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On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women. Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural.

Ash Campbell has been in love with Hazel Elliot since high school. Now, at the same college, their interactions are limited to playful feuding over the best chair in their favourite coffee shop. But Ash’s attraction to the prickly girl from home has only grown stronger. And when these frenemies are forced to drive back to their hometown of Locket Prairie, Texas, together for Christmas, the pair must endure not only each other but bad music, inclement weather, and B&Bs with only one bed …

This haunting collection of 15 spoken word pieces penned by a widely published poet interweaves with sound design to create evocative and richly colored works of the imagination. Surreal, with a hint of the fairy tale, crossing grittiness and darkness with sweetness and light, the stories and images seem to emerge from the dream state. The sound design includes original music, found sound, field recordings and electronics, providing a soundscape for the poetry.

A partir de un accidente en su infancia, Ema indaga en el vínculo con su madre y, embarazada de su segundo hijo, encara un viaje en busca de respuestas: ¿quién es realmente Elena? ¿La conoce lo suficiente? Su madre es distante y hay una zona que ella no logra franquear por más que lo intente; eso no cambió con el paso de los años.

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude is a sustained meditation on that which goes away—loved ones, the seasons, the earth as we know it—that tries to find solace in the processes of the garden and the orchard. That is, this is a book that studies the wisdom of the garden and orchard, those places where all—death, sorrow, loss—is converted into what might, with patience, nourish us.

Bringing the Shovel Down maps the long and arduous process of being inculcated with the mythologies of state and power, the ramifications of that inculcation (largely, the loss of our humanity in the service of maintaining those mythologies), and finally, what it might mean, what it might provide us, if we were to transform those myths. The book, finally, has one underlying question: How might we better love one another?

From ancient times to the present day, The World in Books offers a wide-ranging historical education through pleasure reading—and a fantastic introduction to some of the most thought-provoking, profound, and interesting nonfiction works of all time. From Sun Tzu’s The Art of War to bell hooks’s All About Love, as well as such recent classics as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists, Davis’s guide suggests a world of nonfiction books and explains just why they’re so historically meaningful and culturally relevant today.

In 1960s New York, Edward Ives is a picture of the American dream. Adopted as a child by a widowed print shop manager who helped him cultivate a love of drawing, he now has a successful career as an illustrator in advertising, a beautiful home with his wife and muse, Annie, and two loving children. But this idyllic life is brutally wrenched away when Ives’s 17-year-old son, Robert is murdered in a crime of opportunity that proves to be as random as it is senseless.

After a harrowing flight, Queenie, her younger brother, and their elderly Chinese father arrive in the United States from the Philippines. They’re here to finally reunite with Queenie’s Filipina mother, who has been working as a nurse in Brooklyn for the past few years—building a life that everyone hopes will set them up for better prospects. But her mother is not the same woman she was in the Philippines: Something in her face is different, almost hardened, and she seems so American already.

In the present day, Nena’s grandniece, Marta, balances a struggling legal aid practice with motherhood and the care of the now ninety-three-year-old Nena. When Marta agrees to help search for a daughter Nena left in the past, the two forge a fierce connection. Marta’s own supernatural powers emerge, awakening her to new possibilities that threaten the life she has constructed.

Welcome to Sullivan’s Island, an idyllic beachside town just outside Charleston, South Carolina. This serene, unspoiled sanctuary offers tourists a picturesque taste of the lush Lowcountry while the locals enjoy a laid-back, small-town lifestyle. Amidst an eclectic mix of newcomers and natives, lifelong resident and social maven Tallulah Wentworth’s legendary monthly dinners have united an unlikely group of women into the very best of friends.

Après Les hommes ont peur de la lumière et Et c'est ainsi que nous vivrons, Douglas Kennedy continue son exploration d'une Amérique plus désunie que jamais avec une œuvre palpitante, pleine de souffle et de panache, pour raconter la richesse et les contradictions de son pays. Lors d'un salon littéraire en France, alors qu'il déjeune avec quelques écrivains locaux, Douglas Kennedy est apostrophé par l'une des convives qui lui lance qu'elle le trouve " plutôt raffiné pour un Américain ".

Based on personal memories and family oral history, Whitacre’s debut collection of sixteen poems traces the life and legacy of a family matriarch, his paternal great-grandmother, Jennie Hicks. The daughter of American pioneers, she marries a successful farmer, bearing him three girls, seeing them all married, only to outlive him and the farm.

Bogotá. Los noventa. La familia Santiago vive en una comunidad exclusiva y cerrada, a salvo de la agitación política que aterroriza el país. La pequeña de la familia, Chula, que tiene siete años, parece vivir en una burbuja, pero la amenaza de los secuestros, los coches bomba y los magnicidios se cierne fuera del barrio, donde el omnipotente Pablo Escobar elude a las autoridades y coarta a la nación. Cuando su madre contrata a Petrona, una criada procedente de las barriadas ocupadas por la guerrilla, Chula intenta congeniar con ella.

Novela que trascurre en Antioquia (región colombiana) y que narra la interacción compleja entre dos seres de dos mundos completamente distintos.Llena de sutileza y poesía.

No se llama Jeidi, pero así le dicen porque vive sola con su abuelo y sus animales en la punta del cerro. Tiene once años y dos amigos, Vicki y Ariel, por casualidad, por obligación y desde siempre; son los únicos alumnos del cuarto nivel. Es 1986, por las tardes los adultos sacan sillas a la única calle de Villa Prat y miran pasar la vida, mientras los niños ven "Terminator" o pescan en el riachuelo. Jeidi parece vivir en un planeta paralelo donde se comunica con un Dios extraño, caprichoso y con malas pulgas.

"Llamadas de Ámsterdam" es una extraordinaria historia de amor. Con una impecable tensión narrativa, Juan Villoro despliega una trama hecha de coincidencias, separaciones, misteriosas oportunidades de reencuentro. La acción ocurre en una calle circular, tratada sobre la pista donde una vez corrieron caballos de carreras. Ahí, dos amantes apuestan su "resto" en busca de una última recompensa.

Un guía turístico de Chichen Itzá da una conferencia sobre la teoría maya del fin del mundo para impresionar a una mujer y de paso todo en lo que ha creído. Tras una caminata iniciática por la ciudad, una niña empieza a sospechar que su papá convive con una familia alternativa. Un hombre que se dedica a la estadística tiene un tórrido romance con una desconocida que miente cuando está excitada.

Inspirado en la obra clásica de Mary Shelley y ambientado en un Estados Unidos distópico, un hombre deberá reconectar con sus orígenes y construir su propia identidad. Los "reanimados" están casi completamente integrados en nuestra sociedad, aunque continúan empleados en los trabajos que nadie más quiere hacer. Devueltos a la vida a través de un controvertido proceso en el que se emplean partes de distintos cadáveres, viven en el límite de un mundo que los rechaza casi tanto como los necesita.

Your granddaughters are lost, Candelaria. Bianca, the brainy archaeologist, had to forfeit her life's work in Guatemala after her advisor seduced and deserted her. Paola, missing for over a decade, resurfaces in Boston as a brainwashed wellness cultist named Zoe. And Candy, the youngest, is a recovering addict who finds herself pregnant by a man she's not even sure ever existed. None of this concerns you of course, until a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston.