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Eugenia Aldunate, who survived the aftermath of Pinochet's coup in 1973 but lost her husband in the same struggle, returns from exile to Chile to testify in her husband's murder case and seek justice for other disappeared people.

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R....

In the years before the Mexican Revolution, a principled young doctor and a disfigured spinster marry. Through their eyes, and the eyes of their son, readers follow the collapse of the old order and its bloody aftermath.

"In an unassuming corner of Brooklyn, a young woman learns to be ladylike, to love context, and to speak her mind from a very curious sort of tutor. In a faraway land convulsed by war, a young soldier hears the desert's curious hum as he...

"Wounded Tiger is the compelling true story of Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese pilot who led the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II. Fuming with a hatred for Americans and a strong sense of national and racial pride, Fuchida allows...