A Place in the Sun

In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.

HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW: The backdrop of Joseph Jay Deiss and Susanna Deiss' delightful historical novel Justa may be familiar to most readers: the city of Herculaneum, doomed to be buried under molten lava at the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79. Excavations are ongoing in a small fraction of what was once a sprawling, bustling city, and like similar works at Pompeii, those excavations have yielded tantalizing clues about the lives of the ordinary people who were trapped and killed there two thousand years ago. One such story involves a young woman named Justa whose mother was a freed...

"Nueve relatos y medio" es la antología de los mejores relatos comprendidos entre 2005 y 2018 de Antonio Ibarra, escritor madrileño especializado en narrativa de misterio y causas sociales. Criptografía, enigmas, máquinas fantásticas y residencias misteriosas se mezclan con la defensa del medio ambiente, la lactancia materna o el sentido de la vida.

Seis años atrás, Sara Hobart había ayudado a una pareja sin hijos a encontrar la felicidad. Ahora era ella la que necesitaba un pequeño milagro. El instinto le decía que Kyle Barclay era su hijo. Sólo había una cosa que se interponía en su camino: el padre del niño.Desde la muerte de su mujer, Nathan había intentado ser un buen padre para su hijo Kyle. Entonces apareció aquella atractiva desconocida. Legalmente, Sara no podía reclamar a su hijo, pero Nathan sabía que no podía apartarla del pequeño, que ya la adoraba. Por su parte, él estaba empezando a desear dejar de ser un...

In subtle, sensuous prose, the stories in Sara Majka's debut collection explore distance in all its forms: the emotional spaces that open up between family members, friends, and lovers; the gaps that emerge between who we were and who we are; the gulf between our private and public selves. At the center of the collection is a series of stories narrated by a young American woman in the wake of a divorce; wry and shy but never less than open to the world, she recalls the places and people she has been close to, the dreams she has pursued and those she has left unfulfilled. Interspersed with...