La señorita Hadeline

Time is running out. While thousands of teens languish in the camps, Ruby and a group that survived the latest round of attacks gather in the North to plan a rescue mission. They only have one weapon and it's a double-edge sword: proof that the government was behind the plague that killed so many kids. Tensions build when rumors of a possible cure start circulating. Ruby knows the future of her entire generation hangs by a thread and it will only take one false move to make the string break.

"Cuervo es negro. Negro como el carbón. Tan negro que da miedo. Pero, ahora, Cuervo tiene planes."--Publisher's description.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain. He found such a structure in the creation of a dialogue between normally incompatible texts — between old and new, national and foreign, high culture and low. From the confrontation of these incongruous texts a narrative is born which, through the destruction of textual hierarchies, creates an ambiguous and often duplicitous texture of storytelling. Five paradigms, based upon five Novelas Contemporaneas, are used to exemplify the dialogical structure of the new...

Cuando Francisco Bramón publica la novela pastoril Los Sirgueros de la Virgen sin original pecado (México, 1620) ya la Nueva España contaba con otro precedente ilustre en el género: Siglo de Oro en las selvas de Erífile (1608) de Bernardo de Balbuena. Ahora bien, la intencionalidad de una y otra obra es muy diferente, ya que no sería desacertado si dijéramos que la novela de Bramón es la única novela pastoril divinizada de las letras novohispanas; al menos no se conoce ninguna otra hasta la fecha. En el caso de Bramón los pastores que recorren los "jardines mexicanos" son devotos...