Showing results for "The Dragon" in Women

When Wayétu Moore turns five years old, her father and grandmother throw her a big birthday party at their home in Monrovia, Liberia, but all she can think about is how much she misses her mother, who is working and studying in faraway New York. Before she gets the reunion her father promised her, war breaks out in Liberia. The family is forced to flee their home on foot, walking and hiding for three weeks until they arrive in the village of Lai.

Anna Grau cuenta una sensacional historia de amor, la suya, que contiene a su vez muchas historias más y que entrelaza recuerdos y testimonios, vivencias y presencias, leyendas urbanas por aclarar y secretos por descubrir. Es un homenaje a un hombre mucho más famoso que conocido —Fernando Sánchez Dragó— y un tributo a toda una generación de mujeres que se creían que ya tenían la libertad hecha y luego han tenido que ponerse el mundo por montera para seguir el camino del corazón sin renunciar al de la cabeza.

For fans of unheralded women’s stories, a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz—one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime “No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much of what was going on behind the scene as did Sigrid Schultz.” —...

Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood's most famous Chinese American actress, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—"Orientally yours." Now, more than a century after her birth, Yunte Huang narrates Wong's tragic life story, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent, prewar Shanghai, and capturing American television in its infancy.