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DOMINICANA de Angie Cruz

From critically-acclaimed novelist Angie Cruz comes the story of a young woman forced into an arranged marriage who must make a choice between her heart and her duty to her family

DOMINICANA
by Angie Cruz
Flatiron Books, September 2019

Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to the United States, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes to her and promises to take her with him to New York City, she has no choice but to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for the entire Cancion family to eventually immigrate. So Ana leaves behind the only life she has ever known and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife in a cold six-floor walk-up, watching the world unfold outside while her husband works several jobs and becomes increasingly controlling. Lonely and miserable, Ana hatches a reckless plan to escape. But at the bus terminal, she is stopped by Cesar, Juan’s free-spirited younger brother, who convinces her to stay with Juan once he finds out she’s pregnant.
While Ana bides her time to leave Juan, the Dominican Republic slides further into political turmoil. Juan returns to Santo Domingo to protect his family’s assets, leaving Cesar to take care of Ana. Cesar shows her the beauty of the city—Radio City Music Hall, Coney Island, the World’s Fair—and Ana suddenly sees the possibility of a different, happy life forming. She takes secret English classes at the church down the street, links arms with protesters, feeds a lonely neighbor, and falls madly in love with Cesar. When Juan returns, Ana must decide once again between her heart and her duty to her family.

Angie Cruz is the author of two novels, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee, a finalist in 2007 for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has published short fiction and essays in magazines and journals, including The New York Times, VQR, and Gulf Coast Literary Journal. She has received numerous grants and residencies including the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, Yaddo, and The Macdowell Colony. She is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Aster(ix), a literary and arts journal, and is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

Praise for DOMINICANA

“I have been eagerly waiting for a new book from Angie Cruz. So glad the time has come. I can’t wait to see what this wonderful, nuanced, and insightful writer brings us next.”—Edwidge Danticat, author of Brother I’m Dying and Breath, Eyes, Memory

“Gorgeous. What I most love about Angie Cruz’s writing is that she writes like a woman, with the heart cleft in two like an apple.”—Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street

“Dominicana is beautiful, engaging, and cuts right to the heart of what it is to be a dutiful young female from a poor country who is bright in every sense of the word, full of love and hope. And who is also made to be the hope of her family.”—Mary Gaitskill, author of The Mare and Veronica

“Angie Cruz is the reason I read. She writes with visionary force and in her fiction is enough beauty, wisdom, and, yes, truth-telling, to awaken the soul.”—Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Angie Cruz is a luminary, and Dominicana feels so right for this moment. The novel is lyrical, moving, and full of the nuance and complexity and richness of being bicultural, bilingual. But what I most admire about Cruz’s work is how she captures the texture and tenor of being an immigrant woman, caught between worlds and loyalties.”—Julia Alvarez, author of In The Time of The Butterflies

“In each sharp, evocative scene, Angie Cruz shows how a moment in one country can reverberate for years in another. Dominicana is a fearless novel, laying bare the bewildering decisions made and revisited throughout the uncertain process of immigration and long after it ends.”—Idra Novey, author of Those Who Knew

“An important novel that illuminates a world and time with truth and originality. Angie Cruz is a brilliant novelist and her characters are unforgettable.”—Jennifer Clement, author of Gun Love (2018 National Book Award Finalist) and President PEN International

“Angie Cruz is a hero, a heartbreaker, and a visionary, who writes of the passions behind personal sacrifice and the raw contradictions of love with startling clarity and tenderness. Dominicana is a thrilling, necessary, and unforgettable portrait of what it means to be an immigrant in America.”—Patricia Engel, author of The Veins of The Ocean and Vida

“Dominicana is a valentine to Angie Cruz’s mother, which chronicles the first year of a teenage immigrant’s life in Washington Heights as an unsung hero, who must overcome physical abuse and acclimate to a new country while preparing to give birth to her daughter. It will be appreciated by fans of Colm Toibin’s bestseller, Brooklyn.”—Emily Raboteau, author of The Professor’s Daughter and Searching for Zion

