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Poet and musician Melania Luisa Marte opens Plaintains and Our Becoming by pointing out that Afro-Latina is not a word recognized by the dictionary. But the dictionary is far from a record of the truth. What does it mean, then, to tend to your own words and your own record—to build upon the legacies of your ancestors?

A Colombian American journalist tries to save her career by taking an assignment somewhere she never thought she’d go—Colombia—in this heartwarming debut novel about rediscovering our family stories.

A world-bending, lyrically rich poetry collection that reimagines the U.S.-Mexico border as both a real place and a living simulation—and tells the story of a pair of siblings trapped between the two.

We see this erupting world through the eyes of a seasoned warrior as he is pushed to the edge of his humanity. Simple Machines takes us deep into the life of the American Army Ranger as he must navigate a combat zone. This is a war novel with the rush of battle, agony of loss, and courage of the undefeated.

El color de la piel: Heredia investiga aquí la repentina desaparición de Alberto Coiro, un joven peruano que ha llegado a Chile en busca de trabajo y que reside en los alrededores del popular barrio Mapocho. Para la pesquisa, Heredia cuenta con los habituales consejos de su gato Simenon y la ayuda de un anciano que lo introduce en el mundo de los vagabundos y cartoneros que cada noche invaden la ciudad.

De la galardonada autora bestseller de Cuando era puertorriqueña, nos llega una poderosa novela sobre la familia, la raza, la fe, el sexo y el desastre que transita entre Puerto Rico y el Bronx, revelando las vidas y los amores de cinco mujeres, y el secreto que las une.

Iris Prince is starting over. After years of drifting apart, she and her husband are going through a surprisingly drama-free divorce. She’s moved to a new house in a new neighborhood, and has plans for gardening, coffee clubs, and spending more time with her nine-year-old daughter Melanie. It feels like her life is finally exactly what she wants it to be. Then, one beautiful morning, she looks outside her kitchen window—and sees that a wall has appeared in her front yard overnight. Where did it come from? What does it mean? And why does it seem to keep growing?

From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together.

Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila.

Una mujer baja los escalones que llevan a la orilla del río Garona, donde hace un tiempo vive un joven harapiento con un perro. Cuando se acerca, ella le toma la cara entre las manos y lo mira. La escena es extrañamente conmovedora. ¿Qué llevó a Thierry a abandonarlo todo para convertirse en vagabundo? Isabel y su esposo, cada uno a su manera, intentan descifrar los motivos de su hijo.

La increíble aventura de Kalapakte, un indígena selk'nam (ona) secuestrado junto con su familia y exhibido en la Exposición Universal de París en 1889, quien tras años de peregrinaciones por la variada geografía de Europa, América del Norte y del Sur logra regresar por sus propios medios a su Tierra del Fuego natal.

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she’s been in love with him since childhood. Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives—even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy.

"¿Quiénes son los descendientes de los maestros del haiku? Uno piensa que deben estar en Japón o en otras latitudes, y no sólo eso, que deben ser ancianos y barbudos. Pero no. Los tenemos en Latinoamérica, y Lucía Vargas es una. Basta abrir este libro para comprobar que ella posee la mirada entrenada del sabio, que sabe comulgar con la naturaleza, que doma los símbolos y que cuenta con una precisión verbal y una sensibilidad insólita.

En Reencuentro de personajes, Elena Garro convoca a sus espectros literarios—ciertos protagonistas de las obras de Scott Fitzgerald y Evelyn Waugh—con el misterioso designio de retornarlos a la vida dentro del espacio real de la novela. Así, mediante una operación que tiene mucho de acto mágico, desarrolla una inquietante experiencia de literatura en la literatura.

En su decimotercer cumpleaños, Inés recibe un collar de su abuela en México que la convierte en mariposa monarca: el cumplimiento de una profecía que vincula el destino de Inés con el legado de su familia y con la supervivencia de las mariposas. La aventura continúa cuando Inés se une a las mariposas para su migración al santuario de las monarcas en México, una odisea que se ha vuelto cada vez más peligrosa debido a la actividad humana.

Joaquina Sanchez lives in total obscurity on a bull ranch in Mexico at the end of WWII. Joaquina's father, Salvador, is the foreman of the ranch and a trainer of matadors. He's been training Joaquina all of her life and now, at 17, she's as good a matador as any man living. But it's not acceptable for a woman to be a matador.

Enrique Montez, smooth-talking heir to the Taco King empire, is man enough to admit that he made a critical error when he underestimated Carolina Flores. The agricultural hotshot should have been an easy conquest—who would turn down the chance to partner with California’s largest fast-food chain? But instead of signing her name on the dotted line, Carolina has Enrique eating out of the palm of her hand, and when fate steps in with an unexpected opportunity, Enrique is willing to do whatever it takes to capture her heart.

A former military dog, a Venezuelan street mutt, and a cannibalistic Shih Tzu, who have lost their owners, escape rescue cages. Now they have to learn to survive together in a colonial Ecuadorian mountain town, bisected by winding rivers that descend to the Amazon.

Activated is a collection of poems exploding with rhythmic language that explores an underlying theme of allegory where Anadel Montero walks her listeners through a journey of reflection and free verse conversations she has within herself. What began as journal entries in therapy sessions and a tool for self-healing has whole-heartedly manifested into an empowering first compilation of poetry. The inspiring collection of poetry is beautifully relatable as it reminds listeners to fill up with love, acceptance, family, and community.

Vargas Llosa realiza un valiosísimo análisis de la obra de Juan Carlos Onetti haciendo hincapié en una preocupación que comparte ambos autores: la complicada y al mismo tiempo necesaria relación entre la ficción literaria y la realidad.