"This is the biography of Pancho Villa, one of the greatest Mexican revolutionaries, written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, implacable novelist and historian, who gave himself to the titanic task of narrating the life of the "Northern Centaur." Villa's journey, reckless and excessive, saturated with heroic and tragic events, has always been a timeless symbol of the Mexican Revolution. This book, written in the vibrant style of Taibo II, recounts the adventures--from...

High school senior Blanca Montes is drawn to the new student, Greg Chan, unaware that they are the reincarnations of Princess Iztac and Captain Popoca from an ancient Aztec tale, and the fates are giving them one final opportunity to reunite.

"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned byher family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by...