“Angie Cruz is the real thing. She writes with a rare combination of fierce passion and tender compassion for her unforgettable world.”—Cristina Garcia, author of Here in Berlin and Dreaming In Cuban

A COURSE IN MEDITATION de Osho

For readers of Deepak Chopra and Gabrielle Bernstein, a 21-day experiential course designed to give readers a taste of meditation as it was taught by the contemporary mystic, Osho

A COURSE IN MEDITATION
A 21-Day Workout for Your Consciousness
by Osho
Harmony Books, September 2019

Osho was a mystic and a scientist, a rebellious spirit whose unique contribution to the understanding of who we are defies categorization. His only interest was to alert humanity to the urgent need to discover a new way of living. Osho’s understanding was that only by changing ourselves – one individual at a time – can the outcome of all our « selves » – our society, our cultures, our beliefs, our world – also change. The doorway to that change is meditation.
Osho saw how difficult it was for the hyperactive 21st-century mind to just sit silently and watch the breath. Out of this observation he created new meditations to address the unique challenges of this generation. Presented in easy-to-understand language and an easy-to-navigate format, A COURSE IN MEDITATION includes a 21-day program for applying meditation and mindfulness to release the tensions and stress of the body and mind in order to relax into an experience of still and silent awareness. Each day of the program introduces a different aspect of meditative living with a simple, practical meditation and awareness exercise related to the subject of the day.

Osho, known for his revolutionary contribution to the science of inner transformation, continues to inspire millions of people worldwide in their search to define a new approach to individual spirituality that is self-directed and responsive to the everyday challenges of contemporary life. Osho was described by UK’s Sunday Times as one of the « 1000 Makers of the 20th Century. » OSHO has had a resurgence recently thanks to the popular Netflix documentary about him and his followers, Wild Wild Country which won an Emmy Award. His teachings are back in the mainstream conversation and media, and his books sell steadily throughout the world. His internationally bestselling works are available in 58 languages around the world. www.osho.com

HUNTER’S MOON de Philip Caputo

From the author of A Rumor of War, The Longest Road, and Some Rise By Sin, a captivating mosaic of stories set in a small town where no act is private and the past is never really past

HUNTER’S MOON
A Novel in Stories
by Philip Caputo
Deckle Edge, August 2019

“A poignant and savage tribute to the wilds of the American landscape and to the wilds of the American soul. With Hunter’s Moon, Philip Caputo shows us, once again, why he is a giant of contemporary letters.” ―Elliot Ackerman, author of Waiting for Eden

HUNTER’S MOON is set in Michigan’s wild, starkly beautiful Upper Peninsula, where a cast of recurring characters move into and out of each other’s lives, building friendships, facing loss, confronting violence, trying to bury the past or seeking to unearth it. Once-a-year lovers, old high-school buddies on a hunting trip, a college professor and his wayward son, a middle-aged man and his grief-stricken father, come together, break apart, and, if they’re fortunate, find a way forward. HUNTER’S MOON offers an engaging, insightful look at everyday lives but also a fresh perspective on the way men navigate in today’s world.

Philip Caputo is an award-winning journalist―the co-winner of a Pulitzer Prize―and the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including “A Rumor of War”, one of the most highly praised books of the twentieth century. His book, “The Longest Road”, was a New York Times bestseller. His novels include “Acts of Faith”, “The Voyage”, “Horn of Africa”, “Crossers”, and “Some Rise by Sin”.

