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El hombre del camión: Hugo Moyano. La historia secreta del sindicalista más poderoso de la Argentina
by Emilia Delfino Mariano MartinPrimera biografía de Hugo Moyano. El padre camionero que lo incursiona en el rubro y lo forma comoperonista. La madre, evangelista y admiradora de Evita Perón. Susmujeres y los amores que lo marcaron. Moyano es evangelista -tuvo muchaparticipación en ese clero-, aunque también va a la misa católica. Seentrenó como boxeador, fanático del tango. Tuvo una causa por tenenciade cocaína en el sindicato, por lo cual estuvo preso pero fuesobreseído. En los 70, perteneció a los grupos del peronismo de derecha,e incluso otros dirigentes gremiales de Mar del Plata lo acusan en on dehaber estado ligado a la Triple A y ser patota contra sindicatos deizquierda. Luego fue diputado provincial en la década de 1980, suprimera y única incursión en la política partidaria. La relación con labarra de Independiente. Vandor, Rucci y Lorenzo Miguel, como susmentores. Su primera esposa, madre de Huguito, Pablo, Karina, Paula yFacundo. Su pareja con la polémica empresaria Liliana Zulet-tiene denuncias penales de sus empleados por estafa-, a quien conociócuando el sindicato de camioneros le hizo juicio a Zulet. En la primeraaudiencia, Moyano la conquistó. Desde entonces, están juntos y tienen unhijo menor de edad. Viven entre Barracas y Parque Leloir. Moyanomantienen un vínculo familiar similar a un Padrino. Se rodea de sushijos y mujeres, los protege y les delega, mientras él lo controla todoa través de ellos. También tiene un séquito de leales (gremios delTransporte y dirigentes más jóvenes que lo admiran y aseguran que ladoctrina sindical es y será «Rucci-Ubaldini-Moyano»). La protección, losnegocios y la relación con Julio De Vido y Carlos Tomada. La lucha porretener la secretaría general de la CGT y la alianza con los K. Losnegocios de Moyano a través de las empresas constructoras que él mismocontrata para realizar obras monumentales para su sindicato, comohoteles y sanatorios.
Un hombre en tacones
by Omar Ramos“Destruir el monstruo del silencio requiere de valentía, y este libro la tiene. Se coloca como referencia para evitar que otras personas se sientan solas cuando viven algo diferente a la mayoría, gracias a la magia del ‘yo también’, que sana tanto”. RINNA RIESENFELD, autora, sexoterapeuta y psicoterapeuta. Directora académica de El Armario Abierto. Esta es la crónica de la afortunada transformación de un hombre. Omar Ramos, como muchos gays en México, pasó de sufrir bullying a usar tacones con orgullo, de conocer a unos pocos hombres en la barra de un bar a coincidir con cientos en la pantalla de su teléfono, y de vivir con miedo al VIH a disfrutar plenamente su sexualidad. Basado en las experiencias del autor y en entrevistas que realizó a una serie de expertos, Un hombreen tacones es un acercamiento a temas de importancia vital para la comunidad homosexual masculina y un manual repleto de consejos prácticos para sobrevivir a los retos del día a día. Además, este es el primer libro publicado en el país que trata sobre PrEP (profilaxis preexposición), un método de prevención que, mediante la toma de una pastilla diaria, evita contraer VIH en un 99 %. “En una época de fake news e infoxicación, me maravilla el esfuerzo que ha realizado Omar para escribir este libro lleno de información veraz y documentación. Imprescindible para cualquier hombre homosexual de América ¡y del mundo!”. GABRIEL J. MARTÍN, psicólogo y autor de Quiérete mucho.
