Every country has its unique stories, and El Salvador is no different. A new book full of journeys and adventures, teleporting you to the past and the Salvadoran nights. For hundreds of years, parents have shared unique stories with their children, like Sir Francis Drake arriving with his Golden Hind and hiding a small treasure in Meanguera Island, and the mighty Mulus who scares the perpetrators of the graves at night. It's time that you could discover more about the unique Salvadoran folklore and transport yourself to a new land. Are you ready to travel in time and discover El Salvador? This volume includes: - Sir Francis Drake, The First Pirate of The Pacific - The Death of The Sorcerer of La Nahuaterique - The Mulus - The Almighty Tlaloc - The Mysterious Woman of The Toad River - Lake Ilopango - The Bewitched Wagon - The Dwarf - The Bandari Witch - The Weeping Woman - The Virgin of Izalco - The Headless Horseman - Tenancin, Cipitio's girlfriend - Prince Atonal - The Pirate Treasures of Meanguera Island - The Black Horse - Tangaloa "The Guardian of The Sea" - The Cocoa - Lake Coatepeque Snake - The Woman of The Chinchontepec - The Amate Flower - Titilcíhuat "The Fire Woman" - The Arbolarios - Devil's Pool and its twin - The Frogfish - The Eruption of The San Salvador Volcano - The Giantess of Jocoro - The Bewitched Rock - The Old Church of San Dionisio - The Cukinca Cave - Cuicuizcatl and The Chinchontepec Underworlds

Every country has its unique stories, and El Salvador is no different. A new book full of journeys and adventures, teleporting you to the past and the Salvadoran nights. For hundreds of years, parents have shared unique stories with their children, like Sir Francis Drake arriving with his Golden Hind and hiding a small treasure in Meanguera Island, and the mighty Mulus who scares the perpetrators of the graves at night. It's time that you could discover more about the unique Salvadoran folklore and transport yourself to a new land. Are you ready to travel in time and discover El Salvador? This volume includes: Sir Francis Drake, The First Pirate of The Pacific The Death of The Sorcerer of La Nahuaterique The Mulus The Almighty Tlaloc The Mysterious Woman of The Toad River Lake Ilopango The Bewitched Wagon The Dwarf The Bandari Witch The Weeping Woman The Virgin of Izalco The Headless Horseman Tenancin, "Cipitio's girlfriend" Prince Atonal The Pirate Treasures of Meanguera Island The Black Horse Tangaloa, "The Guardian of The Sea" The Cocoa Lake Coatepeque Snake The Woman of The Chinchontepec The Amate Flower Titilcíhuat, "The Fire Woman The Arbolarios Devil's Pool and its twin The Frogfish The Eruption of The San Salvador Volcano The Giantess of Jocoro The Bewitched Rock The Old Church of San Dionisio The Cukinca Cave Cuicuizcatl and The Chinchontepec Underworlds

Every country has its unique stories, and El Salvador is no different. For the first time, the magic of the Salvadoran nights is coming to you in English. For hundreds of years, parents have shared unique stories with their children, like the twins whom a Shaman transformed into the Cadejos because of their antics, or the vain and beautiful woman who scares bad men in the rivers at night, the Siguanaba. It's time that you could discover more about the unique Salvadoran folklore and transport yourself to a new land. Are you ready to travel in time and discover El Salvador? This volume includes: - The good and the bad Cadejo - The Siguanaba - Cipitio - The Headless Priest - The Black Knight - The Guirola Family - The Partideño - The Squeaky Wagon - The Owls - The Lady of the Rings - The Cuyancua - The Fair Judge of the Night - The Managuas - Chasca “The virgin of the water” - The Fleshless Woman - The Enchanted Ulupa Lagoon - Our Lady Saint Anne - The Midnight Yeller - The Lempa River - Devil’s Door - Comizahual “The white woman” - Izalco Volcano - The Moon’s Cave - The Amate Tree - The Pig Witch - The Tabudo - Mr. Money and Mrs. Fortune - Princess Naba and the Balsam Tree - The Tamales Woman of Cuzcachapa Lagoon - The Living Rock of Nahuizalco - Alegria Lagoon Siren

How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis. How is it that gangsta rap—so dystopian that it struck aspiring Brooklyn rapper and future superstar Jay-Z as “over the top”—was born in Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, surf, and sun? In the Reagan era, hip-hop was understood to be the music of the inner city and, with rare exception, of New York. Rap was considered the poetry of the street, and it was thought to breed in close quarters, the product of dilapidated tenements, crime-infested housing projects, and graffiti-covered subway cars. To many in the industry, LA was certainly not hard-edged and urban enough to generate authentic hip-hop; a new brand of black rebel music could never come from La-La Land. But it did. In To Live and Defy in LA, Felicia Viator tells the story of the young black men who built gangsta rap and changed LA and the world. She takes readers into South Central, Compton, Long Beach, and Watts two decades after the long hot summer of 1965. This was the world of crack cocaine, street gangs, and Daryl Gates, and it was the environment in which rappers such as Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, and Eazy-E came of age. By the end of the 1980s, these self-styled “ghetto reporters” had fought their way onto the nation’s radio and TV stations and thus into America’s consciousness, mocking law-and-order crusaders, exposing police brutality, outraging both feminists and traditionalists with their often retrograde treatment of sex and gender, and demanding that America confront an urban crisis too often ignored.

"Terror is the given of the place." The place is El Salvador in 1982, at the ghastly height of its civil war. Didion "brings the country to life" (The New York Times), delivering an anatomy of a particular brand of political terror—its mechanisms, rationales, and intimate relation to United States foreign policy. As ash travels from battlefields to body dumps, Didion interviews a puppet president, and considers the distinctly Salvadoran grammar of the verb "to disappear." Here, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean gives us a book that is germane to any country in which bloodshed has become a standard tool of politics.

The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside