Brad Nolan, the most successful detective in U.S. history, has decided to retire. At 60 years old, "The American Sherlock Holmes," as the press had named him after successfully solving 51 cases in a row, thinks it's time to retire and enjoy his family after an uninterrupted thirty-two year career. However, his plans change abruptly when Agatha, his wife, is found brutally murdered in her own house by a mysterious man who calls himself Pity, who threatens Nolan, challenging him to solve the biggest case of his life, case 52. Nolan has to discover the identity of this psychopath before he comes after the rest of his family. He will have to face his own past and probe the deepest corners of his mind to win the race against time and solve the case.
This book is a collection of more than thirty essays by renowned scholars, historians, journalists, and media professionals that portray the experience of Cubans exiled in the United States and other countries in the last sixty years.
Winner, 2018 Peter C. Rollins Book Prize, presented by the Northeast Popular/American Culture Association Winner, 2018 Robert K. Martin Book Prize, presented by the Canadian American Studies Association Honorable Mention, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, given by the Latina/o Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association A re-examination of the Cuban diaspora through the lens of popular culture. In an era of warming relations between the US and Cuba, this book updates the conversation about Cuban America by showing how this community has changed over the past 25 years. No longer a conservative Republican voting bloc, the majority of Cubans today want more engagement with the island instead of less. Laguna investigates the generational shifts and tensions in a Cuban America where the majority is now made up of immigrants who arrived since the 1990s and those born in the US. To probe these changes, Laguna examines the aesthetic and social logics of a wide range of popular culture forms originating in Miami and Cuba from the 1970s through the 2010s. They include the stand-up comedy of performers like Alvarez Guedes and Robertico, a festival called Cuba Nostalgia, Miami morning radio shows, a form of media distribution on the island known as el paquete, and the viral social media content of Los Pichy Boys. This study illustrates the centrality of play in a community that has been described historically as angry, reactionary, and melancholic. Diversión contends that our understanding of the Cuban diaspora is lacking not in seriousness, but in play. By unpacking this archive, Laguna explores our complex, often fraught attachments to popular culture and the way it can challenge and reproduce typical cultural ideologies—especially in relation to politics and race. In the wake of the largest migration wave to the US in Cuban history, Diversión and its focus on play is crucial reading for those who seek to understand not only the Cuban American diaspora, but cultural and economic life on the island.
Would You Go Through Hell to Save Your Child? Henry Black was murdered... To avenge his death and save his family, he made a deal with a devil. Though he was brought back to life, he wasn’t the same. The weight of his sins trapped Henry in a demonic form. But he wasn’t the only one to pay. Now his daughter is trapped in Hell, paying for his sins. Desperate to save her, Henry’s only hope lies with the intervention of an angel. He pledges to rescue Henry’s daughter from the pit, provided Henry completes a mission for him. All Henry has to do is locate a very special boy who could represent a turning point in the war between Heaven and Hell. But to find this child, Henry must complete a series of specific tasks. These will take him deep into the darkest depths of humanity, where Henry will be forced to choose between the angel’s mission and his own vengeance…
"Del otro lado del auricular, una voz que apenas reconozco responde, cruzo los dedos para brindar por tu éxito con un buen tequila. No sé si es la voz, los dedos cruzados, la imagen de un brindis que está a punto de suceder, el olor del éxito o el sabor de un buen tequila lo que provoca que un suspiro transparente llene mis pulmones al tiempo que un gesto peculiar interroga a mi memoria. ¿De quién es la sazón de tierra mojada que parece invadir el viaje que estoy a punto de comenzar? ¿Quién va a conducirme por los caminos de asfalto y los senderos de grava y barro de una de las regiones más mexicanas de México? ¿Con quién voy a compartir los paisajes agaveros que esperan tranquilamente el retorno de los siglos?" Una vieja amiga y un amigo nuevo van buscando respuestas mientras van paseando por los pueblos, los cerros, las veredas, los ríos, el aire y la imaginación del paisaje azul que va llenando sus ojos de jimadores, artesanos, charros y mariachis. Tal vez incluso las palabras se queden paseando... Desde 1994, y con un estilo colorido y sensual, la prosa fresca de Alejandra nos lleva por sus inagotables retratos de mundos reales e imaginarios. Este nuevo viaje por el Estado mexicano de Jalisco, nos invita a vivir una historia salpicada de música y bañada con tequila. Agaves Que Cantan Rancheras es uno de esos libros cuyo final quisiéramos retardar para poder pasear un poco más.
