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No ritmo das pedaladas de uma bicicleta, a estrada passa sob os pés do protagonista André, enquanto este percorre o sul do Brasil, o Uruguai, a Argentina, até chegar a Sucre, na Bolívia, cidade onde desaparece. Através de seu diário, enviado ao amigo Jean pouco depois da última nota, é que temos acesso aos lugares onde passou, as pessoas com quem conviveu e os fantasmas que o perseguiram durante a jornada.

Catalina de Cerrato is being raised by her widowed father, Don Alonso, in 1551 Guatemala, scarcely thirty years since the Spanish invasion. A ruling member of the oppressive Spanish hierarchy, Don Alonso holds sway over the newly relegated lower class of Indigenous communities. Fiercely independent, Catalina struggles to honor her father and her late mother, a Maya noblewoman to whom Catalina made a vow that only she can keep: preserve the lost sacred text of the Popol Vuh, the treasured and now forbidden history of the K’iche’ people.

A Mexican-American podcaster and pawnshop owner goes back in time to try to stop the European invasion of the New World. This isn't some cutesy time-traveling story with skateboards and DeLoreans, but this story is what you might do if you knew it could be done. He's going locked and loaded!

One month short of her wedding day—and her thirtieth birthday—Nadia Palacio finds herself standing up to her infuriating, cheating fiancé for the first time in, well, ever. But that same courage doesn’t translate to breaking the news to her Argentinian family. She’s hyperventilating before facing them when she glimpses a magazine piece about a woman celebrating herself—with a second quinceañera! And that gives Nadia an idea. With a wedding venue already paid for, and family from all over the world with plane tickets, Nadia is determined to create her own happily-ever-after.

Larry regresa al país doce años después de la desaparición de su padre, un mafioso muy cercano a Pablo Escobar en los años noventa. Sus restos han sido finalmente hallados en una fosa común y Larry vuelve para recuperarlos y darles sepultura. A su llegada a Medellín lo espera Pedro, su gran amigo de infancia, que se lo llevará directamente desde el aeropuerto a la celebración de la Alborada, una fiesta popular en la que la ciudad pierde el control mientras estalla pólvora durante toda una noche.

Burn My Tongue to Cinders is a collection of poems by a girl who has fought depression all of her life. She has lost many battles, but the war has not yet been decided. One of the ways she fights is with her poetry, with her written word. G.C. Saiz writes not to escape, but to open wounds in the hope that appreciating her demons, understanding why she feels the emotions she feels, will bring about brighter futures, if not for its entirety, at least for a couple days at a time.

Guadalupe, New Mexico, is usually a pretty quiet town. That is until everything starts going to hell with a series of bizarre murders. Not to mention, a demon gives birth at a park. A boy disappears in the middle of a swimming pool. Rattlesnakes invade the town. Asked by his best friend the sheriff to assist in the investigation, Prosecutor Matthew Riley suspects a high-end resort development is at the heart of the crimes. But he also discovers a conspiracy of the living has opened the door for an ancient evil seeking revenge for old and new betrayals that threaten his own family.

Growing up with a kind but alcoholic father and a suspicious, passive-aggressive mother, the Bernal sisters each developed their own way of coping: Dulcina had her art and drugs and alcohol, Claudia plunged into her studies and fled to Princeton, and Maritza watched one Disney movie after another in between devouring romance novels. Now all grown up, the sisters are reunited at last for Maritza’s dream wedding. With all three Bernal sisters back in their East L.A. home, each begins to take steps to come to terms with each other, their parents, and secrets from their shared past.

When it was first published in 2006, then-literary critic and poet Alejandro Zambra’s first novel, Bonsai, caused a sensation. Here, in a brilliant new translation from four-time International Booker Prize nominee Megan McDowell, is the little book that started it all: The story of Julio and Emilia, two Chilean university students who, seeking truth in great literature, find one another instead. As they fall together and drift apart over the course of young adulthood, Zambra spins an emotionally engrossing, expertly distilled, formally inventive tale of love, art, and memory.

From the outside, Elena Vega’s life appears to be an easy one: the only child of two professional parents, private school, NYU. But her twenties are aimless and lacking in connection. Something has always been amiss in her life: her father, the brilliant but deeply troubled Santiago Vega. Born in rural Puerto Rico, Santiago arrived in New York as a small child. His harsh, mercurial father returned to the island, leaving Santiago to be raised by his mentally ill mother and his formidable grandmother.

