**I’ve escaped my father’s dirty business and taken my little sister with me. Though I feel like I’ve done the right thing, unfortunately my sister needs to eat and live. And I practically have no money for that. Just my body. And that’s what I’ve been selling for the past few days.It’s another day and my sister is hungry again. So I get dolled-up and case our motel for potential Johns. The one I cross drives a BMW and seems harmless. But it’s we walk into his motel room when thing...

**The hottest guy in school just so happens to be my boyfriend.He’s a Senior and the starting Quarterback on the football team.He’s charming, beautiful, an absolute dream.Every girl in school wants him.Every guy in school wants to be him.So I should feel lucky, right?Wrong.Because what no one knows, what no one sees about the hottest guy in school is that he possesses a dark side.And that dark side is me.My name is Jane.

**At one time I was my so-called “father's” slave.But I survived him.I’ve survived the beatings, the manipulation, the deception, the shame.I’ve been given a new life, new opportunities, and dreams.I’m at long last. . .free.But if I’m free, then why does my past feel like it’s still haunting me?Why do I feel like something is off, like something is amiss?I need to figure out why.Anna doesn’t want me to go.But I leav...

**After a deception that leaves her stranded in Hollywood, Jane transforms into ``DiamonD`` and takes to the Tracks as a chain-smoking-whiskey-drinking-drop-dead-gorgeous-ho with a personal agenda that quickly goes awry after encountering a bit of ho`drama, pimps trying to sweat her and true love with a hustler.DiamonD: Chapter One is Book 1 in The DiamonD Chapters; Book 4 in The HUSH Series*read the Series, become Addicted***

**A bilingual picture book from the Emmy Award–winning creator of El Tigre, featuring a spunky girl on a mission at the local bodega for her grandfather’s birthday. With over 100 first words in English and Spanish!Un libro bilingüe, de la creadora de la serie El Tigre: las aventuras de Manny Rivera, y ganadora de un premio Emmy, protagonizado por una niña alegre con una misión en la bodega para el cumpleaños de su abuelito. ¡Con más de 100 primeras palabras en ing...

A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously told tale masterfully written by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, in a dual-language edition.As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light running out of money and lining up wit...

**With DiamonD and her diverse crew of ``partners`` having seized majority control over Hollywood`s sex trade industry which also includes the deceptionist`s, aka her father`s, hoard of sex slave girls, DiamonD learns that her previous and personal agenda – a 13 year-old adopted sister – has fallen out of the hands of the Cartel who she personally waged war upon to rescue her sister and into the hands of a meticulous Las Vegas Pimpboss. Though not directly in the hands of her new pimp as o...

**DiamonD aka ``Jane`` muscles her way beneath the glitz & glam of Hollywood`s seedy sex business with the help of hos, hustlers and pimps to further her agenda into building her own sex-trade empire as revenge for the deception that left her stranded in Hollywood.DiamonDs: Chapter Two is Book 2 in The DiamonD Chapters; Book 5 in The HUSH Series*read the Series, become Addicted***

12-time award winning Graphic Novel, including 3 categories in the Great Southwest Book FestivalClarion Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars"Combining gritty realism, mysterious gods, and a noble heroine, Dark Cloud is a vibrant, exciting graphic novel." - Foreword ReviewIn post-apocalyptic Arizona, a young woman with a mysterious connection to the land - and a combat robot - steps forward to confront an evil, militaristic dictator bent on detonating a recently acquire...

The only thing more annoying than being stuck in traffic, the blinding blitzkrieg of paps, or a chain-smoking vegetarian’s health rant, is having everything you ever wanted in the palm of your hand, and the rug swiftly pulled out from under you. El Patterson’s dreams were on the verge of coming true when a tragic twist of fate took it all away. Facing the official end of her early thirties, with not much to show for it, El has to find her footing, and the guts to go after the life she real...

Brutal axe murders of Dr. Teena Mazon, transplant surgeon, and Cathy Reyes, ICU supervisor, both ballroom champions, and the tragic plunge of lawyer Eugene Cash to his death gives lawyer-sleuth Sandra Lerner nightmares, panic attacks, and insomnia. Psychiatrist prescribes pills, vacation, and recreational ballroom dancing. Mystery, horror, sex, violence in ethnic urban setting.

Contemporary satirist Sandra Tsing Loh spins a darkly comic, autobiographical tale of growing up middle class Chinese-German in Southern California. This witty monologue is for sons and daughters everywhere who feel that their parents must have been beamed to earth from another planet.An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Sandra Tsing Loh.