BLACK SUNDAY de Tola Rotimi Abraham

Tola Rotimi Abraham’s heartbreaking and incendiary debut BLACK SUNDAY follows the subsequent splintering apart of an entire family over the course of twenty years in Nigeria, narrating separately — subtly against the backdrop of the recent history of the city itself — each sibling’s fraught search for agency, love, and meaning in a place rife with hypocrisy but also endless life

BLACK SUNDAY
by Tola Rotimi Abraham
Catapult, 2020

Twin sisters and eldest siblings Bibike and Ariyike, along with their two younger brothers, are enjoying a comfortable, relatively privileged life in 1996 Lagos. Until their mother loses her job thanks to political strife and their family, in its desperation, gets swept up into the New Church —a Pentecostal church focused on money, blind faith, and winning. When their family’s patriarch wages their house on a ‘sure bet’ that evaporates like smoke, the twins’ mother abandons them and their brothers, and then their father follows suit. Bibike, Ariyike, Andrew and Peter are suddenly thrust into poverty as they’re reluctantly raised by their traditional Yoruban grandmother.
At the core of BLACK SUNDAY is really the story of the twins desperately trying to uncover the shape of truth in world hellbent on lies. Inseparable while they still have their parents and creature comforts, the twins’ paths diverge once their nuclear family shatters and each girl is left to locate, guard, and hone her own fragile source of power. As Abraham brings Lagos to life, in a voice rife with wry, timeless poeticism, BLACK SUNDAY reveals a tale of grace and connection amidst daily oppression, of two young women slowly finding their own distinct methods of resistance, paths to independence, and brands of faith in the face of a constant battering —sexual, spiritual, and otherwise— from an entrenched and unremitting patriarchy. A society which compromises just as it fetes its men, too, as seen from their brothers’ eventually waning perspectives. But more than survival in the face of adversity or faith in the face of injustice, more even than the pull to remain in a country unforgivingly and yet irrefutably home, BLACK SUNDAY is a book concerned with examining, as you’ll see, the very nature of storytelling itself.

Tola Rotimi Abraham is a fiction and nonfiction writer from Lagos, Nigeria. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, she has taught writing at the University of Iowa and the International Writing Program. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in Catapult, The Des Moines Register, The Nigerian Literary Magazine and other places. She is 33 years old and a Nigerian citizen in the US on a student visa.

THROWBACK de Peter Lerangis

Peter Lerangis, the New York Times bestselling author whose more than 160 books have sold over 5.5 million copies, returns with THROWBACK, the first book in an electrifying action-adventure trilogy about a boy who discovers that he alone may be able to alter the course of history

THROWBACK
(The Throwback Trilogy #1)
by Peter Lerangis
Harper Teen, Fall 2019

Think of me. And time will fly.
Those are the words that 13-year-old Corey Fletcher’s beloved grandfather, his Papou, left on his bedside before he disappeared a year ago.
Corey misses him desperately and refuses to give up hope that he’ll see his grandfather again. But as time passes it seems less and less likely, until the day Corey happens upon a vintage picture of the very block where he lives from 1862, and suddenly Corey finds himself transported back to that very place in time. The very place in time where Papou had been trapped. Without meaning to, Corey saves a life, changing the past in a way no time traveler ever has been able to before. When they return to the present, Papou explains that Corey may be the first known “throwback.” Plenty of people can time travel, but until now, no one had ever been able to alter the past. Suddenly, everyone is looking for Corey—to kidnap him, to use his powers for their gain— even to kill him. Papou warns Corey that, tempting as it may seem, using his powers is incredibly dangerous. But to Corey, the chance to right certain wrongs is too tempting, and so he goes back to the day his grandmother died, determined to save her. But when things go awry, Corey winds up all the way back in New York City in 1917. Lost and alone, Corey has to use his wits to find a way to make it back to the present alive without changing the past and, perhaps, forever altering his future.

Peter Lerangis is the author of more than 160 books, which have sold more than 5.5 million copies. These include the New York Times bestselling SEVEN WONDERS series, THE COLOSSUS RISES; LOST IN BABYLON; THE TOMB OF SHADOWS; THE CURSE OF THE KING; and THE LEGEND OF THE RIFT, and two books in the 39 CLUES series. Peter is a Harvard graduate with a degree in biochemistry. He has run a marathon and gone rock climbing during an earthquake-though not on the same day. He lives in New York City with his wife, musician Tina deVaron, and their two sons, Nick and Joe.