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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In Puerto Rico, faith is preached in big print and billed in the fine print.Credo en letras pequenas gathers short stories where satire bites and barrio tenderness heals: pulpits that double as catwalks, hells in 4K, oils "imported from Jerusalem," gold VIP passes to get closer to the throne, temples with a T-Rex at the door, and promises with an asterisk on the way out. With wit and compassion, Edwin Alverio unmasks the stage show orchestrated in God's name and returns the spotlight to everyday people-the hairdresser, the usher, the widow, the cobbler, the teacher. This book isn't against faith; it's against profiting from it.Author's Note: Firsthand experiences and close accounts from Puerto Rico (1998-2025). Not a generalization; a critique of harmful practices and structures. Some events are fictionalized; names and identifying details have been changed for privacy.About the Author: Edwin Alverio is a Puerto Rican educator, artisan, painter, and short-story writer whose work explores family legacies, diaspora, and everyday objects as vessels for untold stories.Cover Art: The Selfie, watercolor by the author (2017). This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It wasn't love. At least, not the kind that gets a label.It Wasn't Love. An Intimate Archive of My Silences is a collection of autofiction stories about the quiet forms of care that rarely make it into love songs: a home economics teacher who turns tenderness into a secret syllabus, a boss who learns to surrender control for a single night, a divorced mother who meets a stranger at the boardwalk in Ponce, a religious woman who only finds peace with her ear pressed to another chest, friends who become shelter when life rewrites their plans.Each story begins with the same refrain-"It wasn't love." From there, the book maps a different kind of intimacy: not grand declarations, but shared coffee, motel rooms that feel like temporary chapels, bunk beds turned into truces, phone calls that last until sunrise, and small objects saved in a box like an archive of heartbeats.Written in a clear, breathing prose shaped by both Spanish and English, these pieces move between Puerto Rico and Connecticut, between youth and middle age, between desire and silence. Names, dates, and places are veiled, but the emotions are not. What remains on the page is what lingers after romance fades: gesture, presence, the courage to be vulnerable for a moment and then let go.This book will resonate with readers who: Are drawn to autofiction and literary memoirEnjoy intimate, character-driven narratives about desire, aging, divorce, and friendshipAppreciate stories where small scenes-coffee, a car, a hallway, a seawall-hold entire livesHave ever kept their own "archive" of objects from relationships that never had a proper nameAt its core, It Wasn't Love. is a testimony to the quiet ways we care for one another and the traces those encounters leave on the body. It is a book about shelter-about the nights when simply being there is all that's needed, and enough. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A chronicle of what remains when you are left behind.This is not a book about loneliness. It is a testimony to abandonment.In the blue armchair that smells of Vicks, on the metal hospital bench, in the endless Social Security line, in the room where family no longer fits-here live Don Angel, Dona Carmen, Dona Pura, and Don Julio. Their lives have been reduced to waiting: for calls that never come, for visits that are canceled, for a system that processes them as case files.But in the margins of that oblivion-at the wake of a stranger, in a hurricane shelter, in the farce of a health fair-something rough and real is born among them. A brotherhood. Not of easy affection, but of shared need. They do not save each other. They hold each other up.With precise prose that grants not an ounce of sentimentality, Edwin Alverio maps the terrain of this accidental fellowship. This is a novel that does not sweeten, does not console, and does not ask for forgiveness. It only shows-with a clarity that cuts like glass-the human geography of those whom the world decided had nothing useful left to give.And who, nevertheless, remain.For readers seeking honest literature, far from comforting fiction. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In this book live twenty-five impossible beings: a man made of night, a woman of mist, a boy who wakes sleeping memories. They are not fantasy creatures, but forms of the soul-disguised mirrors, metaphors that breathe.Bestiary of the Soul: Twenty-Five Brief Encounters with the Unseen builds a world where the human and the metaphysical brush against each other without warning. Each story embodies a question-never a lesson-and lets philosophy hide in the folds of the impossible. This book does not want to convince you of anything; it wants to open a soft crack, a small tremor you may not know how to name.There are no answers here, only resonances. If, when you close these pages, you feel that something is watching you from inside your own shadow, that time has changed weight, or that a forgotten memory has stirred without being called, then this bestiary has done its work.This is not a book to be solved. It is a book to be inhabited.About the authorEdwin Alverio (Puerto Rico) is an educator, painter, and writer. He has published poetry, fiction, and books for teaching Spanish. He lives in Connecticut, where he writes and creates out of wakefulness and memory.Cover art: Day and Night (2015), painting by the author. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What do a spoon, a clock, or a sunflower hide? This book gathers ten seemingly simple tales. They speak of everyday objects and curious animals. Yet, if you read closely, between the lines you will discover something more.Spoons and Other Secrets is a collection for awake minds, those who dare to ask uncomfortable questions. A journey that explores, with tenderness and irony, the uneasy silences of real life: affection that disguises harassment, hypocrisy dressed as virtue, exclusion masked by pity, and the courage to say "no."A book for children to spark their imagination, and for adults to remember the importance of reading between the lines.Welcome to a world where nothing is what it seems.Are you ready to uncover its secrets? Note to the reader: Certain unusual choices of words and expressions are intentional. About the authorEdwin Alverio is a Puerto Rican educator, craftsman, painter, writer, and storyteller. His work explores family legacies, diaspora, and everyday objects that become vessels for untold stories. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is not a self-help book. It's an inventory of breakdowns - a country's, and a body's.Through raw vignettes and uncomfortable mirrors, The Echo of the Worn-Down: An Inventory of Emotional Malfunctions looks at what it means to live in a place of permanent emergency. Set against the backdrop of Puerto Rico, these pieces trace how public crisis seeps into private life until anxiety, insomnia, depression, and burnout feel like public policy rather than personal problems.Across five sections, the book moves from the national to the intimate: collective anxiety, media alerts, and a people trained to live on edgesilent depression and the "blackouts" no one reportssuicide, gender violence, and femicide as stories society claims it "never saw coming"dementia, child poverty, and homelessness as absences we step over every dayaddiction and emotional corruption as the anesthetics of a worn-down countryThis book doesn't offer comfort; it offers a mirror.In that mirror, each reader is invited to recognize their own fracture, their own "malfunction," and the quiet ways we keep going anyway.About the authorEdwin Alverio (Puerto Rico) is an educator, painter, and writer. He has published poetry, fiction, and books for teaching Spanish. He lives in Connecticut, where he writes and creates out of wakefulness and memory. Cover art: Venas (2016), painting by the author. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Book DescriptionNotes for a Species with Memory is neither a fable nor a moral treatise. It is a series of observations written from a chicken coop, a place where life unfolds without speeches, promises, or alibis.Through minimal scenes-hunger, noise, punishment, order, obedience-the book confronts the uneasy distance between animal logic and the refined violence of the human world. There are no models to imitate and no consoling lessons, only a silent mirror that returns a persistent question: what have we done with the ability to think?This book does not seek answers.It interrupts excuses. Author's NoteI write from observation and discomfort, not from theory or slogans. This book emerged from standing close to a chicken coop and recognizing, in that minimal space, the fractures of human reasoning.I do not propose solutions or redemptions. I observe, contrast, and take responsibility for the gaze. I write to dismantle alibis-beginning with my own. About the AuthorEdwin Alverio (Puerto Rico) writes from observation, memory, and everyday life.He lives and creates in Connecticut, United States. Cover CreditCover: photograph of the chicken coop, taken by the author This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Apuntes para una especie con memoriaDesde mi gallineroApuntes para una especie con memoria no es una fabula ni un tratado moral.Es una serie de observaciones escritas desde un gallinero, donde la vida ocurre sin discursos, sin promesas y sin coartadas.A partir de escenas minimas -el hambre, el ruido, el castigo, el orden, la obediencia- el autor confronta la distancia incomoda entre la logica animal y la violencia refinada de lo humano.Aqui no hay modelos a imitar ni lecciones que consuelen.Hay un espejo silencioso que devuelve una pregunta persistente: Que hemos hecho con la capacidad de pensar?Este libro no busca respuestas.Interrumpe excusas.Sobre el autorEdwin Alverio escribe desde la observacion y la incomodidad.No desde la teoria ni desde la consigna.Este libro nace de mirar de cerca un gallinero y reconocer, en ese espacio minimo, las grietas del razonamiento humano. El autor no propone soluciones ni redenciones: anota, contrasta y se hace responsable de la mirada.Escribe para desarmar coartadas, empezando por las propias. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Permita DiosHistorias de fe, sarcasmo y resiliencia boricuaEntre apagones, filas, promesas politicas y rosarios fuera de hora, un hijo observa -y contradice- la religiosidad de su madre. No hay sermones aqui hay humor con filo, ternura incomoda y un espejo donde Puerto Rico se mira sin maquillaje. "Permita Dios" suena como ruego y como pulla; es promesa, amenaza y despedida.Lo que encontrarasRelatos breves donde la fe convive con la ironia y la vida cotidiana.Satira social y religiosa sin panfleto, con carino y mordacidad.Voces de isla y diaspora: mami que reza, hijo que reniega, barrio que comenta.Algunos escenariosEl tapon donde "el del carro rojo" recibe su milagro. con multa.La misa con Wi-Fi, el Uber de los milagros y el apagon eterno con predicador en marquesina.La fila del banco como purgatorio y el alcalde invisible que gobierna "en espiritu".Es un libro para quienes disfrutan el cuento contemporaneo, la cronica intima y el humor que alivia -y acusa-. Si alguna vez dijiste "Permita Dios" por esperanza, por desahogo o por costumbre, estas paginas te van a sonar.Edwin Alverio (Connecticut/Puerto Rico) escribe con una voz cercana y afilada: el carino se disfraza de queja y la risa deja pensamiento. Primera edicion (2025). Contenido en espanol.Porque al final, todos rezamos algo -aunque sea una mala palabra. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…