Camino Doloroso

Camino Doloroso
Author: Roberto de Haro
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 143439591X

Camino Doloroso is the story of a Mexican woman brought up during that country's revolutionary period. She loses two husbands to the revolution and flees to the United States with four children and her childhood companion. She goes from privilege to poverty but manages to make a way for her family in America. Based on a true story, the challenges an immigrant single mother faces and must overcome are explored, from a personal perspective. The novel is filled with passion, hardships, and the challenges and disappointments a family must endure.

Holy Week in Tomé

Holy Week in Tomé
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Publisher: Sunstone Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1976
Genre: Tomé Passion Play
ISBN: 0913270636

Like so many folk customs the Tom (New Mexico) Passion Play was passed along orally from generation to generation for nearly two hundred years. The same drama that Fray Francisco Domingues mentioned in 1776 was still being performed in 1947 when it was filmed by a local resident. It was at this time that Fred Landavazo, Edwin Berry and Juan Estevan Zamora realized that the drama, already threatened by a modern, disinterested world, should be preserved in a more permanent form. Through their efforts a script was produced before the final performance of the play in 1955. For the first time, this important religious and historical folk document is available in its original from with translations and annotation by Fr. Thomas Steele. Thomas J. Steele, S.J., a Jesuit priest, is a teacher and authority on the religious folk art of New Mexico.

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Publisher: Juan Higuera M.
Total Pages: 343
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The Best American Essays 2013

The Best American Essays 2013
Author: Cheryl Strayed
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0544105745

Curated by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild, this volume shares intimate perspectives from some of today’s most acclaimed writers. As Cheryl Strayed explains in her introduction, “the invisible, unwritten last line of every essay should be and nothing was ever the same again.” The reader, in other words, should feel the ground shift, if even only a bit. In this edition of the acclaimed anthology series, Strayed has gathered twenty-six essays that each capture an inexorable, tectonic shift in life. Personal and deeply perceptive, this collection examines a broad range of life experiences—from a man’s relationship with Mormonism to a woman’s search for a serial killer; from listening to the music of Joni Mitchell to surviving five months at sea; from triaging injured soldiers to giving birth to a daughter; and much more. The Best American Essays 2013 includes entries by Alice Munro, Zadie Smith, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Dagoberto Gilb, Vicki Weiqi Yang, J.D. Daniels, Michelle Mirsky, and others.

Shame and Wonder

Shame and Wonder
Author: David Searcy
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0812993950

For fans of John Jeremiah Sullivan, Leslie Jamison, Geoff Dyer, and W. G. Sebald, the twenty-one essays in David Searcy’s debut collection are captivating, daring—and completely unlike anything else you’ve read before. Forging connections between the sublime and the mundane, this is a work of true grace, wisdom, and joy. Expansive in scope but deeply personal in perspective, the pieces in Shame and Wonder are born of a vast, abiding curiosity, one that has led David Searcy into some strange and beautiful territory, where old Uncle Scrooge comic books reveal profound truths, and the vastness of space becomes an expression of pure love. Whether ruminating on an old El Camino pickup truck, those magical prizes lurking in the cereal boxes of our youth, or a lurid online ad for “Sexy Girls Near Dallas,” Searcy brings his unique blend of affection and suspicion to the everyday wonders that surround and seduce us. In “Nameless,” he ruminates on spirituality and the fate of an unknown tightrope walker who falls to his death in Texas in the 1880s, buried as a local legend but without a given name. “The Hudson River School” weaves together Google Maps, classical art, and dental hygiene into a story that explores—with exquisite humor and grace—the seemingly impossible angles at which our lives often intersect. And in “An Enchanted Tree Near Fredericksburg,” countless lovers carve countless hearts into the gnarled trunk of an ancient oak tree, leaving their marks to be healed, lifted upward, and, finally, absorbed. Haunting, hilarious, and full of longing, Shame and Wonder announces the arrival of David Searcy as an essential and surprising new voice in American writing. Praise for Shame and Wonder “Astonishment is a quality central to David Searcy’s Shame and Wonder. . . . What unites these twenty-one essays . . . is the sense of a wildly querying intelligence suspended in a state of awe. . . . Searcy is drawn instinctively to moments, the way parcels of time expand and contract in memory, conjuring from ordinary experience a hidden sense of all that is extraordinary in the world, in being alive.”—The New York Times Book Review “A lovely implicit argument for a particular orientation toward the world: continuous awe and wonder . . . Everywhere, David Searcy finds the strange and marvelous in careful examination of the quotidian.”—NPR “Peculiar and lively . . . Like a down-home Roland Barthes, [Searcy’s] quirky observations and sudden narrative turns remind us of the strangeness we miss every day.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune “Often nostalgic and whimsical . . . brings to life the shadows of our kaleidoscopic world.”—The Dallas Morning News “What makes Searcy such a master storyteller is that he is a master observer, sharing his vision through essays that read like exquisitely crafted short stories.”—San Francisco Chronicle “In twenty-one captivatingly offbeat essays, Searcy finds the exceptional in the everyday . . . and contemplates the mysteries therein with grace and eloquence.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “A collection of essays laced with wisdom and beauty.”—Paste “Slyly brilliant—a self-deprecatory look at life in all its weirdness.”—Austin American-Statesman “A work of genius—a particular kind of genius, to be sure.”—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Hoy Te Amo Mas Que Ayer...

