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  • The Lost Steps

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksThe best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelist, in its first new English translation in more than sixty years and featuring a new introduction ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fiebre Tropical

    A Novel

    by Julián Delgado Lopera ...
    Winner for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian FictionWinner of the 2021 Ferro-Grumley Literary Award for LGBTQ FictionFinalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for FictionLit by the hormonal neon glow of Miami, this debut novel follows a Colombian teenager's coming-of-age as she plunges headfirst into lust and evangelism.Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-in... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kingdom of This World

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century HaitiA few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under the reign of King Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving novel from one of Cuba’s most celebrated authors, Henri ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You

    A Novel

    by Julián Delgado Lopera ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE 2026 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTIONFrom the award-winning author of Fiebre Tropical, an electric, highly anticipated novel set in Colombia’s underground queer scene.**It is a known fact that the queens who refuse their destiny are haunted. Rejection turns itself inward, a bullet to the heart of said queen, and unleashes, per Travesti Lore, a river of curses.Cloistered in a ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You

    A Novel

    by Julián Delgado Lopera ...
    Narrated by Lee Osorio, Maria McCann ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 14 min

    From the award–winning author of Fiebre Tropical**, an electric, highly anticipated novel set in Colombia’s underground queer scene.**It is a known fact that the queens who refuse their destiny are haunted. Rejection turns itself inward, a bullet to the heart of said queen, and unleashes, per Travesti Lore, a river of curses.Cloistered in a dreary Bogotá apartment, Ignacio’s light has dimmed, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Presente!

    Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice / Voces Inmigranted Latin@s en la Lucha por la Justicia Racial

    Edited by Cristina Tzintzún, Arnulfo Manríquez, Carlos Pérez de Alejo ...
    Read the media coverage of the increasingly heated debate around immigration reform in the United States: two dominant narratives emerge. From Lou Dobbs to Sean Hannity, commentators on the right have crafted an image rooted in fear, demonizing undocumented immigrants as a threat to national security and raising the specter of a deliberate "browning of America." Left-leaning journalists, on the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Explosion in a Cathedral

    by Alejo Carpentier ...
    Translated by Adrian Nathan West ...
    **“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksOne of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • ¡Cuéntamelo!

    Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants / Testimonios de Inmigrantes Latinos LGBT

    by Julián Delgado Lopera ...
    ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants began as a cover story for SF Weekly, and, eventually in 2014 with local grant support, Lopera was able to self publish. The first edition of 300 books sold out within a week. In addition to beautiful black and white drawings of the contributors by artist Laura Cerón Melo, this edition features a number of candid earlier photographs of several ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Weird Sister Collection

    Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture

    by Morgan Parker, Christopher Soto, Julián Delgado Lopera, Virgie Tovar, Megan Milks ...
    Collecting the best of the underground blog Weird Sister, these unapologetic and insightful essays link contemporary feminism to literature and pop culture.Launched in 2014,Weird Sisterproudly staked out a corner of the internet where feminist writers could engage with the literary and popular culture that excited or enraged them. The blog made space amid book websites dominated by white male ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Introduction to the Mathematics of Breathers

    Basic Theory and Models

    by Miguel Á Alejo, Claudio Muñoz ...
    The aim of this book is to introduce the mathematics of continuous breathers, one of the most beautiful mathematical and physical objects appearing in the basic description of phenomena associated with waves and dispersion. This book serves as the first instalment in this area with a rigorous flavour and attention to deep properties of breather solutions.It also intends to serve as the starting ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory

    by Angela M. Cirucci, Barry Vacker, Michael Mario Albrecht, Osei Alleyne, Francois Allard-Huver, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Derek R. Blackwell, Sarah J. Constant, Mathieu d’Aquin0, Eleanor Drage1, Julie Escurignan2, Erin Espelie3, Antoine Faure4, Matthew Flisfeder5, Julia M. Hildebrand6, Manel Jiménez-Morales7, Hillary A. Jones8, Morten Stinus Kristensen9, Diana Leon-Boys0, Marta Lopera-Mármol1, Romin Rajan2, Carlos A. Scolari3, Erika M. Thomas4, Pinelopi Troullinou5, Macarena Urzúa Opazo6 ...
    Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7 media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures where humans collide with technology and each other—tomorrows that might arrive in five ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias

    The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion

    by Jan Rus, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Shannan L. Mattiace, José Alejos García, Andrés Aubry, Araceli Burguete Cal y Mayor, George A. Collier, Christine Eber0, Gustavo Esteva1, Xóchitl Leyva Solano2 ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    The dramatic January 1, 1994, emergence of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Chiapas, Mexico, brought the state's indigenous peoples to the attention of the international community. Yet indigenous peoples in Chiapas had been politically active and organized for years prior to the uprising. This compelling volume examines in detail these local and regional histories of power and ... Read more

    $60.79 USD