El hombre numerado
by Marcelo EstefanellEn primera persona, la existencia reclusa y reglamentada de MarceloEstefanell transcurre frente al lector como si fuera una película. Elhumor, ese sabio recurso, fe y es una herramienta fundamental para quela memoria de esos años tan oscuros se convierta en un canto a la vida. Marcelo Estefanell estuvo casi 13 años recluido en el Penal de Libertad.El relato de su memoria carcelaria en formato de crónicas independientesse convierte, gracias a su estilo ágil, desenfado y certero, en un viajedonde la luz, la alegría y la esperanza están presentes aun en losmomentos más terribles. En primera persona, su existencia recusa yreglamentada transcurre frente al lector como si fuera una película. Elhumor, ese sabio recurso, fe y es una herramienta fundamental para quela memoria de esos años tan oscuros se convierta en un canto a la vida.El humor, ese sabio recurso, fe y es una herramienta fundamental paraque la memoria de esos años tan oscuros se convierta en un canto a lavida.
El hombre que movía las nubes / The Man Who Could Move Clouds
by Ingrid Rojas ContrerasLa autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia. A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de renombre, dotado de lo que la familia llamaba “los secretos”: el poder de hablar con los muertos, predecir el futuro, tratar a los enfermos y mover las nubes. La madre de Ingrid, la primera mujer en heredar los secretos, era igualmente poderosa. Mami disfrutaba su habilidad de aparecer en dos lugares a la vez, y era capaz de expulsar al más terco de los espíritus usando apenas un vaso de agua.
El Hombre Que No Besaba A Las Mujeres: La historia secreta de Hitler
by Marcela Gutiérrez Bravo Mohamed BouzitouneLa historia se desarrolla en dos diferentes momentos. Un joven psiquiatra es comisionado para revisar y analizar los registros de tres pacientes; dos mujeres y un hombre con una extraña y extraordinaria historia. Al avanzar en la lectura verás que su destino está ligado al de Adolfo Hitler, y en la historia se relata la historia del dictador y de los eventos que unieron a estos tres misteriosos personajes, luego junto al psiquiatra, descubrirás un inesperado final de la historia. La novela según HERA EDICIONES: La obra está escrita en primera persona, donde el autor narra internamente lo que sucede a todos sus personajes protagonistas, desarrollando su psique en profundidad, y enganchando al lector desde el primer minuto, quien tratará de descifrar quiénes son los tres personajes enigmáticos de los que el psiquiatra debe ocuparse. La novela está inspirada en libros míticos como MI AMIGO HITLER o VARSOVIA 1944, además de contar con un importante trabajo de documentación e investigación, tal como podrá descubrirse a lo largo de todas y cada una de sus páginas. La obra aborda todos los aspectos de un best seller: secretos, escándalos, terror, conflictos bélicos, un personaje carismático ( Adolf Hitler), una trama llena de misterio, amor, soledad, dolor, rechazo,arte, música, pintura, romance, sexo … Y todo ello amalgado con un estilo fresco, rápido y dinámico que atrapa al lector sin ninguna duda. El autor ha conseguido con maestría que la obra sea realmente interesante, ha abordado la trama y la subtrama con una sencillez digna de mencionar: ha conseguido contar grandes hechos con palabras justas y de una elegancia realmente extraordinaria, por consiguiente produce que lector se atrape con la historia para no soltarle hasta el final.
El hombre sin rostro: El sorprendente ascenso de Vladímir Putin
by Masha GessenLa fascinante historia de cómo un agente mediocre del KGB llegó a la presidencia de Rusia, deshizo años de avances y convirtió a su país de nuevo en una amenaza para sus ciudadanos y para el mundo. Por la autora galardonada con el National Book Award de Nonfiction 2017. Desde su llegada al poder en 1999, Vladímir Putin se ha hecho con el control de los medios de comunicación, sus rivales políticos han acabado encarcelados, exiliados o muertos, y el frágil sistema electoral ruso apenas se sostiene. Pese a las valientes manifestaciones de protesta por el fraude en las elecciones de diciembre de 2011, Putin sigue siendo el favorito para las presidenciales y Rusia ha vuelto a ser una amenaza para sus ciudadanos y para el mundo entero. Masha Gessen ha vivido esta historia de primera mano, con las amenazas, el asesinato, el exilio y las misteriosas desapariciones de muchos de sus amigos y colegas. Su valor la llevó a volver a Moscú para contar el asombroso ascenso de Putin, tras hablar con fuentes que no hablarían con ningún otro periodista. Su relato de cómo un hombre anónimo se abrió camino hasta alcanzar un poder absoluto, y absolutamente corrupto, está destinado a convertirse en un clásico de la narrativa de no ficción. La autora opina:«A lo largo de los años noventa, mientras jóvenes como yo intentábamos salir adelante en un país nuevo, junto al nuestro existía un mundo paralelo. Yo había estado en muchas zonas de guerra, había trabajado bajo fuego de metralla, pero esta era la historia más aterradora que había tenido que escribir; nunca antes me había visto obligada a describir una realidad tan desprovista de emociones y tan cruel, tan patente y tan despiadada, tan corrupta y con una falta tan completa de remordimientos. En unos años, Rusia estaría viviendo en esa realidad. Cómo sucedió es la historia que contaré en este libro.»
