Acosta: 137 books

The Korticos are from a well-endowed pygmy tribe in West Africa; the Mandingas are descended from a tribe of tall Ghanaians. Both families have been brought to Cuba as slaves. Oscar Kortico and Jose Mandinga, inseparable friends, marry a pair of sisters, and in the tiny hamlet of Pig's Foot (Pata...

Remi Delaney nunca ha conocido el mundo. Tras concluir su educación en Francia, su hermano lo reclama en la caribeña isla de Saint Loïs, donde el joven debe acudir para casarse. El viaje al Nuevo Mundo es largo y excitante... incluso si incluye padecer mareos y ser secuestrado por piratas. Aloys...

Este libro contiene los torcidos frutos de nueve fértiles imaginaciones, nueve correrías por regiones de luminosas vidas cotidianas que han sido invadidas por la oscuridad. Si te aventuras a internarte en sus páginas en compañía de José Luis Zárate, Karen Chacek, Raquel Castro, Rodolfo JM,...

Dear Reader: Welcome to My Life in Metaphor, one mans life experiences and views of life, death, and everything in between. My writing reflects growing up a part of two distinct, rich cultures; training as a scientist and public health professional; work and residence in three foreign countries Brazil,...

The world stops spinning. She is the ocean crashing into me, tossing me, drowning me. I can’t breathe. I do not care. I want to die right now. I want nothing more than to drown in her. My head is filled with a gray fog. I am being pulled toward heaven and my angel is kissing me. The smell of sweet...

The spaces between the connect and the disconnect are in concert when a young psychiatric intern, Doctor Pierce, faces the many challenges that the state run institution of Westwood presents to him. There he meets Paige, a frail and catatonic patient, that forever changes both of their lives. Through...

The Casa Dracula Box Set - Books 1-4 "A phenomenal vampire series." —Romantic Times "Kick back with Milagro de Los Santos as she navigates her way through post-college life, complete with crazy ex-boyfriends, cocktails, and of course, vampires." —Cosmopolitan "A...

Poesías de amor, pasión, odio, celos, sufrimiento, ambición, encuentros, traición, arrebato, soledad, alegría, pudor, amor a los hijos, homenaje, felicidad, dolor. Encontrarás poemas para todos los gustos.

Poesías de amor, pasión, odio, celos, sufrimiento, ambición, encuentros, traición, arrebato, soledad, alegría, pudor, amor a los hijos, homenaje, felicidad, dolor. Encontrarás poemas para todos los gustos.

Cuatro cuentos dolorosamente necesarios. Cuatro historias y un solo problema, tan cercano, que a veces no alcanzamos a distinguirlo con claridad. Cuatro destacados escritores mexicanos unen sus talentos para darle una nueva perspectiva a un tipo de violencia que se ha vuelto parte de...

Thresholds of Illiteracy reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of “illiteracy” as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. “Illiteracy,” Acosta claims, can offer us a way of talking about what...

What do you do when the one person you don’t want is the one person you need? When nineteen-year-old Katie said goodbye to her small hometown to go to a prestigious college far away, looking back was the last thing on her agenda. Nevertheless, it didn’t take long for everything to come crashing...

After Jamie and her brother, Brandon, accidentally discover a cave in the center of a mountain, they stumble upon one of the most beautiful rocks they have ever seen. Shortly after, they are attacked by a mysterious creature and, during their recovery, start to exhibit unexplainable symptoms. Those...

Since the turn of the century, South American governments and regional organisations have adopted the world's most open discourse on migration and citizenship. At a time when restrictive choices were becoming increasingly predominant around the world, South American policymakers presented their discourse...