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A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in the debut––and most autobiographical––novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Winner of the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award and the Rome Prize Hector Santinio is the younger son of Alejo and Mercedes...

When a young couple moves into their new home, they are taken aback by the strange behavior of their new landlord. While at first he bid them to do all of the fixing-up the home needed on their own, he quickly changed his tune and was persistent in his attempts to help them tackle some of the rooms himself. The source of his desire to help lies in the fact that the old tenant may have hidden a fortune within the walls - a fortune that winds up belonging to the young couple after all!

On the eve of Shiloh, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, a mysterious visitor appears at General William Tecumseh Sherman’s camp. Without family or home, with only a uniform and the name of Jesse, this prepossessing stranger is an intriguing mix of naiveté and wisdom, ignorant of...

En 1940 Winston Churchill tiene una idea que cambiará el curso de la guerra: crear una nueva sección de los servicios secretos, el Special Operations Executive (SOE), para llevar a cabo acciones de sabotaje desde el interior de las líneas enemigas. Unos meses más tarde, el joven Paul-Émile deja París rumbo a Londres con la esperanza de unirse a la Resistencia. El SOE no tarda en llamarlo a sus filas, junto a un grupo de jóvenes compañeros.