Hispanoamerikanische Literatur

King of Swords explores the concept of free will and illustrates the projection of Jungian archetypes. The story depicts the lives of the author's great-grandparents, who witnessed the events of the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico.

Piety, compassion, lust, love... Feelings all the more potent when you are a Catholic priest confined to your hospital bed by an AIDS diagnosis, being comforted by the seminarian you sexually abused as an adolescent. It's Holy Week 1987. The priest is Fr. Linus Fitzgerald, and the young seminarian is Orlando Rosario. Both are shocked and shaken as they reflect on their desires and dreams, secrets and sins, hopes and faith, and the paths that brought them together. In Homo Novus, Gerard Cabrera illuminates with deep empathy and stark emotional honesty the journey these two men take separately and together - a journey that began with a violation of trust and leads them to places - sacred and profane - that they never imagined.

For fans of My (Not So) Perfect Life and Jasmine Guillory’s While We Were Dating, a disarmingly fun debut novel follows Carlisa Henton as her life comes undone after a chance meeting with a rising pop star.<BR><BR>Carlisa “Carli” Henton is a musician and songwriter hoping to follow in her father’s musical footsteps. But, biding her time until she makes it big in the music industry, she works as a junior account manager at a big-name media company to cover her New York City rent. Carli meticulously balances her work with her musical endeavors as a songwriter—until a chance meeting with rising star Tau Anderson sends her calculated world into a frenzy. Their worlds collide and quickly blur the strict lines Carli has drawn between her business and her personal life, throwing Carli’s reputation—and her burgeoning songwriting career—into question.<BR> <BR>A smart, timely, energizing romance, Good Morning, Love shows us what the glamorous New York’s music scene is really like and takes us into the lives of a rising but somewhat troubled R&B star and a promising protégé who knows her job better than she knows herself.<BR> <BR>With fresh and honest prose, Good Morning, Love examines the uncertainty of being a new professional looking to chase a dream while also trying to survive in a world that’s not always kind to ambitious women.

Hasdai ibn Shaprut was a Talmudic scholar who lived from 915-975. He was a linguist fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and Latin, and a renowned physician. The caliph of Cordoba, Abd-ar-Rhaman III, recognized his learning, intelligence, and skills and appointed him court physician, and the inspector general for customs collections. He became a respected diplomatic advisor, particularly when dealing with the Byzantine empire. Shaprut also was appointed Nagid (head) of all the Jews of the caliphate. Because of his great wealth, wisdom, and high rank, he was able to protect and advocate for, not only the Jews of Cordoba, but those Jews throughout the diaspora. He supported and regularly corresponded with leading Talmudic authorities in Babylon and North Africa. An interesting, but disputed, correspondence, written in Hebrew, exists between Shaprut and the Jewish king of the Khazar empire. Shaprut dispatched his personal envoy to travel to Atil, the Khazar capital, to ascertain if the Khazars were, in fact Jewish, and if so, would it be possible for Jews escaping persecution to find safe haven within its borders.

The humorous and heart-wrenching story of a woman's re-entry into life on the outside after twenty years in incarceration, told over one whirlwind Fourth of July weekend."There's no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine - no, star - of the second novel by Hannaham."<BR>-THE OBSERVERWhen Carlotta Mercedes was pulled into a robbery gone wrong, she still went by the name she was born with. But not long after her conviction, she began to live as a woman, an embrace of selfhood that prison authorities rejected, keeping Carlotta trapped in an all-male cell block, abused by both inmates and guards.Over twenty years later, Carlotta is granted conditional freedom and returns to a much-changed Brooklyn, where she struggles to reconcile with a family reluctant to accept her identity, and to avoid any minor parole infraction that might get her consigned back to lockup.Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta sweeps the reader through seemingly every street of Brooklyn, much as Joyce's Ulysses does through Dublin. Hannaham introduces a cast of unforgettable characters even as it challenges us to confront the glaring injustices of a society and prison system that continues to punish people long after their time has been served.

