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Latino Book Award 2005 - Mejor Novela Romántica (Best Romance Novel) This remarkable novel exists as one of the most accurate narrative descriptions of rural violence in Colombia. The weight of events and the inherent state of war that seems to irremediably condemn human beings are the back drop to a sensitive account of the death of Julián, a popular activist murdered during a peasant demonstration. This event triggers an expansion of violence that transgresses society's every law—from media infiltration in the form of censorship to the irreparable consequences of ruthless crossfire in...

9/11 Vigilantes tells the action-packed story of the reaction of ordinary Americans to the senseless slaughter on September 11, 2001. Although fiction, much of 9/11 Vigilantes is based on actual post 9/11 events. The story is told by Ryan, a teenager in a small western resort town whose father is the local Sheriff, but this definitely isn't Opie in Mayberry. Following 9/11, the concerned citizens of Hermosa are up in arms about the failure of law enforcement to stop illegal immigration and protect them from terrorists. Street justice""the kind dispensed by vigilantes and militias""is...

En 1984 Fede acaba de cumplir trece años: ya no es un niño, aún no es adulto, sólo es un problema. Se ha escapado de la casa de su padre y su madrastra, dispuesto a vivir intensamente emulando a su héroe Sid Vicious. Pronto entiende que su lugar está junto a su madre, de la que nada sabe desde hace un año. Su aventura transcurre en paralelo con la de Marta, una pintora alocada de hoy, que ve con ironía y escepticismo la trastienda del mundo del arte y la posibilidad de ser feliz. Galardonada con el Premio Biblioteca Breve, Corazón de napalm es la conmovedora historia de amor de un...

En Pasiones griegas Roberto Ampuero nos entrega una emocionante novela de infidelidad, amor y misterio.