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Latino Book Award 2005 - Mejor Novela Romántica (Best Romance Novel) This remarkable novel exists as one of the most accurate narrative descriptions of rural violence in Colombia. The weight of events and the inherent state of war that seems to irremediably condemn human beings are the back drop to a sensitive account of the death of Julián, a popular activist murdered during a peasant demonstration. This event triggers an expansion of violence that transgresses society's every law—from media infiltration in the form of censorship to the irreparable consequences of ruthless crossfire in...

Raymond Fraser books have been called powerful, insightful, moving, irreverent, disturbing and outrageously funny. Filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, COSTA BLANCA features a novella and stories set in Spain, Boston, Toronto and the east coast of Canada.What the critics have said of Raymond Fraser's stories:"A highly original voice that is occasionally sad, sometimes very comic. A real pleasure to read." ALAN DAWE, Vancouver Sun ...... "Comic and horrifying." HEATHER SANDERSON, Canadian Literature ...... "Perceptive, magnetic and laced with humour." ANNE INGRAM, The Gleaner...

Continuing the series The Best Native American Myths, Legends, and Folklore, Volume 3 offers an enjoyable look into the history of the Native American Indian. Before the time of books, computers, tablets and recording devices, the history of many cultures was passed down, from person to person, by word of mouth. The rich histories of so many people were told in songs, chants, poems and stories. This was and still is the way of Native American tribes. Each in its own way enriching their stories with their own experiences. By reliving these stories and songs, we have the opportunity to bring...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's second novel, Indole, was published in Lima in 1891, two years after her Aves sin nido shocked the Peruvian reading public with its forthright criticism of Church and state corruption. Like Aves, Indole dramatizes the liberal reformist anticlericalism of late nineteenth century political debates, and is also set in a small Andean town surrounded by outlying haciendas. But in Indole, the town is a stable and basically happy one, where indigenous people, mestizos and landowners of Spanish descent live harmoniously in a beautiful Andean valley. Matto's journalistic...