Los hombres del juicio
by Pepe EliaschevLa historia íntima del juicio a las Juntas Militares contada por susprotagonistas. Una mañana de otoño de 2010 el juez Ricardo Gil Lavedra citó a PepeEliaschev en su estudio en la avenida Santa Fe. Ex integrante de laCámara Federal que juzgó a las juntas militares en 1985, queríaconfiarle al periodista un proyecto. Pocos meses después, el 9 dediciembre, se cumplirían veinticinco años del juicio que condenó a losautores del mayor plan criminal de la historia argentina. El fiscalJulio Strassera y los seis integrantes de la Cámara (Gil Lavedra, LeónCarlos Arslanian, Guillermo Ledesma, Jorge Torlasco, Jorge Valerga Aráozy Andrés D´ Alessio, que falleció en 2008) se habían seguido viendoperiódicamente durante un cuarto de siglo. «Siempre supimos que laverdadera historia del juicio aún no había sido contada y siemprepensamos que algún día la escribiríamos. Pero el tiempo ha pasado y yaes evidente que no es algo que haremos nosotros», le confesó Gil Lavedraa Eliaschev. Por unanimidad, los jueces lo habían elegido paraproponerle esa difícil tarea. El resultado es el libro que el lectortiene en sus manos, una crónica conmovedora e iluminada sobre la mayorhazaña civil de nuestro país, una proeza que no ha sido aúnadecuadamente reconocida por la sociedad argentina, aunque seareferencia obligada en medios jurídicos extranjeros. «Nadie en el mundohizo tanto, tan rápido y de manera tan contundente», sostiene el autorsobre la sentencia firmada en 1985. Este es, por primera vez, eltestimonio crudo de aquellos señores jueces que no sospechaban lo que lahistoria les deparaba cuando fueron llamados a asumir tan enormedesafío, al que respondieron valiente y exitosamente.
Hombres G. Nunca hemos sido los guapos del barrio: Cuatro décadas de historia, canciones y anécdotas del grupo más popular del pop-rock español
by Javier León Herrera«En este libro nos hemos desnudado como nunca antes lo habíamos hecho.»David, Dani, Javi, Rafa (Hombres G) La primera biografía autorizada del grupo más icónico de los ochenta. David Summers compuso Devuélveme a mi chica horas antes de salir a tocar en Rock-Ola, cuando se enteró que la chica que le había dejado iba a asistir al concierto con su nuevo novio. Nadie creía que pudieran ganarse la vida con la música, ni siquiera su padre, quien le dijo: «No te veo con sesenta años cantando Sufre mamón». En su primera prueba para entrar en un grupo, Los Residuos, Javier de Molina destrozó la batería a base de golpes. Era la primera vez que se sentaba en una. Le ficharon sin dudarlo. Ahí empezó todo. Los primeros ensayos con Hombres G los hacía dándose golpes en la pierna al no tener batería propia. Con doce años Daniel Mezquita compraba vinilos de David Bowie; con dieciséis hacía pellas para colarse en Rock-Ola y tocar con el uniforme del colegio puesto; y con dieciocho se escapaba de su casa por la noche para poder actuar de madrugada con los Hombres G en un pub. Rafael Gutiérrez tuvo que abandonar el Club Deportivo Pegaso por su cabellera rockera, su pasión por la música estaba por encima de su afición al fútbol. Aprendió a tocar la guitarra con el Made in Japan de Deep Purple. Conoció a David y Javi en TVE en 1982 y con él nacieron los Hombres G. Esta es la historia de cuatro niños soñadores, apasionados de la música, que empezaron formando un grupo punk inspirado en los Sex Pistols y que, años después, cuando triunfaron como Hombres G, rechazaron contratos millonarios por ser fieles a quien creyó en ellos desde el principio. Esta