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This book has 450 authentic recipes from 10 countries for everything from tamales, ceviches, and empanadas that are popular across the continent to specialties that define individual cuisines.
Neoliberals, neocons, revolutionaries, folk musicians, an ambassador's New Age wife, river-damming landslides, and one entrepreneurial idealist all collide in the Andean paradise of Phillip Bannowsky's satirical romance, The Mother Earth Inn. Hal Rivers, Bannowsky's feckless hero, descends into the Republic of Esmeraldas just in time for the elections of Bill Clinton back home and an insane populist in Esmeraldas. Hoping to do good while doing well, Hal ends up on a quest that is both picaresque and exposé.
Voices told Lucas Darby to run. He's warned his sister not to look for him, but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish on the streets of LA. In her desperate search, she meets Gabriel Stewart, a runaway with mysterious powers and far too many secrets.
A Dark Message The body of a brutally slain man is found on the holy grounds of a chapel, and a cryptic message pinned to his chest unravels the lives of people touched by a dark secret. Detective Raven Mackenzie and her partner uncover the dead man's connection to a powerful female crime boss, leading them to her mysterious head of security, Christian Delacorte, who soon becomes the prime suspect. Triggers His Nightmares Yet when Raven sifts through Christian's past, she discovers the man is plagued by deeply rooted nightmares—and a shadowy childhood tragedy linking him to the case. Convinced his past holds the key to finding the real killer, she defies her partner, following her gut instincts and trusting her undeniable bond with Christian. And Arouses a Killer But Raven shares her own date with destiny when she crosses paths with a heartless killer. And when he unleashes his rage, there will be no one left to tell.
After surviving a car accident, Abbey Chandler discovers that the boy she secretly loves is the target of Death as he attempts to climb Denali.
Peter Gow unites the ethnographic data collected by the fieldwork methods invented by Malinowski with Levi-Strauss's analyses of the relations between myth and time. His book is an analysis of a century of social transformation in an indigenous Amazonian society, the Piro people of PeruvianAmazonia, taking as its starting point a single myth told to the author by a Piro man. Gow explores Piro history and ethnography outwards into the domains of myth-telling in general, and following the logic of certain important myths, further out into important domains of Piro experience such asvisual art, shamanry and girls' initiation ritual. All of these domains, like the myths themselves, have been dem...
Spanish: Esta historia esta dedicada a todas las mujeres del mundo entero que han sido vctimas y abusadas por sus esposos, que aquellas mujeres lo dieron todo por amor, entregaron sus cuerpos y almas enteros y se olvidaron de todos sus sueos, caminos y aspiraciones, por darlo todo aquellos que les dieron desamor y traicin. Entregaron sus riquezas y tesoros aquellos que no lo merecieron y pagaron con una pualada en el pecho. English: The story is dedicated to women worldwide who have given up everything for love, with their souls, hearts, and beliefs. Women have forgotten about their dreams and have become slaves of their husbands and had been paid back with betrayal. They have to put up with tears, pain, and being unloved every day. They are the ones who have to give their bodies and give all their treasures to those who dont appreciate it.
Gabriel Stewart and his team of teen psychics resolve to end a plot by the obsessed leader of a fanatical church whose followers are brainwashing and torturing all psychic children in order to destroy them.
Desde Cualquier Punto de Vista Desde Cualquier Punto de Vista es una mirada audaz a Santiago de Chile. Con una prosa rpida, un constante cambio de narrador y una irreverencia que no se le conoca en textos anteriores, Biggs aborda los problemas de la vida cotidiana en una historia que pudo ser la suya. El relato central, es el de un ejecutivo exitoso (Carlos Sims) que estando en la cima de su carrera, enfrenta un sorpresivo despido, con todo lo que ello implica: prdida del automvil de la empresa, del chofer y de mil prebendas que crea que seran para siempre. El tema no es menor, cuando va acompaado del relato de personajes como el junior de la oficina, (Pablo Carreo), quien junto a su amigo S...