Novedades

In his haunting and fearless debut, Ocean Vuong walks a tightrope of historic and personal violences, creating an interrogation of the American body as a borderless space of both failure and triumph. At once vulnerable and redemptive, dreamlike and visceral, compassionate and unforgiving, these poems seek a myriad existence without forgetting the prerequisite of self-preservation in a world bent on extinguishing its othered voices. Vuong's poems show, through breath, cadence, and unrepentant enthrallment, that a gentle palm on a chest can calm the most necessary of hungers.

Portland, 1888. Amid the subterranean labyrinth of the notorious Shanghai Tunnels, a woman awakens in an underground cell, drugged and disguised. Celia soon realizes she’s a “Shanghaied” victim on the verge of being shipped off as forced labor, leaving behind those she loves most. Although well-accustomed to adapting for survival—being half-Chinese, passing as white during an era fraught with anti-Chinese sentiment—she fears that far more than her own fate hangs in the balance.

When her boyfriend of seven years suddenly breaks up with her, relationship advice columnist Gemma Cho is convinced that real love doesn’t exist. As a bisexual woman who’s had zero luck with both men and women, she’s ready to give up on her own romantic prospects. That is, until she's paired up with world-renowned photographer Celeste Min on a potentially career-saving piece on modern love.

She’s searching for Mr. Perfect. God keeps sending Mr. Unexpected. Lex Sakai is completely unfazed by her family’s dreaded title, Oldest Single Female Cousin. As a competitive volleyball coach and athlete, she has bigger priorities. So when her iron-willed grandmother threatens to cut funding for Lex’s team unless Lex brings a date to her cousin’s wedding, Lex does what any competitor would do—she creates a game plan. Convinced God has the perfect man out there, Lex builds a prayerful, Ephesians-inspired checklist to guide her search. She’s determined to trust God—and her list...

Two brothers, one throne, and a woman could change their fate. Yin-jeng, the fourteenth son of Emperor Kangxi in China’s Qing dynasty, believes that his brother has stolen the throne from him, and is determined to get it back. When a Taoist monk offers him help, Jeng fights his way out of imprisonment, but only finds himself in the wrong century... Julie Bird, a successful CPA is on a regular business trip to Beijing, when a series of unfortunate events befall her. She gets lost in the mountain road after visiting the imperial tombs, and runs into a bandit. But the most bizarre part is ...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." But what if Mr. Darcy was Filipino? A rich, new neighbor has moved into the house across the street from Armi Benitez and her decidedly middle-class family. The male heir of the house falls in love with Armi's elder sister. Meanwhile, Armi cannot stand his also-rich-as-sin, arrogant best friend named Will Salcedo. Parties, dancing, betrayal, intrigue. A Jane Austen classic romance in the 21st century setting of South Manila, Philippines. Even if you've never read Jane ...

Vivian Yin is dead. The trailblazing starlet was the first Chinese actress to win an Oscar ­- but at what should have been the peak of her career, she became a recluse. The rest of her life was shrouded in mystery. Now, her daughters gather for the reading of her will. They expect to inherit their childhood home: a grand Southern California manor house with a sprawling, labyrinthine garden. But due to a last-minute change to the will, the house is passed on to another family instead. The two families haven't seen each other for decades - not since the tragedy that fractured all of their lives.