Showing results for "Amistad" in Literature & Fiction

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century...

Mi mejor amiga y yo guardamos un terrible secreto. Y haré todo lo posible para protegerlo. Emma y yo éramos inseparables, crecimos haciendo todo juntas. Hasta la noche en la que todo cambió, y me marché, alejándome de mi madre, de mi hermana, de todo lo que conocía. Desde entonces, Emma y yo no hemos vuelto a hablar. Mi hermana, Lily, también estaba en la playa aquella noche. Desde ese momento, no ha vuelto a decir ni una sola palabra. Ya han pasado diez años. Pero tengo que volver, mamá y Lily necesitan mi ayuda. Además, no puedo huir del pasado para siempre. Estoy lista para hablar con Emma.

It's the late 1980s and Gena, a young girl from the projects, meets millionaire drug dealer Quadir and falls madly in love. Quadir builds a massive empire while fighting his rivals and enemies. Gena faces the challenges of holding onto her man, her house, her car, and the cash. Both of them find...

In this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political. Originally published forty years ago, Alice Walker’s first collection of nonfiction is a dazzling compendium that...

“Tramaine Suubi is a visionary love poet, and stages makes a singular life feel vaster than the life cycle of a star. In this poetry of dissolution and re-making, of multiplications and expansion, embodied tenderness is a force capable of moving us “beyond the binary.” As it journeys from...

Romany acaba de cumplir dieciocho años y está a punto de entrar en la edad adulta cuando, de repente, su madre, Angie, la única progenitora que ha conocido, fallece a causa de una enfermedad repentina. A lo largo de este viaje, Romany tendrá que asumir el dolor de la pérdida y el regreso de algunos fantasmas del pasado que pondrán su vida y la de sus tutores patas arriba. Y mientras todos se enfrentan a sus miedos, a veces superándolos, otras aceptándolos, Angie les enseña que se necesita una comunidad, una familia, para ser feliz.

The New York Times bestselling multitalented artist delivers an electrifying novel—The Accomplice--that combines the imaginative page-turning suspense of S. A. Cosby’s books with the high-tension thrills of the Netflix blockbuster series Money Heist. In The Accomplice, Curtis ""50 Cent""...

El líder de un viejo grupo de amigos pierde súbitamente la memoria. Sus camaradas, desesperados, inventan un modo muy peculiar de reconstruírsela. Migue, Blanquito, Tordo, Croata, Chicho y Careca rondan los ochenta años. Han pasado casi sesenta juntos, compartieron todo tipo de peripecias. Un día Migue, el líder natural del grupo, sufre un ACV que le afecta la memoria de largo plazo. Sus viejos amigos ahora son, para él, perfectos desconocidos. Ellos, lejos de rendirse, deciden reconstruirle el vacío de un modo peculiar: se la narran en audios de WhatsApp.

En las profundidades de Hondarribia, en el siglo XVI, Anne se convierte en portadora de un don divino: La habilidad de hablar todas las lenguas de su era. Pero este regalo celestial también atrae sombras mortales, pues la Inquisición acecha, lista para acusarla de brujería. Su única escapatoria es la orden de San Francisco de Asís de Pamplona, un santuario que marca el inicio de una peregrinación hacia Roma y Tierra Santa.

In this “brilliant” (Essence) sequel to The Color Purple, Alice Walker weaves an intricate, rich tapestry of interrelated lives. Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of the dozens of astonishing characters in The Temple of My Familiar, all of whom are dealing in some...

“An immersive horror fairy tale marrying Crimson Peak to Pan’s Labyrinth upon strange foundations. You’re never really safe here, with Midnight Rooms wondrously defying expectation and refusing obedience. Donyae Coles leads us into a house of sinister magic, full of corners for peeking...

WINNER OF THE 2025 WHITING AWARD FOR FICTION PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE LONGLIST As wrenching and luminous as Omar El Akkad’s What Strange Paradise and Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West, a searing exploration of the global migration crisis that moves from Nigeria to...

In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of Ella Fitzgerald, arguably the greatest singer of the twentieth century. When fifteen-year-old Ella...

“Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pain, and her life as real as any history that proceeded. Nervous gives face and weight to those forgotten women whose suffering has become little more than anecdotal...

“The thing I love about Connie Briscoe now is the same thing I’ve always loved about Connie Briscoe—she writes highly commercial, pacey, character-driven stories. She was made for domestic suspense.” —Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author The revered New York Times...

Reminiscent of the works of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Octavia Butler, a biting social commentary from the acclaimed author of Lakewood that speaks to our times—a piercing dystopian novel about the unbreakable bond between a young woman and her mysterious mother, set in a world in...

A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Vogue : Best Books to Read This Winter...

“Entertaining. . . . Briscoe folds some perceptive class critiques into her intoxicating blend of romance and suspense. This offers plenty of gothic pleasures.”—Publishers Weekly New York Times bestselling author Connie Briscoe updates Daphne Du Maurier’s classic Rebecca in this chilling...

A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, now available in a new edition featuring an introduction by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage. “A...

“Iced is a powerhouse. . . . Ray Shell writes beautifully. The story is heartbreaking. I kept putting it down and picking it up again—it won’t let me go.”—Maya Angelou A timeless tale of one man’s decline into the depths of addiction that is at both a shocking study of the addict’s...