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From the lauded author of The Queen of the Cicadas (which picked up
starred reviews from PW, Kirkus and Booklist who called her "a
dynamic and innovative voice") comes a short story collection of
nightmares, dreams, desire and visions focused on the Chicana
experience. V.Castro weaves urban legend, folklore, life experience
and heartache in this personal journey beginning in south Texas: a
bar where a devil dances the night away; a street fight in a
neighborhood that may not have been a fight after all; a vengeful
chola at the beginning of the apocalypse; mind swapping in the not
so far future; satan who falls and finds herself in a brothel in
Amsterdam; the keys to Mictlan given to a woman after she dies
during a pandemic. The collection finishes with two longer tales:
The Final Porn Star is a twist on the final girl trope and slasher,
with a creature from Mexican folklore; and Truck Stop is an erotic
horror romance with two hearts: a video store and a truck stop.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame
Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the
horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime /
mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic
new authors and the more established; the award winners, and
exciting, original voices.
The story of a woman haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona
as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this
ravishing and provocative horror novel from the author of Alien:
Vasquez. Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she
is a wife, and to her children, a mother. But they cannot see who
Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that
threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra sees. In
times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition
of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. When Alejandra visits a
therapist, she begins exploring her family's history, starting with
the biological mother she only recently rediscovered. As she goes
deeper into the lives of the women in her family, she learns that
heartbreak and tragedy are not the only things she has in common
with her ancestors. Because the crying woman was with them, too.
She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican
legend. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her
grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the
darkness. But Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. She has
inherited the strength and the courage of her foremothers-and she
will have to summon everything they have given her to banish La
Llorona forever.
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"Look, man. I only need to know one thing: where they are." PFC
Jenette Vasquez on LV-426 Even before the doomed mission to
Hadley's Hope, Jenette Vasquez had to fight to survive. Born to an
immigrant family with a long military tradition she looked up to
the stars, but life pulled her back down to Earth—first into a
street gang, then prison. The Colonial Marines proved to be
Vasquez's way out—a way that forced her to give up her twin
children. Raised by Jenette's sister Roseanna, those
children—Leticia and Ramón—have been forced to discover their
own ways to survive. Leticia by following her mother's path into
the military, Ramón by embracing the corporate hierarchy of
Weyland-Yutani. Their paths converge on an unnamed world, which
some see as a potential utopia, while others would use it for
highly secretive research. Regardless of what humans might have
planned for it, however, Xenomorphs will turn the planet into a
living hell. Sarcastic, sexy, and action-packed, Vasquez brings
generational heritage into the Alien universe in an explosive way.
Zack Snyder’s epic new science fiction blockbuster Rebel Moon
novelized by V. Castro, two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated
author. Experience Rebel Moon on the page in this pulse-pounding
novelization.
NOMINATED FOR A BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A
NOVEL 2018 - Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding
of her best friend Veronica. The farm is the site of the urban
legend, La Reina de Las Chicharras - The Queen of The Cicadas. In
1950s south Texas a farmworker- Milagros from San Luis Potosi,
Mexico, is murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not the
Aztec goddess of death, MictecacÃhuatl. The goddess hears the
dying cries of Milagros and creates a plan for both to be
physically reborn by feeding on vengeance and worship. Belinda and
the new owner of the farmhouse - Hector, find themselves immersed
in the legend and realize it is part of their fate as well. FLAME
TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing.
Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and
the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original
voices.
NOMINATED FOR A BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A
NOVEL 2018 - Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding
of her best friend Veronica. The farm is the site of the urban
legend, La Reina de Las Chicharras - The Queen of The Cicadas. In
1950s south Texas a farmworker- Milagros from San Luis Potosi,
Mexico, is murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not the
Aztec goddess of death, MictecacÃhuatl. The goddess hears the
dying cries of Milagros and creates a plan for both to be
physically reborn by feeding on vengeance and worship. Belinda and
the new owner of the farmhouse - Hector, find themselves immersed
in the legend and realize it is part of their fate as well. FLAME
TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing.
Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and
the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original
voices.
From the lauded author of The Queen of the Cicadas (which picked up
starred reviews from PW, Kirkus and Booklist who called her "a
dynamic and innovative voice") comes a short story collection of
nightmares, dreams, desire and visions focused on the Chicana
experience. V.Castro weaves urban legend, folklore, life experience
and heartache in this personal journey beginning in south Texas: a
bar where a devil dances the night away; a street fight in a
neighborhood that may not have been a fight after all; a vengeful
chola at the beginning of the apocalypse; mind swapping in the not
so far future; satan who falls and finds herself in a brothel in
Amsterdam; the keys to Mictlan given to a woman after she dies
during a pandemic. The collection finishes with two longer tales:
The Final Porn Star is a twist on the final girl trope and slasher,
with a creature from Mexican folklore; and Truck Stop is an erotic
horror romance with two hearts: a video store and a truck stop.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame
Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the
horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime /
mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic
new authors and the more established; the award winners, and
exciting, original voices.
A groundbreaking Latinx Aliens novel by a rising star Latina
author, featuring the fan-favorite character PFC Jenette Vasquez
from the hit movie Aliens and the family she is forced to leave
behind. "Look, man. I only need to know one thing: where they are."
PFC Jenette Vasquez on LV-426 Even before the doomed mission to
Hadley's Hope, Jenette Vasquez had to fight to survive. Born to an
immigrant family with a long military tradition she looked up to
the stars, but life pulled her back down to Earth-first into a
street gang, then prison. The Colonial Marines proved to be
Vasquez's way out-a way that forced her to give up her twin
children. Raised by Jenette's sister Roseanna, those
children-Leticia and Ramon-have been forced to discover their own
ways to survive. Leticia by following her mother's path into the
military, Ramon by embracing the corporate hierarchy of
Weyland-Yutani. Their paths converge on an unnamed world, which
some see as a potential utopia, while others would use it for
highly secretive research. Regardless of what humans might have
planned for it, however, Xenomorphs will turn the planet into a
living hell. Sarcastic, sexy, and action-packed, Vasquez brings
generational heritage into the Alien universe in an explosive way.
Detailed investigation of the Alpha Building of Puig Morter in Son
Ferragut on the island of Mallorca provided the opportunity to
study not only a domestic setting dating to between c.700 and 500
BC, but also to build a picture of different social activities and
gender relations during this period. This large volume presnts a
description of the building itself before looking at the activities
taking place within it, such as the slaughter, butchery and cooking
of meat, the preparation of other foodstuffs, storage and domestic
production of ceramics, cloth and personal items. Speculation is
then made of the presence of two differentiated social groups who
have practised shared and separate social practices, some of which
may be determined by gender. The conclusion indicates that this
remains work in progress. Spanish text; English summary.
El Calvari cemetery (El Molar, Priorat, Tarragona) has one of the
largest series of cremation burials in the Northeast of the Iberian
Peninsula. Both its ceramic urns and metal grave goods have been
used to suggest a new chronological and cultural framework for the
Urnfield culture in the Iberian Peninsula. The whole set of
funerary ceramics recorded at the cemetery and largely unpublished
since its excavation is presented in this book. These data together
with metal artefact associations are used for reviewing preexisting
cultural sequences and, furthermore, they serve as the basis for a
new interpretaion of social relationships among the communities of
the Ebro valley in the first half of the 1st millennium bc. Spanish
with English summary.
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