Carly Castillo has only ever known Fish Village. Her grandmother claims that they descend from the Karankawas, an indigenous Texas people once believed to be extinct, thereby tethering them to Galveston. But as Carly ages, she begins to imagine a life elsewhere, undefined by her family’s history. Meanwhile, her boyfriend and all-star shortstop turned seaman, Jess, treasures the salty, familiar air. He’s gotten chances to leave Galveston for bigger cities with more possibilities. But he didn’t take them then, and he sure as hell won’t now.

Leandra es editora en una revista de moda con sede en Madrid. A sus treinta y cinco años se ha alejado de su marido, ha perdido la ilusión por su trabajo y ha presenciado la muerte de su tía Valentina en circunstancias dramáticas. En busca de respuestas a la crisis existencial en la que se halla inmersa, decide pasar un verano en Alegranza--la casa de indianos que construyó su abuelo Tomás en el pueblo asturiano de Colunga--y aceptar el reto de Jean-Luc Peltier, un prestigioso perfumista al que ha entrevistado: elaborar un perfume que la ayude a definirse a sí misma.

Eine außergewöhnliche Frau. Hundert Jahre Geschichte. Ein unvergessliches Leben. Violeta Del Valle ist 100 Jahre alt und erzählt während der Corona-Pandemie ihrem Enkel in Briefen aus ihrem unglaublichen Leben: 1920 wurde sie während der Zeit der Spanischen Grippe als erste Tochter der Familie Del Valle geboren. Leidenschaft, Entschlossenheit und Humor tragen Violeta durch ein Jahrhundert südamerikanischer Geschichte voller Krisen und Umbrüche, aber auch durch ein intensiv gelebtes Leben.

Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tattooed gangsters throw him in the back of a car and take him to an abandoned house, where they saw off his friend's head and feed the kid's fingers to...something. Their message is clear: this is their territory, now. But Fernando isn't put down that easily. Using the assistance of a Santeria priestess, an insane Puerto Rican pop sensation, a very human dog, and a Russian hitman, he'll build the courage (and firepower) he'll need to fight a gangbanger who's a bit more than human....

In this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American Southwest. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him toward final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father. These stories intertwine with those of a vengeful spirit and a hungry creature to paint a timely, compelling pulpy portrait of revenge, family, and hope.

Lo más asombroso de Las Segundas Criaturas es cómo la vasta imaginación de Diego Cornejo-Menacho libera casi cualquier dispositivo narrativo para obtener versiones arriesgadas de lo que puede hacer una novela. La inspirada idea de Cornejo-Menacho es escribir una biografía parcial, apócrifa y desvergonzada del ya ficcional “Marcelo Chiriboga”, aquel ignorado escritor ecuatoriano perteneciente al Boom, que aparecía, a la manera del Zelig de Woody Allen, en las novelas y la no ficción de los escritores reales de entonces, José Donoso y Carlos Fuentes.

Detrás de esta selección de cuentos y sátiras de H. Zumbado (La Habana, 1932-2016) se encuentra un criterio casi exclusivamente editorial, un criterio seguro, que deleitará a los lectores a través de lo divertido y lo profundo, dos términos que en el caso de Zumbado, siempre van de la mano. Sus admiradores de siempre, volverán a encontrarse con cuentos tan queridos como “Amor a primer añejo” o “Imagínate tú”, o con sátiras breves tan lúdicas y plenas de lucidez como “Chapucio”, “Ausencio” o “Festivaldo”.

Era como si hubiéramos alcanzado el punto crítico mínimo de una curva matemática. ¿Tiene presente una parábola? El cero de abajo, el hueco, el abismo. Hasta ahí llegamos. Corre el año 1993. Cuba está en lo más álgido del Período Especial, un profunda crisis económica tras el colapso del bloque soviético. Para Julia, una profesora de matemática que detesta enseñar, La Habana está en su año cero: el punto más bajo, camino a ninguna parte.

Shattered by a magical apocalypse, the world of Aetheria struggles to rise from the ashes of war and destruction. Esperanza, at odds with her faith, wakes in this mystical world under attack by a powerful necromancer. Joined by Torrents and the Kid, two people who are more than they appear, they hunt the wielder of black magics and her undead horde. Finding one another was just the first step to finding themselves. Searching ancient, arcane ruins and scouring the land for help, they search for a way to fight the overpowering evil.

Mudarse de casa a veces significa cambiar de vida para siempre. El hijo y la hija de una familia que se mudó hace mucho tiempo, cuando ellos eran chicos, recuerdan lo que ocurrió en esos meses. Lo hacen con el tono de los sobrevivientes de un tsunami. Todo el movimiento de objetos entre la casa vieja y la casa nueva estaba a punto de desencadenar transformaciones decisivas al interior de la familia.