es la historia de unas canciones inmortales y unas vivencias únicas con detalles nunca contados; de un grupo que ha tocado en míticos escenarios en América y España y se ha convertido en leyenda viva del pop-rock español: Hombres G. HOMBRES G ha tenido una trayectoria legendaria, con millones de discos vendidos y más de mil conciertos incluyendo sold out en míticos escenarios de la talla de Las Ventas en Madrid, el Palau Sant Jordi de Barcelona, el Arena de la Ciudad de México y Monterrey, el Auditorio Telmex de Guadalajara, el Hollywood Bowl y el Gibson Amphiteatre de Los Ángeles y el Radio City Music Hall de Nueva York. Es el único grupo pop-rock español de todos los tiempos con casi cuarenta años de vida y semejante palmarés. La leyenda Hombres G se forja a través de su esencia: un repertorio de canciones inolvidables que invitan al buen rollo y forman parte de la banda sonora de la vida demillones de personas, un público intergeneracional que sigue llenando sus conciertos y compartiendo su filosofía de vivir con energía levantándose por la mañana dando un salto mortal.
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
by Julie AndrewsSince her first appearance on screen in Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews has played a series of memorable roles that have endeared her to generations. But she has never told the story of her life before fame. Until now. In Home: A Memoir of My Early Years, Julie takes her readers on a warm, moving, and often humorous journey from a difficult upbringing in war-torn Britain to the brink of international stardom in America. Her memoir begins in 1935, when Julie was born to an aspiring vaudevillian mother and a teacher father, and takes readers to 1962, when Walt Disney himself saw her on Broadway and cast her as the world's most famous nanny. Along the way, she weathered the London Blitz of World War II; her parents' painful divorce; her mother's turbulent second marriage to Canadian tenor Ted Andrews, and a childhood spent on radio, in music halls, and giving concert performances all over England. Julie's professional career began at the age of twelve, and in 1948 she became the youngest solo performer ever to participate in a Royal Command Performance before the Queen. When only eighteen, she left home for the United States to make her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend, and thus began her meteoric rise to stardom. Home is filled with numerous anecdotes, including stories of performing in My Fair Lady with Rex Harrison on Broadway and in the West End, and in Camelot with Richard Burton on Broadway; her first marriage to famed set and costume designer Tony Walton, culminating with the birth of their daughter, Emma; and the call from Hollywood and what lay beyond. Julie Andrews' career has flourished over seven decades. From her legendary Broadway performances, to her roles in such iconic films as The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hawaii, 10, and The Princess Diaries, to her award-winning television appearances, multiple album releases, concert tours, international humanitarian work, best-selling children's books, and championship of literacy, Julie's influence spans generations. Today, she lives with her husband of thirty-eight years, the acclaimed writer/director Blake Edwards; they have five children and seven grandchildren. Featuring over fifty personal photos, many never before seen, this is the personal memoir Julie Andrews' audiences have been waiting for.
