor…y componer su propio corazón. En el proceso, tendrá que luchar contra la mujer que fue para convertirse en la mujer que siempre quiso ser.

At once humorous and touching, The Heartbreak Pill by Anjanette Delgado, follows Erika Luna, a thirty-something scientist living and working in Miami who tries to heal the pain of her divorce by developing a heartbreak pill.

Author bio: Anjanette Delgado

Anjanette Delgado is an Emmy Award-winning writer and television producer living in Miami.

La Sabiduría del Alma: Tesoros prácticos para el alma que transformarán su vida by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:50:00 +0000

Now in Spanish, internationally acclaimed healer and bestselling author Dr. Zhi Gang Sha provides a simple answer to the age-old question, what is the real secret to healing?

Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow

Trained as a Western medical doctor in China and a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in China and North America, Dr. Sha takes integrative medicine to a whole new and exciting era that goes beyond mind over matter, emphasizing soul over matter.

Many of us invoke the spiritual world to heal through prayer, but the results vary greatly. Dr. Sha believes the reason is that one must follow certain spiritual principles and laws to receive maximum healing benefits from the spiritual world. For example, Soul Wisdom argues that spiritual blockages occur in the heart chakra and are due to bad karma, the sum of total mistakes one has made in this and previous lifetimes.

By following Dr. Sha’s teachings, readers can learn to clear up these blockages, particularly using such simple notions such as unconditional love, forgiveness, and service. As Dr. Sha puts it, ‘Love melts all blockages and forgiveness brings peace.’ And most importantly, you have the ability to heal yourself.

In Soul Wisdom, Dr. Sha’s talks of being a mere servant; that the teachings in his book are secret treasures handed down from his revered teacher, Master and Dr. Zhi Chen Guo. He also talks of the Soul Light Era, a major transition in the way we communicate, from speech to soul.

Fundamentally Dr. Sha sees Soul Wisdom as a gift from the Divine or higher power. Essentially this is the an introductory guide for all of us to learn practical techniques to help open our minds, empower, heal, and transform every aspect of our lives. It truly is Dr. Sha’s hope that this book will begin his teachings of Soul Language, in an effort to enlighten souls and create love, peace and harmony for humanity, Mother Earth and the universe.

En La Sabiduría del alma, el Dr. Zhi Gang Sha, maestro del alma, sanador y autor de fama internacional, lleva la curación y la transformación personal hasta su nivel más elevado, el nivel del alma. Las enseñanzas del Dr. Sha le facultarán para deshacer todos los obstáculos que bloquean su vida mediante la aplicación de tesoros prácticos del alma: el lenguaje del alma, el canto del alma, el movimiento del alma, las palmaditas del alma y la danza del alma. Ésta es la primera vez en la historia que Dios ha revelado estos secretos para transformar la conciencia de la humanidad y crear amor, paz y armonía para todos los seres humanos, la madre Tierra y el universo.

Author Bio:

Dr. Zhi Gang Sha is a soul leader, an extraordinary healer, and a divine servant. Trained as a conventional medical doctor and a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, he founded the Institute of Soul Healing and Enlightenment and the World Soul Healing, Peace and Enlightenment Movement. A grandmaster of many ancient disciplines, including tai chi, qi gong, feng shui, and the I Ching, Dr. Sha is also an expert in the most advanced cellular healing science now occurring in China. In 2006, he received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission Award in recognition of his service to humanity. Dr. Sha’s Soul Power Series reveals soul secrets, wisdom, knowledge, and practices to transform every aspect of life.
Visit www.DrSha.com

El búfalo de la noche by Guillermo Arriaga

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:50:00 +0000

Book description:
Luminous writing characterizes this novel of love friendship, passion, betrayal and mental illness.

Set in Mexico City, this is the story of Gregorio, a charismatic but troubled young man who is betrayed by the woman he loves–who is the secret lover of his best friend Manuel the protagonist.

“Gregorio died on his mother’s lap, stretched out on the back seat of the car his father feverishly drove to the hospital. He killed himself with the same gun we’d stolen years ago from a cop guarding the entrance to a convenience store.”

