A broken egg cannot go back in the shell. But with what is left inside, you can still build something better.

In 1864, with the war going badly and his own reelection in doubt, Abraham Lincoln answered the men who wanted him to stop the fighting and hand the country back exactly as it was. Broken eggs, he wrote, cannot be mended. A century and a half later, that hard image gives this book its shape.

Project 2029 is a novelist's response to the dismantling of American democracy. Ricardo Gómez, born in Canada, raised in Colombia, and settled in the Pacific Northwest, watches that process from a triple belonging and with an uncomfortable advantage: in Latin America, we have already seen this movie. Contempt for institutions, politics turned into spectacle, the opponent recast as an internal enemy, justice treated as persecution. The script is recognizable from one country to the next.

Against Project 2025, the demolition plan the Heritage Foundation wrote out loud, I propose thinking about a Project 2029: an agenda of reconstruction rather than a list of progressive wishes, as serious, as structurally ambitious, and as patient as the plan it means to undo. Rebuild, do not restore.

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The Slow Drowning of Democracy 

When democracy dies, it doesn't always fall with a crash. Sometimes it drowns — slowly, quietly, one policy at a time. On the Caribbean island nation of Puerto Libertad, constitutional scholar Sofía Domínguez watches in disbelief as a populist leader rises to power despite losing the popular vote. 

What begins as political theater soon becomes something far darker: mass deportations, detention centers, journalists silenced, universities purged, citizens reclassified as "non-persons." As Sofía's own brother disappears into the regime's machinery, she must choose between the safety of academic neutrality and joining a dangerous resistance network of doctors, journalists, priests, and military officers who refuse to let democracy die without a fight. Written by a scholar of migration and society, this political thriller includes an analytical epilogue examining democratic backsliding in contemporary societies.

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MEDIA: Listen to Booklovers' Café on KPTZ — Ricardo discusses The Tides of Freedom https://kptz.org/podcasts/booklovers-cafe/

In 1979, Daniel Ortega stood on a balcony in Managua promising democracy and justice to a nation finally free from dictatorship. Forty-six years later, that same palace is the center of a regime that eliminates opponents, silences critics, and rules through fear — all in the name of protecting the revolution. 

Told through the eyes of an American teacher who witnessed Nicaragua's transformation firsthand, this gripping historical novel traces Ortega's journey from idealistic guerrilla fighter to authoritarian ruler: the literacy campaigns and land reform that gave way to surveillance networks; the sixteen years in opposition learning to make deals with former enemies; the constitutional manipulation and family dynasty; and the systematic elimination of anyone who still remembers what the revolution was supposed to achieve. 

A devastating portrait of how liberators become oppressors — and how quickly the language of liberation becomes the vocabulary of repression.

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English: mybook.to/ComandanteShadow
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Post-Conflict in Colombia

 A novel about post-conflict Colombia. Set against the actual false positives case and the real construction of Casa O11ce.

In a small Colombian town, families of eleven young men killed by the army build a restaurant alongside the soldiers who helped murder their sons. Those Who Stayed follows three narrators through the construction of Casa O11ce — a real project of radical coexistence — as Colombia's transitional justice system delivers its first sentences and the question of what comes after violence finds no clean answer. 

Colombia’s transitional justice framework — the most serious attempt this country has made to face its own violence — brought their families and the soldiers who killed them to the same construction site. It offered sentences, accountability, and a project called Casa O11ce. The novel asks what the framework can reach and what remains beyond it: what Carmelo still carries after the JEP has spoken, what Noraldo gives the process that the process cannot give back, what it means to build something on ground where something was destroyed.

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Climate Fiction set in Port Townsend, WA

March 2035. A magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggers a catastrophic sinkhole that consumes the heart of Port Townsend, Washington in seconds. Marine biologist Isabel Reyes throws six children across a widening crack before it becomes a chasm. They survive. The Marine Science Center, and everyone inside, does not. Now Isabel is responsible for six orphaned children in a refugee camp with no running water, no medical supplies, and no government response. 

