Unaccompanied
Unaccompanied

Author: Javier Zamora

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1619321777

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New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Aphasia
Aphasia

Author: Mauro Javier Cárdenas

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2020-11-03

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 0374719098

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Mauro Javier Cárdenas, the critically-acclaimed author of The Revolutionaries Try Again—“an original, insubordinate novel” (New York Times)—pens a profound story of literature about a man coming to terms with his dysfunctional Colombian family, as well as his own behavior, as an immigrant in America. Antonio wants to avoid thinking about his sister—even though he knows he won’t be able to avoid thinking about his sister—because his sister is on the run after allegedly threatening to shoot her neighbors, and has been claiming that Antonio, Obama, the Pentagon, and their mother are all conspiring against her. Nevertheless, Antonio is going to try his best to be as avoidant as possible, because he worries that what’s been happening to his sister might somehow infect his relatively contented, ordered American life, and destabilize the precarious arrangement with his ex-wife that’s allowed him to stay close to his two daughters. In fact, he’s busy doing everything except facing his problems head-on: transcribing recordings of his mother speaking about their troubled life in Colombia, transcribing recordings of his ex-wife speaking about her idyllic life in the Czech Republic; writing about former girlfriends whose words and deeds still recur in his mind; rereading stories by American writers that allow him to skirt the subject of his sister’s state of mind without completely destroying his own. Written in long, unravelling sentences that accommodate all the detritus of thought—scenes real and imagined, headphones and heartache, Toblerones and Thomas Bernhard—Aphasia captures the immensity of the present moment as well as the pain of the past. It cements Mauro Javier Cárdenas’s place as one of the most innovative and extraordinary novelists working today.

I Think, You Read Me
I Think, You Read Me

Author: Maurice Schmidt

Publisher: Maurice Schmidt

Published: 2023-05-01

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1778210007

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Society is in the throes of a fundamental change with the ubiquitous presence of mobile phones. The exchange of ideas and opinions occurs instantaneously and across the globe, representing the apex of our achievement as a species, founded as it is on our ability to communicate and coordinate. Building on learned experiences, we disseminate, refine, and spawn innovative ideas. The pace at which we extrapolate concepts results in an explosive expansion of knowledge and supporting data. Social media as a technology is barely twenty-five years old, hinting at undreamed-of potential as it matures in the future. In parallel, harnessing our newfound communication tools, science continues its relentless march in exploring our place in the universe at the macro and micro levels. Unimagined possibilities lie before us such that it is folly to discard what currently seems unlikely. This forms the basis of the fiction in this book. In barely a century, DNA has traced how people migrated out of Africa to inhabit every corner of the world. Forensic science has also used this foundational building block of life to bring to justice so many crimes. It is entirely feasible that undiscovered technologies lie on the near horizon. What happens when communication, the cornerstone of our success, goes beyond the social media frenzy that is already pervasive?

Javier
Javier

Author: Fiona Murphy

Publisher: Fiona Murphy

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13:

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The Castillo Family: Follow Rafael, Matteo, Javier and their nephew Santos a billionaire family they made their fortune in the construction business. When it comes to building relationships all their money can't help them when it comes to women who want what money can't buy. Javier Castillo might be a gorgeous, brilliant billionaire—but he's also a massive a$$hole. His only redeeming quality is how much he loves his baby daughter. A daughter he wasn’t aware existed until her grandmother dumped her on him like she was returning lost luggage. Her mother is dead and her grandmother decided she couldn’t take care of her after all. Okay, it’s kind of amazing the way he didn’t flinch from the baby thrust into his arms. He wants the best for her but doesn’t believe I am it. I’m the nanny with a thirty-day trial hanging over my head. He’s trying to get me to quit, I just know it. Except I refuse to go easily or quietly, no matter how mean or rude he gets. There's no way I am going to mess up this job. If I do, I'll be homeless again. I’m positive he’s just worried I’ll develop a crush on him and become a clingy, lovesick pain. So why do I feel his eyes on me when he thinks I'm not paying attention? What about overhearing him warning a man away from me with a feral, jealous possessive air? It's wishful thinking—poor, plain, fat women like me don't get the gorgeous billionaire like him anywhere but in the movies. I'm here for his daughter, not him. Except before long it isn’t just his daughter who has stolen my heart, and I wonder if maybe I'm not imagining things after all. This is book 2 in the Castillo Family series. You need not have read the previous book to enjoy this one, and it does not end in a cliffhanger. Trigger warning: The heroine's father commits suicide off page as her personal history. Her mother commits suicide off page during the course of the story. Keywords: Billionaire Romance, Age gap romance, Nanny Romance, multicultural romance, Virgin Romance, BBW Romance, Curvy romance, older man younger woman, jealous possessive hero, alpha hero

