Forever by Your Side: The Aaron Aragon Story

Forever by Your Side: The Aaron Aragon Story
Do you believe in heaven? Can our deceased loved ones communicate with us from the afterlife? Forever by Your Side is a powerful story about a 16 year old boy who dies three weeks after being diagnosed with a rare blood disease. Prior to his death, he promises his family that when he dies he will send them signs from heaven reassuring them that he is safe. In these pages, his mother shares her family’s never-ending journey on their pathway to healing. The gripping stories of her son’s signs from the spirit world will leave you captivated. This book will not only change the way you view death, but will help you recognize that death is not the end. Our deceased loved ones are with us all the time in spirit and constantly trying to grab our attention here in the physical world, to comfort and guide us until we meet again on the other side. If you have faith and believe, the signs from heaven are everywhere. This compelling story will touch the heart of anyone who has ever lost a loved one.

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Kingship and Propaganda: Royal Eloquence and the Crown of Aragon c. 1200-1450 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

Kingship and Propaganda: Royal Eloquence and the Crown of Aragon c. 1200-1450 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Crown of Aragon was a rapidly expanding and powerful political unit with an original form of representative government. Throughout this period a series of energetic and talented rulers sought to maintain royal authority and govern their realms effectively. Their persuasive rhetoric, and that of their advisers, is preserved in the archives of the Crown of Aragon in Barcelona, which provide a rich and under-exploited vein of source material for historians. There are long letters to their subjects, historical works, and the proceedings of the cortes, where the kings and queens persuaded their reluctant subjects to grant taxes and to support their decisions. Suzanne F. Cawsey examines the tradition of royal eloquence, thereby illuminating the nature of political discourse and persuasion in medieval Aragon and exploring the key ideas shared by the king and the political classes of the kingdom.

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The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon: The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII. In Usum Laicorum

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon: The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII. In Usum Laicorum
This Elibron Classics edition is a facsimile reprint of a 1891 edition by Longmans, Green & Co., London.

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Sisters/Hermanas

Sisters/Hermanas

Told in both English and Spanish, Sisters/Hermanas tells of Rosa, a fourteen-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico City, and Traci, a fourteen-year-old from the suburbs of Houston. “Paulsen has done a masterful job of creating two well-developed, believable characters trapped in environments where the elements of beauty, youth, and popularity have the highest value, and are deemed essential to survival. This is an absorbing tale that rings all too true with real-life pressures and stressful situations that present no easy choices.”–VOYA

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The Penitentes of New Mexico

The Penitentes of New Mexico
This is the first major study by a Hispano from New Mexico with intergenerational ties to the Penitentes–the deeply religious group called Hermanos de la Luz, Brothers of the Light. It also ties the santero folk art of New Mexico, the Penitente Brotherhood, and the Penitente religious hymns, alabados, together. De Aragón asserts that one cannot truly function without all three and herein lies the devotional beauty that has been passed down for generations in Spanish folk tradition.

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El otro paredón: Asesinatos de la reputación en Cuba (Spanish Edition)

El otro paredón: Asesinatos de la reputación en Cuba (Spanish Edition)

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Hay muchas maneras de eliminar a una persona, una de ellas es robándole el prestigio. Por primera vez académicos y periodistas con diferentes trayectorias políticas analizan las prácticas de asesinatos de reputaciones de personas y grupos sociales que ha ejercido el gobierno cubano por medio siglo.

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El honor es algo que muchas personas valoran más que la propia vida. A lo largo de la historia no han faltado individuos que se han enzarzado en duelos a muerte por cuestiones de honor. No pocas naciones entraron en guerra con otras, o aniquilaron sectores enteros de su población para supuestamente proteger el honor patrio o el de una raza.

En este libro, el asesinato de reputaciones no es equivalente al que pueda desarrollar un partido político de oposición contra el gobierno o un grupo de consumidores insatisfechos contra un restaurante. No estamos hablando de difamaciones personales o críticas institucionales. Nos referimos a una forma organizada de terrorismo estatal orientado hacia la deliberada y completa destrucción de la credibilidad de una persona, grupo o institución.

El otro paredón examina este tema a la luz de la experiencia cubana mediante varios ejemplos: el político Carlos Márquez Sterling, el empresario Amadeo Barletta, el periodista Carlos Alberto Montaner y centros de estudios académicos creados por el propio regimen.

