Knowledge and Discovery
Knowledge and Discovery
Embedded Files
Hidden manuscripts, forbidden maps, and the people who saved them
Manuscripts, maps, testimony, and the people who risk their lives to preserve them. These stories follow knowledge across borders and centuries. Choose a book below for its full description and available editions.
Manuscritos, mapas, testimonios y personas que arriesgan la vida para preservarlos. Estas historias siguen el conocimiento a través de fronteras y siglos. Elige un libro para ver su descripción completa y las ediciones disponibles.
Granada, 1492. Four unlikely conspirators steal Columbus’s navigational secrets and sail west, carrying eight centuries of Andalusian learning to whatever lies beyond the Atlantic. An alternate history that asks what 1492 could have meant, and what it still might.
A chest found in an Alaska cabin holds the complete file of a 1918 federal case: depositions, affidavits, a coerced retraction and a dismissal that apologized for nothing. A novel built entirely from those documents, about five women who testified under oath and why their words still matter.
July 1822. María Suárez inherits an atlas that shows not what will happen but what could, and follows it, disguised as a clerk, to the secret meeting of Bolívar and San Martín. A novel about the futures a continent chose, and the ones it did not.
A historian in Seville finds what may be Bartolomé de las Casas’s own manuscript, organized as sworn testimony gathered across five decades of conquest. Taíno, Maya, Aztec and Spanish witnesses speak about the priest who fought the conquest from inside it.
Granada, 1595. A young Morisco translator recognizes the lead tablets of Sacromonte as her grandfather’s work, texts meant to be read in Arabic and Latin at once, by two voices. A novel about the knowledge that can only exist between people.
Spain, 1490. A Jewish merchant signs his family’s conversion papers and begins three ledgers: one for officials, one for allies, and one for truths that must never be found. Centuries later in Bogotá, a woman tracing her Spanish citizenship finds a silver ring that leads back to them.
What does a glacier think about climate change? Twenty-six illustrated micro-tales give voice to the secret lives, petty grievances and existential musings of Earth’s inhabitants, from the microscopic to the cosmic.
In 1776, cartographer Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco joins an expedition across the American Southwest. His map will guide generations, but one river on it does not exist. A novel about the distance between what we see and what we need to believe.
The Translators of Toledo Trilogy
The Translators of Toledo Trilogy
Toledo, 1080–1108. Three families, a Jewish astronomer, a Muslim navigator and a Mozarab Christian scholar, forge a secret covenant to preserve the knowledge of ages as the Christian reconquest reshapes Spain. Each volume closes with a historical essay that bridges the fiction and the research.
Book 1
Book 1
Toledo, 1080. As Christian armies close in, a Jewish astronomer, a Muslim navigator and a Mozarab scholar form a secret covenant to save the manuscripts that the powers around them would destroy.
Toledo, 1086. A new archbishop arrives to purge “infidel learning,” and the covenant hides its work inside the city’s famous School of Translators, encoding medicine in embroidery and philosophy in plain sight.
Book 3
Book 3
Toledo, 1101. As Alfonso VI dies and the fragile peace cracks, Abraham Cohen races to finish his Testament, and a betrayal from within scatters the covenant across three continents.
The Century OF Silence Trilogy
The Century OF Silence Trilogy
Spain, 1415–1492. Three novels, three communities and three forms of knowledge that someone decided were worth destroying: what happened after the golden age of the Translators of Toledo.
Seville and Córdoba, 1415–1420. A Jewish physician whose practice depends on patients of all three faiths is called to testify against a converso family, and must decide what his knowledge is for.
Majorca, 1450–1460. A young converso woman inherits her father’s chart workshop and the private cipher only she can read, which holds the navigation knowledge his workshop was built to keep.
Vol 3
Vol 3
Granada, 1480–1492. As the Castilian army closes in, an elderly imam must decide which of the manuscripts he has gathered for forty years to hide, which to send away and which to commit to memory.
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