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  • The Past Pursues Us like Detectives, Debt Collectors, Thieves

    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    Weaving outright hilarity with wry tenderness, The Past Pursues Us is a fast-paced and funny whodunit that lovingly speaks to the stories we tell ourselves about home: about what changes, what doesn't, and what should. ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    As the planet faces ever-worsening disruptions to global ecosystems—carbon and chemical emissions, depletions of the ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, air toxification, and worsening floods and droughts—scholars across academia must examine the cultural effects of this increasingly postnatural world. That task proves especially vital for southern studies, given how often ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota

    Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management

    Series series Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated approach was tested in both the US and in Mexico. Two overview chapters cover related ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me

    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    'I don't expect anyone to believe me,' warns the narrator of this novel, a Mexican student called Juan Pablo Villalobos. He is about to fly to Barcelona on a scholarship when he's kidnapped in a bookshop and whisked away by thugs to a basement. The gangsters are threatening his cousin—a wannabe entrepreneur known to some as 'Projects' and to others as 'dickhead' – who is gagged and tied to a chair ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    by Don Winslow ...
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  • On a Night of a Thousand Stars

    In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later.New York, 1998**.** Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo ... Read more

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  • Drown

    by Junot Díaz ...
    From the beloved and award-winning author Junot Díaz, a spellbinding saga of a family’s journey through the New World.A coming-of-age story of unparalleled power, Drown introduced the world to Junot Díaz's exhilarating talents. It also introduced an unforgettable narrator— Yunior, the haunted, brilliant young man who tracks his family’s precarious journey from the barrios of Santo Domingo to the ... Read more

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  • The Book of Unknown Americans

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    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review).When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.

    A Road Novel with Literary License

    From the author of L.A. Weather comes “a whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery that explores the love and hurt of a father and daughter on the run” (Jorge Ramos, News Anchor for Univision).“1,001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison . . . González and Daughter Trucking Co. is about our compulsion to make events into stories and stories into bridges of understanding.”—John Sayles, Screenwriter ... Read more

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  • Havana Noir

    by Achy Obejas ...
    Series series Akashic Noir
    "[A] superb collection . . . The 18 stories by current and former residents of Havana are gritty, heartbreaking and capture the city." — Orlando SentinelTo most outsiders, Havana is a tropical sin city. Habaneros know that this is neither new nor particularly true. In the real Havana—the lawless Havana that never appears in the postcards or tourist guides—the concept of sin has been banished by ... Read more

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  • Thursday Night Widows

    Translated by Miranda France ...
    "An agile novel written in a language perfectly pitched for the subject matter, a ruthless dissection of a fast decaying society"—José Saramago, Nobel Prize winnerThe English translation of hit novel Las Viudas de Los Jueves!“Piñeiro’s clever U.S. debut.. . illuminates the hypocrisies of the country's upper classes after 9/11.”—Publishers Weekly“Piñeiro is particularly skilful at exposing the ... Read more

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  • An Easy Thing

    Series Book 1 - Hector Belascoaran Shayne Detective Novels
    Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt ... Read more

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