United States of Banana takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 New York City, where Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina are on a quest to free the Puerto Rican prisoner Segismundo. Segismundo
"In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for it
This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had. Acclaimed Puerto Rican author Giannini Braschi has crafted this
"In the Hispanic American classic Empire of Dreams, Giannina Braschi calls for a revolution in poetry--a revolution against the Latin American Boom. New York City becomes the site of liberation for it
Famed alt-country artist Annie Walsh has more than enough reason to sing her version of the blues, including a broken heart, a stalled career, and a troubled family. Annie seeks refuge from an upended
After her law firm becomes embroiled in an international scandal and her boyfriend begins asking questions, Mimi Sean Young, once known as Mimi Suong Giang, must confront the life-changing traumas she
After the Germans invade Belgium in 1940, Jewish chemistry professor Andre Severin, his brother and their families flee south to the French countryside where they are welcomed and protected by the Heg
In a sweeping family saga, teenager narrator Simone enters into a forbidden, all-too-adult relationship, in a book that looks back at four of Simone's Vietnamese ancestors. Reissue.
After breaking off her engagement, thirty-something Andi Cutrone yields New England to her ex and flees home to Long Island. There, she devotes her time to teaching in the writing program at Brooklyn
Do-a Luz must abandon her aristocratic life in nineteenth-century Madrid and begin anew in rural Andalusia. But what she cannot leave behind is her history: her illegitimate birth that defines who she
I see I am soaring too high, so I shall descend and speak more plainly. So writes nineteenth-century Spanish author Juan Valera in "Cordovan Woman," one of a literary sextet found in the translation o
After she wakes up in a storage locker, bound and gagged, Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels soon comes to realize that she has been abducted by her arch nemesis, a twisted serial killer known only as "Mr. K."
In 1986, the universe suddenly bifurcated. Thirty-five years later, Felix spends his days lunching at Coconut Cafae and dreaming of a successful writing career. Everything changes when his Aunt Henrie
The author describes the political and economic conditions in Argentina during the time he was the head of the country's central bank, the circumstances behind his resignation, and the effects of the
Stalina Folskaya leaves behind her painful past as she flees St. Petersburg, Russia, where she was trained as a chemist, and tries to begin a new life in Hartford, Connecticut, where she takes a job a
-Generations ago, eating was much less complicated. We tended to shop more often at markets that provided fresh, locally produced foods. Families ate together, and most meals were cooked and eaten at
A few months after doctors tell him he has only a year to live, a precocious fifteen-year-old from a small town in Virginia has an intense reaction to The catcher in the rye. Deriving inspiration from
In sci-fi author Sam Landstrom MetaGame, he creates a believable but disturbing world with fewer than six degrees of separation. In fact, every single person, product, pastime, and proclivity humans t
Paul, a Chinese American detective, and his eccentric sidekick Nelson seek redemption in Wilmington, Delaware, as they hunt for the person behind a series of brutal serial murders that seem to have no
In this gritty noir novel, John Rector weaves an intensely sinister tale. Dexter McCray is a farmer with a dark past that continues to haunt him. As a man struggling with alcoholism, he's used to bein
The story is loosely inspired by the life of Olivier de Sanderval, who, intent on becoming an explorer for most of his life, finally set sale for Africa in 1879 after turning 40. As Monenembo tells it
For twenty-nine-year-old Lola Watson, life is finally looking up: she has fabulous friends, is working her dream job at a popular magazine, and has just inherited a beautiful house from her late aunt.
When his superiors dismiss a reported assassination plot on newly elected President Abraham Lincoln, Charles Rook, the head of security, risks his career in order to investigate the situation and trac
"Free spirit Skyla Plinka has found the love and stability she always wanted in her reliable husband Thomas. Settling into her new family and roles as wife and mother, life in rural Wisconsin is satis
A new resident in Harlem tries to clean up his block, but the effort brings media attention and, as more affluent tenants move in, he mobilizes a campaign to return the block to its original residents
Homicide detective Danny Beckett investigates the brutal murder of high school teacher Elizabeth Williams, an investigation that brings up past memories for Beckett that leads him on a quest for redem
Few foods capture the sweetness of nature like fresh berries, whether eaten straight off the bush or baked to perfection beneath a flaky crust. Now berry lovers can maximize their enjoyment with The B
“Basing her story on her own family narratives and a deep understanding of Italian Americans, [Fabiano] paints a vivid portrait not just of immigrants’ lives in the first ten years of the
When a series of mysterious abductions rattles Xing Xu's adopted hometown, his position on the outskirts of society helps him investigate the kidnappings with the hope of proving his worth to his clas
When her family relocated to rural China in 2003, Kay Bratt was thrust into a new world, one where boys were considered more valuable than girls and poverty and the one-child policy had created an epi
Closeted teenager Jeremy is sent to live with wealthy relatives after his mother enters rehab. Struggling to fit into the posh world of Ballena Beach, Jeremy joins the high school swim team, dates a p
When her fiancae calls off their wedding at the last minute, Waverly begins to realize that her life hasn't turned out as she thought it should. As she stumbles back into the dating scene, her persona
Genna Colon finds comfort in her dreams for the future in spite of the drug dealers in her building, as she makes wishes every day for a different life, until her wish is granted and she travels back
John Allen wants to be a wrangler more than anything else in the world. He has toiled in Kansas coal mines and worked as a gunsmith's apprentice, but nothing draws him like the notion of being called
Left for dead when the wagon master and his band of owlhoots massacre a wagon train, Matt Fields awakens to find his partner, Cotton Wills, murdered. He discovers a young woman and two boys who also s
Mitch Ellsworth wants a new, uneventful life. With a history that includes Civil War service with the notorious Quantrill raiders, post-war banditry and a consequential stretch in a Missouri prison, h