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
by Julie AndrewsThe heroine of MARY POPPINS and THE SOUND OF MUSIC tells her life story from the music halls of London to Broadway stardom.Over the years Julie Andrews has been much interviewed in the press and on television, but she has never before revealed the true story of her childhood and upbringing. In HOME she vividly recreates the years before the movies. An idyllic early childhood in Surrey was cut short when her parents divorced and her mother remarried. The family moved to London, and there are vivid scenes of life during the Blitz. Her mother went into musical theatre with her stepfather, who encouraged Julie to have singing lessons which led to the discovery that her voice had phenomenal range and strength for someone her age. Before long she was appearing on stage with her parents. She soon realised how much she enjoyed looking out into the black auditorium with the spotlights on her. By the time she was a teenager, she was supporting her whole family with her singing.A London Palladium pantomime led to a leading role in THE BOYFRIEND on Broadway at 19. Parts in MY FAIR LADY opposite Rex Harrison and CAMELOT with Richard Burton soon followed, and there are wonderful anecdotes about the actors and actresses of her day. But this is far more than a collection of show stories (it's not until the last page of the book that Julie gets the call from Disney for MARY POPPINS), HOME is an honest, touching and revealing memoir of the early life of a true icon.
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years
by Julie Edwards AndrewsFrom the famous star's birth in 1935 to 1962, when Walt Disney himself saw her on Broadway and cast her as the world's most famous nanny, Mary Poppins.
Home: the quest to belong
by Jo SwinneyWhere is Home?This question troubles many of us. We may live far from where we grew up, away from those we love or in a culture not our own. But we all need somewhere to belong, to find a sense of home in this world.Jo Swinney was born in the UK, but grew up in Portugal and France. She went to an English boarding school, did a gap year in southern Africa and in her twenties studied theology in Canada, where she met her American husband. Now back in the UK, she's had more reason than most to wonder what 'home' really means.Is home where you come from - where you live now - where the people you love are - or what?Interweaving a frank and poignant retelling of her own story with theological and psychological insights, Jo's original and authentic exploration of home in all its many and varied forms is a heartfelt call to find our home in the things that are truly of most value.
Home After Exile: A Spiritual Odyssey
by Elizabeth AyresWhat does home mean to you? The spiritual autobiography "Home After Exile" begins in an orphanage. The author's adopted father dies when she's six. Her adopted mother says she's a worthless piece of garbage. Her stepfather haunts her bedroom at night. Through all that darkness, a mysterious 'something more' invites Ayres to a journey of spiritual growth. As a child, she builds altars in the woods to commune with a numinous Presence that is both More and All. As an adult, she sets out to find more prosaic cures for the loneliness that dogs her every step. Marriage. A convent. A search for her birthmother. Still it lures her on, that tantalizing glimpse of wholeness and belonging she had savored as a child. Finally and miraculously given, in the most unlikely place of all. Annie Dillard, author of "An American Childhood," says, "Sumptuous, lyrical prose. The earth-centered spirituality of this inspiring life story is an archetype of redemption, changing the way we relate to ourselves, each other and the planet." The Franciscan theologian Ilia Delio, OSF, author of "The Unbearable Wholeness of Being," says, "In her uplifting memoir, Elizabeth Ayres opens her soul to the world, revealing an insuperable human spirit that remains - despite years of abuse and abandonment - infinitely free and deeply in love with the God of life. Ayres is an artist of the human spirit, whose spiritual journey through death into life bears witness to the power of that divine Love which carries us on eagles' wings."
Home and Alone
by Daniel SternSimply a must read for anyone who seeks a behind-the-scenes peek of some of Hollywood's classic films. . .Beginning with his film debut in Breaking Away, Daniel Stern has grown up on-screen before our very eyes. His connection with audiences is cemented in movies like Home Alone and City Slickers, and in his debut memoir, Home and Alone with Daniel Stern, he is the Everyman narrator on a ride into the human side of Hollywood. Buckle up and experience what it&’s like driving Robert Redford in his Porsche at 100 mph, or stripping down for a nude scene in front of a group of total strangers. Share the out-of-body moments of flying alone with Mel Gibson on his jet to Las Vegas and smashing a fake mustache onto Gary Busey&’s face while cursing him out on the pitcher&’s mound of Wrigley Field in front of a sellout crowd. Join him in his triumphant stories like conquering his dyslexia as the voice of The Wonder Years, and his terrifying ones like being sued for $25 million by CBS and Columbia pictures. Touching and hysterical, often at the same time, Stern gives readers a peek at the highs and lows of a Hollywood career, and a closer look at the movies they love and the people who make them. Inspiring as it is humorous, Stern weaves a compelling tale of an artistic hippie-child of the 60&’s, who by age thirteen had hitchhiked his way across the Eastern half of the U.S.A. By age seventeen he had dropped out of high school and was living on his own in New York, and by nineteen he was starting a family of his own. His insights into marriage, children, parents and parenting are not only hilarious, but packed with subtle wisdom. But the real surprises are in Stern's off-screen roles as a bronze sculptor, cattle rancher, avocado farmer and public servant. The hard work and commitment he has put into his on-screen successes are applied with the same intensity to every aspect of his life. From creating monumental public art projects and founding a Boys & Girls Club to visiting troops in Iraq and learning to birth a cow, he has lived it all. Home and Alone with Daniel Stern is for anyone who needs reminding that nothing is impossible if you put your mind to it.
Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game
by Don Bartlett Fredrik Ekelund Karl Ove Knausgaard Séan KinsellaTwo world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected lettersKarl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skåne with his wife, four small children, and dog. He is watching soccer on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee, and Argentina.Fredrik Ekelund is away, in Brazil, where he plays soccer on the beach and watches matches with others. Ekelund loves games that end up 4-3 and teams that play beautiful soccer. He likes caipirinhas and Brazil.Home and Away is an unusual soccer book, in which the two authors use soccer and the World Cup in Brazil as the arena for reflections on life and death, art and politics, class and literature. What does it mean to be at home in a globalized world?This exchange of letters opens up new vistas and gives us stories from the lives of two creative writers. We get under their skin and gain insight into their relationships with modern times and soccer’s place in their lives, the significance the game has for people in general, and the question Was this the best soccer championship ever?
Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War
by Nancy French David FrenchDavid French picked up the newspaper in the comfort of his penthouse in Philadelphia, and read about a soldier - father of two - who was wounded in Iraq. Immediately, he was stricken with a question: Why him and not me? This is the story of what happens when a person - rather a family - answers the call to serve their nation. David was a 37-year-old father of two, a Harvard Law graduate and president of a free speech organization. In other words, he was used to pushing pencils, not toting M16s. His wife Nancy was raising two children and writing from home. She was worrying about field trips and playdates, not about her husband going to war. HOME AND AWAY chronicles not just a soldier at war, but a family at war - a husband in Iraq, a wife and children at home, greeting each day with hope and fear, facing the challenge with determination, tears, and more than a little joy.
Home and Away: Writing The Beautiful Game
by Karl Ove Knausgaard Fredrik EkelundFrom the always astonishing Karl Ove Knausgaard--a brilliantly unusual book to delight both reading sports fans and the literary world. Bridging the two worlds of soccer and great writing, in the tradition of Lewis's Moneyball, Hornby's Fever Pitch or Buford's Among the Thugs, Knausgaard provides us with a die-hard fan's impassioned, personal, quirky, entertaining musings on that fundamental relationship between sports and life.I remember every single World Cup starting with the one in 1978, what I was doing, how I was living, who I was, and the world in which it took place. But I have always just watched them on TV, never in reality, and I want it to stay that way--so that´s the starting point for this book, isn't it? Life against death, yes against no, Brazil against Argentina. Karl Ove is sitting at home in Sweden watching the World Cup on TV (and falling asleep), with his wife, four small children and the dog; his good pal Fredrik is away in Brazil, playing beautiful football on the beach and watching the match. In this lively, argumentative, unique long-form email correspondence between them, written back and forth across the world, what begins as musings on the famous 2014 World Cup becomes (naturally) an exploration of the essential questions of life, with soccer as the catalyst for an inspiringly entertaining exchange of thoughts and ideas encompassing everything from the elusive nature of personal happiness, competitiveness, politics, insider knowledge about international football, art and literature, all rivetingly dissected with brilliance, verve and humour.
