"When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success...

"Mike MuÃأoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it."--

"El gran Gatsby es un retarto de la Jazz Age que captura el espírtu de la generaciÃçn de Scott Fitzgerald y le concede un trono permanente en el Olimpo de la literature norteamericana. El millonario hecho a sí mismo., Jay Gatsby, personaliza una de las obsesiones del autor y de la sociedad de su país: la combinaciÃçn de dinero, ambiciÃçn y lujuria como promesa de nuevos comienzos. Una extraordinaria fábula--y como tal, no exenta...

"Centered around a family's weekend in their summer cottage on the Northeast cape, [this novel] explores four lives in crisis and reflects back at us what the American family is becoming"--

From the embers of the Second World War rose a family as ruthless as the forces that sought to destroy them. Guided by its indomitable matriarch, the Morfawitzes seek to build their own Olympus on the New York City skyline, in this engrossing tale from a winner of the Faulkner Society Award for Best Novel. After fleeing from Nazis in Germany-just as her parents fled from Cossacks in Russia-Hadassah Morfawitz arrives in New York to begin her own dynasty,...

"Carousel Court is a blistering and unforgettable vision of contemporary life. It has the ambition of our most serious literary work and the soul of a thriller, managing to be simultaneously sexy, scary, and powerfully moving. Most of all, it offers an unflinching portrait of modern marriage in a nation scarred by vanished jobs, abandoned homes, psychotropic cure-alls, infidelity via iPhone, and ruthless choices. No matter what kind of relationship...

"Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the "Chinese groove," a belief in the unspoken bonds between...

For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately misses...