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In this extraordinary novel, a forty-year-old woman journeys to her cultural homeland—and uncovers a harrowing secret that makes her rethink everything she thought she knew about her mother. "An unforgettable story about mothers, daughters, and sisters reaching inward for solace and strength...

Private investigator Heredia has many phantoms - and one of his most haunting has come calling. Argentine investigative journalist Fernanda Arredondo, an old flame he loved and lost, needs to see him after saying good-bye years ago. All it takes is a single day for Heredia to lose her again when she’s found dead - an apparent suicide in a lonely hotel room in Santiago. Heredia has more than his instincts to tell him that it was murder.

The sweeping, unforgettable story of an interracial couple in 1990s New York City who are determined to protect their love against all odds—a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet “Triumphant . . . sensuous, tender, and faceted like cut glass.”—Cathy Park Hong, award-winning author...

La primera novela de Albalucía Ángel es una obra torrencial y adelantada a su tiempo que mezcla vivencias, digresiones y quimeras para trasladar al lector, a través de la mente de su protagonista, en un viaje frenético que lo llevará a toda velocidad a París, Roma, las islas griegas o Venus en una narración sin límites de género ni convenciones de estilo. Una obra que supuso un antes y un después para la literatura latinoamericana escrita por mujeres e introdujo con arrebato la experimentación posmodernista en la narrativa colombiana.

En el año 1512, un navío español procedente de la primera colonia asentada en Tierra Firme regresa a la isla La Española. Tras naufragar en la costa jamaicana, veinte supervivientes, entre hombres y mujeres, se ven arrastrados por una tormenta hasta la península de Yucatán, donde son...

México, finales del siglo XVI. Desde su niñez, la falsa beata Crisanta Cruz y el indio apóstata Tlacotzin, desarrollaron una férrea voluntad de sobrevivir y una refinada malicia para burlarse de sus opresores. Ellos son la columna vertebral de una hilarante intriga novelesca que desnuda los vicios privados y las virtudes públicas de la sociedad colonial: la teatralidad del misticismo, los laberintos barrocos del deseo reprimido, el culto clandestino de los Dioses prehispánicos, la sórdida lucha por el poder entre las órdenes religiosas...

Cool, selbstbewusst und zickig präsentiert sich die Influencerin Gladys in den sozialen Medien. Außerhalb der Öffentlichkeit zerbricht sie beinahe an ihren Albträumen aus ihrer Zeit mit den Red Rocks. Als noch ein Stalker in ihr Leben tritt und sie immer massiver belästigt, sucht sie Hilfe bei Mia, ihrer Stiefschwester, die unverzüglich Rix, den Road Captain informiert. Ausgerechnet der Weiberheld Duke wird als ihr "Schatten" eingesetzt und raubt ihr den letzten Nerv. Seit Monaten fliegen zwischen ihnen Fetzen, denn beide haben ziemlich vorgefasste Meinung über den jeweils anderen.

A 2025 CHRISTY AWARD WINNER! "A poignant story of sisterhood, motherhood, and new love found in old places. McKnight's writing is as delectable as the Gullah cuisine at the heart of the novel." --Denny S. Bryce, bestselling author of The Other Princess and Wild Women and the Blues From the...

In this riveting continuation of the Brisco family saga, brothers Dub and Tim strive to persevere against their early 1900s post-slavery beginnings—clashing with their history of family trauma and their different coping mechanisms for living in a world that doesn’t accept them. While Dub becomes a respected coal miner and finds prosperity for his family, Tim continues a slow descent into a fog of psychosis, alcoholism, and perpetual joblessness—forced to live an isolated existence on Dub’s property despite his desire for deeper connection.

Known as "the most important 'minority' U.S. poet since Langston Hughes" ( Booklist), Martin Espada has entranced hundres of audiences across the country, at college campuses, prisons, churches, even a tortilla factory and a boxing gym, but Now the Dead Will Dance the Mambo is his first audio collection of poems. Many of these poems arise from his Puerto Rican heritage and his work experiences, ranging from bouncer to tenant lawyer.

La obra de una de las grandes maestras de la literatura norteamericana con prólogos actualizados. Los relatos más significativos de la singular y sutil narrativa de Carson McCullers, que han accedido ya a la consideración de clásicos de la moderna literatura norteamericana. Prólogo de Paulina Flores.

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In his centenary year, this volume of the Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate’s poems celebrates the indispensable artistry of a writer who faced the history of his era with a “clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness” (The New...