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I'm completely infatuated with Byron, the gorgeous, tight-shirted barista at the coffee shop on the corner. But he doesn't even know my name. That's probably because I can't seem to form a sentence in front of him without stammering like a total loser. I obviously need help.

We live in a world where identity often feels like a performance, where the pressure to conform and meet expectations can strip us of our true selves. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been caught in that web, feeling the weight of what society wanted me to be. I had the career, the success, the outward image of someone who had it all together. But deep down, I knew something was missing. I was living a life built on what others thought I should be, instead of who I really was.

El Inca Atahualpa, Señor del Principio, ha sido capturado por unos extraños barbudos que han llegado hasta Cajamarca montados en llamas gigantes y premunidos de mortales cilindros en los que habita Illapa, el dios del Trueno y el Relámpago. El Mundo de las Cuatro Direcciones se encuentra en peligro mortal.

This program is read by a full cast. Edited by The Bronx Is Reading founder Saraciea J. Fennell and featuring an all-star cast of Latinx contributors, Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed is a ground-breaking anthology that will spark dialogue and inspire hope In Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed...

I'm completely infatuated with Byron, the gorgeous, tight-shirted barista at the coffee shop on the corner. But he doesn't even know my name. I obviously need help. I just didn't expect that help to come in the form of an obnoxious straight ghost who haunts my apartment. But if I have any hope of scoring a date this Halloween with Byron, I'm going to need my ghost roommate's help. I'm ready to do whatever it takes to get the guy.

Akashic Books’ acclaimed series of original noir anthologies has set a high standard for portraying cities and their neighborhoods in all their dark and violent splendor. Now, Mexico City Noir surpasses that standard with phantasmagorical tales of double-dealing, corruption, violence and self-delusion.... This collection is such a varied literary feast.

Take a Peek Inside of Life of the Most Powerful Woman in the Universe Right Now - the Vice President Kamala Harris.

Another great work of lyrical art written poetically that it may be rhythmically spoken. Continuing with the theme vibrating words, the honorably respected S. L. Worthen A.S. once again has captured the elements of past and present life and time in the insightful flow, creating words you can feel.

Some books have remedies and cures for the flu. Some books teach you a trade that only a few can do, you will never know this if you don't discover. There is another world inside the cover.

A fantasy-style short story that started as an homage to Canterbury tales. The Abeon clan, on the brink of extinction, tell the stories of their past one last time.

Después que Sydney Grey regresa a su pintoresco pueblo natal de Stoney Creek y comienza la renovación de su hogar de la infancia, descubre varios diarios escritos por su madre. Presuntamente culpable de haber abandonado a su familia hace veinte años, se descubre un secreto sobre su madre oculto por mucho tiempo. Con la ayuda de su abuela quien regresa a la granja, Sydney debe confiar en sus instintos para develar el misterio. ¿Pero tendrán suficientes pistas para descubrir la verdad sobre la desaparición de su madre?

The Lost Recordings is an audio documentary about Nueva Canción, a musical movement that emerged across Latin America in the 1960s and '70s. The genre became an essential means of artistic expression and social resistance to the many dictatorships and oppressive regimes of the time.

Mujeres en Concreto es un pódcast que indaga en las particularidades de las mujeres de este primer cuarto del siglo XXI. Mujeres concretas, herederas de las que las precedieron, conscientes de las dificultades con las que todavía deben batallar, y atentas a fortalecer la base para las que vendrán. Mujeres reales, ni diosas, ni heroínas: protagonistas. Personas de carne y hueso, complejas, reales, concretas a las que nos acercamos sin idealizaciones, prejuicios ni estereotipos. Un pódcast con vocación de abrir preguntas, de ampliar el diálogo.

Winner of six Lambda Literary awards, the Henry Rios mystery series is iconic and Michael Nava has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of our best" crime writers. Upon its original publication, the Los Angeles Times said of Howtown and its author: "Nava's mysteries are faithful to the conventions of the genre, but they are set apart by their insight, compassion, and sense of social justice.... Howtown is Nava's bravest and most ambitious novel to date."

Nacida Libre es mucho más que un libro. A través de historias profundas, ejercicios prácticos y meditaciones guiadas, esta obra te invita a desenterrar las raíces ocultas de tu pasado, liberarte de patrones repetitivos y despertar la fuerza infinita que vive en tu interior.

Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of a better life. Blessed with good looks and natural charm, he lands a job as a runner at El Encanto - one of the most luxurious department stores in the world. Famous for its exquisite offerings from French haute couture to Arabian silks, El Encanto indulges the senses in opulent extravagance. It caters to visiting Hollywood stars, rising politicos, and prerevolutionary Cuba’s wealthiest power players.

While recovering from a heart attack, gay Mexican-American attorney Henry Rios comes to the aid of his long-lost niece, the illegitimate daughter of his estranged sister, who has confessed to the murder of her abusive husband, but during his investigation, Rios discovers that things are more complicated than he had thought.

Gay Mexican American lawyer Henry Rios has fought bigotry and prejudice, battled alcoholism, and watched his lover die from AIDS. In The Burning Plain, he's wrongly accused of murder after a male prostitute he spent an evening with is savagely murdered. Rios proves his innocence, but when two more gay men are brutally murdered, he is drawn unwillingly into the hunt for a serial killer and soon finds himself up against an unsympathetic DA, a gay-bashing cop, reluctant witnesses, and a conspiracy among Hollywood's power elite.

Winner of six Lambda Literary awards, the Henry Rios mystery series is iconic and Michael Nava has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of our best" writers. Originally published during the darkest years of the AIDS epidemic in the gay community, The Death of Friends received extraordinary praise both as a mystery and an eloquent work of witness. Publishers Weekly said, "This is a brave, ambitious and highly impressive work."

Winner of six Lambda Literary awards, the Henry Rios mystery series is iconic and Michael Nava has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of our best” writers. Here, Rios delves deeply into his Latino identity as he defends a young man charged with assassinating a prominent Los Angeles Latino politician. The San Francisco Chronicle hailed the novel and its author: “A beautifully conceived but gritty novel.... Nava writes the kind of small, clean, powerful novels that build in emotional power almost invisibly, leaving us breathless at the end.”