The first novel from a global literary superstar and author of The Sound of Things Falling.
"Juan Gabriel Vásquez's The Informers is a thrilling new discovery.” —Colm Tóibín
"One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature." — Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
When Gabriel Santoro's book is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a famous...

When the Spanish influenza epidemic reaches Portland, Oregon, in 1918, seventeen-year-old Cleo leaves behind the comfort of her boarding school to work for the Red Cross. In the grip of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic, not even the strong survive. The Spanish influenza is devastating the East Coast--but Cleo Berry knows it is a world away from the safety of her home in Portland, Oregon. Then the flu moves into the Pacific Northwest. Schools, churches,...

An active, lively girl, Ruth manages to go from one mishap to another, breaking things, making messes, using up her mother's expensive cosmetics, and causing her parents to count to ten time after time to keep from getting angry.

During one of Bonnie's post-Christmas playdates, the Toy Story crew find themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerously delusional. It's all up to Trixie, the triceratops, if the gang hopes to ever return to Bonnie's room.

"Ángeles Mastretta narra el inicial amor sumiso de Catalina, una apasionada mujer mexicana, por el general Andrés Ascencio. Asimismo, destaca la progresiva desvinculación de su papel de subordinación conyugal y del engañoso contexto social que la rodea"--Container. A young girl recounts her girlhood and eventual marriage to a general of the Mexican revolution.

As battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-travelling wife Claire Randall flee from North Carolina to the high seas during the American Revolution, they encounter privateers and ocean battles. Meanwhile in the relative safety of the 20th century Brianna (Claire and Jamie's daughter) and Roger MacKenzie, Brianna's husband, search for clues not only to Claire's fate--but to their own fate in the Highlands. En plena revolución americana,...

One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and...

Un viejo alfarero, su hija y su yerno, tras una crisis en la industria artesanal, emprenden una nueva estrategia en sus ventas pues de ellas dependen para no ser absorbidos por la gran ciudad que crece desmedidamente cerca de su poblado rústico. simultáneamente, marcial, el yerno, empleado como vigilante permanente del complejo comercial de la ciudad, es ascendido en su trabajo. tras el fracaso de su nueva empresa y la resistencia a cambiar de espacio,...