“Dinosaurs won’t mislead you, Josué. Only the richest property supports them. If you don’t see a raptor on your first fly-by, don’t look twice.”Absorbing what he can from his father while he still has time, Josué Trevino senses the war between the families will overtake him soon. After falling into a shaft in his father’s gold mine, life takes a new direction. Josué discovers abilities and a strange amber vision guiding him.Disguised and forbidden to fight, Josué is capture...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIRWhat happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?**In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the t...

Prince Charming is about to see how the other half lives.The underwater half…A curse has rendered angelic prince Patricio unable to tell true love from the spell-induced adoration that infects those around him.Now that same curse has lured the mermaid Marcela out of the water to find him.Will he realize she broke his curse…before he breaks her heart?Arrogance and curses aren’t their only problems either. Another woma...

Three renowned masters combine a "tense interspecies battle of wits with tangy atmospherics and a bleak lesson on the meaning of freedom. A" (Entertainment Weekly).To be adapted into a major motion picture by Exile Content StudioRunning from poverty and hopelessness, Ramón Espejo boarded one of the great starships of the mysterious, repulsive Enye. But the new life he found on the far-off planet of São Paulo was no better than the one he aban...

Powerful priests, weird warriors and cunning Conquistadors... the angry Aztecs knew how to make history exciting! From their gruesome gods to the horrible habit of drinking live toads in wine, and from a very deadly ball game to the terrible temples where freaky Aztec priests ripped out human hearts, this is history with _extra_ nasty bits left in!

The incredible Incas may have built South America's greatest civilisation, but they could be very icky indeed! The poor prisoners they pulled up their huge pyramids were likely to experience a very painful death. But things weren't much better for your average Inca. Find out... * How a bucket of stewed pee could make you beautiful * Why servants ate the emperor's hair * What happened in their legendary golden temples * What chilling fate awaited their child sacrifices The Incan Empire rule...

On the banks of a sprawling Brazilian river lies São Tiago - a small town without a conscience, forsaken by its people and by God - the perfect place for a fallen priest to escape his past. Sam whiles away his time drinking and fishing, but when one bloody night he helps a dying stranger, he feels a change is coming.Soon Sam catches the attention of the dead man's employer, the formidable Catarina Da Silva whose hypnotic gaze he has trouble resisting. But little does he know that i...

Over a decade since its publication, Ann Jaramillo's heartbreaking middle grade novel La Linea—about crossing the Mexican border into the US—is more timely than ever.Miguel has dreamed of joining his parents in California since the day they left him behind in Mexico six years, eleven months, and twelve days ago. On the morning of his fifteenth birthday, Miguel's wait is over.Or so he thinks. The trip north to the border— la línea—is fraught...

Experience Hemingway’s firsthand chronicle of a brutal season of bullfights in Spain.In the 1950s, Hemingway and his wife return to Spain, where Hemingway had visited before as a war correspondent to cover the Spanish Civil War, in order to see friends and follow bullfighting events. Hemingway’s time in Spain is most often remembered as his experiences with bullfighting, his passion often conveyed through his writing. He and his wife follow summer-long series event...

'Whether or not the artistic quality of the bullfight outweighs the moral question of the animals' suffering is something that each person must decide for themselves - as they must decide whether the taste of a steak justifies the death of a cow. But if we ignore the possibility that one does outweigh the other, we fall foul of the charge of self-deceit and incoherence in our dealings with animals.' Alexander Fiske-HarrisonIn a remarkable and controversial book Fiske-Harrison follo...

One man—the Lone Emancipator—is programmed to bring down the slave trade from within in the first novel in the classic science fiction trilogy.Ruiz Aw is an Art League enforcer sent to investigate the disappearance of several slaves from the planet Pharaoh prior to their being "harvested". They are the property of the Art League and their property has been stolen. Ruiz is an ex-slave now working for the League, doing its corporate slave trading dirty work. Pharoah i...

Maia Wojciechowska's 1965 Newbery Medal winner about a young boy struggling with his father's legacy.Manolo was only three when his father, the great bullfighter Juan Olivar, died. But Juan is never far from Manolo's consciousness--how could he be, with the entire town of Arcangel waiting for the day Manolo will fulfill his father's legacy?But Manolo has a secret he dares to share with no one--he is a coward, without afición, the love of the sport that enabl...