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  • Dancing to "Almendra"

    A Novel

    by Mayra Montero ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    Havana, 1957. On the same day that the Mafia capo Umberto Anastasia is assassinated in a barber's chair in New York, a hippopotamus escapes from the Havana zoo and is shot and killed by its pursuers. Assigned to cover the zoo story, Joaquín Porrata, a young Cuban journalist, instead finds himself embroiled in the mysterious connections between the hippo's death and the mobster's when a secretive ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Captain of the Sleepers

    A Novel

    by Mayra Montero ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    "Montero charts the chilly undercurrents of steamy Caribbean life in novels notable for their lyrical intensity and mystery, eroticism, and social acumen." — BooklistFor fifty years, Andrés Yasín has carried a grudge against J. T. Bunker. Now, Bunker, eighty-two years old and dying of cancer, wants to tell his side of a story, a story of his affair with Andrés's mother. As a child Andrés knew ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • On a Night of a Thousand Stars

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  • All the Crooked Saints

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  • Only to Sleep

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    Lawrence Osborne brings one of literature’s most enduring detectives back to life—as Private Investigator Philip Marlowe returns for one last adventure.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND NPR • NOMINATED FOR THE EDGAR AND SHAMUS AWARDSThe year is 1988. The place, Baja California. And Philip Marlowe—now in his seventy-second year—is living out his ... Read more

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    by Tony Cohan ...
    An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun-splashed plazas are enchanting, and the ... Read more

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  • Murder, She Wrote: Margaritas & Murder

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    Journeys into the Heart of Mexico

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