Abelardo is a young and sad man who lost the woman he loves and, although it has been a year since she died, he insists on sinking into his melancholy, his memories, her personal possessions and pretending that she still talk to him. But then, on a cold October night, Abelardo receives the unexpected visit of a beautiful woman who claims to be Death, and who wakes him at midnight only to inform him that he has died, that time has stopped and that it will advance only when he has resigned h...

The Adventures of Gerard is a compilation of short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote regarding a French Brigadier named Etienne Gerard who thinks very highly of himself as can be reflected in how he told his stories. The book is divided into chapters containing different segments of his life as a soldier under the leadership of Napoleon together with his personal exploits and the romance that swept his way in between.

Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, 2005–Young Adult Library Services AssociationA young adult novel Latino-style–the year is 1969. America is at war, “Hollywood” is a dirt-poor Chicano barrio in small town America, and Sammy and Juliana, about to head into their senior year, are in love.Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood is a Chicano ode to survival. In so many ways, in so many of the characters’ lives, I see images of riding out the storms of youth, of a cultur...