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1) Passing
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Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen's Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, self-invention, class, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age.
When childhood friends Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry cross paths at a whites-only restaurant, it's been decades since they last met. Married to a bigoted white man who...
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"The remarkable, little-known story of Belle da Costa Greene, J. P. Morgan's personal librarian-who became one of the most powerful women in New York despite the dangerous secret she kept in order to make her dreams come true, from New York Times bestselling author Marie Benedict and acclaimed author Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books,...
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Father Damien Modeste has served the Ojibwe on the remote reservation of Little No Horse for more than half a century, and as he nears the end of his life, he begins to fear that if the tribe discovers he is really a woman who has lived a man's life, all of his hard work will be undone.
4) Ghost legion
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Against the backdrop of the War for Independence, two intriguing storylines emerge. Stuart Brodie is a black freedman from Charles Town who owns a tavern in the backcountry of South Carolina. On his return from the war, he finds his younger brother, Ezekiel, hanging from the limb of a tree, his tavern burned to the ground, and a note warning any passerby that this is what lies in store for all Tories. Knowing that the guilty party was allied with...
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Cecilia Valdés, de Cirilo Villaverde, es la novela cubana más importante del siglo XIX. Su título completo es Cecilia Valdés o La Loma del Ángel y se publicó en Nueva York en el año 1882. Pertenece al movimiento romántico, aunque no está exenta de pinceladas realistas y costumbristas. La novela se estructura en cuatro partes, que abarcan el periodo histórico comprendido entre 1812 y 1831.
El propósito de Villaverde, como él mismo declara,...
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