A fierce, tender collection of stories about the lives, traumas, and dreams of Mapuche youth in modern-day Chile.The word "piñen" comes from Mapudungun and refers to the dust or the dirt that sticks to the body.In the all-too-real streets of Santiago de Chile, Daniela Catrileo gives us a portrait of a generation in search of itself. In “Warriache,” two childhood friends whose lives have been marked by their part Mapuche identity and the memories th...

In the sunlit world of Seaview Resort, meticulous manager Ava Merlau seeks perfection in every detail. When she hires enigmatic sailing instructor Ryan Beckett to lead exclusive ocean adventures, their professional partnership quickly stirs deeper currents. As Ava guides high-profile guests through carefully planned voyages, Ryan's patient guidance challenges her rigid need for control. Through stormy seas and quiet sunlit sails, she confronts her fears of vulnerability, discovering the al...

A near-future tale about love, life, and friendship in a world that’s falling apart.Chilco is the name of Pascale’s home island. It is also the Mapudungun word for fuchsia: a word that evokes tropical lushness, wetness, the deep greenness of the forest. Pascale's partner, Marina, grew up in the vertical slums of Capital City, a place scarred by centuries of colonialism and now the ravages of feckless developers. Every day the couple fear a sinkhole will op...

During the Holocaust, a vast number of Jews fled into the forests of Eastern Europe and joined partisan units, choosing armed resistance over passive survival. Fighting From the Forest tells the powerful and little-known story of these men and women who fought the Nazis while struggling to stay alive under some of the harshest conditions imaginable.Based on survivor testimonies, archival sources, and personal accounts, this book explores daily life in the forest camps, the...

Meet Dea - the little Chow Chow puppy with a BIG heart!With her beautiful deep-blue fur, bright eyes, and sweet fluffy face, Dea is impossible to forget. But this curious little puppy has one special talent: finding trouble wherever she goes!Luckily, Dea has Rocky by her side. Together, they discover that being brave doesn't mean never feeling scared. Sometimes, true courage means slowing down, being careful, and listening to those who love you.But ...

An underlying guide for how data principles can lead to improved accuracy in data collection, help businesses stay transparent with consumers, generate more trust, and ultimately, increase business performance. Even more important in today’s age of AI, this book examines today’s complex U.S. based privacy landscape and explains what business leaders and consumers stand to lose when myth gets mistaken for fact when thinking about data privacy. It defines the make-up of an audience and provi...

Mothering always comes at a price, paid by women regardless of their means."Daniela Rea's Fruto is a calm room late at night where women gather to talk: with their stories and their words they take care of each other and then, by sharing that, they care for all of us."—Miriam Toews, author of Women Talking"This transformative book is the product of eyes that see across generations, ears that truly know how to listen, and a...

Two degrees. Zero English.A night shift in an abandoned psychiatric hospital.You learn to laugh. Fast.Arriving in England for a fresh start, the author quickly discovers that the English language is a minefield of polite confusion, baffling idioms, and linguistic traps. Without the vocabulary to express who she is, daily life becomes a high-stakes game of translation roulette at the absolute bottom of the career lad...

As emergency departments and ambulance services face rising demand, a considerable share of patients present with needs classified as 'non-urgent', generating strain, frustration and moral judgement across care systems.The first of its kind to apply Bourdieusian field theory to emergency care, this book analyses how changing classificatory practices reshape professional boundaries, expectations of care and notions of legitimate urgency. Using an in-depth case study of emergency car...

With a precise and visceral style, Daniela Tarazona presents the clinical course of a radical mutation—a change whose physiological symptoms emerge from a more intimate evolution.After the death of her mother, Irma decides to take a plane and hole up on a faraway beach. Through the course of her grief, the protagonist’s body, her instincts, and her perception, begin to experience a transformation as unexpected as it is natural. The skin over her joints become thick...

From the winner of the 2022 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize: a fractal exploration of a woman's grief as she moves through disjointed segments of time.Divided Island is the story of a woman with a neurological disorder. The day she goes in for the encephalogram that will lead to her diagnosis, she finds herself splitting in two. One of the two women she becomes decides to travel to an island to take her own life; the other remains behind. Scenes and images...

A girl who has just graduated, with the dream of becoming a prominent journalist; a newspaper, The Voice of the Shadows, put together as best as possible by new journalism graduates to try to make ends meet, with the ambitious goal of entering the information elite; Omar Xantios, a famous and mature South American orchestra conductor, which is in his Venetian tour, and whose past is surrounded by a mystery regarding his controversial role in South America, during the political upheavals in...