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  • The Future of Opus Dei

    by Alberto Barrera ...
    The book presents a "real-time autopsy" of Opus Dei, documenting the systematic dismantling of its power, secrecy, and legal exceptionalism within the Catholic Church up to the year 2026. It explores how the institution, once considered an untouchable "parallel church," is facing a multidimensional collapse driven by strict Vatican interventions, massive financial scandals, and severe human rights ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sickness

    by Alberto Barrera Tyszka ...
    A profound and philosophical exploration of the nature and meaning of illness, Alberto Barrera Tyszka's tender, refined novel interweaves the stories of four individuals as they try, in their own way, to come to terms with sickness in all its ubiquity.Dr. Miranda is faced with a tragedy: his father has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has only a few weeks to live. He is also faced with a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Last Days of El Comandante

    by Alberto Barrera Tyszka ...
    Translated by Rosalind Harvey, Jessie Mendez Sayer ...
    Series series Latin American Literature in Translation
    2021 — Honorable Mention, Best Fiction Book Translation – International Latino Book Awards, Latino Literacy NowWinner of the Tusquets Prize in 2015 and previously translated into French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese, Alberto Barrera Tyszka’s Patria o muerte is now available in English.President Hugo Chávez’s cancer looms large over Venezuela in 2012, casting a shadow of uncertainty and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Blue Label

    by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles, Alberto Barrera Tyszka ...
    Translated by Paul Filev ...
    “One part Scheherazade, two parts Boccaccio, a twist of Bolaño, and a dash of bitters. Blue Label is intoxicating, hilarious, and the best novel on the calamity that is today’s Venezuela.”—Carmen Boullosa"This deftly and idiomatically translated novel . . . a quest of sorts, as a high school student in Chávez's Venezuela tries to make sense of love and life . . . packs a punch on many levels: ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hugo Chavez

    by Cristina Marcano, Alberto Barrera Tyszka ...
    Translated by Kristina Cordero ...
    He is one of the most controversial and important world leaders currently in power. In this international bestseller, at last available in English, Hugo Chávez is captured in a critically acclaimed biography, a riveting account of the Venezuelan president who continues to influence, fascinate, and antagonize America.Born in a small town on the Venezuelan plains, Chávez found his interests ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • In the name of God State

    From Coercive Sterilisation To The Physical Elimination Of Helplessness

    by Patrizia Barrera ...
    Translated by Alberto Fuggetta ...
    Allowing a ruler to decide unilaterally on an individual's health and reproductive capacity is tantamount to putting his life in his hands. It means authorising him to determine the length and quality of the existence of individuals, groups, social classes, ethnic groups, entire peoples. And to let him style, on the basis of personal and arbitrary convictions, categories of more or less deserving ... Read more

    $6.91 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition)

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  • Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know

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    by Julia E Sweig ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life persona. Cubans are now a major ethnic group in Florida, and the exile community is so ... Read more

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  • The Accidental President of Brazil

    A Memoir

    by Fernando Henrique Cardoso ...
    Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence. The year was 1993, and he would be responsible for an economy that had had seven different currencies in the previous eight years to cope with ... Read more

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  • Cuba Confidential

    Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana

    by Ann Louise Bardach ...
    From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Companero

    The Life and Death of Che Guevara

    by Jorge G. Castañeda ...
    By the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto "Che" Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it.Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on ... Read more

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    A Brief History

    by Sergio Guerra Vilaboy, Oscar Loyola Vega ...
    A concise, readable and thoroughly revised overview of Cuba written by Cubans for anyone interested in quickly understanding the island country’s turbulent history.Cuba: A Brief History covers the pre-Hispanic period, through Cuba’s struggle to maintain the revolution in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the period after Fidel Castro’s decision to step down from office, to ... Read more

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