Aztec Fiction

¡Hola, soy Mampato! Un niño con una suerte tremenda: puedo viajar al pasado o al futuro cuando yo lo desee. Y Ogú, mi gran amigo cavernícola, siempre me acompaña en mis aventuras. Esta vez los invitó al siglo XVI, al antiguo México, para encontrarnos con sus originales habitantes: los aztecas. Allí conoceremos su gran ciudad flotante—Tenochtitlán—y nos enteraremos del verdadero misterio de su calendario: ¿realmente se avecina el fin del mundo?

Six months ago, Cynthia Guerrera's lover and fellow archaeologist Rafael Santiago trekked into the Mexican jungle in search of one of the fabled Cities of Gold—and never emerged. Guilty over their parting, Cynthia won't rest until she knows what happened. When the discovery of a conquistador's journal corroborates Rafe's intended path, Cynthia is determined to finally leave the safety of the museum to rescue him, despite the conquistador's dire warnings, and her own traumatic past.

The Timekeepers are a secret organisation of kids who keep the course of history on track – and history needs them – a villain called DeLay is causing chaos! When the hands on their watches start to spin backwards, the Timekeepers know that DeLay has been up to no good, and it’s up to them to put things right…

This story follows a young Spanish Jew, Maximo ha-Levi Constanego, in the land of Mesoamerica. He left his homeland of Spain as the Islamic caliphate gasped its last collective breath of occupation. The Reconquista, the reconquering of Spain, was well underway. Even as newfound freedom blossomed for some, it was not so for the Jews. Maximo was spirited out of the country by his anxious mother, on a ship captained by his Catholic uncle, Rodrigo Constanego.

When My Brother Was an Aztec is a work of courage and invention - one that foregrounds the particularities of family dynamics and individual passion against the backdrop of Western mythologies and a deeply rooted cultural history. Natalie Diaz's arresting debut explores a brother's addiction and its devastating effects on a household, while offering a political critique of our nations and their pasts. It acknowledges absences and uncomfortable silences, as well as conjuring vivid voices and presences, from Antigone and Houdini to Huitzilopochtli and Jesus.

My name is Nalani. I am a seventeen-year-old werewolf girl. I was betrayed by my life-partner to be and my best friend. I never thought I was going to trust a male of any species again; until I met 'Logan' an attractive young Australian vampire under a witch binding spell. Our clan has Russians, British, Swedish, Dutch, French, and Native American werewolves. Sergei the 'Zelix' vampire coven's leader wants our forest to use it as a hide out. A brutal battle is coming.

Of Aztecs and Conquistadors is the definitive collection of Juan Pablo Jalisco's poetry. The selection featured in this audiobook will carry the listener on a journey not only through the vast beauty of the land that is Mexico, but also serves as a journey through the ages that have helped to shape this at times wild and rugged, but always romantic and awesomely beautiful country and its people.

In twenty minutes my eighteen-year-old twin sister Quetzali is going to be sacrificed to our bloodthirsty Gods that need to be pleased. Quetzali and I are Aztec slaves that were chosen by a group of brujos (male witches) from Tenochtitlan. One of the reasons why we were chosen was because we were born with green eyes and because Aztecs have dark eyes it was interpreted as a bad omen.

The Aztec Empire did not recoil from the face of an impending doom, it struggled faithfully. Destined to emerge from humble beginnings, it grew into a highly complex devoted civilization refusing to live at the mercy of more neighboring powerful rulers. Its powerful pochteca combed the valley for luxury items while markets dotted their lands. Investigate the era of the Fifth Sun and what defined the Aztecs and their relationship with the divine.