Timothy Andrès Pabon

"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that...

Ready to be your own boss? If cash flow forecasts, tax returns, and P&Ls sound horrifying, fear not: help is at hand. Journalist Tom Hogkinson has spent his career advocating for laid-back living, and in Business for Bohemians, he combines practical advice with hilarious anecdotes to create a refreshingly candid guidebook for all of us who aspire to a greater degree of freedom in our working lives. Whether you dream of launching your own graphic...

"Forrest Stuart, Winner of a MacArthur fellowship, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation" "Winner of the CITAMS Book Award, Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association" "Honorable Mention for the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty and Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association" "Finalist for the PROSE Award in Cultural Anthropology & Sociology, Association...

"The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers." - Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird's Daughter "Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms...

Herman Mendoza built his kingdom in Queens, New York. He made a fortune selling cocaine with his brothers up and down the Eastern Seaboard. He had apartments around the city for his mistresses and a home in the Poconos for his beautiful nuclear family. But when he and his brothers were busted in a large-scale crackdown, his kingdom crumbled. Ready to kill himself rather than live behind bars, Herman instead came face-to-face with the all-consuming...

Master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya explores the world of pain and recovery in this autobiographical novel about an injured teenage boy's journey to overcome suffering-both physical and spiritual When the story opens, the eponymous hero of Rudolfo Anaya's novel is in an ambulance en route to a hospital for crippled children in the New Mexican dessert. A poor boy from Albuquerque, sixteen-year-old Tortuga takes his name from the odd, turtle-shaped mountain...

Taking its title from the original spelling of the city's name, Alburquerque is the story of a Chicano boxer's quest for identity  Abrán González always knew he was different. Called a coyote because of his fair skin, the kid from Barelas found escape through boxing and became one of the youngest Golden Gloves champions. But the arrival of a letter from a dying woman turns his entire life into a lie. The revelation that he was adopted makes him...

The method has changed. The message has not. After 11 years of reaching students on campuses, Brian Barcelona's world was turned upside down when every public school shut down in March 2020. He wondered if his ministry to students was over until he met two teenagers who challenged him to minister using digital platforms-a method that would not be hindered by the capacity of a physical room, the inability to travel, or a lack of finances, and would...

A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agenda-using your money to do it. Three Wall Street firms have quietly amassed more money than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, and John Rockefeller combined. But the money isn't even theirs. These asset managers have accumulated all their power through "passive funds," as most investors no...

Readers will be scared silly in this spooky and hilarious middle grade series starter about a town chock-full of monsters and the kids who must unravel centuries of secrets to save it. Will Hunter thought his life couldn't get any worse: • His parents just got divorced, • His best (and only) friend now is his dog, Fitz, • And his mom moved them from New York City to the middle-of-nowhere town called East Emerson. But, Will was wrong, things...