"Don't tell anyone we're Democrats," warned Mother when we moved to Bakersfield, CA, a town often referred to, back then, as redneck central. "And for heaven's sake, don't tell them you're Jewish."

FIRST PLACE FOR FICTIONA winner! Mesmerizing! Stunning! Elegant! Captivating! Powerful! Lush! Magical realism that seduces the reader from beginning to end!URSULA K. LE GUIN says:"What a romp! Let Baross take you for a wild ride...through an extravagantly carnal Mexico of the imagination."JOSE BUILDS A WOMAN is a camel gallop through one of the most outrageous love stories ever told. The multi-layered saga revolves around a sensual outcast, Tortugina, the que...

The most unusual love story you will ever read."What a romp! A wild magical realistic camel ride from the Village of the Octopus through an extravagantly carnal Mexico of the imagination-love, passion and family." -Ursula LeGuin

“Don’t tell anyone we’re Democrats,” warned Mother when we moved toBakersfield, CA, a town often referred to, back then, as redneck central.“And for heaven’s sake, don’t tell them you’re Jewish.”Joan Gratz, author and Academy Award winning director says: “I couldn’t put this book down. The young Jewish narrator reminds me of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, only with a lot more humor. Watching this brazen, feisty girl butt up against ahostile landscape with h...

Set in the Dominican Republic during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship of the 1960s, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters—four women who opposed Trujillo, and became immortalized as Las Mariposas, "The Butterflies".It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their dea...

An American writer and his wife find a new home—and a new lease on life—in the charming sixteenth-century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.When Los Angeles novelist Tony Cohan and his artist wife, Masako, visited central Mexico one winter they fell under the spell of a place where the pace of life is leisurely, the cobblestone streets and sun-splashed plazas are enchanting, and the sights and sounds of daily fiestas fill the air. Awakened to needs they didn’t know they ha...

Jack in the Green is an original novella, set in the fictional Southwestern desert city of Santo del Vado Viejo.Best friends Maria and Luz grew up in the barrio and were inseparable until Luz left town to fight against social injustice. They lose track of one another until one day, while at her job cleaning rich people's homes, Maria spots Luz among a gang robbing the house next door. Luz later tells Maria that her gang robs from the rich and gives to the poor, like a modern day Ro...

Inspired by J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace, El Niño tracks the survival of one woman and a young, undocumented migrant as they journey through the no-man’s-land of a remote southwestern desert.Honey hasn’t seen her mother, Marianne, in more than two years. She drives deep into the once-prosperous border region of the Oro Desert for a surprise visit, only to discover that Marianne has vanished.Alone in an unforgiving environment populated with hostile loc...

Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo’s dictatorship.Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behin...

“Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—TimeCristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del...

Buenos Aires. 1976. In the heat of summer, the Ferrero family escapes to the lush expanse of Tigre. Osvaldo, a distinguished doctor, and his wife Yolanda, gather with their daughters, sensible Julieta who lives in Miami, and wilful Graciela – nineteen, and madly in love with her fiancé, José. Those days will be the last the family ever spends together.On their return to Buenos Aires, the Argentine military stages a coup. Friends and colleagues disappear overnight, andOsvaldo is for...

The Tarzan Twins by Edgar Rice Burroughs is an adventurous and captivating story published in 1936, expanding the legendary world of Tarzan with a fresh twist. This novel follows the thrilling escapades of Tarzan’s twin sons, Jack and Janet, who inherit their father's sense of adventure and bravery.Set in the wild and untamed jungle of Africa, the twins embark on a series of exciting adventures, exploring the mysteries of the jungle and encountering various exotic ...