What emerges in the Chimacum Valley is an experiment in democratic survival — and an unflinching accounting of what it costs. Sociocracy circles for decision-making under catastrophe. Consensus processes that function but require people to break. A radio network broadcasting to forty communities that shrinks to fifteen as the peninsula collapses. Over one brutal year: forty people die from preventable causes. And then, an armed community called Tolama arrives and takes control anyway.

The Sinkhole isn't about preventing climate collapse. It's about what democratic organizing actually costs under catastrophic conditions — and what happens when someone with superior force decides your success makes you worth taking. 

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(with Mauricio Beltrán) 

In 1793, in the candlelit back room of his printing press, Antonio Nariño set into type a document forbidden across the Spanish empire: the Declaration of the Rights of Man. That single act would cost him his fortune, his freedom, and thirty years of his life, and help set a continent ablaze.

From colonial Santafé de Bogotá to a prison cell in Cádiz, from the presidency of Cundinamarca to a defiant cry on a Pasto balcony, Echoes of Liberty follows Colombia's independence precursor to his final breath, and gives voice to those who fought beside him: a devoted wife, a mestizo musician, a freed slave, and a Muisca woman who asks what freedom means for those history forgets.

A novel about the price of an idea, and the question every revolution leaves behind: was it worth it?

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Quito, 1795 or 1797: a girl marked by the scandal of her birth is locked in a convent. But behind stone walls, among forbidden books and dreams of freedom, a revolutionary is born. Lima, 1822: a woman married to a respectable Englishman abandons everything (fortune, reputation, security) for a man and a cause: Simón Bolívar and the independence of the Americas. 

Bogotá, 1828: when conspirators come to kill the Liberator in the dead of night, only she stands in their way. With her body. With her voice. With her defiance. Narrated through unexpected voices (the streets of Quito that watched her grow, the letters that guarded her secrets, the window through which Bolívar escaped), this novel restores to Manuelita the place that was stolen from her: the center of her own story. 

Not the story of a woman who loved a hero. The story of a heroine history tried to erase. 

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Spanish: mybook.to/ManuelitaSaenz
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(with Guillermo Padilla)

A controversial and complex figure that dominant Colombian historical narrative has vilified, whitewashed, and marginalized — this novel rescues him from oblivion. Of Pijao indigenous roots, Melo rose from the battlefields of independence to the presidency of Colombia, then fell into exile in Central America and Mexico. 

This historical novel explores what official accounts omit: how his indigenous roots shaped his worldview, his internal conflict when he seized power by force, and his unbreakable commitment to the poor, the artisans, and the indigenous communities. Not a biography — a historical re-creation that illuminates the ideas and contributions of a contradictory and fascinating leader, offering a new perspective on a crucial period in the formation of Colombian and Latin American identity. 

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A family saga that is also the story of Colombia itself — and a novel that dares to argue that reconciliation is possible.

En 1964 nacen Carlos y Nicolás Mendoza, hermanos mellizos en una familia bogotana de clase media. Siete minutos los separan al nacer — décadas de diferencias ideológicas los alejarán hasta convertirlos en extraños. 

Carlos se convierte en exitoso empresario del mundo del polo y los seguros, navegando las élites bogotanas con pragmatismo. Nicolás abraza la causa guerrillera del M-19, evoluciona hacia la política democrática, y termina conquistando la presidencia de Colombia después de décadas de lucha por la justicia social.

 A través de seis décadas de historia colombiana — desde la violencia de los años 70 hasta el proceso de paz del siglo XXI — los hermanos se protegen mutuamente en secreto, construyen familias en mundos opuestos, y aprenden que el amor fraternal puede sobrevivir cualquier diferencia ideológica. 

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On May 1, 1748, Richard Caddow walked the last fifty yards to Luxulyan church in Cornwall knowing that when he left, he would exist. Until that morning, no Caddow appeared in any record. 