Dominoes and Other Stories from the Puerto Rican, the only book of fiction by playwright and poet Jack AgÜeros, affirms the triumphs and ordinary struggles of the Puerto Rican experience in New York. In stories that span the 1940s through the 1990s, AgÜeros re-creates the barrio in all its multifaceted immensity, with its candy stores, plaster saints, fruit vendors, sidewalk games of dominoes, knife fights, and stories of successful craftspeople and entrepreneurs.<BR><BR> These stories convey hard, sometimes brutal, often bittersweet, experiences, but throughout AgÜeros writes with artistry and unyielding compassion. Richly detailed, wry, and matter-of-fact, Dominoes and Other Stories from the Puerto Rican is an important achievement by an accomplished American writer.

La editorial Jus presenta una reedición de uno de los textos más olvidados de Galdós: su exitosa obra de teatro 'Electra', revisada y con prólogo del escritor y crítico literario Germán Gullón.La protagonista, quien da título a la obra, es una joven huérfana de dieciocho años cuya madre, Eleuteria, ha muerto y de cuyo padre desconoce la identidad. Tras ser acogida por su tía, Evarista, y su marido, don Urbano, conoce al sobrino de ésta, Máximo, un científico liberal de quien se enamora perdidamente. Tras compartir sus sentimientos con el siniestro jesuita Salvador de Pantoja, el religioso le cuenta que ella y su amado son hermanos y le aconseja que ingrese en un convento. Electra, sin embargo, no llegará a entrar en la vida religiosa: el fantasma de su madre se le aparece para revelarle la verdad.

Cat Miranda's art gallery exhibition in Bisbee, Arizona, is going well until events suddenly take a dark turn. Jeremy Flores, Cat's childhood friend and personal attorney, has disappeared. Cat and her favorite Englishman, Miles Trevelyan, quickly find Jeremy only to learn that he has been brutally assaulted. Cat and Miles begin a quest to identify and stop the assailant, as well as to seek links to two murders. They get help from Miles's father, retired Sussex police detective Ian Trevelyan, Star Tavern-owner Amanda Fontaine, attorney Ana Hernandez, art expert Freddy Howard, and a big black dog named Tito. This Arizona-Sonora Borderlands tale has mystery and suspense plus a spoonful of romance.

She has a secret, long-lost husband in Mexico. A quick divorce will free her to marry her fiance. But her estranged husband has other plans...Suzie's fiancé, James, is pressuring her to pick a day for their wedding. She's cancelled three dates, and he's starting to wonder if she really wants to get married. But how does she go about telling her fiancé that she's already married to a man in Mexico? She needs a divorce, and she needs one fast. Her marriage has been a secret from her best friend, Janice, her fiancé, even her own mother, and she wants to keep it that way.When Janice asks her to come along on an all-girl international vacation to Acapulco, Suzie leaps at the chance. A search on the Internet gives Suzie all the information she needs to track down her husband, Joaquin, while out of the country and finally get that divorce. Unfortunately, Joaquin sees this as a second chance and won't give her up so easily.When James appears in Acapulco unexpectedly, all hell breaks loose, and Suzie stands to lose everything she's ever loved.ACAPULCO NIGHTS was a Write Affair finalist (Kensington Books) on Wattpad as an "Editor's Pick."

Étudiante passionnée de légendes urbaines, Diane choisit de s'installer à Pulnoy, une petite ville marquée par un événement tragique et inexplicable survenu vingt ans plus tôt. Alors que des meurtres énigmatiques frappent la région et que l'inquiétude générale grandit, elle doit également faire face au comportement de plus en plus étrange de ses nouveaux amis. Et si tout était lié au passé de cette paisible commune ? Diane résoudra-t-elle le mystère avant qu'il se soit trop tard ? Se déroulant en Lorraine, « Tu te souviendras » est un récit mêlant sciences de l'occulte, amour, haine et deuil, dans un entrelacs surnaturel.

In Another Sun is a lovely and eloquent look at one woman's journey towards, and away from, the American Dream. We follow its protagonist, the child of Mexican immigrants, through love and loss, career ascent and personal crisis. It's a specific and detailed story focused on one slice of the American experience; it's also a great general look at ambition and grace and identity, at the goals that shape our lives-only to leave us longing for something else.

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-Major review coverage: Medina is a well-respected established author<BR>-National tour and placement at major festivals