Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 12—An annual novena in honor of La Conquistadora, a long-running tradition for Catholics in the City of Holy Faith, will ...

You are best known as a memoir writer, author of books such as When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman and The Turkish Lover. So your newest, Conquistadora—a sweeping historical novel set about a high ...

La Conquistadora is a statue of the Virgin Mary that was brought to Santa Fe in the 1600s.She's become an object of devotion for many, including one man fighting his own demons, he said she answered ...

At first it’s difficult to understand why Ana Larragoity Cubillas — the heroic protagonist in Esmeralda Santiago’s Conquistadora — is so “enthralled by the land, its mystery and romance,” as the ...

I spent a week in Santa Fe earlier this month and had the privilege of participating in an impressive procession organized by the Catholic faithful in this city, a place that is so filled with ...

An unlikable heroine doesn’t have to be a deal breaker. But there has to be a certain spark that at least ignites a love-to-hate-her relationship. Alas, Gloriosa Ana María de los Angeles Larragoity ...

As a willful, ambitious young woman in 19th-century Spain, Ana Cubillas reads journals kept by her ancestors and dreams of being, like them, a conquistador taking advantage of the riches of Puerto ...

The new novel "Conquistadora" paints a picture of love and adventure as a young women travels from Spain to Puerto Rico where her husband has inherited a sugar plantation. Jeffrey Brown speaks with ...

The portrait of a strong, intelligent and enigmatic woman on the cover of Esmeralda Santiago’s exciting new novel hints at the character of the book’s heroine. Born in 1826, Ana Cubillas is the ...

In the center of Santa Fe — that's Spanish for “Holy Faith” — amid fashionable boutiques, history museums, Native American jewelry counters and innumerable tourists, sits a great cathedral. How great ...