Hoy Te Amo Mas Que Ayer...
Author: Leslie Parrott
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0829746161

How can you make the thorns of your marriage into roses? The conflicts and setbacks in your marriage can become opportunities to love each other more. Les and Leslie Parrott, well-known authors with vast experience in the area of personal relationships, believe that idiosyncrasies and individual differences---how you squeeze the toothpaste tube, how to manage money---can serve to unite marriage partners, as long as they learn constructive confrontation. Change the thorny aspects of your marriage into opportunities to love one another more, while learning how to: Build intimacy while respecting personal space; Use the power of a positive attitude in marriage; Trade boredom for entertainment, impatience for patience, business for time together, debt for a team approach to finances, and much more. Have the courage about deepening your marriage and you will discover how your relationship with God can unite marriage partners in unimaginable intimacy.

¡Ufffffff, pobres todos!

¡Ufffffff, pobres todos!
Author: José Mauricio Díaz Améndola
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2022-04-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1685174523

!Ufffffff, pobres todos! No es "sentir desden", es mas, es un sentir de "poder reconocer" donde estamos, de donde venimos. En este libro, el conscritor pretende exclamar reconocimiento de lo que podemos lograr. Por ende, despues que termines al haberte aventurado y, lograr entender este !Ufffffff! Aprontate a descubrir tu potencial positivo. !Hasta pronto!

La Luz y la Vida

La Luz y la Vida
Author: Joe McNally
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-10-21
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0134078020

En los últimos años he recibido muchísimas solicitudes de hacer una antología, una recopilación de los artículos mas populares del blog. Es fácil dejar pasar artículos, dadas las carreras que la vida nos interpone cada día. Este libro me ofrece la oportunidad de reunir mis artículos favoritos en un solo lugar, y de agrupar una diversidad de ideas, emociones, y lecciones en algo mas coherente. Es divertido, educativo y ante todo, real. Editar estos artículos ha sido como editar fotografías, seleccionas las que mas te impactan, las que tienen memorias especiales y poseen entre ellas algún tipo de conexión estética o emocional. Las siguientes 25 historias son una selección de lo mas popular, emocionante y educativo del blog, los artículos que mas resonancia han generado entre los lectores. El libro tiene dos secciones — La Luz y La Vida. La sección de La Luz cubre muchos detalles sobre la ciencia y el arte de la iluminación. Encontraras una gran cantidad de técnicas y estrategias de iluminación, tips y selección de equipo. La sección de La Vida es acerca de mis experiencias como fotógrafo, que han sido a veces dolorosas, a veces divertidas, mas espero logren ofrecer anécdotas educativas. Escribir un blog has sido distinto a escribir un libro, ya que es mucho menos formal, mas auténtico. Ocasionalmente he escrito acerca de viejos recuerdos o eventos en los cuales he podido reflexionar. En otras ocasiones, los artículos se han generado espontáneamente gracias a las experiencias vividas ese mismo día en alguna locación, de las frustraciones de subirse a un avión cargando montones de equipo fotográfico, o de tener que manejar a un cliente o sujeto complicado. Son los afanes sin editar de la experiencia fotográfica. El blog pasa de opiniones concretas, a lecciones técnicas, a reacciones rápidas y divertidas de las cosas bobas y frustrantes que pasan cada día trabajando en una locación. Son recuentos honestos de lo maravilloso, fascinante, loco, triste, frustrante, remunerador, desalentador y glorioso que es ser un artista visual. Y porque traducir estas historias al Español? Es algo que he querido hacer por mucho tiempo, sobretodo después de haber conocido tantos fotografos maravillosos y apasionados en México y Sur América que luchan por alcanzar su sueños. Quiero poder compartir mas con ellos. Agradezco a mi buen amigo Eduardo Angel quien tradujo todas estas historias con destreza técnica y gran cariño. Espero que este libro sea del agrado de todos. –Joe

The Secret Emissary

The Secret Emissary
Author: Roberto de Haro
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2024-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1662943040

The Secret Emissary tells the story of a young Mexican from a wealthy family in Sonora, Mexico. Educated in Spain, Luis Esquerre Calella de Valderano is a skilled researcher and writer, and with a penchant for international relations and diplomacy, he becomes an unofficial Vatican liaison with an American diplomat during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. A talented academic, accomplished musician, and agile sportsman—a friend to popes and aristocrats alike—Luis becomes a collaborator in underground activities against Fascists in Italy, Germany, and Spain. As a covert agent for the Jesuit Superior General and Popes Pius XI and XII and a secret liaison between the Vatican and Jesuit Curia and American military intelligence, Luis cuts a swath through history as he becomes a Monsignor, a Bishop, and after World War II, a Cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.