Chantel Acevedo est une maîtresse conteuse dont les œuvres plongent dans de vifs récits d'amour et de rédemption. Ses essais ont paru dans des publications de premier plan, et ses réalisations en prose ont été saluées pour leur nature captivante. Par son style littéraire, elle explore des émotions humaines complexes avec une habileté convaincante. Son écriture résonne auprès des lecteurs, laissant une impression durable.
A Cuban American girl embarks on an adventure as she learns she is one of the nine Muses from Greek mythology. This middle grade fantasy duology is filled with action and is designed for readers who enjoy stories like The Serpent's Secret and the Percy Jackson series. The narrative promises to blend cultural heritage with mythological elements, creating an engaging experience for young readers.
The finale of an action-packed middle grade fantasy duology about a young Cuban American girl who discovers that she's one of the nine muses of Greek mythology. Perfect for fans of The Serpent's Secret, the Aru Shah series, and the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Callie Martinez-Silva is finally getting the hang of this whole goddess within thing. Six months after learning she was one of the nine muses of ancient myth, she and the other junior muses are ready for new adventures. Except first Callie has to go to New York City for the summer to visit her dad, stepmom, and new baby brother. Then the muses get startling news: an unprecedented tenth muse has been awakened somewhere in Queens, putting Callie in the perfect position to help find her. And she'll have help--thanks to a runaway mold problem in London, Muse Headquarters is moving to the New York Hall of Science. But balancing missions and family-mandated arts camp proves difficult for Callie, especially once mysterious messages from spiders (yikes!) begin to weave a tale of ancient injustice involving Callie's campmate Ari. Now Callie and her friends have to make a choice: follow orders and find the tenth muse or trust that sometimes fate has other plans.
Epic adventure tale, family saga, historical account of armed struggle against opression, "The Distant Marvels" is also a tale of enduring love and a plea for forgiveness
A sweetly spooky ghost story about a Cuban American boy who befriends a pair of spirits and tries to break the curse on his island home . . . only to discover a seemingly lost piece of his family's history in the process. This new middle grade standalone mystery from the author of the Muse Squad series is perfect for fans of Doll Bones and The Girl and the Ghost! Frank Fernandez's family never stays in one place for long. His parents renovate unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family moves--a lot. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to make friends. So when his parents announce they're moving to Spectacle Key, Florida, to live in a lighthouse--this time for good!--Frank is thrilled. But Spectacle Key isn't the perfect forever home they'd imagined. The lighthouse is falling apart. There are knocks on the door--but no one is there--and mysterious sighs and sniffles from nowhere. There's even a creepy doll that seems to move on its own. Could Spectacle Key be haunted? Then one day while exploring, Frank meets a girl in old-fashioned clothes, with no memory of who she is. What she does know, though, is that the island is under a curse--and she needs Frank's help to figure out how to lift it. But what if learning the truth about Spectacle Key means losing the first real friend he's ever had?
Set in pre-Castro Cuba, the story follows Josefina Navarro, a young socialite whose idyllic life is disrupted by her love for Lorenzo, a poor man from El Cotorro. Disowned by her father, a police sergeant, she grapples with regret after he is presumed dead during a riot. Mysterious letters from him reveal truths about his past, becoming a haunting connection that intertwines love and loss. The narrative explores themes of familial bonds, societal expectations, and the complexities of love against a backdrop of political turmoil.
The Living Infinite is based on the true story of the Spanish princess Eulalia, an outspoken firebrand at the Bourbon court during the troubled and decadent final years of her family's reign. After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish court, her youth spent in exile, and a loveless marriage, Eulalia gladly departs Europe for the New World. In the company of Thomas Aragon, the son of her one-time wet nurse and a small-town bookseller with a thirst for adventure, she travels by ship first to a Cuba bubbling with revolutionary fervor then on to the 1893 Chicago World Fair. As far as others are concerned, she is there as an emissary of the Bourbon dynasty and a guest of the Fair. Secretly, she is in America to find a publisher for her scandalous, incendiary autobiography, a book that might well turn the old world order on its head. Acevedo's new novel is an atmospheric and gripping tale of love, adventure, power and the quest to take control of one's destiny. Bourbon Spain, Revolutionary Cuba, and fin de si cle America are vividly rendered and Eulalia's personal rebellion will resonate with many readers.
Die 2. Auflage enthält ergänzende Ausführungen u.a. zu Platons Gerechtigkeitsbegriff, zum Ursprung des Gedankens der Würde des Menschen in der Stoa und im Christentum, zur Diskussion um die lex naturalis bei Thomas von Aquin und neu die Darstellung der Lehren von Marsillius von Padua.§'Ernst- Wolfgang Böckenfördes meisterhafte Geschichte der Rechts- und Staatsphilosophie ist ein Resultat jahrelanger Vorlesungstätigkeit: eine in Form wie Inhalt 'klassische historisch-politische Ideengeschichte der grossen Systeme, in denen im Abendland bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters die normative Ordnung des menschlichen Zusammenlebens begründet und interpretiert wurde.'§Otto Kallscheuer Neue Zürcher Zeitung vom 19.8.2003
