In this "stunningly visceral" (New York Times Book Review) novel, a group of young men seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered in a Puerto Rican slum; STAND BY ME with a haunted, obsidian-dark heart.A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of the YearA Locus Award FinalistFor childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estam...

In this genre-deyfing, award-winning thriller, a desperate father journeys into the criminal underworld to save his family—but soon begins to lose sight of himself and what he set out to do.Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment ...

**The perfect holiday gift for the crime fiction lover in your life!Curated by New York Times bestselling author Tod Goldberg, this collection of eleven delightful and twisted Hanukkah capers will entertain you through all eight nights of the Festival of Lights.**In Stefanie Leder’s “Not a Dinner Party Person”—finalist for the ITW Thriller Award for Best Short Story—an unstable pharmaceutical rep tries not to kill anyone at her family dinner on the last night of Ha...

The grandmother insists with affection, but there is no way to convince the child. His friends' remedies are the craziest And that doesn't seem to cure him one bit either. poor Felipe Atchús! that the flu does not go away Atchús! Atchús! Atchús! Atchús! Atchús! The grandmother insists with affection, but there is no way to convince the child. His friends' remedies are the craziest And that doesn't seem to cure him one bit either. poor Felipe Atchús! that the flu does not go away Atchús! At...

Tito and his friends from the neighborhood like to play soccer on the track. But what happens when one day they arrive and she's busy? A story about football, friendship and how controversial situations can have an unpredictable end. Tito and his friends from the neighborhood like to play soccer on the track. But what happens when one day they arrive and she's busy? A story about football, friendship and how controversial situations can have an unpredictable end.

Marcelina the giraffe, who doesn't know how to cook, he wants to make a great dinner that his niece will like. You can already imagine the mess that is going to be made! His friends advise him a thousand crazy things and dinner turns into a wild party. Oh dear Marcelina! What a kitchen disaster! How are you going to fix it? And what are we going to have for dinner ?!

It began when I was browsing through my parents' vintage photographs of a free Cuba in the 1940s and 50s at my home in Hialeah, Florida. I learned everything about Cuba from them, but I had never visited the beloved island only ninety miles from Key West, Florida. They told tales of romantic nights on the streets of Havana, an island where Cuban music escaped from small cafes and filled the streets with people dancing and laughing. I was learning the lingo recognized only by fellow Cubans....

Versión en inglés de ¡Buen camino, Celestino! Mike the penguin decide to do the Camino de Santiago and all his friends want the best for him, what's better than to give him "useful" ítems to help with the Way… Mike the penguin decide to do the Camino de Santiago and all his friends want the best for him, what's better than to give him "useful" ítems to help with the Way

The wild boar Timoteo has a grooming problem, although he thinks he is clean and fine he stinks like a pig. One day her friend the goat Blasa arrives at her house and with salt shaker and affection she makes her see her untidiness. Other friends help out on this crazy adventure while our Timothy makes a tremendous ruckus. The third installment of this hilarious series is here written by Gracia Iglesias and illustrated by Sara Sánchez. You will not be able to stop laughing. Oink oink!

My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog is a novel told in fifteen stories, linked by the same protagonist, our narrator, who--in her own voice and channeling the voices of others--creates an unsparing, multigenerational portrait of her native Cuba. Though she feels suffocated by the island and decides to leave, hers is not just a political novel--nor just a queer novel, an immigrant novel, a feminist novel--but a deeply existential one, in which mortality, corporeality, bureaucracy, e...

The Bush administration's drive to politicize the Justice Department reached a new low with the wrongful firing of seven U.S. Attorneys in late 2006. Their action has ignited public outrage on a scale that far surpassed the reaction to any of the Bush administration's other political debacles. David Iglesias was one of those federal prosecutors, and now he tells his story.Iglesias has long served in the Navy as part of the JAG corps. One of his earliest cases, about an assaulted Ma...

Build smart, efficient, and fast enterprise-grade web implementation of the microservices architecture that can be easily scaled.Key FeaturesWrite easy-to-maintain lean and clean code with Kotlin for developing better microservicesScale your Microserivces in your own cloud with Docker and Docker SwarmExplore Spring 5 functional reactive web programming with Spring WebFluxBook DescriptionWith Google's inclusion of first-class ...