Fiction

Love, death, and revenge intermingle in this insightful play. The notes in this edition help readers fully appreciate the impact of Garc a Lorca's dramas on the society of his time.

Madrid, 1877, young Celia Gross works in the exclusive La Perla Pastry Shop, tasked with making the desserts for King Alphonse XII's wedding. Due to her family s precarious financial situation, she marries an Austrian salesman who is an old family...

Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht--the night his family loses everything. As her child's safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train...

Nick Carraway moves next door to rich, elusive Jay Gatsby. He learns that Jay is still in love with his married cousin Daisy Buchanan, with whom he had a relationship many years ago. When they rekindle their old flame they never realize the fire they...

Come closer to the newest edition of the phenomenon of self-publishing in Mexico. A novel for those who don't know to live in captivity. It includes an unpublished chapter: A new ending for Romina. What happened to her? Where she went to? What...

One of the most important Latin-American writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Nicaraguan poet and essayist Rub n Dar o (the pen name of F lix Rub n Garc a Sarmiento) is considered the high priest of the modernismo school of...

These 17 stories from the Caribbean and Central and South America encompass a tremendous variety of subjects, settings, moods, and styles -- from worldly sophistication to outright savagery. Ranging in publication dates from 1867 to 1922, each story is...

Designed for the lover of fine literature as well as the intermediate language student, this dual-language book contains 13 great, representative Spanish short stories. Chronologically arranged to illustrate the development of the story form in Spanish,...

Set in both Havana and New York City, this novel shows the love and conflict between four women bound by family ties.

From the author of Like Water for Chocolate comes this novel about the much-maligned Malinalli, known as Malinche, the woman who betrayed her people by aiding Cortes and his men. Laura Esquival relies upon new information about Malinalli to show she was...

France, 1789, Gilles Etienne works in a soap factory in Marseilles. Life is hard, but he and a group of friends plan to go to Paris and fight in the Revolution. Things become more complicated when he meets Marie-Caroline Daubin, the daughter of the...

Clara Button is not your average librarian. She has created the only underground library in England, built over the railroad tracks of the unused Bethnal Green subway station. A secret community flourishes there, providing a much-needed distraction...

It's 1942, and London is constantly under the threat of enemy attack. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris is considered fortunate to have her routine mostly intact. After meeting an American aviator named Ray, she wants to expand her...

Three years ago, Katrina Freeling and Nathan van Huysen were literary sensations, and all their books were bestsellers. Just before the publication of their masterpiece, the two separate without an explanation. They have not spoken since then and never...

Some places are too beautiful to be touched by horror. Summit Lake, in the mountains of North Carolina, should be one of those places, but, two weeks ago, Becca Eckersley, a young law student, is brutally murdered there. While the town deals with the...

Westmont Prep is a prestigious school with high expectations and strict rules. Far from the main building sits an abandoned residence that the students use as a late-night hangout. While there, don't let your candle go out or you will meet the Man in...

Ike Randolph got out of jail 15 years ago. Since then, he has not even gotten a speeding ticket, but as an African American man, he always fears the police. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered along with his white...

Seventeen years ago, King Ulysses went to the island of Ithaca with all the men of fighting age. No one returned. Penelope was barely an adult when she married Ulysses. Now, years later, with her husband presumed dead, suitors begin to court her, but...

This anthology presents 28 of the best erotic stories from all over the world. The authors include Honore de Balzac, D.H. Lawrence, and Geoffrey Chaucer.

Set in Somerset, England at the end of the 18th century, young aristocrat Isabella Woodford does not share society's view on the role of women. Now she is in a bind. After a night of passion with an army officer, her reputation is at risk. Her only...

Madison has adored her brother's best friend since they were young. Everyone thinks that she and Chase would be the perfect couple, but there are two problems: Chase has given up on relationships after witnessing how his father's infidelities destroyed...

Professional baseball player Gavin Scott is very successful in his career, but not so much in his marriage. He loses his mind when he finds out that his wife Thea has been faking it in the bedroom. Tired of trying to please him, she asks for a divorce...

This critically acclaimed novel is set in 1828. The Royal Institute of Translation in Oxford University, also known as Babel, is the world s leading magical institution. Working with silver to reveal the hidden secrets in translation has made the...

Jess is an expert at data analysis and statistics, but, when it comes to love, she accepts that there is no magic formula. That is until she learns about a company that plans to revolutionize the dating scene. Using DNA, it promises to find the most...

Regino, a shy, solitary man, witnesses the kidnapping of a child names Marcos. The next day, the man is found dead in the forest with multiple signs of violence. The case is given to Cristina Albino and Anselmo Picarzo, two civil guards with very...

India, 1969, Lakshmi, the henna artist, got to the Himalayas 12 years ago. She now dedicates her time to natural medicine. Malik, her protegee, leaves to intern at the Facilities Department of the Royal Palace of Jaipur. The young man soon realizes...

In May of 2008, an indie group named Bella & Lugosi embarks on a successful tour that ends in Castellon. Before the last song, the lead singer leaves the stage and is later found dead. Detective Monfort has hardly had time to grieve the death of his...

In 1596, Isabel Barreto, the first female admiral in history, kept a log of her expedition in the Pacific that she had to take charge of after her husband's death. She is the inspiration for the strong women in this novel, who live through some of the...

This is the story of Marcelo Hern ndez, the bartender at the world-famous Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station. Thousands of people have streamed through the restaurant, including tourists, Wall Street executives, and artists, including Andy Warhol. For...

On the coast of Cyprus, the body of a Middle Eastern woman is found. In Barcelona, Joan Aiguader, a frustrated journalist, believes he has a great job opportunity when he sees a report about the number of refugees that have drowned in the ocean,...

Rosie is desperate. She has only eight weeks to write a romance novel, but she has writer's block. To make matters worse, the ceiling in her bathroom has caved in. Luckily, she can stay at Lina's house, who is on a trip. She does not know that Lucas,...

London, 1930, Maisie Dobbs has a lot of clients. Scotland Yard asks her for help with a murder case involving a young woman accused of the crime. Cecil Lawson, a newly widowed lawyer, hires Maisie to confirm if his son Ralph, who disappeared during the...

They called him the Dollmaker. He was a serial killer in Los Angeles who left a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims. With a single shot, Detective Harry Bosch thought he had ended the city's nightmare. Now the widow of the accused...

Bee sticks to one simple rule: what would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her a dream job after years in academia, Marie would surely accept it. The mother of modern physics never had to work with Levi Ward, though. At first glance, Levi doesn t seem...

Set in Oxford at the end of the 19th century, Esme lives in a world of words. Sitting under her father's desk, she rescues slips of paper with words that are no longer used. These words help her make sense of the world. As she gets older, she realizes...

Catalina is desperate. Four weeks is too short of a time to find someone willing to accompany her to her sister's wedding on the other side of the Atlantic, let alone someone to pretend that he loves her. Aaron Blackford, her co-worker that she cannot...

Olive always has bad luck. Her twin just the opposite; she gets to plan her dream wedding thanks to online contests. Everyone gets food poisoning at the reception except for Olive and her archnemesis Ethan. The two decide to take advantage of the all...

This classic is a strong statement against slavery and the treatment of Africans in Cuba.

This annotated anthology contains Salmo 17 among the hundred of poems it contains.