Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...

After moving from her home in Haiti to her uncle's home in Brooklyn, ten-year-old Gabrielle, feeling bullied and out of place, makes a misguided deal with a witch.

In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.

Months after confronting the legendary La Llorona, Paola starts dreaming again, this time about fantasmas that are stalking her and someone who might be even more dangerous--her estranged father.

Porfirio Díaz escribió estas Memorias, contando su vida entera desde su nacimiento hasta julio de 1867. En ellas reserva el primer capítulo a sus antepasados. Se incluyen, además, trece años de sus aventuras militares, hasta el momento en que fue candidato a las elecciones presidenciales de su país, por primera vez. Porfirio Díaz fue un líder mexicano que desarrolló una intensa actividad militar y política durante la segunda mitad del siglo...

For the ReadersI do not know where this book finds you or how you came across it, but I'd like for you to know what it means to me. In a nutshell, this book is and has been my healing: both the process and the manifestation. Before I began writing and compiling, I survived a series of unfortunate events that had me broken and unnerved spiritually, mentally and physically. I retreated from friends and family. I hid my pain and my glaring vulnerabilities...

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Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

Frankétienne habite Port-au-Prince, ville orpheline, dit-on, d'espoirs et de songes. Parfois, au fond de la nuit, sur les collines, résonnent de mystérieuses voix. Quand ce ne sont pas des djinns, les habitants croient que c'est la voix de Frankétienne serpentant les montagnes, hurlant dans les plaines un chant de vie plus puissant que la mort. Et dans ces périmètres carrés acculés à la dépendance, à la bêtise et au cynisme urbanistique,...

This fourth volume in the Caribbean Heritage series presents the texts of two short plays, first written in Trinidad in 1832 and 1852—53. The author of Martial Law in Trinidad was E.L. Joseph, an English-born long-time resident of Trinidad, who later published a novel, Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole, and the first history of the island. The author of Past and Present is not known, but may have been G.N. Dessources, a mixed-race Trinidadian...