The Infatuations
The Infatuations

Author: Javier Marías

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-08-13

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0307960730

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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST • From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder. "Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review Each day before work María Dolz stops at the same café. There she finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Observing their seemingly perfect life helps her escape the listlessness of her own. But when the man is brutally murdered and María approaches the widow to offer her condolences, what began as mere observation turns into an increasingly complicated entanglement. Invited into the widow's home, she meets—and falls in love with—a man who sheds disturbing new light on the crime. As María recounts this story, we are given a murder mystery brilliantly encased in a metaphysical enquiry, a novel that grapples with questions of love and death, chance and coincidence, and above all, with the slippery essence of the truth and how it is told.

Sunrise
Sunrise

Author: James Mondesir

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1514480166

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Sunrise is the story of Javier De-Barre, a twenty-four year-old Caribbean immigrant, first-generation college graduate. Having earned his college degree to secure a better life, Javier became disillusioned as he found the promises of an education were not what it had been advertised as. The story opened the day after Javier had an outstanding interview for an IT position. Told by his interviewer he must confer with his superior before extending an offer, he confidently awaited the call. Saddled with crushing student loans, and feeling the burden of failed opportunities along with the pressure to start a career, Javier was devastated to discover that his less than qualified former classmate had acquired the position. Things took a turn for the worse with Alfonsos unexpected murder. The two had been best friends since childhood. When Javier and Alfonso's little sister, Betsy, fell in love, their bond got stronger. Under the clouding circumstances of Alfonso's death, would Javier be the one to blame? Will his love with Betsy survive? Unable to find a way out of these quagmires, Javier left Elizabeth, New Jersey, his adopted hometown, to figure out his life, find himself, and reconcile the rift of his soul. His journey leads him to the South as he wished to distance himself from the memories. He surprisingly found a similar position to the one he sought in New Jersey. While struggling to recover from Alfonso's death, patch his torn heart, and prove his qualifications at his new job, Javier found himself in the middle of a corporate scheme swindling investors out of money. In the midst of corporate schemes, betrayal, and murder, will Javier risk his dream to expose it all?

Curse of Atlantis
Curse of Atlantis

Author: Christopher David Petersen

Publisher: christopher david petersen

Published:

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13:

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Curse of Atlantis: There are 5 books in the Atlantis series: Hidden Courage; Tomb of Atlantis; Curse of Atlantis; Tomb of Zeus and Weapons of Atlantis. Please see recommended order of reading below. Hidden Courage: is the back story of the main character in the Atlantis series (Interesting, but not essential) Tomb of Atlantis: is book 1 Curse of Atlantis: is book 2 Tomb of Zeus: is book 3 Weapons of Atlantis: is book 4 Curse of Atlantis: In Tomb of Atlantis, Jack Roberts, an adventurer, discovered an artifact that may have belonged to a pyramid contained within the lost city of Atlantis. In Curse of Atlantis, the search for the pyramids continues. Jack and his archaeologist friends, Serena and Javier Arista, plan to take the artifact to Greece in order to find its connection to the lost pyramids of Atlantis. However, prior to leaving on the trip, Serena and the artifact are taken hostage by unscrupulous thieves who only want the riches contained within the pyramids. For Jack and Javier, it is a race against time to discover where the pyramid is, that contains the key to the lost civilization in order to save Serena and the ancient secrets of Atlantis. 79,000 words

A Heart So White
A Heart So White

Author: Javier Marías

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2013-03-26

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0307951073

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​​WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD • Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past—from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and "Spain's best writer" (Roberto Bolaño, national bestselling author of The Savage Detectives). Juan knows little of the interior life of his father Ranz; but when Juan marries, he begins to consider the past anew, and begins to ponder what he doesn't really want to know. Secrecy—its possible convenience, its price, and even its civility—hovers throughout the novel. A Heart So White becomes a sort of anti-detective story of human nature. Intrigue; the sins of the father; the fraudulent and the genuine; marriage and strange repetitions of violence: Marías elegantly sends shafts of inquisitory light into shadows and onto the costs of ambivalence.

Solito
Solito

Author: Javier Zamora

Publisher: Hogarth

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0593498062

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New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award “I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.”—Emma Straub “A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.”—Dave Eggers ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.” Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks. At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family. A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.