Rafael Rojas, destacado intelectual y el historiador de las ideas cubanas más descollante de su generación, centra su análisis en la manera en que el régimen cubano ha desplegado desde temprano un esfuerzo deliberado por construir una historiografía oficial que contribuya a legitimarlo.

Uva de Aragón, reconocida escritora del exilio histórico cubano, para quien la ausencia de odios y la prédica por la reconciliación ha sido una constante, analiza el modo en que la clase política pre revolucionaria fue demonizada, incluso antes de 1959, y el modo arbitrario en que sus reputaciones, incluida la de su padre, el Dr. Carlos Márquez Sterling, quien presidiera honorablemente y con gran equidad la Asamblea Constituyente en 1940.

Juan Antonio Blanco utiliza como eje central de su trabajo al empresario Amadeo Barletta y muestra el modo en que el gobierno cubano también se ha valido del asesinato de reputaciones, primero para confiscar arbitrariamente los bienes de este empresario, y luego para distraer la atención de la opinión pública nacional e internacional cuando las estructuras militares cubanas se vieron envueltas en un escándalo por operaciones de narcotráfico en 1989.

Otros dos autores, Ana Julia Faya y Carlos Alberto Montaner, exponen el modo en que aun partiendo de perspectivas opuestas (marxista y liberal), ambos han sido acosados por esta modalidad de terrorismo de estado que es el asesinato de reputaciones.

El tiempo de los asesinos de reputaciones viene llegando a su fin, a pesar de prejuicios y concepciones que prevalecen sembrados en la sociedad cubana. Lo realmente nuevo y esperanzador en Cuba no es el gobierno y sus giros políticos, sino el cambio que se viene operando en las actitudes de las personas. Los jóvenes ya no aceptan a pie juntillas las versiones de la historiografía oficial sobre personas y hechos. Quieren indagar la verdad de lo ocurrido en todas estas décadas. La gente —incluidos militantes y funcionarios— va perdiendo el miedo a hablar.

Los historiadores no solo deben hacer uso de una metodología rigurosa e imparcial para determinar el modo en que realmente actuó cada persona. También se les reclama la contextualización de los hechos para poder alcanzar una mejor comprensión de por qué cada cual se alineó del modo en que lo hizo durante este prolongado conflicto. La reconciliación entre cubanos reclama ese entendimiento contextualizado de percepciones y actuaciones pasadas.

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Michelin Map Spain North East: Aragon, Cataluna 574 (Maps/Regional (Michelin))

Michelin Map Spain North East: Aragon, Cataluna  574 (Maps/Regional (Michelin))
Michelin regional maps each contain practical road and route information. Special Michelin reads-like-a-book format for easy use in folding and unfolding. Useful information for planning trips, including gas stations, 24-hour service stations, toll gates, rest areas and service plazas. Clear, precise cartography. Icons pinpoint important travel information.

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Michelin Map Spain North East: Aragon, Cataluna 574 (Maps/Regional (Michelin))

Michelin Map Spain North East: Aragon, Cataluna  574 (Maps/Regional (Michelin))
Michelin regional maps each contain practical road and route information. Special Michelin reads-like-a-book format for easy use in folding and unfolding. Useful information for planning trips, including gas stations, 24-hour service stations, toll gates, rest areas and service plazas. Clear, precise cartography. Icons pinpoint important travel information.

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The King’s Pleasure: A Novel of Katharine of Aragon

Released for the first time in decades, this international bestseller powerfully tells of the life of Katharine of Aragon, from her childhood in Spain to her reign and downfall in England as the first wife of Henry VII. A princess by birth and a queen by marriage, Katharine always held the highest aspirations for her life, never doubting a vision both she and her mother, Isabella of Spain, had of her becoming one of the great rulers of Europe.

After a short-lived and childless marriage to sickly prince Arthur of England, Katharine finds herself handed down to his brother, the future king Henry VII, a handsome, passionate man with whom she forms a strong bond of mutual admiration and love. Their relationship seems ideal — equals in status, ambition, and respect for each other.

As the years go by, King Henry becomes consumed by greed, paranoia, and arrogance, with a roving eye that has settled on the young Anne Boleyn. It is this obsession that will lead to his destruction and the humiliation of Katharine, the woman he once would have done anything to protect, forever changing the face of English history and religion.

Beloved by her fans and a queen of the genre, Norah Lofts wrote tales of royal Britain that have stood the test of time, and The King’s Pleasure is now reissued for a new generation of adoring readers.

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We Ain’t Too Bright, Are We?

We Aint Too Bright, Are We?

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