Take Me with You
Take Me with You

Author: Carlos Frias

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008-11-18

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 1416594043

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An evocative and unforgettable memoir from award-winning journalist Carlos Frías about his journey to Cuba where he retraces his family's history and encounters the realities of Cuba under Fidel Castro's rule. Carlos Frías, an award-winning journalist and the American-born son of Cuban exiles, grew up hearing about his parents' homeland only in parables. Their Cuba, the one they left behind four decades ago, was ethereal. It existed, for him, only in their anecdotes, and in the family that remained in Cuba—merely ghosts on the other end of a telephone. Until Fidel Castro fell ill. Sent to Cuba by his newspaper as the country began closing to foreign journalists in August 2006, Frías begins the secret journey of a lifetime—twelve days in the land of his parents. That experience led to this evocative, spectacular, and unforgettable memoir. Take Me With You is written through the unique eyes of a first-generation Cuban-American seeing the forbidden country of his ancestry for the first time. Frías 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. Frías takes in the island nation of today and attempts to reconstruct what the past was like for his parents, retracing their footsteps, searching for his roots, and discovering his history. The story creates lasting and unexpected ripples within his family on both sides of the Florida Straits—and on the author himself.

A New Day
A New Day

Author: Jon Secada

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014-10-07

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0698154487

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As one of the first successful Latin crossover artists, Jon Secada dominated the pop music charts in the early 90s, releasing hits such as Just Another Day and Angel and winning multiple Grammy Awards. As a Cuban refuge, Jon understands that life is about starting anew and embracing opportunities, something he never lost sight of while achieving his dream of being a performer and while building new dreams when life took unexpected turns. In his debut book, Jon shares the lessons he learned that made him the resilient person he is today. His moving message reaffirms that wisdom and strength comes from constantly reinventing yourself and finding what you’re made of through doubt and hardships, growing from adversity, and having faith in A New Day.

Territory of Light
Territory of Light

Author: Yuko Tsushima

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2019-02-12

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0374718660

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From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth “Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” —Foumiko Kometani, The New York Times I was puzzled by how I had changed. But I could no longer go back . . . It is spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light streaming through the windows, so bright she has to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness, becoming unstable, untethered. As the months come and go and the seasons turn, she must confront what she has lost and what she will become. At once tender and lacerating, luminous and unsettling, Yuko Tsushima’s Territory of Light is a novel of abandonment, desire, and transformation. It was originally published in twelve parts in the Japanese literary monthly Gunzo, between 1978 and 1979, each chapter marking the months in real time. It won the inaugural Noma Literary Prize.

Divorcio: Cómo salir adelante
Divorcio: Cómo salir adelante

Author: Alicia García

Publisher: Editorial Imagen

Published: 2015-09-09

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1682121755

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No hay duda alguna sobre el hecho de que el divorcio puede ser difícil, y uno de los aspectos más complejos de sobrellevar es la reconstrucción de tu vida. Todo eso fue lo que viví hace unos años. Luego de sufrir por mucho tiempo, y después de salir de un divorcio bastante complicado, pensé que las cosas se volverían a encarrilar. Pero resultó todo lo contrario. La triste realidad era que me sentía incapaz de seguir adelante con mi vida. No sabía por dónde empezar, aunque lo único que sí sabía era que tenía que hacer algo, y con urgencia. Fue entonces cuando empecé a leer todo lo que pude sobre cómo superar un divorcio. Lo que descubrí cambió mi vida por completo! Luego de poner en práctica todo lo que aprendí y después de rehacer mi vida, comencé a compartir mis experiencias con amigos y familiares. Casi sin pensarlo tenía páginas y páginas de ayuda con orientación y consejos prácticos sobre cómo afrontar un divorcio. El dia de hoy, y con este libro que tienes en tus manos, me propongo compartir todos mis secretos contigo, para que aprendas cómo reconstruir tu vida después del divorcio, por más duro que Éste haya sido. En este libro descubrirás: - Cómo dejar de llorar durante el divorcio - Cómo enfrentar esta nueva etapa ante tus amigos y familiares - Cómo reconstruir tu autoestima - Cómo seguir adelante con tu nueva vida - Cómo hacer frente a los problemas de dinero - Cómo superarse emocionalmente - Cómo reconstruir tu vida si tienes hijos Y mucho más!

