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Grant Patterson moved to Mexico City and found a writing group at Café Comunidad — a half-vegan cafe, half-yoga studio where strangers gather on Wednesday nights to write from prompts for 30-45 minutes, then share.This collection emerged from those sessions: essays about childhood barbershops, football concussions, jail cells in suburban Texas, Bar Mitzvahs, and searching for an authentic self.Patterson writes with humor and unflinching honesty about family, race, sports, a...

The sequel to Southern Cross: A Will Bryant Thriller.   Rio de Janeiro. Underneath the tanned bodies, the scorching beaches, the sex and the sounds: a seething discontent and ever present violence. While the postcard city preens as the Olympics approaches, a struggle for control erupts in the favelas.   This isn't Will Bryant's city, and it's definitely not his fight. But if he wants to save his family from financial ruin, h...

Brazil: beaches, babes, samba. Will Bryant is not living in that Brazil.São Paulo is a seething megalopolis of twenty million, built on fast money and old lies. Will is a Canadian in exile, adisgraced ex-cop teaching English to feed his family when he lands a different sort of job, to find out why wealthy men with filthy habits are being blackmailed. The answer will take Will Bryant further than he ever wanted to go.This may be Brazil. But it’s no Carnaval.

Grant Patterson moved to Mexico City and found a writing group at Café Comunidad — a half-vegan cafe, half-yoga studio where strangers gather on Wednesday nights to write from prompts for 30-45 minutes, then share.This collection emerged from those sessions: essays about childhood barbershops, football concussions, jail cells in suburban Texas, Bar Mitzvahs, and searching for an authentic self.Patterson writes with humor and unflinching honesty about family, race, sports, a...

#11 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century'Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R. Tolkien and he keeps falling hopelessly in love. Poor Oscar may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú - the curse that has haunted his family for generations. With dazzling energy and insight Díaz immerses us in t...

“James Acton: A little bit of Jack Bauer and Indiana Jones!"FROM USA TODAY & MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDYA THOUSAND YEARS OF HISTORY ARE ABOUT TO BE REWRITTEN!A strange people land on the shores of the Mayan Empire, triggering a battle for the very survival of a civilization already in upheaval from a punishing drought, the fight falling to a young chieftain left to face what he bel...

New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter takes beloved hero Earl Swagger into the lush world of 1950’s Cuba to fight the American mobsters who control the Havana casinos.Cuba 1953: The island is on fire.The Mafia-run casinos are rolling, and it’s just a 30-minute flight from Miami to a world of vice, gambling, sex, and drugs. The money is there for anyone who knows how to get it, including the Cuban government and the police, who want to ke...

**The international bestseller that inspired the must-watch drama on USA Network starring Alice Braga as Teresa Mendoza.From “master of the intellectual thriller” Arturo Pérez-Reverte, a remarkable tale, spanning decades and continents—from the dusty streets of Mexico to the sparkling waters off the coast of Morocco, to the Strait of Gibraltar and Spain—in a story encompassing sensuality and cruelty, love and betrayal, and life and death.**Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a dr...

The remarkable new novel in the Doc Ford series by New York Times–bestselling author Randy Wayne White.Doc Ford’s old friend, General Juan Garcia, has gone into the lucrative business of smuggling Cuban baseball players into the U.S. He is also feasting on profits made by buying historical treasures for pennies on the dollar. He prefers what dealers call HPC items—high-profile collectibles—but when he manages to obtain a collection of letters written by Fi...

A former British SAS agent turned Toronto bodyguard is hired by the Mounties to accompany a drug dealer to Mexico in this hard-boiled crime thriller.Professional bodyguard John Locke is in no mood to babysit Greg Amadeo, a drug dealer turncoat who wants to visit his wife in Mexico, collect some cash, and settle debts before testifying in the States, but how can Locke pass up the warm climate, lovely ladies, and a quick buck? Amadeo has a trick up his sleeve that ma...

The Great Train Robbery goes South of the Border!"Dirty, rotten hombres with dynamite. Heck yes!""A clazzic caper orchestrated with charming despicableness and rollicking fun."WARNING:Virtual horses were virtually harmed during the digitization of this digital short.PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:Pancho Villa's latest General isn't like any of the others. Young, inexperienced and...