South American Literature

Steve has always wanted to visit the Carinval in Rio to check out the amazingly hot Brazilian women. When he can't persuade any of his friends to join him, he travels solo, determined to get up to as much fun as possible. He bumps into Adriana, who offers to take him to a secret show that sounds too good to be true.

Mat's going to take Ben to Tijuana for an adult weekend to help his friend get over his recent breakup. What he doesn't know is that Ben is planning to ditch him and look for a Mexican T-girl with whom to have some fun! Ben wants nothing more than to hook up with a stunning Mexican shemale but doesn't want anyone to know his dirty little secret. He finally gets the chance and takes full advantage of it!

Lee is the captain of a soccer team that is invited to a tournament in Brazil. His teammates think this is the perfect opportunity to hook up with hot Brazilian women, but Lee ends up going home with a shemale! After his first encounter with cute, submissive Juliana, Lee then meets Maria, a dominant shemale top. Will he be up for letting her take charge?

Tanner Ellis left American Heavy Metal in her rearview mirror. She didn’t see the beauty behind the grease stains and the polished chrome until it was too late. Now she’s back, determined to save her father’s legacy - and bring the South’s premier classic-car shop into the new century. Nothing is going to stop her - especially not the sexy tech who refuses to follow her lead. American Heavy Metal is the only home Duke Wilson’s ever known, and no high-heeled, sharp-tongued princess is going to take it away.

MacKinlay Kantor, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master storyteller, shows us how the South could have won the Civil War, how two small shifts in history (as we know it) in the summer of 1863 could have turned the tide for the Confederacy. What would have happened: to the Union, to Abraham Lincoln, to the people of the North and South, to the world?

Mat nimmt Ben zu einem Wochenende für Erwachsene nach Tijuana mit, um seinem Freund über seine kürzliche Trennung hinwegzuhelfen. Was er nicht weiß, ist, dass Ben vorhat, ihn zu verlassen und sich ein mexikanisches T-Girl zu suchen, um sich mit ihm zu vergnügen!

Steve wollte schon immer den Carinval in Rio besuchen, um sich die unglaublich heißen brasilianischen Frauen anzusehen. Als er keinen seiner Freunde überreden kann, ihn zu begleiten, reist er allein, fest entschlossen, sich so viel Spaß wie möglich zu verschaffen. Er trifft Adriana, die ihm anbietet, ihn zu einer geheimen Show mitzunehmen, die zu schön klingt, um wahr zu sein.

Ryan mete la pata en el trabajo y le envían a Brasil para arreglar su error. Está disgustado porque podría perderse acostarse con la nueva chica con la que ha estado flirteando. Sin embargo, su jefe le indica que en la playa de Copacabana hay un montón de chicas guapas que ver, y Ryan viaja a Brasil con la esperanza de poder hacer algo más que trabajar allí.

Ryan hat bei der Arbeit Mist gebaut und wird nach Brasilien geschickt, um seinen Fehler zu beheben. Er ist verärgert, dass er es verpassen könnte, mit dem neuen Mädchen zu schlafen, mit dem er geflirtet hat. Sein Chef weist ihn jedoch darauf hin, dass es am Copacabana Beach jede Menge heißer Mädels zu sehen gibt, und Ryan reist in der Hoffnung nach Brasilien, dass er dort mehr als nur arbeiten kann!

Edward Jennings travels from the Eastern battlefields of the Civil War to turbulent New Mexico Territory's Tularosa Basin in his quest for a fresh start! This land of sun-blasted desert is empty for a reason. Harsh nature, wild Indians, and desperate refugees are only a few of the obstacles in his way!

Decision time is quickly approaching. Marshall Ben Corrigan is nearing retirement from a long, rewarding career as a roving law officer in the Northeast New Mexico territory circa 1886. Moving into the unknown and uncertain realm of retirement has little appeal to him. His romantic interest, widow Rachel Langford, wants him to turn in his badge and settle down with her. Even though he finds it tempting, he still has misgivings which are not all related to leaving his profession.

Siddharth Arora lives an ordinary life in the New England suburb of South Haven, but his childhood comes to a grinding halt when his mother dies in a car accident. Siddharth soon gravitates toward a group of adolescent bullies, drinking and smoking instead of drawing and swimming. He takes great pains to care for his depressive father, Mohan Lal, an immigrant who finds solace in the hateful Hindu fundamentalism of his homeland and cheers on Indian fanatics who murder innocent Muslims.

Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah Mouton felt alienated from the stories she learned in class. She yearned for stories she felt connected to—true ones of course—but also fables and mythologies that could help explain both the world and her place in it. What she encountered was almost always written by white writers who prospered in a time when human beings were treated as chattel, such as the Greek and Roman myths, which felt as dusty and foreign as ancient ruins. When she sought myths written by Black authors, they were rooted too far in the past, a continent away.

In 1948, Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges they know will face them, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her. But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn't remember.

General Armistead Mason and John “Jack” Mason McCarty are brothers-in-law, second cousins, and descendants of founding father George Mason IV. Ambitious and headstrong, together they set out to find love, acceptance and honor on their own merit. Armistead - by nature a politician - demands respect and strives for perfection. Jack - by inclination a rover - looks to forge his own path. When Armistead is challenged by corruption in the political machine and is denied a seat in the US Congress, the two become embroiled in a bitter dispute....

A novel about the family of Peter Monclair, his family and his slaves, since any colonial plantation was, although Jefferson stated such could not exist, in reality a biracial community. Moonroy, founded by Peter's father, a French Huguenot and one-time pirate, was not one of the grand river plantations of South Carolina, but it was a prosperous one. Peter was an early signer under Gadsden's Liberty Tree and, like many of his friends, came to realize that reason and law would not change England's policies.

In cosmopolitan Johannesburg, three high-flying couples form the core of the elite Khula Society: part investment group, part social club, with meetings where the champagne flows, the dresses are designer and the one-upmanship is off the scale. Noma, Moshidi, Lerato and their husbands are living the dream—or so it appears from the outside. In reality, the cut and thrust of ‘keeping up with the Khulas’ is taking its toll on all three couples.

As a helicopter medic, Daniel Bliant saves other people’s lives. He’s cool under pressure, a calm presence for trauma victims on the worst day of their lives. So why can’t he heal himself? When he answers an emergency call at Phil’s Bar, he can’t believe who the bartender is: the beautiful woman he saw in his ER months ago and hasn’t been able to stop thinking about. But even though Annika is intelligent, lively, and gorgeous, he knows he should forget her.

Before being torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicago’s South Side were ridden with deprivation and crime. But for some, like Tracy, the shy, intelligent young boy at the center of this enthralling collection of linked stories, they are simply home. Set in the mid-1980s and taking listeners up to the point of the destruction of the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects, this collection gives an intimate look at the hopes, dreams, failures, and fortunes of a group of people growing up with the deck always stacked against them.

Working with Seoul’s premiere matchmaker, Jisu’s traditional South Korean parents are determined to ensure her success in life and love by matching her with the right boyfriend. After one too many slip-ups at school, Jisu finds herself shipped off to San Francisco to focus on her academics and approved dates, leaving her little space to figure out her own dreams. As her newly realized passion for photography lights her on fire, Jisu wonders...does she even want to find "The One"?