The question becomes what drove the young man’s passions, his madness and deathwish? Who is the strange man who appears to want to avenge the betrayal that may have lead to Gregorio’s insanity? The answers are revealed in startling conclusions.

Arriaga is known for his brilliant screenplays, but has always seen himself as a novelist. Like 21 Grams and Arriaga’s other celebrated work–that is at once universal in the themes it explores and unique in its style and setting–The Night Buffalo, is marked by uncommon wisdom and extraordinary talent.

Tras el suicidio de su mejor amigo, Manuel se ve acosado por la sombra de la enfermedad mental de aquel, por su mundo de violencia y por la tortuosa relación sentimental con su novia, que fue inicialmente pareja de Gregorio, el amigo muerto; citas no cumplidas, extraños mensajes y la sombra de un policÍa que aparece como vengador de una infidelidad que lo llevó a la locura.

Escrita con la agilidad de un guión cinematográfico y con un fondo de personajes urbanos que se mueven en los márgenes de la delincuencia, esta novela confirma a su autor como uno de los mejores escritores mexicanos de las Últimas generaciones. Con tono existencial que da cuenta de los aspectos más crudos de la sociedad de nuestro tiempo, esta obra de suspenso trae personajes bien construidos, atractivos y que se ven inmersos en una atmósfera cercana tanto a la novela macabra como a la prosa de Franz Kafka.
The award-winning, internationally acclaimed screen playwright and novelist Guillermo Arriaga will, for the first time, be published in the American market. The Night Buffalo is a brilliant, commercial and artfully crafted novel about friendship, betrayal and the impact of a young man’s suicide on those who loved and admired him.

Author Bio: Guillermo Arriaga

Guillermo Arriaga es un escritor mexicano que ha alcanzado la fama mundial como guionista de la película Amores perros, de gran éxito internacional, y de las películas 21 Gramos, Las tres muertes de Melquiades Estrada, y Babel. Arriaga es también el autor de las novelas: El Búfalo de la noche y Escuadrón guillotina.

Diecinueve Minutos by Jodi Picoult

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:49:00 +0000

Available for the first time in the U.S., this Spanish-language translation of Jodi Picoult’s huge bestseller Nineteen Minutes is Jodi Picoult’s most emotionally riveting book yet. Nineteen Minutes involves a school shooting in a small town. It features the return of two old characters–Jordan McAfee, the lawyer from The Pact and Salem Falls, who finds himself representing, again, a boy who is lost; and Patrick DuCharme, the detective from Perfect Match, whose best witness is the daughter of the superior court judge assigned to the case, and whose story keeps changing. It’s a book about who has the right to judge someone else, whom we allow to set the criteria, and ultimately, the way a person is rarely whom they seem to be.

Acerca de la autora

Jodi Picoult, autora de Por la vida de mi hermana, nos presenta su libro más fascinante, con una alarmante y conmovedora historia acerca de las repercusiones devastadoras de una tragedia en un pueblo pequeño de los Estado Unidos.

Sterling es un pueblo común en New Hampshire donde nunca ocurre nada — hasta el día que su complacencia es hecha añicos por un acto de violencia. Josie Cormier, la hija de la jueza que preside el caso, es la mejor testigo con la que cuenta el estado, pero no puede recordar lo que ha ocurrido delante de sus propios ojos ¿o sí?

A medida que el juicio avanza, empiezan a hacerse visibles las grietas entre las autoridades del colegio secundario y la comunidad adulta del lugar — destruyendo los lazos más fuertes de familia y amistad. Diecinueve minutos nos hace preguntarnos qué significa ser diferente en nuestra sociedad, quién tiene el derecho de juzgar a otro y si las personas son lo que realmente parecen ser.

Available for the first time in the U.S., this Spanish-language translation of Jodi Picoult’s huge bestseller Nineteen Minutes is a startling and poignant story about a shocking act of violence in a small town and the story of the people is affects forever.

About Jodi Picoult

JODI PICOULT is the author of seventeen novels, including Handle With Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper, now a major motion picture. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.

Visit her website at www.jodipicoult.com