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  • The Migrant Chef

    The Life and Times of Lalo García

    by Laura Tillman ...
    **Winner of the 2024 James Beard Foundation's Award for Literary WritingA New Yorker Best Book of 2023 • An NPR 2023 "Books We Love" PickA chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining.**Born in rural Mexico, Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child, picking fruits and ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts

    Murder and Memory in an American City

    by Laura Tillman ...
    “A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts

    Murder and Memory in an American City

    by Laura Tillman ...
    Narrated by Julia Whelan ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 47 min

    “A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one of America’s poorest cities—John Allen Rubio and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Migrant Chef

    The Life and Times of Lalo García

    by Laura Tillman ...
    Narrated by Cindy Kay ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    A chef’s gripping quest to reconcile his childhood experiences as a migrant farmworker with the rarefied world of fine dining.Born in rural Mexico, Eduardo “Lalo” García Guzmán and his family left for the United States when he was a child, picking fruits and vegetables on the migrant route from Florida to Michigan. He worked in Atlanta restaurants as a teenager before being convicted of a robbery, ... Read more

    $17.50 USD

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    Dark Heart

    A True Story of Sex, Manipulation, and Murder

    Narrated by Paul Costanzo ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 4 min

    Was murder part of the game?Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood—and a penchant for make-believe. More than a decade older, Seth Mazzaglia was well known in the community theater circle of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He, too, had a rich inner life—and he soon had Kat convinced that they were soul mates.To intensify their bond, Seth lured Kat into a world of violent sex ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grape, Olive, Pig

    Deep Travels Through Spain's Food Culture

    by Matt Goulding ...
    Winner of the 2017 IACP Award: Literary or Historical Food WritingGourmand World Cookbook Award Winner: Culinary TravelAmazon Best Book of November (2016): Cookbooks, Food and WineFinancial Times Best Books of 2017: Food and Travel"Goulding is pioneering a new type of writing about food. His last book, Rice, Noodle, Fish, took an immersive approach to Japan that combined tr... ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cuba beyond the Beach

    Stories of Life in Havana

    Havana is Cuba’s soul: a mix of Third World, First World, and Other World. After over a decade of visits as a teacher, researcher, and friend, Karen Dubinsky looks past political slogans and tourist postcards to the streets, neighbourhoods, and personalities of a complicated and contradictory city. Her affectionate, humorous vignettes illustrate how Havana’s residents—old Communist ladies, their ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Other Side of Paradise

    Life in the New Cuba

    by Julia Cooke ...
    Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, SanterÃtrainees, pregnant ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Spanish Lessons 1-4: Numbers, Colors/Shapes, Animals & Food

    by Felipe Soto ...
    Series series Easy-Peasy Spanish for Kids Series
    These flashcard books are designed with large, engaging pictures to help your little one learn Spanish - one fun, easy lesson at a time. This collection includes:- Spanish Lesson 1: Numbers 1 to 20- Spanish Lesson 2: Colors & Shapes- Spanish Lesson 3: Animals- Spanish Lesson 4: Foods & Table SettingEach lesson has everything you need to teach your child these four Spanish lessons including:- The ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Taco USA

    How Mexican Food Conquered America

    The nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican! presents a fascinating and tasty trip through the history and culture of Mexican food in this country, uncovering great stories and charting the cuisine’s tremendous popularity in el Norte.Nationally syndicated columnist and bestselling author of ¡Ask a Mexican! Gustavo Arellano presents a tasty trip through the history ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • First Stop in the New World

    by David Lida ...
    The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Tropical Immersion

    A Year in Costa Rica and Beyond

    by Ethan Rogol ...
    Everyone knows that Costa Rica is a paradise. But how does one find one’s way around when streets have no names and houses have no numbers? When does one shake hands, and when does one kiss one’s friends? "Tropical Immersion" is the wry and very personal story of a year in Costa Rica, the overland journey there and back, and side trips to Nicaragua and Ecuador. It details navigating the rough, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD