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  • The Spanish American Novel

    A Twentieth-Century Survey

    by John S. Brushwood ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    In The Spanish American Novel, John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality. In relating the generic history of the novel to extraliterary events in Spanish America, he shows how twentieth-century fiction sets forth the essence of such phenomena as the first Perón regime, the Mexican Revolution, the Che Guevara legend, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Mexico in Its Novel

    A Nation's Search for Identity

    by John S. Brushwood ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    Mexico in Its Novel is a perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel. The author presents the Mexican novel as a cultural phenomenon: a manifestation of the impact of history upon the nation, an attempt by a people to come to grips with and understand what has happened and is happening to them.Written in a clear and graceful style, this study examines the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Otilia's Body

    A Novel

    by Sergio Galindo ...
    Translated by Carolyn Brushwood, John S. Brushwood ...
    Series series Texas Pan American Series
    From reviews of the Spanish edition:"...among the best works that Mexican fiction has produced."—Héctor Gally, Sábado"With homely features, but with a body so shapely and exciting that it sets men (priests included) aflame throughout the novel, with an incandescent voluptuousness and delightful amorality (surely explosive in the conservative Mexican society of her time and place) ...Otilia Rauda ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Don Goyo

    by Demetrio Aguilera-Malta, John Brushwood, Carolyn Brushwood ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)

    $64.99 CAD

  • Lost in the City: Tree of Desire and Serafin

    Two novels by Ignacio Solares

    by Ignacio Solares ...
    Translated by Carolyn Brushwood, John Brushwood ...
    Cristina, the young protagonist of Tree of Desire, and her little brother Joaquín run away from a home that is outwardly normal, but inwardly disfunctional. Lost on the streets of Mexico City, they confront some of the most terrifying aspects of city life. Or is it all a dream? The story suggests, without confirming, that sexual abuse has driven Cristina to her desperate escape. But is it an ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Fakist, The: Season 2

    by Bill Meeks, Rebecca Johnson, Derek O'Neill, John Harrison, Wynn Mercere8, Anne Marie DeSimone9, Charles Johnson0, Liam Meeks1, Megan Prevost2 ...
    Narrated by Bill Meeks, Rebecca Johnson, Bobby Hawke, Brian Brushwood, Derek O'Neill, John Harrison, Justin Robert Young0, Peter Price1, Scott Johnson2, Sean Trail3, Teri Fruichantie4, The Cast Of The Fakist5, Tony Hooper6, Wynn Mercere7 ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - The Fakist

    Unabridged

    6 hours 33 min

    After the tumultuous events of Season 1, Paul DaFoe returns to The Fakist newsroom to put right what once went wrong. Can he save his future by outrunning his past? Not likely, but that doesn't mean he isn't going to try!Between all the drama, enjoy sketches like "America's Next Mary Marvel," "The Ballad of Stinky Foot McNeil," "The Boybysitter's Club," plus an epic two-part finale with more ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Novel

    by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    In this "beautifully wrought" novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery ( New York magazine).It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summer Snow

    by Rebecca Pawel ...
    Series Book 4 - Sergeant Tejada Investigations
    Praise for the Carlos Tejada Alonso y León series:“Rebecca Pawel [has] set the mystery world agog.”—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Book World“The best new mystery author to come around in a long time . . . an astonishing achievement in writing and psychological development . . . she knows how to make a reader care. Her books are intense, the writing impeccable. She propels the plot at a ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Beautiful Maria of My Soul

    by Oscar Hijuelos ...
    In this mesmerizing sequel to a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, the "heart-stealing heroine" (Amy Tan) and muse of Cuban musician Nestor Castillo takes readers on the journey of a lifetime with this story of reinvention, romance, and revolution.In The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, María is the great Cuban beauty who stole musician Nestor Castillo’s heart and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Children of Sanchez

    Autobiography of a Mexican Family

    by Oscar Lewis ...
    A pioneering work from a visionary anthropologist, The Children of Sanchez is hailed around the world as a watershed achievement in the study of poverty—a uniquely intimate investigation, as poignant today as when it was first published.It is the epic story of the Sánchez family, told entirely by its members—Jesus, the 50-year-old patriarch, and his four adult children—as their lives unfold in the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Shadow of the Wind

    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ...
    Translated by Lucia Graves ...
    Series series The Cemetery of Forgotten Books
    "Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind**. Really, you should." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“Wondrous...masterful...The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —* ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Adventures of a Young Naturalist

    SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS

    by Sir David Attenborough ...
    WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY DARA McANULTYTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'His writing is as impressive and as enjoyable as his TV programmes and there can be no higher praise' Daily Express'A marvellous book . . . unputdownable . . . utterly engaging' Daily TelegraphIn 1954, a young television presenter named David Attenborough was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to ... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD