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A Zuni Indian boy dies in a bizarre ritual slaying - and his best friend, a Navajo youth, is missing. Navajo police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn tracks the friend from Zuni village to Navajo hogan, from anthropological dig to hippie commune, across the desert of New Mexico and Arizona.

When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a claim against her late husbands estate, she is blindsided by the discovery that he may have led a double life. Since work is all that will keep her sane, her magazine editor assigns her to profile Sam, a half-Chinese American who is the last in a line of gifted chefs tracing back to the imperial palace. As she watches Sam gear up for Chinas Olympic culinary competition by planning the banquet of a lifetime, she begins to see past the cuisines artistry to glimpse its coherent expression of Chinese civilization.

Without bothering to get approval from the President, the State Department, or even the FTC, Dave Barry's publishers sent him to Tokyo. You'd think they would have known better. Now the word is Barry has set back our diplomatic relations with the whole Pacific Rim by a couple of decades. Japanese culture, dining, sport, and industry all come under Barry's relentless scrutiny.

Widely hailed as a milestone in American literature, Sinclair Lewis' Main Street vividly describes a country on the verge of massive change, with traditional values being threatened by progress. The novel's heroine, Carol Milford, is a highly educated, ambitious woman who plans to join a newly enlightened society. But after marrying a small-town doctor, she finds herself trapped in the role of a dutiful wife. Carol's desires for social change conflict with the security of her comfortable married life, as she struggles to understand the cost of conformity...and rebellion. As relevant today as it was upon its 1920 publication, Main Street is both a masterful piece of writing and a fascinating microcosm of America's social evolution.

In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six of America's finest writers: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All six of these men were alcoholics, and the subject of drinking surfaces in some of their finest work, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to A Moveable Feast.

In this wickedly funny play, a seemingly ideal couple and their charming, privileged friends surmount such details as selling government secrets, theft, and bribery with love triumphant over all.

How often have you seen a teenage girl pretend to be perturbed, but secretly smile, when she is told that she acts or looks just like her mother? Fathers, brothers, and friends sometimes shake their heads in wonder as girls "turn into their mothers". This new collection from Chicken Soup represents the best stories from Chicken Soup's library on the special bond between mothers and daughters, and the magical, mysterious similarities between them.

Juan José Morosoli fue un destacado escritor uruguayo, calificado como uno de los más importantes del siglo XX y extrañamente muy poco conocido fuera de su país. En Tierra y Tiempo un libro póstumo, se reúnen veintinueve cuentos que ejemplifican la enorme capacidad literaria de este autor a quien el tiempo no le ha sustraído valor. El tema de estos cuentos es la vivencia de los hombres del sur; donde el trabajo, la soledad, la pobreza y la lucha diaria cobran un protagonismo especial, que además nutre su trabajo literario.

Random Experiments in Bioluminescence is a remarkable collection of luminous poems for cherishing cultures, languages, and the Earth—From poet and urbanist Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo. “Listen with your natural body,” writes Shimshon-Santo. “In the beginning, there was song.” This collection tracks a woman’s search for language and belonging. Choral, cryptographic, and exhilarating, Shimshon-Santo provides glimpses into a poetics of planetary livability.

Corre el año 1920 y Joaquín Buitrago, que por azares de su atormentada vida acaba dedicándose a fotografiar a los internos del manicomio mexicano La Castañeda, se topa de pronto, entre las mujeres a las que retrata, con Matilda Burgos. Obsesionado por la identidad de esta enferma, pues cree haberla conocido años atrás en el célebre burdel La Modernidad, trata de recabar información sobre ella.

Regresar a San Andrés hace que Verónica Baruq cuestione su relación con la isla. Una foto inquietante de sus tatarabuelos y el raro encuentro con Ma Josephine, una anciana raizal a quien conoce frente a la First Baptiste Church, son algunos de los detonantes que empiezan a revelar detalles de sus orígenes. Su pasado no solo la pone en contacto con la desconocida historia de la isla, sino también con los movimientos sociales que, entre zouk y calipso, celebran la identidad raizal, hacen thinking rundowns, resisten.

Camarada imaginario o encarnación del subconsciente, destinatario de postales que hablan de la extrañeza del mundo, el amigo al que la autora dirige estos poemas sirve de ancla incierta pero entrañable en el ir y venir de una voz: la de quien recorre el mundo en derivas vitales y literarias, a través de las rutas de la imaginación y los países ajenos.

La conspiración shandy, o sociedad secreta de los portátiles, fue fundada en 1924 en la desembocadura del río Níger y quedó disuelta tres años después, tras un espectacular escándalo, en Sevilla. Formaron parte de la conjetura shandy, entre otros, Duchamp, Scott Fitzgerald, Walter Benjamin, César Vallejo, Rita Malú, Valery Larbaud, García Lorca, Pola Negri, Berta Bocado, Alberto Savinio y Georgia O'Keefe.

«El mundo es esta casa», dice Clara. La llave de la puerta está echada; las ventanas, cubiertas con mantas. Dentro, Clara vive atrincherada con su padre, su hija y un canario enjaulado. Presa de su pasado y de sus miedos, atrapada en un delirio emocional, está convencida de que el mundo exterior es la feroz amenaza de la que debe proteger a su familia. La extenuante batalla que emprende contra él será la confrontación con su propio abismo interior.

En la guerra y en la paz, una mujer sin armas lucha por sus hijas. Como en la vieja agricultura itinerante roza, tumba y quema para que esas niñas tengan un lugar al cual poder regresar.

A finales de los años ochenta, la designación de embajadores entre cárteles que ayudaran a solventar negocios y desacuerdos permitió establecer las reglas para el trasiego ilegal entre México y Colombia. Estos embajadores eran llamados emisarios. En esta novela un hombre finge ser su hermano muerto para poder entrar al mundo del narcotráfico.

Tookie e forțată să privească în interiorul ei pentru a-și înțelege propriul trecut și a-și ispăși greșelile. Condamnarea la integrarea într-o cultură înlocuitoare, care doar se vrea înfloritoare, se plătește scump. Într-o societate dominată de ură și cruzime, personajele din Sentința se regăsesc și supraviețuiesc prin iubire, prietenie, cărți, familie și moștenire culturală. Lupta pentru păstrarea propriei memorii și identități nu e ușoară, însă resentimentele și disperarea fac loc în cele din urmă compasiunii și solidarității.

Yellow dirt gathers in the creases of the toddler's dirty blue jeans and on the little hands used to brush away a pesky fly. The same yellow particles that cling to the walls of the Hogan, contaminates the drinking water and fills the air where his father works only to come home covered with yellow dust. Yellow dirt. That enriches the powerful, but at the expense of the unsuspecting Dine.

The linked stories in Mama Said are set in Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a rich history steeped in tobacco, bourbon, and gambling, indulgences that can quickly become gripping and destructive vices. Set amid the tail end of the crack epidemic and the rise of the opioid crisis, Mama Said evokes Black family life in all its complexity, following JayLynn, along with her cousins Zaria and Angel, as they come of age struggling against their mothers' drug addictions.

When RaeLynn Shaffer is found on the highway near the Black Horse Campground-drugged, beaten, and unconscious-the mystery behind her disappearance weeks earlier only grows deeper. Soon it's apparent that she wasn't meant to be found alive . . . and what she knows could be fatal to the people she cares about . . . especially campground owner, Corrie Black.