When Gabi's beloved family car is put up for sale, she becomes determined to find a way to save it in this multigenerational story perfect for fans of My Papi Has a Motorcycle.Gabi knows that Papi's lowrider, Pico Nights, is more than a car. It's a family scrapbook on wheels—a treasure trove of memories for her, Papi, and Abuelo Chucho. It chauffeured Gabi's cousin to her quinceañera, rolled through years of Fourth of July parades, and was detailed most Saturday mor...

Discover the Spirit's Movement Throughout ScriptureThe Holy Spirit is often regarded as the most mysterious and misunderstood person of the Trinity. Though it is important to understand specific topics associated with the Holy Spirit, such as spiritual gifts, our understanding must expand to encompass the Holy Spirit's powerful role throughout the entire canon of Scripture. The Spirit has been at work since the very beginning.In God's Presence with Us a...

Fate is a bitch…After the death of her best friend, Kalista Angelic, Born Angel of Light, Truth, and Justice is done waiting for the right time. She's going after her Soul's Enemy, Vretil, the Corrupted Angel of Darkness, the first chance she gets and following through with her threat. There's only one problem: Fate. Everything in her life has revolved around it, and Kalista is fighting it harder than ever before as she seeks normalcy and to build a life w...

The heartwarming story of a child’s enchanting dreamtime adventure on the eve of Three Kings Day.It’s the night before the Three Kings Day feast, and an excited little boy is trying to fall asleep, but he can’t because the three majestic Kings suddenly appear outside his window! Before he knows it, he’s riding a camel and traveling with them through a vast desert, following a star that leads them to a tiny stable and a precious newborn baby. The Three Kings all hav...

What do Christians hope for? The historic creeds, rooted in Scripture, emphasize the resurrection of the body. Alongside the creeds, the Western Christian tradition holds out hope that one day we will see God face-to-face--the beatific vision. Yet recent studies on eschatology tend to focus on one or the other of these aspects, rarely explaining how the two might be brought together.The Life of the World to Come offers an integrated approach to this question. Beginning wit...

‘Beautiful’ Claire Fuller‘Magnificent’ Adam Johnson‘Impressive’ Tracy Chevalier‘A wondrous debut by a major talent’ Kevin WilsonIt is 1986, deep winter, in the hinterlands of Minnesota, a place so remote that the world beyond its borders barely registers. Two men face each other down across this frozen landscape: Byron Lugo, just released from prison for a hit-and-run he swears he didn’t com...

For fans of Elizabeth Strout and Kent Haruf: a novel that follows the intertwined lives of a small-town Midwestern police chief and a young man recently released from prison, each in search of justiceIt’s 1986, deep winter in Minnesota’s hinterland: remote Middle America of demolition derbies and downtown diners, a place so frozen and secluded that the world beyond its borders barely registers.Here, Gordon Trent, a police chief facing mandatory retirement, ...

Security Questions, translated from the Spanish by Harry Bauld, is at once a lyric sequence shaped by Osdany Morales' coming of age in small-town Cuba during the late stages of Fidel Castro's regime and a testament of exile and immigration: the traces that remain in the wake of forsaking a homeland for the uncertainties of the present.Each poem in this playful and trenchant collection unfolds as a reply to its title, and each title a question in English: the kind of securi...

A vibrant, easy-to-read guide that shows how every planet—not just Mercury—shapes your life, helping you decode cosmic chaos with confidence.“Mercury in retrograde” gets all the blame for planetary problems here on Earth, but there are actually eight (yes, including Pluto) other planets above us with the ability to cause chaos from the cosmos. In this guide, Alise Morales breaks down each planet and their transits, teaching readers what they might look out for the ...

The inspiring untold story of siblings Celestina and Rafael Cordero who dared to open a free school for Black children on the island of Puerto Rico during the early 19th century. Illustrated by two-time Pura Belpré Award winner Raul Colón.Siblings Celestina and Rafael grew up in the Spanish-ruled colony of Puerto Rico where some Black people were still enslaved, and even free Black people like their parents were treated as second-class citizens. Still their parents...

Dive into the mesmerizing dreamworld of Latin America’s literary great, Julio Cortázar.As the 1949 carnival dances on in Buenos Aires, a group of young creatives gather in the sumptuous seclusion of an art studio. In this surreal, bohemian sanctuary, ruled by the dazzling Renato Lozano, elaborate meals are assembled, while strange poetry and merciless witticisms flow like wine.Yet, as time passes, tensions and secrets begin to unravel, and so too do the bou...

Within the gilded grandeur of the New York Metropolitan Opera House, a spectral love story unfolds. Mia Thompson, the meticulous stage manager, finds her ordered world disrupted by the haunting presence of Alessandro Rossi, a renowned tenor whose tragic demise decades ago continues to echo through the hallowed halls. Flickering lights, disembodied arias, and a palpable sense of sorrow draw Mia into a mystery intertwined with the opera house’s very foundations.Alessandro’s ethereal ...