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This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba...

Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is...

Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three principals of True Triangle Construction, are hired to finish a project for a mysteriously wealthy homeowner. The grand house is unlike anything they’ve worked on before, and they’re sure it’ll put their name on the map. But the...

In vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner of a coffee shop recalls the day his first wife seemed to achieve a moment of simple perfection, while he remembers the women's softball game during which he was stricken by the beauty of the shortstop....

Over the course of a single year, our nameless narrator heroically tries to keep her small brood of four chickens alive despite the seemingly endless challenges that caring for another creature entails. From the forty-below nights of a brutal Minnesota winter to a sweltering...

The Near Witch is an old story told to frighten children. If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company. And there are no strangers in the town of Near. These are the truths that Lexi...

In the year of the one hundred and seventy-seventh Olympiad (70 B.C.), Posidonius of Apamea, a famous Rhodian philosopher who had devoted his life to the search for knowledge, finally fulfills an ancient longing: to travel to Gadir, the mythical Canaanite city of distant...

In the middle of the 1st century BC, Rome was the greatest power in the Mediterranean area. However, the continuous expansion and conquest, demographic and economic growth and the crisis of the state model had fragmented Roman society, greatly increasing social polarization. The Senate...

“A long time ago, if you walked up Charing Cross Road from Trafalgar Square, in a matter of minutes you would come across a bookshop on your right hand side with a sign above the window that read: WILLIAM BUGGAGE. RARE BOOKS”. Two curious...

Can't tell a masterpiece from a run-of-the-mill painting? Let Baudelaire show you the difference. Do you know what André Breton, Kiki de Montparnasse and Man Ray spent their time doing, between romps and romps? Evoking the convulsive beauty of "The Turkish Bath", by Ingres!...

Before our history began, another -- now forgotten -- civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable. In this series of illustrated and linked tales, Isabel Greenberg chronicles the explorations of a young man...

When Olive’s dad drags himself to work in the morning, the elephant goes with him. When he comes home again, so does the elephant. It’s always there, heavy and silent, casting a shadow of sadness over him. Olive knows it has been like this...

A practical and useful guide full of real cases to successfully measure strategy step by step your digital marketing: from working on the cost structure and digital benefit, to setting an optimal price for your product or service to understanding and applying the KPIs...

The repercussions from discovering Chiron has been very great among astrologers. Despite that, already in 1936, Dane Rudhyar had spoken of the existence of this small planet, but Chiron was not discovered until 1977 by astronomer Charles Kowal. Its eccentricity (greater than that of...

The writer Clara Obligado coordinates this necessary Atlas of Latin American literature that aims to make visible and vindicate the rich variety of literary traditions present in those countries and that are too often unknown in Spain and neighboring nations. Some of the best...

The idea that the secrets of the Templars are contained in the Tarot is not new, but it is difficult to prove. From its uncertain origins, the Tarot has undergone numerous metamorphoses, discreetly adapting to the various uses that have been made of their...

With deliberately vague and vivid descriptions, the narrator describes a mid-summer festival in the utopian town of Omelas, whose prosperity depends on one boy's perpetual misery. Those Who Leave Omelas was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Short Story in 1974 and won...

Attention, the Vikings are coming! Surely you already know that they come from the cold lands of Scandinavia and travel on their huge ships, the drakkars, with the head of a dragon. Great navigators and merchants, from the end of the 8th century to...

Do you know what happens when you eat the same thing every day? That no matter how much you like it, you end up getting tired. That is what happens to the wolf protagonist of this history. He has never left his patch of...

Wolf is tired of his breakfast disappearing. He leaves it ready at night before going to sleep, and when he goes to eat it in the morning, not even the crumbs are left...Tired of this situation, he will ask his friend the cat for...