A debut graphic novel about one girl’s weightlifting dreams and how far she’ll go for them, from a popular Chilean animator.Sam Sanchez might not have a coach or proper equipment, but she’s going to become Chile’s first weightlifting gold medalist. She just knows it.When there’s an opportunity to train at the high-performance center with her weightlifting hero and Olympic gold medalist Eva Dos Santos . . . well, Sam can’t let that opportunity pass. Even if ...

The 4 Temperaments and the Couple, by Fernanda Boaventura, is a practical and insightful guide for couples who want to better understand themselves, improve communication, and strengthen their relationship. Based on the study of the four temperaments, the book helps readers recognize different personality traits, emotional responses, strengths, weaknesses, and behavioral patterns that influence married life and relationships. With accessible language and practical reflections, the author s...

The 4 Temperaments and Spirituality, by Fernanda Boaventura, presents a deep journey of self-knowledge that connects the classic theory of the four temperaments with spiritual development. In this book, the author leads readers to understand how the temperaments — choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic, and melancholic — influence not only personality, but also the way each person experiences spirituality and their relationship with God. The book offers an immersion into personal identity, helping...

When Matisse falls deeply in love with Jacob Logan—a man her parents would never approve of—she must choose between the life her family expects and the future she wants for herself. When Jacob asks her to move in with him, Matisse decides it’s time to finally stand up for her own happiness.What begins as a simple family announcement quickly erupts into shock, confrontation, and emotions long buried beneath years of silence. And as tensions rise, secrets about love, identity, and fa...

A student-friendly textbook on Portuguese linguistics for today's diverse classroomsIntroduction to Portuguese Linguistics and Variation offers students a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the structure and variation of Portuguese as spoken across Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Designed for undergraduate and introductory graduate students, this textbook bridges traditional linguistic topics with inclusive approaches to variation, discou...

The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, ...

A searing collection of true stories from “one of Mexico’s most exciting new voices” (The Guardian)LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL TRANSLATION AWARD IN PROSESet in and around the Mexican city of Veracruz, This Is Not Miami delivers a series of devastating stories—spiraling from real events—that bleed together reportage and the author’s rich and rigorous imagination. These narrative nonfiction pieces probe deeply into the ...

A raw personal essay collection by the internationally known author of Cockfight and Human Sacrifices on the terror of being in a female body in a misogynistic world.What does it mean to move with a woman’s body through a misogynistic world? María Fernanda Ampuero, one of the greatest writers of the new wave of Latin American gothic fiction, answers this question in this personal essay collection that’s part analysis, part confessional, and part h...

Now in paperback,"Paradais continues Melchor’s examination into the metaphysical assault embedded in patriarchy and classism” (Jessica Jacolbe, Vulture)Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor—an attractive married woman and mother—while Polo dreams about quitting his grueling job as a gardener withi...

The End centers on five friends in Rio de Janeiro who, nearing the end of their lives, are left with memories—of parties, marriages, divorces, fixations, inhibitions, bad decisions—and the physical indignities of aging. Alvaro lives alone and spends his time going from doctor to doctor and bemoaning the evils of his ex-wife. Silvio is a junkie who can’t give up the excesses of sex and drugs even in his old age. Ribeiro is an athletic beach bum enjoying a prolonged sex life thanks ...

A groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, María Fernanda Ampuero’s writing is “raw and savage” as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story collection (Vistazo).An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group of outcasts obsess over boys drowned while surfing, and an unhappy couple finds themselves trapped in a terrifying maze. With scalpel-like precision, Amp...

'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential reading' Rana Mitter, author of China's Good WarThe laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During two hundred years of colonial rule, Europeans exported their la...