Old Latin

Jackson Paul had comfortably settled into a quiet life; teaching, research, and a quick drink with a friend once a week down at the bar. After a devastating breakup, it had seemed best and just became second nature. Budget cuts at his university, Rochester Technic, leave him not only unemployed, but forced to reinvent himself at forty-three. With a little money in savings, the plan turns towards making documentaries, and how to keep those savings from evaporating overnight while waiting for a little success to roll in. The tutoring gig his old chair up at the university recommended him for ...

This volume celebrates six such languages - Ancient Greek, Latin, Old English, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Biblical Hebrew - by first introducing listeners to their most distinctive features, then showing how these linguistic traits play out in short excerpts from actual ancient texts. It explores, for instance, how Homer's Greek shows signs of oral composition, how Horace achieves striking poetic effects through interlaced word order in his Latin, and how the poet of Beowulf attains remarkable intensity of expression through the resources of Old English. 

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Uncover the ancient roots of the Latin Bible with The Old Latin Fragments (Vetus Latina)—a thoroughly evangelical and scholarly exploration of the pre-Vulgate Latin translations of the Old Testament. Edward D. Andrews delivers a meticulous textual analysis of six rare and significant manuscripts, including Codex Wirceburgiensis, Codex Lugdunensis, Codex Vindobonensis, the Constance Prophetic Fragments, and the bilingual Codex Veronensis. This volume also includes six in-depth appendices focused on Jerome’s Latin Vulgate and its most important manuscript witnesses: Codex Amiatinus, Codex...

Jackson Paul, formerly Professor Paul of Rochester Technical, is still getting used to not being a professor anymore, even though he's still teaching. Outside of the university, Jackson is finding gigs tutoring the city's elite, from an indie-actress trophy wife to the daughter of a local business magnate. Lines that he spent years drawing, separating himself from his students, are starting to blur due to his new situation, and some of them are troubling him. After a fling with the twenty-something former student, he's trying to balance his new work life with a social life, finally getting ...

This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. A trans boy determined to prove his gender to his traditional Latinx family summons a ghost who refuses to leave in Aiden Thomas's paranormal YA debut Cemetery Boys, described by Entertainment Weekly as "groundbreaking." Yadriel has...

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In a lively, anecdotal manner, the authors show how to balance "old world" values with contemporary North America, whether the issue is juggling career and family demands, turning the traditional marriage into a partnership, awakening and accepting one's own sexuality, seeking help with emotional problems outside the family, or learning to stand up for one's feelings and rights.

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El Diablo is in the details in this Latinx pirate fantasy starring a transmasculine nonbinary teen with a mission of revenge, redemption, and revolution. From the New York Times bestselling author of Most Ardently. On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a...

Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because...

A fast-paced YA novel about four Mexican American teenagers from Houston, a '59 Chevy Impala, and a murder that changes their lives forever. Flaco isn’t the kind of kid who gets in trouble. He doesn’t want to give his mom or his aunt Ana Flor any grief—they’ve had enough since his cousin...

Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with Something Followed Us Home, edited by Bram Stoker Award–winner Cynthia Pelayo, a groundbreaking anthology where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and...

The Old Wives' Tale is broken up into four parts, and the lives of two sisters are laid bare: one timid and unassuming, the other romantic and adventurous. From working as children in their family's drapery shop to their later years, Constance and Sophia's journey through life could not be more different. While one travels the world and defies male expectations, the other becomes a dutiful wife and mother.

Marco was 46 years old and he was in a two-year relationship with his 43-year-old girlfriend, Sherri. But Marco had a deep secret. He really wanted to hook up with 19-year-old Eliza. Marco had always been attracted to bigger women, and Eliza was absolutely gorgeous. Her curves were simply out of this world. Marco found himself lusting after Eliza. But he knew it was wrong to feel that way, and he couldn’t let Sherri find out about how much he craved Eliza, so he kept his secret to himself for quite some time. But one Friday, while Sherri was out for the night leaving Marco and Eliza alone...

It was the middle of the night about a month after I’d turned 18, when I heard somebody coming into my room. It was 47-year-old Eduardo. I had my own boyfriend, but Eduardo was so hot — he was Latino, tall, sexy, and he had an incredible body. There he was in my bedroom. He wanted me, and I wanted him, even though we knew we shouldn’t and that we would be taking an enormous risk. We would have to be completely quiet, but it seemed like nothing was going to stop us from doing what we really hungered to do together. Would I actually go through with it and get dirty with Eduardo — the ...