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Eine Liebe, geboren aus Zucker, Honig und Mandeln Der Duft von Mandeln und geschmolzenem Zucker liegt über Alicante, warm und betörend wie ein Versprechen. Hier begegnen sich 1930 die stolze Sagrada Blasco, Tochter eines Mazapán-Fabrikanten, und José Vidal, der Erbe der rivalisierenden...

Bendito follows Maritza Cruz, a young woman who is the girlfriend of the talented and successful artist, Omar Rivera. Feeling distressed about her derailed creative dreams and jealous of her boyfriend, Maritza decides to start her own magazine, but it doesn’t get the attention she wants. She therefore accepts her best friend’s invitation to attend a Santería party and seeks the help of a santero, Baz Santiago, to hasten her success.

Maria is a wanted woman. She’s wanted by an Aztec trafficker, a cartel boss, the people she fights for, and now the Devil she can’t resist. Her journey begins as a would-be immigrant turned vampire in Juarez, Mexico until the injustices of the world turn her into something else. Forced to...

In this mesmerizing sequel to a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, the "heart-stealing heroine" (Amy Tan) and muse of Cuban musician Nestor Castillo takes readers on the journey of a lifetime with this story of reinvention, romance, and revolution. In Beautiful...

"Pleasingly subversive."--New York Times Book Review “A perfect mix of slow-burn romance, geopolitical maneuvering and sisterly antics.”—The Washington Post One of Library Journal's Best Romances of 2023! A BookList Editor's Pick of 2023! A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a...

Colm earns the respect and admiration of both Texans and New Mexicans after someone reveals he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery in the Korean War. Upon his arrival in Glenrio, he was battling suicidal thoughts, but Marta Maria’s love becomes his saving grace.

Fruta verde explora la intimidad de tres personajes atraídos y enfrentados por el vértigo de lo prohibido: Ermán Lugo, un joven aspirante a escritor, resentido por la traición de una novia ingrata; el dramaturgo homosexual Mauro Llamas, dispuesto a valerse de todos los ardides lícitos e ilícitos para seducirlo; y Paula Recillas, la madre de Germán, un ama de casa divorciada, cuyo rigor moral se tambalea ante las insinuaciones eróticas de un guapo adolescente.

Desde las luchas sindicales de los años 80 en el puerto de Tampico a la violencia que aflige al pueblo mexicano en la actualidad, esta historia de equívocos, sospechas, secretos, asesinatos, amor y odio determinará las vidas de dos seres muy dispares a los que el destino se empeña en unir contra toda circunstancia.

“A work of art. In each of the pages, you will feel the flow of a powerful energy which will murmur to each of your cells that it is time to come out of hiding, to open the windows, to breathe freely, to dress colorfully… to fly.”—Laura Esquivel, author of Like Water for Chocolate A...

Quiero buscar la fuente de mi inspiración a veces no sé explicarlo, los versos brotan del interior de mí como cascada, cual dádiva divina(…) Un cúmulo de emociones desbordadas en un lenguaje sencillo y tierno caracterizan este libro de poemas. De una forma natural constituye un modesto culto a las artes plásticas, la naturaleza e invita a la reflexión; una colección que nos acerca a la esencia espiritual de su autora.