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In a town chosen by chance, the paths of two strangers cross. Their motives are different, but, after a number of years now (through prejudice, violence, despair and loneliness) they can finally sense it: They are getting closer to looking at fate in the eyes. Pushed by the thirst of revenge, Roberto enters The Community Bank to rob it. Ricardo is already there, in line. As these events unfold, the reasons behind their actions and characters will reveal themselves. Fair or not, the journey to the United States of America can seem like the only way out when adversity strangles.As they pace on, jumping over hurdles and making irreversible choices, inevitable questions surface: Will they make it out of the bank alive? Has it been worth it to leave their land and families behind? Are they any closer to reaching the elusive American Dream? Or worse: Is it time to admit that there is no dream... only a gold-plated myth?

This book is Cristina Cortez's most personal and direct poetry collection about growing up and being a person with a disability who developed a confident identity. The poems are social-justice-focused, diverse, tender, and intently break out of the margins of convention. She deliberately uses different literary and experimental techniques that make the poems flow together in unexpected ways, weaving, ebbing, and oscillating from one to the next.As I Am / Soy Como Soy redefines the meaning of what it is to be someone who lives with a disability despite always being under the lens of discrimination simply for being different. To underscore its literary and disability-empowered strengths, As I Am / Soy Como Soy was released on July 30th, the week of the ADA's 33rd anniversary.The book features:Forward by Rhina P. Espaillat, writer, poet, & translatorLiterary analysis by Edgar Smith, poet & editorCover design and artist statement by Hector Escalante RiveraBack cover review by Jason Fogler, Ph.D., Director of Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities at Boston Children's Hospital and assistant Professor of Pediatrics and psychology at Harvard Medical School.As I Am / Soy Como Soy, in its multidimensionality, is meant to continue to foster the importance of the independent living movement for people with disabilities. The book can serve as an inspiration and motivational text for any and all readers interested in personal growth, and further fuel the fight for disability advocacy and full inclusion.

Un padre toma la fatídica decisión de dejar atrás una exitosa carrera en los Estados Unidos y mudarse a una playa aislada en la República Dominicana. Planta diez mil cococoteros, muda a su esposa y sus dos hijas pequeñas a un pequeño pueblo y declara que son "las personas más afortunadas del mundo".En realidad, la familia está en el camino de los huracanes y bajo las garras de un dictador brutal, Rafael L. Trujillo, y los niños están además bajo el control de un padre cada vez más volátil y alcohólico.Con un telón de fondo de palmeras resplandecientes y puestas de sol de caleidoscopio, Una niñez entre palmeras es el convincente libro de memorias de Rita M. Gardner sobre una infancia en el paraíso, un viaje hacia una miseria inesperada y un camino retorcido hacia la redención y la verdad.

The Man Who Left / El hombre que se fue portrays exquisitely and bilingually (English and Spanish) the immigrants' feeling, their Afro-Caribbean cultural identity and the compromise with their roots. Five human aspects are presented here: The nostalgic immigration experience; love that exalts women's dignity; the bittersweet evocation of social reality from the native land; the tribute to family values; and the spiritual vision of the human being-analyzed with emotional sensitivity and solid literary quality.

A scissor-wielding serial killer nicknamed "The Snipper" by the local news media for his trademark of dismembering his victims; a defamed journalist who finds himself on the run from a bloodthirsty mob after facing a series of allegations; a fractured coven infested with snake worms struggles to master its special talent to present at an over-the-top telethon; a network of corporations, including a sinister pharmaceutical company, conspires to not only control the entire world but also the human mind; a power-hungry political candidate who will do anything to win an upcoming election even if it means contributing to the extinction of the human race; a struggling addict desperately searches for answers into her sister's mysterious death after recovering from a recent overdose on a street drug called "pixie dust" these are just a few of the protagonists and antagonists from an incongruous cast of characters whose stories ultimately collide in the final act, ext. 7, which will provoke the inevitable question. . . "What is Midnight World?"Dalivia Plaut is the author of the debut novel, Cut From Darkness, a collection of four novellas that delve deep inside the human psyche and explore the monsters that cower within. She lives in Loganson, West Virginia, with her cat named Poe.

Much in the gripping style of thought-provoking, philosophical, and brainy horror by genre masters, such as Poe, Borges, or King, Edgar Smith (Arrimao, Gnuj & Alt, The Wordsmith) delivers a collection of short stories conceived to shock, but, more importantly, to stir the waters in the readers' mind lake. This is contemporary literature from a mind nurtured by classic stories and fueled by a profound, far-reaching imagination, intent on delivering the sort of escapism a good old story was originally expected to provide and yet offering the sort of intellectual stimulation the serious reader always expects from exceptional narrative.

No todas las historias acerca de la inmigración son iguales, pero todas tienen un gran número de cosas en común. Quizá la más común sea la cantidad de peligros, complicaciones y vicisitudes que tiene que atravesar el inmigrante en persecución de su sueño de mejoría de vida. Las luces del retorno es sin duda una de las más completas historias de esta naturaleza, puesto que Soto-Escudero narra su historia personal con lujo de detalles, con profunda fidelidad, sin omitir sucesos (por traumáticos que sean) ni reducir la historia a un puñado de anécdotas, sino que forma un cuerpo narrativo cálido, conmovedor y literariamente rico. Una gran novela, que todo inmigrante debe leer.Basada en las experiencias personales del autor, con ciertas libertades de ficción, Soto-Escudero nos envuelve en una travesía de años, en la que ocurren traiciones, amores, desencantos, amistades... y en la que se hace notoria la necesidad de la amistad para mantenernos a flote en muchas circunstancias de la vida. Este es un libro necesario.

Voces del vino surge para honrar el cauce sabio de las uvas y perderse en él, al catar el aroma del instante y plasmar el verso que se gesta, a veces sin darnos cuenta. Esta antología aparece de nueva cuenta en los diferentes escenarios literarios como una joya de la literatura romántica y ecléctica que, estoy segura, llenará al más estricto y exigente de los lectores, amantes de la poesía y el vino. Los poemas aquí seleccionados nos regalan pasión por la vendimia, el néctar afrodisíaco y la bodega; expresando la conexión entre el alma y el universo literario donde existen un cúmulo de obras sobre el vino. Creaciones atadas a los matices del paladar en las que resalta la intención del poeta de conectarse con el lector y hacerlo parte de su inspiración, casi siempre real. Hoy transpiramos alegres con el ritmo de las uvas en el paladar y demás sentidos.