A fake romance could catapult their careers to higher levels—or reignite heartbreak they never recover from.Actor Ignacio Santana needs to fund his passion project, an indie film he’s poured his heart into. But the buzz he needs only arrives when a headline claims he’s back with his ex, R&B singer Delta James—the woman who shattered his heart eleven years ago.Delta’s career is running on fumes, but the alleged reunion with Ignacio could be just what she needs to re...

Set amidst the political turbulence and social unrest of contemporary Mexico City, An Easy Thing introduces English-speaking readers to Taibo's human and world-weary protagonist, independent detective Hector Belascoaran Shayne. In this debut outing, our hero, who, incidentally, possesses an insatiable appetite for Coca Cola and cigarettes, tackles three cases simultaneously: a killing in a corrupt factory; the deadly threats against a former porn starlet's teenage daughter; and, strangely,...

She came for funnel cake. She left a crater.It's 1964, and the World's Fair is the pride of a shiny new future. Rocket rides, dancing robots, and fried everything. But when a strange cosmic flare hits the fairgrounds, one woman grows to impossible size, and her temper grows right along with her.Suddenly, the crowd isn't watching the show. They're running from it.As chaos erupts across the city, a washed-up beat reporter, a science dropout with a cru...

No city occupies as many paradoxical positions in the popular imagination as Los Angeles. It is the new frontier and the end of the trail; it is American Eden and Babylon by the Pacific; it is by turns celebrated and condemned for its diversity; it is the city of perpetual renewal and the city of imminent apocalypse. This collection reveals LA in all its contradictions by documenting a literary tradition as kaleidoscopic and cacophonous as the city itself. The writings explored by Los Ange...

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping how organizations innovate, manage resources, and create equitable opportunities for growth. As AI becomes embedded across industries, it enables greater efficiency, deeper insights, and more inclusive access to technology-driven progress. Understanding how AI intersects with leadership, ethics, and workforce dynamics is essential for navigating digital transformation responsibly. AI for Organizational Excellence and Inclusive Growth e...

This book explores the emerging field of tourism intelligence as a strategic and systemic driver for tourism transformation in the context of the climate crisis, the digital transition, and social inequality. Transcending the conventional boundaries of sustainability, it proposes a new paradigm based on regeneration, resilience, and intelligence-led governance, where data, knowledge systems, and stakeholder collaboration are used not only to optimize tourism, but also to reinvent and trans...

Some myths are long-lived, perhaps because they are fed by relentless partisan propaganda. One such myth credits Negrín and the communists alone with a will to resist throughout the civil war. A whole swathe of literature has made it its business to portray them as the very symbols of uncompromising opposition, of active, indefatigable resistance “with bread or without it”, “with guns or without them”, and so on, to General Franco and his side. Even today, so many years on, this nonsense i...

The Sedna Incident - a remote planetoid on the fringes of our solar system. It's a world of mystery, danger, and intrigue - and when our intrepid crew crash-lands in the heart of the jungle planet, they find themselves facing their greatest challenge yet. With enemies lurking around every corner and secrets waiting to be uncovered, they must race against time to uncover the truth and survive against all odds.But that's not all - this thrilling collection of pulpy science fiction al...

The Mexican Revolution lives on in literature, film, song, and popular culture. An enduring part of the cultural memory of Mexican and Mexican American communities, the revolution has shaped--and continues to be shaped by--later generations' experiences and conceptions of history. This volume offers instructors a variety of vantage points for teaching the revolution, including the role of women as family protectors and soldiers, petroculture, the heroization of famous revolutionary figures...

The moment he swept her into his arms, he vowed to protect her forever.Lorenzo Moretti. The son of a mafia soldier. Sophie Messina. The woman whose worth is measured by the value of her impending marriage.Growing up in the Chicago Mafia, Lorenzo's life has always been filled with violence. Enter Dante Damiani, the mafia heir and childhood best friend whom he thought was dead. Dante is ready to take back his father's stolen mafia empire by any means necessary, Lorenzo by his...

Small villages keep big secrets.Chef Stella Buchanan, rising star in the Manhattan restaurant scene, suddenly finds herself blackballed, without a job or any prospects. She retreats to Aramezzo, her family’s ancestral village in Italy. Her plan: sell the abandoned bed-and-breakfast and use the money to start over.Her mother never had a nice word about the quaint Umbrian town, so Stella is resistant to the warm welcome of the locals: a quippy trash collector...

Paco Ignacio Taibo II is one of the most popular and influential authors in Latin and South America. His endlessly inventive, highly-political detective novels, featuring the idiosyncratic private eye Hector Belascoaran Shayne, are set in the teeming landscape of Mexico City, a combustible mix of poverty, tragic class warfare, the anarchic and absurd. For Shayne it is a world that can bring tears one moment and blood the next.An Easy Thing is the first nov...