Power and Resistance
Power and Resistance
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When systems break, ordinary people push back
Stories of people confronting institutions that demand silence, obedience, or forgetting—from colonial rule and struggles for independence to the threats facing democracy today. Choose a book below for its full description and available editions.
Historias de personas que enfrentan instituciones que exigen silencio, obediencia u olvido: desde el dominio colonial y las luchas por la independencia hasta las amenazas que enfrenta la democracia hoy. Elige un libro para ver su descripción completa y las ediciones disponibles.
A writer’s proposal for rebuilding democratic institutions after they have been damaged. Drawing on history, research, and scenes from his fiction, Gómez asks what repair would require, and what should be built anew.
On the Caribbean island of Puerto Libertad, constitutional scholar Sofía Domínguez watches a populist leader take power despite losing the popular vote. A novel about how democracy can drown slowly, one policy at a time.
In 1979 Daniel Ortega promised Nicaragua democracy and justice; forty-six years later his palace is the center of a regime that rules through fear. The story is told through the eyes of an American teacher who watched the transformation firsthand.
In a small Colombian town, the families of eleven young men killed by the army build a restaurant alongside the soldiers who helped murder their sons. A novel set against the real false positives case and the real Casa O11ce.
March 2035. An earthquake opens a sinkhole in the heart of Port Townsend, and marine biologist Isabel Reyes is left responsible for six orphaned children in a refugee camp. Climate fiction set close to home.
For twenty years Nora Halvorsen complained about the paper mill. Then it closed, and Port Townsend started getting everything it asked for. A novel in progress, looking for early readers.
(with Mauricio Beltrán) In 1793 Antonio Nariño printed the forbidden Declaration of the Rights of Man in Santafé de Bogotá, an act that cost him his fortune, his freedom and thirty years of his life. A novel about the man who helped set a continent ablaze.
From a Quito convent to Bolívar’s side, Manuela Sáenz gave up fortune and reputation for a man and a cause, and in 1828 stood between the Liberator and his assassins. A novel that puts her back at the center of her own story.
(with Guillermo Padilla) Of Pijao roots, José María Melo rose from the battlefields of independence to the presidency of Colombia, then fell into exile in Central America and Mexico. A novel that rescues a vilified figure from oblivion.
Bogotá, 1964. Twin brothers are born seven minutes and a world apart: one spends his life inside the institutions of the state, the other moves toward the M-19. A family saga that is also the story of Colombia, and a novel that argues reconciliation is possible.
On May 1, 1748, Richard Caddow walked into Luxulyan church in Cornwall and entered the record for the first time. Five generations follow, from Cornish clay and tin mines to the iron ranges of Minnesota, and what each one loses in becoming American.
Political Satire: MAGA Celebrations
Political Satire: MAGA Celebrations
What do you tell a five-year-old who wakes up to an empty Christmas tree? Blame the immigrants, obviously.
Charlie wants a LEGO Millennium Falcon. His family offers a holiday celebration of tariffs and political excuses instead.
It's Easter at the White House.
Five-year-old Charlie has a ticket to the South Lawn, where an egg hunt becomes a lesson in the politics of spectacle.
A man in a hospital bed. A figure in robes above him, light from both hands — the gold kind, not the flashlight kind. An American flag. Fighter jets where the angels usually go. The figure's face is the President's face.
King Charles III is coming to Washington.
The king does not look the way Charlie expected. He thought there would be a robe, maybe a scepter, some kind of hat. Instead the king wears a dark suit with medals down one side and smiles at things the way adults smile at things they are not surprised by.
During the visit, the President posts a photograph. The caption reads: TWO KINGS.
Charlie doesn't understand insider trading. He doesn't understand what proportional means when Trump settles with himself for 1.776 billion. He wants his own settlement and a $5 weekly allowance.
But he has his crayons. And he's getting better at asking the one question nobody in the room wants to answer.
Contemporary Literary Historical Fiction
Contemporary Literary Historical Fiction
Standalone novels that resist easy categorization — rooted in specific histories and geographies, yet concerned with questions that cut across time and place: who owns knowledge, what survives migration, how technology reshapes what it means to belong. Fiction for readers who want both a compelling story and something to think about afterward.
Six interlocking stories across four decades and five continents follow masters of rare disciplines, from an art conservator to a cartographer and a chef. What do we owe the knowledge that shaped us, and what happens when sharing it means risking it?
From a domestic worker who touches a telephone in 1878 to her great-great-granddaughter switching off her smartphone in 2025, six generations of three families live through every major technological revolution of the last 150 years.
A night janitor in Seattle, a gay Colombian engineer in Silicon Valley, a DACA recipient raised in the United States since age three: interlocking stories of migration and what it costs to belong.
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