epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky [Jodorowsky, Alejandro]

The climate of cowardice engenders tyrannies. If everyone says ‘let’s give in,’ they become accomplices in the raising of the machete, in thought control. This infamous attempt to castrate the ...

epub |eng | 2005-11-23 | Author:Yxta Maya Murray [Murray, Maya, Yxta]

CHAPTER 30 On the outskirts of Rio Hondo sat five olive green army flatbed trucks covered with tarps and filled with provisions and stoic uniformed men. Because of the last ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Isabel Allende

When we came to Chile we knew nothing of the Mapuche. We believed that it would be easy to subdue them, as we had much more civilized peoples: the Aztecs ...

epub |eng | | Author:Brando Skyhorse

8 “You have to sleep with the man you’re living with. It isn’t right,” my grandmother said. Ignoring how she’d exiled Emilio from her bedroom for years, my grandmother and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-01-12 | Author:Julia Alvarez [Julia Alvarez]

Next time they gathered under the shade of the thatch, I went out there, carrying my week-old prize. “Hola, Patria,” the men called. “That’s quite a macho you got there!” ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-04-30 | Author:Cisneros, Sandra [Cisneros, Sandra]

* Enrique Aragón was what you would call un hombre bonito. A pretty man. He had fulfilled his obligation and chosen a profession honorable to his family. That was all ...

epub, mobi |eng, eng | 2003-12-31 | Author:Julia Alvarez

DEATH DAYS It used to be we marked time with birthdays: huge childhood parties with wedding-size cakes to celebrate that season’s crop of cousins, all of us dressed in costumes ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Matt Burgess [Burgess, Matt]

Meanwhile, Roger Clemens enters the batter’s box. In Corona, Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Cambria Heights, Astoria, Hollis, Glendale, LeFrak, Queensbridge, Jamaica, Rockaway, Fresh Meadows, Kew Gardens, Malba, Maspeth, Ditmars, ...

epub |eng | 1974-01-01 | Author:Alejo Carpentier [Carpentier, Alejo]

12 … there is something like a very powerful and clever deceiver who uses all his skill to keep me constantly deceived … —DESCARTES MINISTERS WERE DRAGGED OUT OF BED ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Carolina De Robertis [Robertis, Carolina De]

Monte. Vide. Eu. I see a mountain, a captain said four centuries ago, spying a low hill from his boat, approaching a river that would not have any silver. City ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Mario Alberto Zambrano [Zambrano, Mario Alberto]

LA ESCALERA I used to chase Estrella around the house and hang out in front where the sidewalk is, saying hi to the people who passed by on their way ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Jaime Manrique [Manrique, Jaime]

* * * During the brief hours when a thin shaft of afternoon sunlight pierced the darkness of my dungeon, I read and reread Lazarillo’s adventures until I memorized the ...

mobi |eng | 2006-08-23 | Author:Sandra Rodriguez Barron

WHEN SYLVIA SAW the Winterses walking behind her son-in-law, her face brightened as she stood to hug them. She was dressed in a short-sleeved, crisp apricot linen suit with matching ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Héctor Tobar

“¡Buenos días!” Councilman Luján said, causing his daughter, Lucía, to startle and sit up straight, and her three friends to emit wake-up groans and coughs. “This is Araceli,” he said ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Justin Torres

Ducks PAPS CAME HOME WITH sleepy eyes and blood-flushed ears and started leaning against Ma, pressing her into the counter, kissing her, pinching her in different places, and Ma, who ...