Pólvora y azafrán

Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Steven Holland-Wempe, Sandra Kingery, and the author. "This debut collection is amazing. The finesse of the storytelling is a pleasure on every page. The importance of immigrant issues becomes not a political statement so much as an epic story of all peoples' survival. Although the stories are not linked and take place in various geographies—China, Europe, the United States, and Mexico—still, the continuity remains with the heroine figure. She is a woman who travels through miseries, between the worlds of the living and the...

Lara se cree feliz con Javier, su jefe, cuando en realidad solo está manteniendo una relación tóxica en la que ella se ha convertido en la otra. Afortunadamente, el destino le depara un plan muy especial con la persona más inesperada. Lucas es un biólogo marino que ha sufrido mucho por amor. Aun así es leal, divertido y sexy. Lara y Lucas se conocen desde niños. Ya de adolescentes, entre travesuras, risas llenas de ingenuidad, mariposas en el estómago y noches con estrellas que contar, fraguaron su amistad en un pequeño pueblo. Y Lara se enamoró secretamente de él. Cuando quince...

Tells the opposing strategies of the wizard Gandalf and the evil Sauron until the final catastrophe and end of the great darkness in the continuing saga of the Ring of Power.

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people. By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of...