"Zhenia is adrift in Los Angeles, pregnant with a baby her husband doesn't want, while her Russian grandmother and favorite person in the world is dying on the opposite coast. She's deeply disconnected from herself and her desires when she gets a strange call from Paul, a psychic medium who usually specializes in channeling dead pets, with a message from the other side. Zhenia's great-grandmother Irina, a Russian Revolutionary, has approached him...

"Jovita sonaba con usar pantalones! Odiaba las faldas grandes que la abuela le hacia usar. Queria escalar el arbol de mezquite mas alto de su rancho, montar a caballo y sentir el viento curvar su rostro en una sonrisa! Cuando su padre y sus hermanos se unieron a la Guerra Cristera para luchar por la libertad religiosa, Jovita quiso ir tambien. Prohibida, desafio las reglas de su padre "y las de la sociedad" y encontro una manera inteligente de convertirse...

"Challenges many long-held assumptions about wartime experience during the American Revolution and demonstrates that communities conventionally depicted as hostile opponents were, in fact, in frequent contact. This book shows how personal concerns often triumphed over political ideology.

"When C.L.R. James's play "Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History" opened in London featuring Paul Robeson in 1936, it marked the first time black actors starred on the British stage in a play written by a black playwright. But after this groundbreaking play ended its run, the script was lost for almost seventy years. Then a draft copy was found among James's archives, and now this extraordinary drama has been...