Mexican Drama

Before submarines and moon voyages, Jules Verne mastered something simpler: the art of a perfectly told story. This collection presents three lesser-known Verne works that showcase his range beyond science fiction—taut historical dramas where adventure serves character rather than spectacle. A Mexican Drama plunges readers into Mexico's turbulent struggles, where personal loyalties collide with political upheaval. Love, betrayal, and courage play out against a nation in conflict. The Blockade Runners follows a daring maritime operation during the American Civil War. Verne's technical ...

One year after losing her husband, Catalina Ruiz, once an ex-pat with a rebellious past, is back in Mexico City, opening her dream art gallery. It's a bold leap of faith, a desperate grab for a second chance at purpose amidst her lingering grief. But just as she clings to the hope of a fresh start, her world is upended by two unexpected arrivals: the spectral presence of her late husband in her gallery, and a chance encounter with a captivating, infuriating stranger on the street. That stranger, Sebastian Espinoza, is more than just impossibly handsome. He’s the owner of the rival gallery...

Hispanic America, Texas, and the Mexican War examines the history of the southwestern area of the United States. Topics covered include the settlement of the area that became the southwestern portion of the United States, detailing how it evolved from land settled by Native Americans, to Spanish territory, to states that were pawns between the North and South prior to the Civil War.

With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone...

“I loved this book. It’s beautiful. I thought about it so much after I read it.” —Sarah Jessica Parker “It’s a stunner.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From award-winning South African author Nadia Davids comes a gothic psychological thriller set in the 1920s, where a young...

In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer...

Una abogada y su anciana tía abuela utilizan sus dones supernaturales para encontrar a una niña perdida en esta “asombrosa novela que rompe los esquemas del género y trata de la magia que canta a nuestro alrededor” (Julia Phillips, autora de Dissapearing Earth), siguiendo la misma línea...

A quietly powerful tale of music, memory, and the spaces between what is said and what is lost. In a country reshaped by conflict, one man returns to find the world he left behind both familiar and forever changed. As melodies echo through café windows and unspoken truths linger in the air, lives intertwine in moments both tender and profound. Set against the backdrop of mid-twentieth century America, Hushed Tones is a richly textured story about the rhythms of love and silence, resilience and regret. With lyrical prose and a deep emotional current, it invites readers into a world where ...

A gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy. “Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too real.”—People “A fiercely compassionate story about the bonds and the bounds of...

The novelist who wrote THE GRAPES OF WRATH and the director who produced CRISIS AND LIGHTS OUT in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but...

SOME CASES HAUNT YOU... OTHERS HUNT. As a lowly grunt in Afghanistan's killing fields, Marine Corporal Hondo Velazquez uncovers what he believes to be ritual murders. Burned bodies. Missing children. And most chilling: the discovery of a human skull with mounted antlers—a mask worn in the ceremony of murder. Despite what his superiors demand, Hondo does what any good bloodhound would do: Hunt. And when he does, he finds himself on a trail so dark and deep that it threatens to undo the threads that hold him together. As he returns stateside, the nightmares follow. Identical killings draw ...

In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat...

A “masterful…mesmerizing and unflinching” (Patricia Engel, New York Times bestselling author) story about a multigenerational family of luchadores contending with forbidden love and secrets in Mexico City, Los Angeles, and beyond. Ernesto Vega has lived many lives, from pig farmer to...

A cozy mystery brimming with unexpected twists, turns, and a touch of ghostly magic. In the friendly and quiet town of Sweethaven, an elderly schoolteacher, Elizabeth Bordine, has faithfully served the community for decades. But when a young, ambitious teacher named Zack Tracy arrives to take her place, Miss Bordine’s peaceful retirement is disrupted. As strange events start to unfold around the historic one-room schoolhouse, tensions rise between the two educators. A curious 13-year-old boy named Diego Diaz becomes fascinated with the mysteries of the town's past, including the tales of ...

The dust swirled around my worn boots, a miniature desert storm kicked up by the frantic thump of my own heart. The air hung thick and heavy, the scent of dry earth and something else… something metallic and sickeningly sweet, clinging to the back of my throat. It was the smell of blood. Old blood. New blood. The kind that stains the soul as deeply as it stains the earth. I’d been clean for six months, six agonizing months of sweat-soaked nights and gnawing cravings, a testament to a willpower I never knew I possessed. Six months of staring at the cracked pavement, avoiding the shadowed...

From a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City Two young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world--or sacrifice...

A walk to fight off boredom puts a young man in a position he may die getting out of. He finds himself in the middle of a criminal act he can only wonder at the origins of. In any case, he is now a part of it until the end of what ever it is... ... He was breathing hard. "We got to kill some time: Find a place." He looked at the girl. “What the f*ck is it you want, manita?” He showed her the 45 just in case she hadn't seen it. She turned and looked to the back of the lot, motioning with one hand as she did, and spat out a stream of Spanish that was lost on me. At the end, I caught the ...

Deck Thornton has the nervous energy of a guy who lives his life in an electric storm. When he shows up at Jackson Day's lakeside home in Austin, Texas that energy field seems to be misfiring. Jackson hasn't seen Deck since their college days. He wants a favor of Jackson; stow a backpack in a safe place till he can return in a few weeks to get it. "Nothing illegal," Deck promises. Jackson complies, and unwittingly crosses the evil line that day, putting all he cherishes in death’s path.

When a kidney transplant performed by Boston General Hospital’s preeminent surgeon goes bad, the life of his patient is only the first thing Dr. Brad Baker will lose. Threatened with a malpractice suit, Brad takes a leave of absence to accept a job offer from Carlos Cardoza, the suave director of a remote transplant clinic in Campeche, Mexico. But over the next several months, Brad becomes uneasy about the source of the cadaveric kidneys he transplants into his wealthy patients. By the time Brad learns of the true intentions of his employer, he finds escape nearly impossible from the ...

Thirty-five years ago, Libertyville had a population of 2,000. Its citizens thought it would become the next Atlanta. But it’s now 1989, and the population is down to 278 and falling. The town’s remaining employer, the outdated, money-losing Libertyville Cotton Works, owned by an elderly Holocaust survivor, has been sold to a conglomerate that intends to reap huge tax and political benefits. But two other factions have different ideas. Bishop William Wyatt Walker, spellbinding African-American televangelist whose church takes in $500 million a year in contributions from the poorest of ...