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México, finales del siglo XVI. Desde su niñez, la falsa beata Crisanta Cruz y el indio apóstata Tlacotzin, desarrollaron una férrea voluntad de sobrevivir y una refinada malicia para burlarse de sus opresores. Ellos son la columna vertebral de una hilarante intriga novelesca que desnuda los vicios privados y las virtudes públicas de la sociedad colonial: la teatralidad del misticismo, los laberintos barrocos del deseo reprimido, el culto clandestino de los Dioses prehispánicos, la sórdida lucha por el poder entre las órdenes religiosas...

"God is love; therefore, I believe that love must be divine. That’s my love and reason for what I do,” Nina states to the interviewer. A divine love affair starts on a royal detail and ends with a Latin flava! For love and reason...

Pienso, entonces, en Hermann Hesse. Él dijo: «Lo que denominas pasión no es fuerza del alma, sino roce entre el alma y el mundo exterior». Soy humana es eso, el resultado de una pasión por las letras y la necesidad de volcar en palabras los sentimientos más profundos, de ser a través de la palabra escrita en el transcurso del tiempo.

Un libro innovador en la tradición de El Alquimista y La Profecía Celestina, El Mosaico, del experto en marketing y activista Daniel Bruce Levin te invita a ver el mundo desde un nuevo punto de vista, uno que se centra en lo que nos conecta con el uno al otro y nos trae felicidad. El Mosaico sigue el viaje de Mo, un niño que pierde a sus padres con dos años de diferencia el mismo día. Cuando pregunta a los adultos a dónde están sus padres, le dicen que están en el cielo.

Get ready to put your feet on the dash, turn up the music, and travel in a 1969 Mini Cooper with two witty, laugh out loud sisters in this romantic comedy. A heart-warming tale of misadventures, music, soul-searching, love, and a rescue dog named Lone-Lee. Mar and Joan have always had an unbreakable bond. More than sisters, they are best friends. When a life-changing event tries to drag Joan down, her headstrong and playful little sister, Mar, comes to the rescue. The only cure - an epic road trip from California to New York.

Rescue Me!, book six of Good Grief! series, sends Joan and Jenny scampering north into the Plumosa mountains, northeast of Quartzite, Arizona. The two were determined to get a break after the intense drama of Elaine. The hoarder had drained them physically and emotionally. They nestle into the Kaibab National Forest. Joan is bent on completing a tiny house update and makeover, and Jenny is muddling through mind-boggling decisions for her next life since her last oasis was rudely invaded, and she was on the run again.

This tender love ballad is set deep in the jungles of Mexico and tells the story of Victoriano and Mira Bella, a young couple madly in love with "enormous proliferations of passion". Laid out in colorful, poetic text with a creative ending told in two letters - one written by Victoriano, the other written by an American artist visiting their beautiful world.

Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, 15-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church, replete with Christian salsa, abstinent young dancers, and baptisms for the dead. But there, Francisca also meets the magnetic Carmen: opinionated and charismatic, head of the youth group, and the pastor’s daughter. As her mother’s mental health deteriorates and her grandmother descends into alcoholism, Francisca falls in love with Carmen.

This audiobook describes the lives of persons from three separate cultures persevering during WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. The central character is Louis the only son of Lourdes and Joseph. Lourdes is the oldest daughter of an opulent Mexican landowner during the Mexican Revolution. Her family flees to the border town of Paso del Notre. Lourdes’ father dies suddenly. The family is saved from ruin because Lourdes smuggled 50 gold coins hidden under her skirt.

Eli hoped to do his time and get back to living life outside prison. However, that hope faded when he watched a prisoner rip a guard’s heart out and toss the body over the railing onto a funeral pyre of burning mattresses. The landscape of the prison begins to change as more and more strange characters strive for dominance in the anarchy that follows. Eli and his new friend, Tay, must navigate the chaos as the gods of the Aztec creation story emerge over the next 12 hours on the block.

Pisando serpientes: El tesoro sagrado o el Apocalipsis esperado es la primera novela de Ricardo Celis (Tampico, México), reconocido periodista con más de treinta años de experiencia en la televisión en Estados Unidos. En esta novela, el autor demuestra un amplio dominio de la historia de su país y un certero manejo del arte narrativo para crear una historia fascinante y original, que coloca a Celis como un autor con voz propia dentro del género de la intriga.

If you're trying to learn Spanish, the hardest thing is making the leap from the textbook to the real world. But in the age of the smartphone, there's a brand new challenge - online Spanish! Social media has a language all of its own – OMG! #mindblown – and Spanish is no different!

"Breviario de pequeñas traiciones" es un demoledor relato de los turbulentos cambios que sacudieron la sociedad peruana a principios del S. XXI. En ella se dan cita el dinero, la frivolidad, las abismales diferencias de clase y la consecuencia de todo lo anterior: la soledad. Una novela a medio camino entre el deseo y la traición, un retrato tan amargo como lúcido de una generación entera.

Nella narrativa quioroghiana tutto riconduce al confronto tra uomo e natura in un parallelo che richiama la dualità Uomo-Destino della cultura classica. Le descrizioni naturalistiche, minuziose e precise, evidenziano una forte conflittualità nella relazione e la natura ostile, cieca, ma giusta è quasi sempre vincitrice sull'uomo. La morte del contadino o del pescatore a causa di un qualche animale selvaggio, che sia un serpente velenoso, un coccodrillo o un parassita del sangue, sono sempre parte di un gioco letale in cui l'uomo cerca di sopraffare la natura.

Después de derrotar al ejército cristiano, las tropas almohades se abren paso a sangre y fuego arrasando todo lo que encuentran en su camino. Diego de Malagón, el humilde hijo de un posadero, es testigo horrorizado del asesinato de su padre y del secuestro de sus hermanas. A duras penas consigue huir a lomos de su inseparable yegua Sabba y alcanzar la ciudad de Toledo donde conoce a Galib, un veterinario mudéjar.

Una novela por el autor de El bolígrafo de gel verde y Tierra.

Una fotógrafa comprende algo que hubiera preferido no comprender. Un veterano de la guerra de Corea se enfrenta a su pasado durante un encuentro que parecía inofensivo. Tras el hallazgo por internet de un libro de 1887, un escritor acaba descubriendo la vida de una mujer apasionante.

Publicado a comienzos de la década de los setenta y desaparecido de las librerías desde hace muchos años, este ensayo, que en su origen fue la tesis que le valió a Vargas Llosa en 1971 el título de doctor por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, muestra la admiración del Nobel peruano por García Márquez y por su novela Cien años de soledad. En él se analiza en profundidad la obra del autor colombiano, compañero de Vargas Llosa en el boom de la literatura latinoamericana.

La conversación perdida entre dos Premios Nobel, dos de los máximos exponentes de la literatura universal.

Rio de Janeiro, 1904. Johan Edward Jansson sbarca in Brasile in qualità di nuovo console svedese. Lui e la moglie Brigitta scelgono come domicilio una piccola stazione balneare lontana dal centro, che si affaccia sull'oceano con una lunga spiaggia bianca e immacolata. Johan decide di far costruire un castello per la sua famiglia e così ha inizio il mito di quella che diventerà una delle destinazione turistiche più apprezzate al mondo, sinonimo di bellezza, esotismo ed eccessi: Ipanema.

Sono migliaia le sudamericane arrivate negli ultimi anni in Italia per lavorare come badanti e collaboratrici domestiche. Hanno lasciato la famiglia oltreoceano e promesso a mariti e figli di tornare presto, ma spesso il rientro in patria, anche solo per una vacanza, è difficile sia per i costi del viaggio sia per la mancanza di un regolare permesso di soggiorno in Italia. È questa la situazione di Lita, che ha lasciato in Bolivia le figlie ancora bambine, affidandole alla nonna. Quattro anni sono lunghi: le figlie crescono sentendosi abbandonate, soprattutto la maggiore.

Nel 1961 il poeta Homero Aridijs incontra per strada una povera disgraziata che vende per due lire vecchie cartoline, vecchie immagini di sé giovane, nuda, bellissima. I suoi occhi verde smeraldo brillano ancora e il poeta la riconosce: è Carmen Mondragon, in arte Nahui Olin, la più bella donna di Città del Messico quando a Città del Messico c'erano le più belle donne del mondo. Negli anni venti e trenta. Negli anni della rivoluzione, di Emiliano Zapata e di Pancho Villa.

The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low, or why their matriarch won’t ever leave their home in Four Rivers - not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed into a ceiba tree, leaving them with more questions than answers.

After a tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana García leaves in search of her father, who left them two years earlier. Out of money and in need of someone to help her across the border, Juana meets Adelina Vasquez, a young woman who left her family in California to follow her lover to Mexico. Finding themselves - in a Tijuana jail - in desperate circumstances, they offer each other much needed material and spiritual support and ultimately become linked forever in the most unexpected of ways.

A family is murdered as they sleep. FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera and her new team are tasked with determining whether there is any link between this attack and another triple homicide from four years earlier and more than 2,000 miles away. In the process, they’ll discover a serial killer so cunning that his grisly trail of death spanning nearly three decades has gone undetected. Each crime scene reminds Nina of the ghostly Latin folktale of La Llorona, which terrified her when she was an abandoned and vulnerable child. Now it’s back to haunt her.

Venezuela, 1992. Unknown colonel Hugo Chávez stages an ill-fated coup against a corrupt government, igniting the passions of Venezuela’s poor and catapulting the oil-rich country to international attention. For two rival spies hurriedly dispatched to Caracas - one from Washington, DC, and the other from Fidel Castro’s Cuba - this is a career-defining mission.

Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when her prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI, Yolanda turns in her corrupt bosses to save her career - and goes to work for the Bureau. Soon she’s sent undercover at Red, Black, and Green - an African-American “extremist” activist group back in her California college town. They claim a biotech corporation fueled by Pentagon funding is exploiting the neighborhood.

It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and 33-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his 15-year-old daughter, Angel, shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother's house, setting her life on a startling new path.

How does a Mexican American, the son of poor immigrants, leave his border home and move to the heart of gringo America? How does he adapt to the worlds of wealth, elite universities, the rush and power of New York City? How does he make peace with a stern, old-fashioned father who has only known hard field labor his whole life? Troncoso tells his luminous stories through the lens of an exile adrift in the 21st century, his characters suffering from the loss of culture and language, the loss of roots and home as they adapt to the glittering promises of new worlds that seem so empty.

It is 1898, and groups of starving Puerto Ricans, los hambrientos, roam the parched countryside and dusty towns begging for food. Under the yoke of Spanish oppression, the Caribbean island is forced to prepare to wage war with the United States. Up in the mountainous coffee region of Utuado, Vicente Vega and Valentina Sanchez labor to keep their small farm from the creditors. When the Spanish-American War and the great San Ciriaco Hurricane of 1899 bring devastating upheaval, the young couple is lured, along with thousands of others, to the sugar plantations of Hawaii.