Jana Housarová Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Una conmovedora historia sobre el último habitante del planeta en un inquietante mundo postapocalíptico. Primera parte de la Trilogía de MaddAddam, presenta a Hombre de las Nieves, quien llora la pérdida de su mejor amigo Crake y de la bella Oryx, mientras lucha por sobrevivir en soledad. Antes conocido como Jimmy, se enfrenta a un mundo devastado por desastres naturales y una plaga que ha diezmado a la humanidad. A merced de los elementos y acosado por recuerdos, su única compañía son los Hijos de Crake, seres que lo ven como un profeta. Hombre de las Nieves se cuestiona cómo todo ha cambiado tan rápidamente y emprende un viaje hacia su pasado y hacia la burbuja de alta tecnología creada por Crake, donde todo comenzó. La narrativa nos sumerge en una visión del futuro que es a la vez inquietante y familiar, explorando las consecuencias de la ingeniería genética descontrolada y la pérdida de la humanidad. A través de su travesía, se entrelazan temas de amor, pérdida y la búsqueda de identidad en un mundo transformado.

A novel in seven stories, Continent is an exploration of the cultures, communities and natural life of an entirely imaginary realm

A guide for people who are searching for spirituality, Lessons of the Lotus helps readers find their individual paths by exploring the nature of spirituality with ways of making it relevant to their daily lives.These ways include specific meditations, mind-body techniques, visualizations, and reflections. Beyond a rich resource of spiritual practice, this book helps people bring the fruits of their spiritual growth to their relationships, careers, and other aspects of living. Through numerous examples, readers see how the insight, patience, love, understanding, and peace of their practice can touch their daily lives and transform them forever. Each chapter includes a section called "Ask Yourself" that is designed to stimulate reflection on the topic and invite the reader to participate actively in defining their spirituality. Specific chapters cover topics such as karma, transitory death, giving, and relationships with family and loved ones.

#1  New York Times  Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection "Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . . An exercise in soul-baring storytelling—with the soul belonging to 20th-century America itself. It's hard to read and to stop reading, and impossible to forget."  — USA Today Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront dark secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself—a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily’s Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake. Coming to terms with his life and lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin. I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal—an unforgettable masterpiece.   

Životopis Harryho Trumana, který působil ve funkci prezidenta. Autor, bývalý britský ministr financí a vnitra, svoji pozornost zaměřuje především na prezidentské období, ale neopomíjí ani mládí či "tichý konec" Rooseveltova nástupce.