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Tras una juventud de excesos, Angie vive retirada -casi atrincherada- en una aldea recóndita del sur. Para los vecinos es la loca que se deja ver en compañía de sus perros. Su existencia transcurre en el viejo caserón familiar, en un cruce continuado de dos tiempos: el presente y el pasado. Tan solo tiene a sus fantasmas y el recuerdo del amor vivido con un artista inglés en el Londres olvidado de Margaret Thatcher.

La ficción histórica es un género literario en el que la trama se desenvuelve en un entorno ubicado en el pasado, así que volvamos a una época en la que terminó Californio e inició California. Escucha historias perdidas de vaqueros desesperados que tuvieron que huir para poder sobrevivir. Esta novela se basa en historias reales de amor y tragedia, hermandad y familia. Estos hombres fueron tildados de bandidos y criminales por el nuevo gobierno bajo el cual repentinamente tuvieron que vivir.

Los tempranos años setenta en Chile fueron una época efervescente de entusiasmo y compromiso, sobre todo para miles de jóvenes militantes de izquierda que veían en el gobierno de Salvador Allende la posibilidad de una verdadera transformación política y social. Un nuevo mundo era posible y había que estar ahí para ayudar a construirlo.

Cinco relatos donde Martín II, hijo de Cortés con Malinche, intercambia juicios sobre su padre y su madre con su hermano Martín I; Polibio de Megalópolis reflexiona sobre Escipión Emiliano; un galán de Hollywood visita un prostíbulo de enanas en Acapulco; y un marinero genovés cuenta mentiras sobre el Nuevo Mundo. Caen los templos, las insignias, los trofeos. Caen los mismísimos dioses. Y con sus restos humeantes se reinventa el orden mientras las semillas de un árbol emblemático vuelven a cruzar el mar.

Tenochtitlán, 1487. Una confederación de pueblos rebeldes le hace frente al imperio mexica: interrumpe sus vías de comercio y se niega a pagar sus tributos. El ejército de la Triple Alianza, dirigido por el huey tlahtoani Ahuízotl, responde con una inminente declaración de guerra....

El año en que se produce una ola de suicidios en la sede francesa de una compañía de telecomunicaciones, la protagonista de esta historia entra a trabajar para su filial en Madrid. Pronto se ve sometida a mobbing: no le encargan ni una sola tarea.

""A delicious culinary romance."" —Booklist From the author of A Taste of Sage comes another charming and engrossing novel in which a young woman must navigate her family’s expectations, the demands of her job, a new love, and a secret about her magical identity. Larimar Cintrón works hard...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME and GOODREADS A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango Street. It has been twenty-eight years since Sandra Cisneros published a book of poetry. With dozens of never-before-seen poems, Woman Without Shame...

Una guerra olvidada. Un romance inolvidable. El año es 1846. Después de la controvertida anexión de Texas, el ejército de los EE. UU. marcha hacia el sur para provocar la guerra con México por la disputada frontera del Río Grande. Ximena Salomé es una talentosa curandera mexicana que...

In this story on survival, a young lawyer’s family reunion brings long-buried pain and anger to the surface, threatening her career, her values, and all of her relationships—a story of trauma, healing, and the power of ride-or-die female friendship. To the outside observer, Vivian is a...

Cousins Mari, Erica, Selena, and Gracie are inseparable. They aren’t just family but best friends—sharing secrets, traditions, and a fierce love for their abuelita. But their idyllic childhood ends when Mari’s parents divorce, forcing her to move away. With Mari gone, the girls’ tight-knit bond unravels.

This breathtaking saga, set in the 1990s, tells the story of the landlords and tenants of a derelict canning factory in Southern Portugal. The wealthy, always-scheming Leandros have owned the building since before the Carnation Revolution, a peaceful coup that toppled a four-decade-long dictatorship and led to Portugal's withdrawal from its African colonies. It was Leandro matriarch Dona Regina who handed the keys to the Matas, the bustling family from Cape Verde who saw past the dusty machinery and converted the space into a warm - and welcoming - home. 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. “This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy...

"Bilingual Spanish/English audiobook narrator Sananes enlivens Costa Rican American poet/writer Arias’ multigenerational saga." —Booklist A lush and lyrical debut novel about a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias Costa Rica, 1968...

This program features original sound design. "Together, [narrators] Almonte and Wetherell are the key to this exceptional novel. A brilliantly narrated immigrant story, spiked with heart and flair, that will have patrons rooting for Cara’s success." - Library Journal "Rossmery Almonte's...

Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. 

After the tragic death of her parents when she was just four years old, Raqi is sent to live with her uncle Dodge in Escondido, California. Taking after her Mexican father, Raqi immediately faces hostility from the members of Dodge’s all-White, one-percenter motorcycle club, the Lawless, and from her uncle himself. Being raised by a drug addict is no picnic, and Raqi must quickly learn how to survive. She manages to form a few friendships. Still, as soon as she can, she leaves the violence and bigotry behind and doesn’t look back.

“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...

Brought to you by Penguin. A stunning debut novel of love, murder, tragedy and redemption. Lore Rivera was married to two men at once, until on a baking hot day in 1986, one of them found out and shot the other. A secret double life, a tragic murder. That's the story the world knows. It's not...

A haunting new novel by the author of Vengeance in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a complicated romance that reveals their buried histories and vulnerabilities against the backdrops of an America in chaos and Mexico. Beginning in the first summer of...