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Death in the Maze
A drowned English nanny, a large house, and a maze that hides many secrets. A new challenge for Inspector Requesens. On 19th July 1909, the day after a reception held in the Horta Maze Park, the Desvall’s British nanny, Elsie Thornton, is found dead floating in the lavoir. Governor Ossorio orders Inspector Ignasi Requesens and his inseparable assistant Cristobal to handle the case. What appears to be no more than an unfortunate accident becomes more complex when the autopsy report reveals that Elsie was pregnant. No one knew she was in a relationship. What’s more the report also shows she had taken laudanum just before her death. In the turbulent Barcelona leading up to Barcelona’s Tragic Week, nothing is what it seems, neither is Elsie’s innocence intact. The investigation becomes entangled with another tragic death that happened many years earlier in the exact same place, involving espionage and a kidnapping... A new challenge for Inspector Requesens.
Barrio Roots
In the vein of Alex Haley's Roots, author Andrés Ávila tells a multigenerational story of strife and ultimate success. Originating on the Mediterranean coast of Andalusia, migrating to Mexico City, and evolving in Arizona's Barrio Viejo, Barrio Roots tells the story of the author's family in a fictionalized version based on his true history. Spanning two centuries and three countries, the family's storyline traverses Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Beginning in 1814, readers are drawn into a family complete with accomplishments and failures. Dive into running a profitable sugar cane business and see the subsequent in-family corruption and disillusion of the business. Experience the t...
Heritage Languages at the Crossroads: Cultural Contexts, Individual Differences, and Methodologies
This Research Topic focuses on heritage languages at the crossroads by approaching heritage language bilingualism in an interdisciplinary way. A language qualifies as a heritage language if it is a minority language spoken at home in a majority language context. Any language can be the societal majority language in one context and the heritage language in another. While the number of empirical studies on language acquisition and processing in heritage language bilingualism has increased in recent years, heritage language bilinguals are an understudied subgroup of bilinguals. When examined as adults, heritage-speaker bilinguals tend to show significant differences in their heritage language performance (use) and competence (grammatical knowledge) from one another. This variation is particularly unusual because heritage speakers, like monolinguals, are native speakers of the heritage language.
