Mario Escobar
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On an otherwise ordinary morning in 1943, Helene Hannemann is preparing her five children for the day when the German police arrive at her home. Helene's worst fears come true when the police, under strict orders from the SS, demand that her children and husband, all of Romani heritage, be taken into custody. Though Helene is German and safe from the forces invading her home, she refuses to leave her family--sealing her fate in a way she never could...
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2020
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"Convertir a la señora Harriet Beecher Stowe, escritora de La cabaña del tío Tom, en la heroína de su propia vida, ha sido la manera de regalar a este siglo XXI, un nuevo relato de la lucha entre el Amor, la Verdad y la Fe, frente al odio, el racismo y la mentira". "Este libro es una obra de arte. Inteligente. Ingeniosa y encantadora. La vida de la señora Beecher Stowe es una increíble
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"September 1, 1939. Sixty-year-old Janusz Korczak and the students and teachers at his Dom Sierot Jewish orphanage are outside enjoying a beautiful day in Warsaw. Hours later, their lives are altered forever when the Nazis invade. Suddenly treated as an outcast in his own city, Janusz--a respected leader known for his heroism and teaching--is determined to do whatever it takes to protect the children from the horrors to come. When over four hundred...
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2024
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Vuelve uno de los autores españoles más leídos internacionalmente.
400.000 ejemplares vendidos.Bestseller del USA TODAY. Traducido en quince países.
<p style="text-align: center;">Una librera que debe huir del fascismo
Una librera que debe huir del fascismo
Una ciudad a punto de cambiar para siempre
Un homenaje a los libros y a su capacidad para salvarnos
Madrid, 1934. Soplan vientos de cambio en la España de la Segunda República cuando...
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2024
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El autor bestseller internacional, Mario Escobar, regresa con la impactante historia de Camilo Cienfuegos, el héroe olvidado de la Revolución cubana.
Camilo Cienfuegos fue un carismático revolucionario que se hizo amigo de Fidel Castro cuando empezaron las protestas para derrocar la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista. Siempre fiel a los ideales de la Revolución, Cienfuegos luchó al lado de Fidel, Raúl
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2023
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¿Está preparado para emprender un camino transformador hacia una vida de verdadera plenitud? "Cómo vivir una vida sencilla al estilo de Jesús", es un viaje transformador hacia la sencillez, guiado por la sabiduría intemporal del propio Jesús.
Con este libro, Mario Escobar te invita a embarcarte en una exploración que cambiará tu vida, inspirándote en las enseñanzas de Jesús para abrazar una vida más sencilla y llena de propósito. Con...
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2013
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El Primer Papa Latinoamericano. Un hombre que eligió como su primer acto una simple petición: por favor oren por mí.
Francisco es la biografía completa de un hombre humilde que de la noche a la mañana se ha convertido en uno de los hombres más influyentes del planeta.
La reciente dimisión del Papa Benedicto XVI tomó al mundo por sorpresa y por
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"Based on the true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Elisabeth Eidenbenz left Switzerland in 1937 to aid children orphaned during the Spanish Civil War. Now, her work has led her to France, where she's determined to provide expectant mothers and their unborn children a refuge amid one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Desperate...
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"Historians refer to the Spanish Civil War as one of the bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. In 1937, at Mexico's request and offer, nearly 500 children from Spain - remembered as Los Niños de Morelia - were relocated via ship to Mexico to escape the war's violence. These children traveled across the sea without their families and were expected to return at the war's end. No one could have foreseen another world war was on the way - or that...
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2013.
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First Jesuit. First Latin American. And a new pope who chose as his first act a simple request: please pray for me. Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is a man of prayer, a man of action, and a humble man with vast theological training. He faces a Catholic Church in crisis, hounded by scandals, yet does not shy away from the challenge thrust upon him. A tireless fighter against poverty and marginalization, he is a beacon of hope for the poor...
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"Five years after the highly publicized trial of Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," law student Valérie Portheret began her doctoral research into the 108 children who disappeared from Vénissieux fifty years earlier, children who somehow managed to escape deportation and certain death in the German concentration camps. She soon discovers that their rescue was no unexplainable miracle. It was the result of a coordinated effort by clergy, civilians,...
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"August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Vélodrome d'Hiver-- a massive,...
14) Recuérdame: el barco que salvó a casi medio millar de niños republicanos de la Guerra Civil Española
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2019.
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xx, 348 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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"Quinientos niños suben a un barco desde Barcelona con destino a México buscando huir del regimen Franquista. Con la esperanza de una vida mejor y libertad, el viaje se ve amenazado varias veces, primero por el ejército que intenta capturarlos y luego por la odisea que les toca vivir de camino a libertad"--
"The latest book by Spanish bestselling author Mario Escobar, RECUERDAME takes a little known historical event--the escape of over 500 children...
