“A powerful and enchanting story… a bridge between North and South America. From the very first sentence I was trapped and could not resist the invitation to cross that bridge.” —Isabel Allende, author of The House of the Spirits Three thousand years of history and the myths of many cultures, as well as the fates of a dozen unforgettable characters, all collide one hot summer in 1958 in the community of Buckeye Road outside Phoenix. From this desert community blooms a world of marvels spilling out of the adobe homes, tar-paper-shacks, rusted Cadillacs, and battered trailers. At the center of this rich multicultural community is Beto, who must navigate the challenges of belonging to two worlds, and being torn between the love and fear of both. Guided by his jazz-music loving Spanish grandmother and his Yaqui Indian grandfather, Beto experiences all the richness that this community has to offer: Through food, spirit journeys, and manhood ceremonies, he discovers what it means to reconcile all sides of himself. “Magic realism in the American Southwest… a wonderful story of cultures clashing and merging… captures the color, language and feel of the small-town South in a manner that is almost astonishing.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Las Maravillas de la Santa Misa, abrir los ojos de cualquier cat lico al inmenso tesoro espiritual que poseemos en el Santo Sacrificio de la Misa. Participar en la Misa es la mejor forma de obtener gracias, misericordia y favores de Dios. Este librito puede ser el m todo para obtener la gracia divina e incluso hasta la salvaci n de muchas almas. Contiene muchas palabras que los santos han dicho sobre la Misa, historias de los ngeles presentes en la Misa, milagros que han ocurrido durante su celebraci n y los beneficios de esta. Este librito revela uno de los m 's grandes secretos en el universo: No hay nada parecido en la tierra a la Misa.

¿CÓMO EXPLICAR UN AMOR QUE NO TIENE EXPLICACIÓN?¿Qué sucederá si dejas que este amor conmueva tu corazón?Descubra al Dios que siempre ha deseado encontrar: un Padre que le ama y que está comprometido con su mayor felicidad.En su mundo que llora por ser amado, ¿ha sido impactado por el amor de Dios? En su interior, ¿aún lo ve como una figura autoritaria que demanda que se haga todo de forma correcta o ha vislumbrado a su Padre celestial como realmente está, sonriéndole con gozo indescriptible? John Ortberg descorre las cortinas que cubren este concepto erróneo para revelar lo que siempre usted ha esperado y lo que siempre ha sabido que es verdad: El amor de Dios es un amor que va más allá de la razón. Y está esperando para fluir a su vida con una gracia que puede transformarle a usted y a los que le rodean.

John Irving returns to the themes that established him as one of our most admired and beloved authors in this absorbing novel of fate and memory. In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego—a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico—has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what’s coming—specifically, her own future and her brother’s. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn’t know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your telling her, she knows all the worst things that have happened to you. Lupe doesn’t know the future as accurately. But consider what a terrible burden it is, if you believe you know the future—especially your own future, or, even worse, the future of someone you love. What might a thirteen-year-old girl be driven to do, if she thought she could change the future? As an older man, Juan Diego will take a trip to the Philippines, but what travels with him are his dreams and memories; he is most alive in his childhood and early adolescence in Mexico. As we grow older—most of all, in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past. Sometimes, we live more vividly in the past than in the present. Avenue of Mysteries is the story of what happens to Juan Diego in the Philippines, where what happened to him in the past—in Mexico—collides with his future.