¡Haga que su tiempo devocional con Dios sea la parte m?s emocionante y recompensada de su d?a! Una Cita con el Rey ofrece est?mulo y abundantes ayudas pr?cticas para convertir la «tarea» de las devociones en una costumbre que transformar? su vida y le producir? gozo que esperar? con agrado. ¡Aprenda el c?mo y el por qu? de pasar un tiempo de calidad con Dios y descubra cu?n profundamente el Rey est? deseoso de reunirse con usted! Con calidez y honestidad Joel Comiskey se?ala claramente c?mo usted puede buscar a Dios en su tiempo devocional y explica los beneficios asombrosos que usted experimentar? mientras Dios bendice su vida. Con este libro de ayuda y entusiasta, usted puede tener un tiempo devocional que significa mucho m?s que abrir una Biblia y decir sus oraciones. Ser? un tiempo de experimentar al Dios vivo ? un tiempo de comuni?n con el Rey. Este libro no es un libro devocional cl?sico (una selecci?n de meditaciones para cada d?a del a?o), sino que m?s bien una gu?a para ayudar al lector a desarrollar, organizar y mantener su propio tiempo devocional din?mico, refrescando su alma y prepar?ndola para el d?a que tiene por delante. Su objetivo es explicar el por que y el c?mo pasar diariamente un tiempo a solas con Dios. Para ello, cada cap?tulo incluye ideas y sugerencias novedosas sobre la manera de hacer m?s fruct?fera esta pr?ctica, imprescindible para la vida espiritual. Todos aquellos que buscan la forma de mejorar la calidad de su vida devocional, descubrir?n en sus p?ginas una verdadera joya, pues el autor aporta principios realistas y realizables para el desarrollo de una vida de oraci?n eficaz, y lo hace con la autoridad de las Escrituras. Tal es su entusiasmo y convicci?n, que es posible que m?s de un lector, al descubrir que tiene UNA CITA CON EL REY, decida abandonar repentinamente la lectura y, cerrando la puerta, se deje llevar por sus ansias de pasar un tiempo a solas con su Salvador. El libro se estructura en dos partes que cubren todo el ciclo de requisitos necesarios para mejorar la vida devocional: - Los pasos pr?cticos - Las disciplinas necesarias Y cuyo contenido, sumado a los ejercicios y preguntas de repaso que se incluyen al final de cada cap?tulo, lo convierten en no tan solo una lectura adecuada y necesaria para todo creyente individual que desea desarrollar y avivar su vida de oraci?n, sino tambi?n en una valuosa herramienta para grupos celulares y clases de nuevos creyentes, un ?rea en la que el autor aporta reconocida experiencia.
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A daughter’s quest to understand her charismatic and troubled father, an immigrant who crosses borders both real and illusory—between sanity and madness, science and spirituality, life and death PEN America Literary Award Winner • “The kind of memoir that seems to redefine the genre.”—Los Angeles Review of Books From renowned journalist Jean Guerrero, here is the haunting story of a daughter’s mission to save her father from his demons and to save herself from destruction. Marco Antonio was raised in Mexico, then migrated to California, where he met Jean’s mother, Jeannette, a Puerto Rican woman just out of med school. Marco is a self-taught genius at building things—including mythologies about himself and the hidden forces that drive us. When he goes on the run, Jean follows and embarks on an investigative journey between cultures and languages, the earthly and the mystical, truth and fiction. A distinctive memoir about the search for an elusive parent, Crux is both a riveting adventure story and a profoundly original exploration of the mysteries of our world, our most intimate relationships, and ourselves. “[Guerrero] writes poetically about borders as a metaphor for the boundary of identity between father and daughter and the porous connective tissues that bind them.”—The National Book Review
