A
Shell for Angela is Ofelia Dumas Lachtman's
novel exploring the emotional and spiritual consequences of a women's
rejection of her Mexican heritage and family. From the moment
nine-year-old Angela Martin sees her father led away on a summer day by
immigration officers, she spends her life denying her Mexican
roots. The story of her journey is told in juxtaposition to the
story of crucial summer in her childhood, "the summer of the fruit
picking," when her father was involved in an attempted fruit
pickers' strike in the Central Valley. As a result of his
activities, her father was unjustly deported and subsequently murdered
in a twisted vendetta.
African
Passions and other
stories
Author: Beatriz Rivera
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A series of strong-minded women relentlessly
pursue love and at times material success as they move in and out of the
reality of the New Jersey Hispanic barrio that bonds them. There
is the frustrated professional woman who unsuccessfully strives for a
wedding ring from her mommy's-boy lover. Then there's the recent
college grad applying for dead-end jobs while pursuing a traditional
macho lover. An Italian-Puerto Rican princess is caught up in a
vicious cycle of destroying relationships. A young Cuban matron
destroys husband, children and her own well-being as she seeks the
nirvana of material wealth and status.
Anything
But Love
Author: Gustavo Pérez Firmat
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Some people would call Frank Guerra fussy,
exacting, even compulsive-- but they're wrong. He simply believes
in perfection. He strives to make every textbook he writes into a
work of art, and he intends that every Cuba Libre he mixes come out
textbook-perfect. (The key? Exactly six drops of lime juice
for each ounce of Bacardi.? And Frank also believes in love.
In fact, he believes in love so strongly
that he willing to divorce his faithful wife Marta (who's a real
mensch about it), lose his old friends, and even leave behind his
adoring daughter Emily--all for the sake of his new americana, a
sedate but supremely sexy schoolteacher named Catherine O'Neal, or Cat
for short. But it's worth all the pain: Cat believes in
their love, too.
So, why when he looks deep into Cat's cool,
sphinx-like eyes, can Frank never penetrate into their depths? Who
does he begin to see only his own gaze reflected there, as if from twin
funhouse mirrors? Is she hiding something from him?
Anything? (Everything, maybe?) Is his Cat merely toying with
him? Frank finds the possibility disturbing: He expe3cts his
perfect love to be fully and equally reciprocated. After all, in
an imperfect, chaotic, unstable world filled with disappointment, isn't
there any ideal--anything--that's really worth living for--maybe even
dying for? Frank can't think of anything but love.
Ask
a Policeman
Author: Rolando Hinojosa
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When Lee Gómez, a former Mexican government
official convicted of murder, is sprung from a South Texas jail, the
lawmen of Khail City have their hands full. No one is more
concerned than Chief Inspector Rafe Buenrostro of the Belken County
Homicide Squad, because criminals don't come much nastier than Lee and
his drug-running brother, Felipe Segundo Gómez. Sometimes they do,
though...as Buenrostro soon discovers when the younger generation of the
Gómez crime family turns up, in the form of the elusive and extremely
unpleasant twin brothers Juan Carlos and José Antonio Gómez.
And somewhere in the middle of this mess is
a terminally ill ex-convict known as Enrique "El Camarón" (The Shrimp)
Salinas, a wizened little jailbird too sickly to trouble anyone any
more--or so Buenrostro hopes, since he himself arranged to have the
dying Salinas released from prison.
Buenrostro struggles to keep his cool as
gunfire, explosions, and seamy sex heat up the already scorching
Texas-Mexico borderlands. Halting the crime spree will require not
only Buenrostro's own detective force but that of his official
counterpart across the Rio Grande, Maria Luisa (Lu) Cetina of Barrones.
Because if they don't catch the killers soon, Belken County medical
examiner Henry Dietz just might run out of the insect-repellent he
sprays about to keep flies off the corpses. You think you're
having a bad day? Jut as a policeman.
A
Shell for Angela
African
Passions and other
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Anything
But Love
Ask
a Policeman