The Cousin Jacks traces what that act of becoming legible cost the family across five generations: through the clay lands and granite moors of Cornwall, underground into lead and tin mines, across the Atlantic to the iron ranges of Minnesota, and finally back to Cornwall in 1922, when Hart Caddow paid five pounds for a silver teapot made in 1747, one year before the family began. 

At its heart is what each generation inherits without choosing it, and what quietly disappears in the process of becoming American. 

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MAGA Christmas Carol

What do you tell a five-year-old who wakes up to an empty Christmas tree? Blame the immigrants, obviously.

Little Charlie Peterson just wanted a LEGO Millennium Falcon. Instead, he got a front-row seat to his family's holiday celebration of tariffs, boat sinkings, and the glorious renaming of the Washington Monument. Charlie watches the adults in his life deliver tearful testimonials to their favorite president and explain why the Supreme Court ruling that presidents can't be prosecuted is actually good news for everyone.

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MAGA Easter Egg Hunt

It's Easter at the White House.

Charlie Peterson — five years old, dinosaur pajamas, still waiting for his LEGO — has a ticket to the South Lawn. Uncle Rick got it from a man on Facebook. There will be eggs. There will be a speech about Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and the universities that are learning different now. There will be a six-foot Easter Bunny with painted blue eyes aimed at the balcony.

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MAGA
Jesus

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.

Charlie Peterson is six years old. He goes to church every Sunday. He knows what this is a picture of, and he knows what it isn't.

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MAGA State Visit

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.

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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.

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Stories of Knowledge and Belonging

What do we owe the knowledge that shaped us? And what happens when sharing it means risking its destruction? 

In six interlocking stories spanning four decades and five continents, Common Ground follows masters of rare disciplines — an art conservator who sees hidden layers in colonial paintings, a cartographer learning to map what instruments cannot measure, a chef carrying three traditions of fire in his scarred hands — as they confront the impossible ethics of knowledge that survives only by staying hidden. 

A documentary filmmaker deletes eleven minutes of sacred footage while a tribal council watches. A meteorologist discovers the atmosphere preserves chemical signatures of mass graves. 

Moving from a Danish smokehouse to Hong Kong street kitchens, from Bogotá's violence to Alaska's traditional healing rooms, from the stone gardens of Kyoto to the salmon rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

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A Century of Information and Communication Technologies 

In 1878, a domestic worker in New York touched a telephone for the first time and felt the world fold. In 2025, her great-great-granddaughter decided to turn off her smartphone and walk home the long way.

Between those two moments: six generations of three families navigating every major technological revolution of the last 150 years. The Johnsons in the United States, shaped by each new wave of communication technology from the switchboard to social media. The Garcías in Colombia, where a single radio broadcast during La Violencia saves one family and condemns another. The Diops in Senegal, where a colonial telegraph office becomes the unlikely seedbed of an independence movement — and where, decades later, a content moderator in Dakar decides what Americans are allowed to see.

A novel that tracks not just how technology changes, but how it changes us: who gets to speak, who gets heard, and what happens when the tools we built to connect us become the tools that sort us.

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English: https://mybook.to/EchoesOfConnection 

Spanish: https://mybook.to/EcosConexion  

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Stories of Migration

Luis cleans office buildings in downtown Seattle from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. He knows the contents of every executive’s trash can and the names of no one in the building. José, a gay Colombian engineer, writes code in Silicon Valley by day and erases himself by night. Gabriela, raised in the United States since age three, carries a DACA card that makes her legal enough to work but not enough to breathe. Javier dies in ICE detention and the paperwork lists the cause as “complications.”

Fifteen characters. Fifteen ways of being invisible in plain sight.

Drawn from a decade of interviews with actual migrants, Voices in Motion brings the immigration experience to life through the people who live it rather than through statistics or policy arguments: the night janitor who finds community through organizing, the trafficking survivor rebuilding trust one conversation at a time, the professional who discovers that success in America doesn't cure the ache of displacement. 

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English: https://mybook.to/VoicesInMotion

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