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It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring for a slice of his country, nothing is more upsetting than the decision of his son, Omar, to work as a digger in the excavation zone. But for Omar, whose upbringing was quiet and lonely, this job offers a chance to finally find connection.

Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong, not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

Carmen Sanchez is a tough Homeland Security agent who plays by the rules. But when her sister is attacked, revealing a connection to a series of murders across Southern California, she realizes a conventional investigation will not be enough to stop the ruthless perpetrator. With nowhere else to turn, Sanchez enlists the aid of Professor Jake Heron, a brilliant and quirky private security expert who, unlike Sanchez, believes rules are merely suggestions. The two have a troubled past, but he owes her a favor and she’s cashing in.

The Meth Chronicles IV, comes back full circle to Rebecca the curandera, from Mexico. Upon arriving in Bakersfield to stay with her brother, Rebecca is informed a meth gang has control of her sixteen-year-old niece, who has shunned the family and run away. Not long after, Rebecca’s cursed rock appears about the time the gang’s luck runs out and members start dying, especially after Rebecca learns from her niece (who’d returned to the family) that they deal in human trafficking as well. After the gang’s demise, Rebecca is drawn away, back to Redondo Beach and her detectives, to help ...

Nels Watson has been having nightmares for as long as he can remember—some so violent and real he wakes up sweat-soaked and trembling with fear. His problems start when he travels to the beachfront community of Costambar, on the north shore of the Dominican Republic. He meets his long-time girlfriend Novelee and strange things start happening—his worst nightmares begin coming true. He dreams of his friends being stalked and killed and suddenly realizes he is being hunted by a ruthless killer. Novelee’s behavior becomes increasingly erratic and belongings go missing from his apartment....

Amor entre las sierras II: Susurros desde el cielo Suele decirse que los amigos son la familia que uno escoge, pero, ¿cuánto hay de verdad en estas palabras? Tal vez más de lo que imaginas. Y si deseas asegurarte, comprueba por ti mismo el grandioso e invencible vínculo que nuestro ya conocido Lumber logró formar con las personas que pasaron a vivir en su hospitalario rancho. Regresa a las majestuosas sierras uruguayas y aprende definitivamente el verdadero significado de la palabra “amor” Adelante, las puertas de “Más allá del Horizonte”, se abren una vez más para ...

Tomando un té Como todos los jueves, Damián Núñez salió del consultorio de su terapeuta y fue a tomar un té a su confitería preferida, “La Posada del Mar”, ubicado frente a la Playa Pocitos, uno de los barrios residenciales de Montevideo. Sin duda el jueves era su día predilecto, no solo porque tenía libre en el supermercado donde trabajaba como reponedor, sino porque también tenía su consulta semanal con el Doctor Brandon, su psicólogo desde hacía ya cinco años. -Sin duda me cambió la vida. Además de ayudarme a comprender que siempre sería Gay, me convenció acerca de ...

POESIA Y LIBERTAD: PEREGRINACIÓN, TETRALOGÍA INDÍGENA CANTOS DEL EXILIO . Escribir y transmitir ha sido hoy y siempre una larga y profunda actitud. Repensar nuestra cultura, nuestra historia, nuestra identidad no nos aleja de esa actitud. En el caso de nuestros pueblos centroamericanos, en especial nuestros pueblos que en un pasado habitaron y hasta hoy en día continúan vivos a través de la cultura y su descendencia, en donde se asentaron lejanos pueblos llamados originarios, hemos contado no sólo con tradición oral, que es válida y honrosa; asimismo hemos contado con escritura, ...

Marcos Valdez already had more women than he could stand. But no, the rich playboy just had to have the very beautiful, the very innocent Chasity Bradshaw too. In doing so, he set off a chain of events that splattered both of their lives with vivid pain and agony for many years to come. Unfortunately for Marcos, he realized too late that he really was in love with Chasity and desperately wanted her back. As for Chasity, her faith in people was devastated, her faith in God was severely tested, and she wanted nothing else to do with Marcos. Will Marcos ever reclaim the heart of the woman he ...

Talking to the dead can make your dreams come true. Estrella turns to late singers to help her with her singing career. She uses her gift to see the people who have crossed over to the other side. When someone close to her dies, she might need to turn to the dead for help. Can she trust these spirits? Or, do they have something more sinister in store?

Edición integral de 7 novelas situadas en diferentes momentos de la historia de España. Y protagonizadas por la misma familia. Una historia fascinante conformada por : 1 LA SEMILLA DE LA VENGANZA (Paleolítico) Dos clanes enfrentados provocarán la primera gran tragedia de la historia. 2 VENGANZA EN HISPANIA (Del fin de la glaciación de Würm a la Hispania romana) Un imperio que agoniza será testigo de una historia terrible de traición, redención y muerte. 3 LA MAGIA MÁS ANTIGUA (El nacimiento de España y el reino visigodo de Toledo) Cuando dos viajeros sin rumbo conocen a un noble ...

Un odio irracional será el germen de la oposición entre dos clanes paleolíticos en la península ibérica, el lugar que un día será España. La historia de dos hombres cuyo enfrentamiento será uno de los primeros de la historia de la humanidad. Una reconstrucción fidedigna de una época: un relato brillante y esclarecedor que te conmoverá.

Si alguna vez sentiste que no podías más, si te rompieron el corazón, si confiaste a ciegas y te apuñalaron por la espalda, si creíste que después del dolor no había nada más, este libro es para ti. En Valentía II encontramos el reflejo de alguien que supo abrazar el dolor y convertirlo en vuelo, como un colibrí renaciendo después de una noche fría de invierno. Kelbin Torres, una vez más, abre las puertas de su alma para mostrarnos que cada caída no es más que un impulso para ser valientes y continuar.

La profecía del Coyote hambriento lo decía: habría de salvar al pueblo chichimeca del tirano Tezozómoc, aquel que juró en su juventud recuperar la grandeza del señorío de Azcapotzalco; aquel que logró unir las voluntades de varios pueblos y alzar los cimientos de una civilización que se convirtió en imperio; aquel que sería el primer gran ejemplo de la política brutal y sanguinaria que dominaría el Valle de México por más de un siglo.

The Mexican American War has ended, but in a California divided between two nations, Anglo squatters continue to antagonize citizens of Mexican descent by making claims on their land. Against this charged backdrop, the lives of the Alamar family - the rightful owners of a San Diego ranch - become politically, economically, and romantically entwined with a family of New England settlers, the Darrells. Inspired by experiences in her own life, Ruiz de Burton insightfully captured a troubling time in American history - a period of intense corruption, greed, racism, and classism.

Alma Cruz, the celebrated writer at the heart of The Cemetery of Untold Stories, doesn’t want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories—literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her.

A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love—self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural—is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on.

Gustavo "Highway" Sanchez is a late-in-life world traveler, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the "notorious infamous", like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, The Story of My Teeth is an elegant, witty, exhilarating romp through the industrial suburbs of Mexico City and Luiselli's own literary influences.

Euridice is bright and ambitious. But this is Brazil in the 1940s, and society expects her to be a loving wife and mother. While Antenor is busy congratulating himself on his excellent catch, Euridice spends her spends her humdrum days ironing his shirts and removing the lumps of onion from his food, dreaming of the success she could have made of herself - as a writer, dressmaker or culinary whiz - in another life.

Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in this collection dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free from her damaging influence during a desperate and disastrous attempt to rescue her brother from foster care. A man, his wife, and his mistress each confront the borders separating love and hate, obligation and longing, on the eve of a flight to San Juan. A college student grapples with the space between chivalry and machismo in a tense encounter involving a nun.