Home and Exile
by Chinua AchebeMore personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, "Home and Exile"--the great Nigerian novelist's first book in more than ten years--is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders. In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to rescue African culture from narratives written about it by Europeans. Looking through the prism of his experiences as a student in English schools in Nigeria, he provides devastating examples of European cultural imperialism. He examines the impact that his novel "Things Fall Apart" had on efforts to reclaim Africa's story. And he argues for the importance of writing and living the African experience because, he believes, Africa needs stories told by Africans.
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco
by Alia VolzWinner of the California Bookseller Association's Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller &“A portrait of a heroics, innovation, grit, and pot-baking . . . strikingly relevant . . . beautifully written.&”—Entertainment Weekly "A raunchy and rollicking account of a vanished era told by someone who paid very close attention to her larger-than-life parents. I gobbled it up like an edible."—Armistead Maupin In the 1970s, when cannabis was as illicit as heroin, Alia Volz&’s mother ran Sticky Fingers Brownies, a pioneering underground bakery that delivered ten thousand marijuana edibles per month to a city in the throes of change—from the joyous upheavals of gay liberation to the tragedy of the Peoples Temple. Dressed in elaborate costumes, Alia&’s parents hid in plain sight, parading through the city&’s circus-like atmosphere with the goods tucked into her stroller. When HIV/AIDS swept San Francisco in the 1980s, Alia&’s mom turned from dealer into healer, providing soothing edibles to those fighting for their lives at the dawn of medical marijuana. By turns heartbreaking, exhilarating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Home Baked celebrates an eccentric and remarkable extended family, taking us through love, loss, and finding home.Now with extra material, including a reading group guide, author Q&A, and additional photos!
Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter
by Susan CheeverIn Home Before Dark, Susan Cheever, daughter of the famously talented writer John Cheever, uses previously unpublished letters, journals, and her own precious memories to create a candid and insightful tribute to her father. While producing some of the most beloved and celebrated American literature of this century, John Cheever wrestled with personal demons that deeply affected his family life as well as his career. In this poignant memoir of a man driven by boundless genius and ambition, Susan Cheever writes with heartwrenching honesty of family life with the father, the writer, and the remarkable man she loved.
Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
by Lynda Van Devanter Christopher MorganLynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam. When she arrived in Vietnam her idealistic view of the war vanished quickly. She worked long and arduous hours in cramped, ill-equipped, understaffed operating rooms. She saw friends die. Witnessing a war close-up, operating on soldiers and civilians whose injuries were catastrophic, she found the very foundations of her thinking changing daily. <P><P> After one traumatic year, she came home, a Vietnam veteran. Coming home was nearly as devastating as the time she spent in Asia. Nothing was the same ― including Lynda herself. Viewed by many as a murderer instead of a healer, she felt isolated and angry. The anger turned to depression; like many other Vietnam veterans she suffered from delayed stress syndrome. Working in hospitals brought back chilling scenes of hopelessly wounded soldiers. A marriage ended in divorce. The war that was fought physically halfway around the world had become a personal, internal battle.<P> Home before Morning is the story of a woman whose courage, stamina, and personal history make this a compelling autobiography. It is also the saga of others who went to war to aid the wounded and came back wounded ― physically and emotionally ― themselves. And, it is the true story of one person's triumphs: her understanding of, and coming to terms with, her destiny.
Home before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam
by Lynda van Van DevanterLynda Van Devanter was the girl next door, the cheerleader who went to Catholic schools, enjoyed sports, and got along well with her four sisters and parents. After high school she attended nursing school and then did something that would shatter her secure world for the rest of her life: in 1969, she joined the army and was shipped to Vietnam. When she arrived in Vietnam her idealistic view of the war vanished quickly. She worked long and arduous hours in cramped, ill-equipped, understaffed operating rooms. She saw friends die. Witnessing a war close-up, operating on soldiers and civilians whose injuries were catastrophic, she found the very foundations of her thinking changing daily. After one traumatic year, she came home, a Vietnam veteran. Coming home was nearly as devastating as the time she spent in Asia. Nothing was the same -- including Lynda herself. Viewed by many as a murderer instead of a healer, she felt isolated and angry. The anger turned to depression; like many other Vietnam veterans she suffered from delayed stress syndrome. Working in hospitals brought back chilling scenes of hopelessly wounded soldiers. A marriage ended in divorce. The war that was fought physically halfway around the world had become a personal, internal battle.Home before Morning is the story of a woman whose courage, stamina, and personal history make this a compelling autobiography. It is also the saga of others who went to war to aid the wounded and came back wounded -- physically and emotionally -- themselves. And, it is the true story of one person's triumphs: her understanding of, and coming to terms with, her destiny.
Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging
by Vanessa A. Bee"Readers of Home Bound will likely experience that pleasant rush of recognizing something personal in someone else&’s reality, of answering, yes, home feels like this to me, too." —Chicago Review of Books"What emerges is a rich and enthralling story of finding oneself outside of the bounds of borders and beliefs. This offers radiant hope in the face of darkness." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"Bee&’s lyrical, emotive prose takes readers through her life with an intimacy that draws and keeps them close. . . . [Home Bound will] appeal to a variety of reader, challenging singular beliefs of what it means to be a daughter, sister, lover, wife, lawyer, and mother." —Library Journal, starred reviewIn this singular and intimate memoir of identity and discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define &“home&” and &“belonging&” — from her birth in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to her adoption by her aunt and her aunt&’s white French husband, to experiencing housing insecurity in Europe and her eventual immigration to the US. After her parents&’ divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to London, eventually settling in Reno, Nevada, as a teenager, right around the financial crisis and the collapse of the housing market. At twenty, still a practicing evangelical Christian and newly married, Vanessa applied to and was accepted by Harvard Law School, where she was one of the youngest members of her class. There, she forged a new belief system, divorced her husband, left the church, and, inspired by her tumultuous childhood, pursued a career in economic justice upon graduation.Vanessa&’s adoptive, multiracial, multilingual, multinational, and transcontinental upbringing has caused her to grapple for years with foundational questions such as: What is home? Is it the country we&’re born in, the body we possess, or the name we were given and that identifies us? Is it the house we remember most fondly, the social status assigned to us, or the ideology we forge? What defines us and makes us uniquely who we are?Organized unconventionally around her own dictionary-style definitions of the word &“home,&” Vanessa tackles these timeless questions thematically and unpacks the many layers that contribute to and condition our understanding of ourselves and of our place in the world.
A Home Called Your Own: A Journey Across Six Generations
by Steve Hanna Darlene AndersonWhen Steve Hanna boards a plane for Madrid on what is supposed to be a normal study abroad trip, he has no idea where it is about to take him. From the first person he meets on the flight over to the last person he encounters in a small town pharmacy, a series of seemingly unconnected events begins to unfold. As Steve works his way across six countries to the heart of the Czech Republic, he ends up uncovering a larger narrative - a story six generations in the making. Long ago his ancestors paid a price and made a pact to set one person free. One hundred and twenty-five years later, their pact is about to be fulfilled.
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen (Vintage Contemporaries Ser.)
by Laurie Colwin"Laurie Colwin's food thoughts are like phone calls from a dear friend." --The New York Times In this delightful celebration of food, family, and friends, one of America's most cherished kitchen companions shares her lifelong passion for cooking and entertaining. Interweaving essential tips and recipes with hilarious stories of meals both delectable and disastrous, Home Cooking is a masterwork of culinary memoir and an inspiration to novice cooks, expert chefs, and food lovers everywhere. From veal scallops sautéed on a hot plate in her studio apartment to home-baked bread that is both easy and delicious, Colwin imparts her hard-earned secrets with wit, empathy, and charm. She advocates for simple dishes made from fresh, organic ingredients, and counsels that even in the worst-case scenario, there is always an elegant solution: dining out. Highly personal and refreshingly down-to-earth, Laurie Colwin's irresistible ode to domestic pleasures is a must-have for anyone who has ever savored the memory of a mouthwatering meal. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Laurie Colwin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's estate.