La casa en Mango Street es la extraordinaria historia de Esperanza Cordero. Contado a través de una serie de viñetas --a veces desgarradoras, a veces profundamente alegres-- es el relato de una niña latina que crece en un barrio de Chicago, inventando por sí misma en qué y en quién se convertirá. Pocos libros de nuestra era han conmovido a tantos lectores. The House on Mango Street tells the extraordinary story of Esperanza Cordero. Told through...

Una potente novela sobre un crimen pasional y sus consecuencias ambientada en el Harlem de la decada de 1920, con la firma inconfundible de Toni Morrison. Cuando Violet y Joe Trace, un matrimonio entrado en an~os, llegan a Nueva York huyendo de la intolerancia de su Virginia natal, creen que podran vivir en libertad sin importar el color de su piel. Pero el Harlem de los an~os '20, foco de un vibrante renacimiento cultural, les depara apuros inesperados....

When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.

Cuando la hermana que deleitó a sus padres con su fiel abrazo a la cultura mexicana muere en un trágico accidente, Julia, que anhela ir a la universidad y mudarse a una casa propia, descubre por amigos mutuos que su hermana puede no haber sido tan perfecta. como se creía. When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her...

«Un relato sobre el poder de la familia, cocinado con habilidad y condimentado tanto con misterio como con magia. Esta novela es simplemente exquisita.» V.E. Schwab, autora de La vida invisible de Addie LaRue Los Montoya están acostumbrados a una vida sin explicaciones. Han aprendido a no preguntar por qué la despensa nunca parece vacía, o por qué su matriarca nunca abandona su casa en Cuatro Ríos, ni siquiera para las graduaciones, bodas o...

Briseis has a unique gift: with just a slight touch, she can make plants grow from tiny seeds into beautiful flowers. It can be hard to control. When her aunt dies and she learns that she has inherited a run-down farm in rural New York state, she decides this is the opportunity to let her special talent run wild. The new place turns out to be a little sinister and she finds a strange manual with instructions, a garden filled with some of the most...

The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with Mexico over the disputed Rio Grande boundary. Ximena Salomé is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Vowing to honor her husband's memory and defend her country, Ximena...

When students ask author René Saldaña, Jr. how one becomes a writer, he says, "It's complicated." In this memoir written in verse for young adults, the author remembers his boyhood and the path that led to his becoming a reader, writer and scholar. This touching portrait depicts the development of a writer and the impact his rural, Mexican-American community had on his growth into a published author and university scholar. Written in an accessible...

El exespía Charles Jenkins vuelve a Rusia para salvar a una mujer, pero... ¿y si en realidad está arriesgando la vida por alguien que ya no existe? Charles Jenkins, agente de la CIA retirado, ha conseguido sobrevivir a una operación encubierta que se torció y por la que acabó juzgado por traición. Tras regresar a su vida de padre de familia, resentido después de quedar libre de todos los cargos, tiene claro que no piensa volver al juego hipócrita...

"Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the memories of Daniel's mother, Mariko, the love of his life, and the scars of a life hard-lived. He can't wait to see Daniel, who he's always thought of as a son, but he knows the time has come to tell him the truth about his mother, and his...