It is September 1997, and Hurricane Georges has just hit the Dominican Republic. It is a time of great hunger and misery, where everyone fights for hope and survival, causing conflicts among all social strata. Old and new customs are mixed in the kitchen of Mama Monga, a woman who has faded with time but remains unforgettable in the hearts and minds of her loved ones. Franchezca discovers that she was born into an extraordinary family, which is both admired and hated by many, and reconstru...

Based on a real story where Ambar Pantaleon is a young middleclass Dominican woman that believes to have found her true love at the time of her first marriage. By chance, she gets together with a new man and starts a new life in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Everything appears to be stable in her life until she meets Samuel, a Spanish young man that shares a past, present, and possible future next to the family that she had built. It can be demonstrated that from our vain reality we can discove...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIRWhat happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?**In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the t...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe "masterful chronicle" of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya and the quest to unlock their secrets.Featuring a history and description of the major Maya sites, including **Chichen Itza, Tulum,**Palenque, Uxmal, Copan, and more. Illustrated with a map and more than 100 images.In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling ...

**One of President Obama's Favorite Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | One of the Wall Street Journal Ten Best Books of the Year"Missionaries is a courageous book: It doesn’t shy away, as so much fiction does, from the real world.” —Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The New York Times Book Review“A sweeping, interconnected novel of ideas in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Norman Mailer . . . By taking a long view of the ‘rational ...

Trivia-on-Book: The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoTake the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends!The Alchemist is an international bestseller and one of the most read novels of the century. The book, written by celebrated Brazilian author, Paulo Coelho, is a recollection of a young shepherd’s journey to follow his dream to find a hidden treasure. Santiago is an Andalusian boy who leaves his seminary to become a shepherd so that he can travel to cou...

Tangier, in the early 1990s: Young Moroccans gather regularly in a seafront cafe to gaze at the lights on the Spanish coast glimmering in the distance. Facing a future with few prospects in a country they feel has failed them, their disillusionment is matched only by their desire to reach this paradise - so close and yet so far, not least because of the treacherous waters separating the two countries and the frightening stories they hear of the fates of would-be illegal emigrants. A young ...

Ramón, a devout Catholic, fixes furniture in Mexico City, not far from where he was born into poverty. Theodore, a rich German expatriate and painter, believes in nothing at all. You’d think the two had nothing in common. Except, of course, that both had slept with Lelia. Two form an unlikely friendship, until Lelia is found brutally murdered. Both are suspects and each suspects the other.Twisting in a limbo of tension and doubt, Ramón and Theodore seize on a third man, a thief see...

A Penguin ClassicPublished here for the first time in English in a brilliant translation by the peerless Gregory Rabassa, The Discovery of America by the Turks is a whimsical Brazilian take on The Taming of the Shrew that will remind readers why Jorge Amado is to Portuguese-American literature what Jorge Luis Borges is to Spanish-American literature. It follows the adventures of two Arab immigrants—“Turks,” as Brazilians call them—who arrive in th...

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Alchemist with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, a charming philosophical novel which tells the story of Santiago, a young shepherd who decides to leave his native Andalusia after he has a dream about treasure that lies buried at the foot of the Pyramids. His journey through the desert leads to encounters with mys...

Trivia-on-Book: The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoTake the challenge and share it with friends and family for a time of fun!You may have read the book, but not have liked it.You may have liked the book, but not be a fan.You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan?Trivia-on-Books is an independently curated trivia quiz on the book for reade...

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Shadow of the Wind with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, which tells the story of the young and idealistic Daniel and the mysterious novel he finds in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. He is soon plunged into the decades-old mystery surrounding the novel’s author, Julián Carax, who was reportedly kil...