Racing With The Rain    by Ken Puddicombe
Price: $3.99 USD. 130160 words. Language: English. Published on May 12, 2013. Fiction » Literary collections » Caribbean & Latin American.
Can one outrun the rain? Guyanese born Carl Dias receives news of his father augusto dying in Guyana. Back in Guiana, Carl belonged to the leftwing ruling party. His father, a businessman was in the Conservative party. Returning will reignite memories of the collapse of the political and social fabric of the colony, stoked by the Kennedy administration pressuring the Brits to oust the government.

The Woman with the Diamond Heart    by Judy Powell
Price: $2.99 USD. 48950 words. Language: English. Published on March 13, 2013. Fiction » Literary collections » Caribbean & Latin American.
Discover the side of Jamaica you've never seen before... The son of a white plantation owner befriends a slave girl, an ex-slave struggles with the challenges of emancipation, a poor girl from the country has to fight off the sexual advances of her employer, ... This is the fascinating story of the woman with the diamond heart - Jamaica, land of love.

De las celebraciones, poemario por José Luis Colín    by Neoclassic ePress
Price: $9.99 USD. 10000 words. Language: Spanish. Published on March 1, 2013. Fiction » Poetry » Latin American Poetry.
Poemas celebrando la amistad y los desencuentros por el poeta mexicano José Luis Colín. Prólogo de Carlos Montemayor. Textos dedicados a Juan Cervera, Jesús Luis Benítez, Xorge del Campo, Joaquín Gutiérrez Niño y otros personajes latinoamericanos de las letras.

Borges - Ficciones in 1,000 Words    by Alex Zbooker
Price: $0.99 USD. 1990 words. Language: English. Published on February 8, 2013. Fiction » Drama » American.
You’ve just made the first step to finding the perfect read for your weekend, vacation or coffee breaks. “Ficciones” in 1,000 words is exactly what it suggests – a 1,000-word summary of “Ficciones”. This download will give you a first-person view into the story of this e-book.

Holidays    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3440 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on November 10, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Caribbean & Latin American.
Young José Martins, let out of class early one day, heads home with his uncle and his older sister. On the way, he and his sister try to guess the reason--a party? a birthday? an election victory?--for their unexpected dismissal from class.

A School Story    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3920 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on November 10, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Caribbean & Latin American.
Chekhov noted that if, early in a story, mention was made of a rifle hanging on the wall, it would eventually have to go off. Hanging on the window frame of the schoolhouse in Machado de Assis's "A School Story" is not a rifle, but a paddle, complete with five holes drilled in it.

Trio in A Minor    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3310 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on November 5, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Caribbean & Latin American.
In "Trio in A Minor," Machado's classic tale of a love triangle in Brazilian high society, the intrigue plays out to the tune of the old sonata of the absolute.

Three yet One    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 4670 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on November 3, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Caribbean & Latin American.
"Her gaze was not absent, as it had been shortly before; instead, it was fixed on the flowers on the wallpaper that lined the room. She noticed, for the first time, that the flowers were daisies. And she shifted her gaze from one to the next, to see if the pattern was the same, and she found that it was. Is that not delightful? Daisies painted on paper."

A Game    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 6450 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on November 1, 2012. Fiction » Literary collections » Caribbean & Latin American.
"'Now, you’ve played cards with so many people, but only once, a long time ago, have you played with me, écarté. Isn’t écarté the name of that game you taught me? Let’s play a game.' Xavier started laughing."

Midnight Mass    by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Price: $0.99 USD. 3430 words. Language: English. Published by Fario  on October 19, 2012. Fiction » Classics.
It's Christmas Eve, 1861 or 1862. Seventeen-year-old Nogueira, a native of the provinces living in Rio de Janeiro for his studies, has arranged with a neighbor to go to midnight mass. Into the parlor where he is waiting up alone walks Dona Conceição, the thirty-year-old wife of the man in whose house he is lodging. "Midnight Mass," perhaps Machado's most beloved tale, is a Brazilian classic.