La Pelota Perdida

In 2019, nineteen-year-old outfielder Juan Soto helped the Washington Nationals win the World Series. Read about Soto's journey from the Dominican Republic to Washington, D.C., and see what the future holds for the young superstar.

Young readers will learn the ways that César Chávez fought to protect the rights and lives of migrant workers in this inspiring Spanish-translated biography that gives history behind protests and developments of unions that Chávez led. Vivid images and an interesting timeline of Chávez's life work in conjunction with supportive text and a helpful glossary, table of contents, and index to engage readers from cover to cover.

Queridos amigos, Aprendí a leer desde muy niña buenas lecturas, cuando ya leía de “corrido" me nutrí en la biblioteca de mi abuelo, un militar ermitaño ya pensionado; mi imaginación también volaba oyendo los cuentos de las tertulias de antaño, que se daban en expresiones de admiración de temor, y de risas y cololoquios de familias pueblerinas. Hoy a mis años, las mezclas de entre los recuerdos y los sueños y en mi soledad la visita de alguno que otro fantasma que comparte conmigo amablemente lo que fueron sus vidas, me han abismado al mundo de la imaginación y de las letras, no...

The plot of The Empty Region takes the reader from the military camps of holy warriors in Pakistan, to the security corridors of the CIA and the FBI. It’s a fascinating puzzle inhabited by historical characters, including Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush, as well as officials aware of the tragedy´s secrets. Szichman leads us along the terminals where the air pirates of al-Qaida consummated their tragic ritual, makes us travel on the airplanes, turned into guided missiles, and recreates the 102 minutes when the burning towers of the World Trade Center became hell on earth. Although...