DESPUES DE LA SEPARACION
DESPUES DE LA SEPARACION

Author: ANGELA WATROUS

Publisher: Editorial AMAT

Published: 2002-10-23

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9788497350556

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Diversos ejemplos de mujeres heterosexuales, bisexuales o lesbianas de todas las edades hablan de lo que realmente sucede cuando se rompe la pareja.

Living's the Strange Thing
Living's the Strange Thing

Author: Carmen Martín Gaite

Publisher: Harvill Secker

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781846557767

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As compulsively page-turning as a thriller, Carmen Martin Gaite's drama of broken dreams, lies, and the search for love is an intense meditation on the strange adventure of living "Ever since the beginning of the world, living and dying have been two sides of one coin, tossed in the air - But for me - to be perfectly honest - living's the strange thing" The protagonist of this novel, a 35-year-old woman who has lived hard and loved hard, has just lost her mother. Struggling to keep her curiosity about an inexplicable world intact, she finds her precarious equilibrium constantly besieged by resurfacing oddballs from her past and her own tendency to daydream. To force a little structure into her life, she decides to pick up her old, unfinished doctoral dissertation about an extravagant 18th century adventurer. As she wades through old papers in a dusty archive, she is forced to confront her own strange childhood, her parents' strange relationship, and the feelings that bond her to the strange architect she shares a life with.

Posttraumatic Growth
Posttraumatic Growth

Author: Richard G. Tedeschi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1998-03-01

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 1135689792

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That which does not kill us makes us stronger. (Nietzsche) The phenomenon of positive personal change following devastating events has been recognized since ancient times, but given little attention by contemporary psychologists and psychiatrists, who have tended to focus on the negative consequences of stress. In recent years, evidence from diverse fields has converged to suggest the reality and pervasive importance of the processes the editors sum up as posttraumatic growth. This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of these processes. The authors address a variety of traumas--among them bereavement, physical disability, terminal illness, combat, rape, and natural disasters--following which experiences of growth have been reported. How can sufferers from posttraumatic stress disorder best be helped? What does "resilience" in the face of high risk mean? Which personality characteristics facilitate growth? To what extent is personality change possible in adulthood? How can concepts like happiness and self-actualization be operationalized? What role do changing belief systems, schemas, or "assumptive worlds" play in positive adaptation? Is "stress innoculation" possible? How do spiritual beliefs become central for many people struck by trauma, and how are posttraumatic growth and recovery from substance abuse or the crises of serious physical illnesses linked? Such questions have concerned not only the recently defined and expanding group of "traumatologists," but also therapists of all sorts, personality and social psychologists, developmental and cognitive researchers, specialists in health psychology and behavioral medicine, and those who study religion and mental health. Overcoming the challenges of life's worst experiences can catalyze new opportunities for individual and social development. Learning about persons who discover or create the perception of positive change in their lives may shed light on the problems of those who continue to suffer. Posttraumatic Growth will stimulate dialogue among personality and social psychologists and clinicians, and influence the theoretical foundations and clinical agendas of investigators and practitioners alike.

The Moral Imagination
The Moral Imagination

Author: John Paul Lederach

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 019974758X

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"John Paul Lederach's work in the field of conciliation and mediation is internationally recognized. He has provided consultation, training and direct mediation in a range of situations from the Miskito/Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua to Somalia, Northern Ireland, Tajikistan, and the Philippines. His influential 1997 book Building Peace has become a classic in the discipline. In this book, Lederach poses the question, "How do we transcend the cycles of violence that bewitch our human community while still living in them?" Peacebuilding, in his view, is both a learned skill and an art. Finding this art, he says, requires a worldview shift. Conflict professionals must envision their work as a creative act-an exercise of what Lederach terms the "moral imagination." This imagination must, however, emerge from and speak to the hard realities of human affairs. The peacebuilder must have one foot in what is and one foot beyond what exists. The book is organized around four guiding stories that point to the moral imagination but are incomplete. Lederach seeks to understand what happened in these individual cases and how they are relevant to large-scale change. His purpose is not to propose a grand new theory. Instead he wishes to stay close to the "messiness" of real processes and change, and to recognize the serendipitous nature of the discoveries and insights that emerge along the way. overwhelmed the equally important creative process. Like most professional peacemakers, Lederach sees his work as a religious vocation. Lederach meditates on his own calling and on the spirituality that moves ordinary people to reject violence and seek reconciliation. Drawing on his twenty-five years of experience in the field he explores the evolution of his understanding of peacebuilding and points the way toward the future of the art." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004011794-d.html.