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"Hector Santinio is the youngest son of Alejo and Mercedes, who moved to New York from Cuba in the mid-1940s. The family of four shares their modest apartment with extended relatives in Harlem, where homesickness and nostalgia are dispelled by nights of dancing and raucous parties. But life's realities are nevertheless harsh in the Santinio family's adoptive land. When Mercedes takes Hector and his brother to visit Cuba, to better know her culture,...

In this sweeping historical novel, three generations of strong-willed women forge their own paths through war, love, and societal expectations. In 1943, Georgeanne "George" Ector joins the WASP program to pursue her dream of flying, inspired by her mother, a fearless Oklahoma farm girl with a gift for mechanics. George finds a kindred spirit in Vivian Shaw, and together they achieve their goals as pilots. When the war ends, they face pressure to embrace...

"Raised in a prosperous family of 14th century Chinese merchants, by the age of sixteen Wu Johanna's world reaches from Japan in the east to Tajikistan in the west. It's a world seen from camelback, through tent flaps, and in the cool, shaded caravanserai where travelers and traders gather along the Silk Road. Hers is a world of spice merchants and pearl divers, bandits and troubadours, servants and sheikhs. A world in which trust is more valuable...

Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

A retelling of the classic by Thomas Hardy.

Una novela extraordinaria y emocionante basada en la historia real de una familia de judíos polacos que se dispersan al comienzo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, determinados a sobrevivir y reunirse. Es la primavera de 1939, y tres generaciones de la familia Kurc están haciendo lo posible por llevar una vida normal, incluso cuando la sombra de la guerra se acerca cada vez más. En la mesa del Séder familiar, se habla de bebés recién nacidos y de...

A novel about the sometimes comic dangers of growing up in Mexico in the 1980s. En los años ochenta en Lagos de Moreno, un pueblo donde hay más vacas que personas y más curas que vacas, una familia más bien pobre intenta sobreponerse a los estramboticos peligros de vivir en México.

Marianela, a poor orphan who has been disfigured in an accident, develops a special relationship with Pablo, a handsome blind man. When Pablo recovers his eyesight, Marianela's fragile world is shattered.

Ni aquí ni allí es un relato intergeneracional con un ritmo implacable sobre la violencia y la superación, la memoria y la identidad, la belleza y la desperación incrustadas en la historia de una nación y su pueblo. Cuenta la historia de doce nativos americanos, cada uno con una razón personal para ir al gran powwow de Oakland, la gran celebración de pueblos indígenas. Jacquie Red Feather hace poco que ha dejado el alcohol y está intentando...