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Joseph Lazare grows up believing his black hair and olive skin come from a Spanish grandmother, and he’s shocked to learn she was an enslaved African. At 13, Joseph allows racial prejudice to limit his future and chooses the seminary. At 23, he is ordained “a priest forever”. When he meets Tessa Conley, a devout Irish immigrant who shares his passions for music and botany, Joseph’s ordered world cracks at its foundation. He must conceal his true feelings as Tessa marries another man—a plantation owner who treats her like property.

As she nears the end of her life, Addie Bundren wants nothing more than to be buried in her native Jefferson, Mississippi, far from the miserable backwater surroundings of her married life. A captivating and stylistically innovative work, the narrative revolves around the grim, yet darkly humorous, pilgrimage as the Bundren family sets out to fulfill her last wish.

La inigualable Julia Alvarez, autora de En el tiempo de las mariposas y De cómo las muchachas García perdieron el acento, regresa con una extraordinaria e íntima novela que nos recuerda que las historias de vida jamás están realmente acabadas. Ni siquiera cuando llega el final. **Uno de los...

I don’t take anything too seriously. Not the career that’s brought me fame and fortune, or the never-ending string of women that fill my bed, and definitely not myself. But life has a way of turning on a dime. The party is over. All the jokes have been told. One beautiful face blurs with the next beautiful body and all I feel is...empty. Until her.

Featuring Steve Carell and Amy Morton, Sin is a contemporary morality play about a helicopter traffic reporter who is trying to keep herself above life's messiness. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband is a charming alcoholic, her roommate is a glutton, she's trapped daily in a helicopter with an envious coworker, and her blind dates are disasters. It takes her dying brother to make her see that pride is the deadliest of sins, and it takes an Act of God to bring her back down to Earth.

New York Times bestselling author Philip Caputo tells the story of a Franciscan priest struggling to walk a moral path through the shifting and fatal realities of an isolated Mexican village The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its...

For fans of Dirt Creek and William Kent Kreuger comes a profound southern mystery from acclaimed author Lo Patrick. When her granddaughter is accused of murder, a woman must confront the buried secrets of a summer long past—because she can try to forget, but the Georgia land remembers. Meg...

In the blistering heat of rural Mississippi, the Bundren family loads their dead matriarch, Addie, into a handmade coffin and sets out on a bleak, often darkly comic journey to bury her in her hometown of Jefferson. Each mile of flooded rivers, broken bones, starving mules, and simmering resentments peels back another layer of this family's grief, faith, and desperation, as husband Anse and children Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman tell the story in their own, often clashing voices.

La máscara, el maquillaje que reformula las identidades: José Donoso ha buscado siempre en sus relatos, obsesivamente, ese otro rostro posible de los seres y las cosas. El lugar sin límites (novela que llevó al cine el mexicano Arturo Ripstein) juega eficazmente con el engañoso espejo de los sexos en un prostíbulo de pueblo, especie de infierno anodino donde confluyen no sólo las pasiones eróticas, sino además los sórdidos juegos de poder y dominación que suelen marcar los territorios degradados.

In Beacon Hill, one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Boston, a wealthy widow dies in her sleep, while in Cambridge, where academia meets high tech, a dog is slaughtered. One death has seemingly no bearing on the other until the death in a remote Chinese village is announced.

En julio de 1868, el mariscal Francisco Solano López, tras dejar atrás la fortaleza de Humaitá, encargó el resto de su ejército y símbolo de la defensa paraguaya al coronel Paulino Alén. Este, a la espera de sus órdenes, pierde el horizonte de la realidad y, desquiciado, comete errores que desviarán para siempre el curso de las vidas del coronel Francisco Martínez y de su esposa Juliana Insfrán.

Encanto, originalidad, diversión, ternura, emoción... Una novela arrebatadora Mamen Sánchez ha vuelto a hacerlo; una irresistible combinación de humor y sensibilidad sostiene una trama tan original como absorbente: sus protagonistas son el inquieto e hipersensible Tony Cienfuegos y Estela...

La prosa de Carlos Daniel es liviana, llena de vida y refleja los lados oscuros de la condición humana. La oralidad se transparenta en los diálogos de sus verosímiles personajes, unidos por un arquitecto narrador del que el autor echa mano para contar las experiencias que él mismo ha vivido en primera persona. El lenguaje de los personajes, cándido y real, el que hablamos todos, es una mano extendida, sobre todo a los oyentes amateurs, para explorar el devenir de su propia humanidad en el día a día.

It's the summer of 2015, racial tensions were high in America. Poet and author, Daniel L. Walker, wrote a collection of poems and lyrics about injustice, betrayal, failed relationships, and hope. Serious Sins is the fourth book published by author Daniel L. Walker. Some of the titles included are: After You Fall, Raven, and Times are Changing.

Nothing much ever seems to change in the small Southern town of Delphi. The bag boys still take customers’ groceries out to their cars, the churches still frown on rock and roll, and every now and then...a dead body is dragged out of the Delphi River. Sam, Pete, Tommy, and Bill are lifelong friends who grew up in Delphi. They’ve all found their perfect matches, but looks can be deceiving. A chance encounter changes everything, and in an instant the bonds of friendship and fidelity are pushed to the ultimate limits. And someone...won't get out alive.

Most come to The Beaudelaire Hotel a select few times a year merely to indulge in sexual fantasy, but the stakes are higher for Karen Freeman and Paul Beaudelaire this New Year's weekend. Karen is nine years post-op from a double mastectomy, and her vain ex-husband hadn't agreed with her decision to remove her remaining good breast or to eschew reconstruction. In the end, that decision cost her. She lost her marriage, but she's certain the move has prolonged her life.

Hay quienes afirman que el arma más poderosa del ser humano es la palabra, aquella que crea o destruye, aquella que siembra y cosecha, y que también besa con sus labios de sílabas, y que también mata. Como un prestidigitador, Evaristo Ramón juega con las palabras y las desafía, las mezcla, las carga de sentido, y nos las devuelve transformadas en una ventana desde la que, si somos capaces, podemos vislumbrarnos.