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Costa Rica, 1968. When a lethal fire erupts at the American Fruit Company’s most lucrative banana plantation burning all evidence of a massive cover-up, the future of Teresa Cepeda Valverde’s family is changed forever. Now, twenty-seven years later, Teresa and her daughter Lyra are still picking up the pieces. Lyra wants nothing to do with Teresa, but is desperate to find out what happened to her family that fateful night. Teresa, haunted by a missing husband and the bitter ghost of her mother, Amarga, is unable to reconcile the past.

Driven and recklessly daring, Martin Sabater follows his lifelong dream of owning a cacao plantation in Valle del Cauca. But on the night of a spectacular gala, he disappears—and is never seen again. Now his hacienda is a budding Catholic hospital saving lives during an emerging epidemic. And novice nun “Sor Puri” is there to uncover the truth behind Martin’s disappearance. But her real identity—and her past with the heartbreakingly charismatic Martin—will put far more than her perilous search at risk.

At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie’s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, nightmares, and bloodshed. Many of these stories, including “Unworthy” and “The Other...

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture, home, and belonging—for fans of Jasmine Mans and Fatimah Asghar “We, children of plátanos, always gotta learn to play in everyone else’s backyard and somehow feel at home.” Poet...

CHRISTY AWARD WINNER 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 beautiful homage to a mother’s bravery and to the grace...

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 “Word coyote Gabriel Dozal is crossing borders with this story. It’s his job: narrative...

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. Se hacen llamar “Las...

“Brilliant.” —The Washington Post * “Nuanced and compelling.” —The New York Times From the PEN/Hemingway Award–winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, an engrossing dystopian novel set in a near-future America where mandatory identification wristbands turn second-generation...

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 They refer to themselves as “las...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! Winner of the NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize From National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told...

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.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers. “No one punctures the...

"¿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.

“Una pieza de arte. En cada una de sus páginas, sentirás el flujo de una poderosa energía que murmurará a cada una de tus células que es tiempo de salir de tu escondite, de abrir las ventanas, de respirar con libertad, de vestirte de colores… de volar”. —Laura Esquivel, autora de...

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.

It turns out that a fake relationship is the perfect recipe for a love that sizzles hotter than Santa Barbara’s spiciest salsa—when it’s between enemies.… Enrique Montez, smooth-talking heir to the Taco King empire, is man enough to admit that he made a critical error when he...