Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned storytelling and satire, exploring the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature of survival in a decidedly cruel world.

Ike Decker, a loss recovery agent, for the armored car industry, is a desperate man. He has a dream and the only thing in his way to realizing it is Paco Sanchez and $1.2 million in stolen cash. Three Bullets To Queensland is another compelling short story from DANGEROUS WOMEN & DESPERATE MEN, the crime anthology by Rick Mofina.The International Thriller Writers, The Private Eye Writers of America and The Crime Writers of Canada have listed Rick Mofina's books as being among the be...

Selected in 1997 as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World, Jennifer Lopez shows that she’s more than just a pretty face. Her best known trademarks are her curvy figure and her diverse talents. Starting out as a “Fly Girl” Jennifer Lopez has quickly moved through the ranks.Her breakout role in Selena led her to stardom. Lopez is the highest paid Latina today, as well as being the first music artist to have a number one selling album and movie in the same week. Jennifer ha...

Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez's vibrant, can't-put-it-down novel of six friends--each one an unforgettable Latina woman in her late '20s--and the complications and triumphs in their livesInseparable since their days at Boston University almost ten years before, six friends form the Dirty Girls Social Club, a mutual support and (mostly) admiration society that no matter what happens to each of them (and a lot does), meets regularly to dish, dine and compare notes on the bum...

At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home in California, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow during the late 1950s-early 1960s, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sister not only struggle to keep their family together, but also f...

A New York Times Notable Book, an NPR Best Debut of the Year, and a PEN/Hemingway finalist.These linked stories follow Sabina as she navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora, and struggles to find her place within and beyond the net of her strong, protective, but embattled family.In "Lucho," Sabina's family—already "foreigners in a town of blancos"—is shunned by the community when a relative commits an unspeakable act of viole...

"Olivarez steps into the 'inbetween' standing between Mexico and America in these compelling, emotional poems. Written with humor and sincerity" ( Newsweek).Named a Best Book of the Year by Newsweek and NPR.In this "devastating debut" ( Publishers Weekly), poet José Olivarez explores the stories, contradictions, joys, and sorrows that embody life in the spaces between Mexico and America. He paints vivid portraits of good k...

A funny and poignant memoir about how as a teenager, TV writer Rafael Agustin accidentally discovered he was undocumented—and how that revelation turned his life upside down.Growing up, Rafa’s parents didn't want him to feel different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." But when he tried to get his driver's license during his junior year of high school, his parents were forced to reveal his immigration status. Suddenly, the kid who model...

The novelist who wrote The Grapes of Wrath and the director who produced Crisis and Lights Out in Europe combined their superb talents to tell the story of the coming of modern medicine to the natives of Mexico. There have been several notable examples of this pen-camera method of narration, but The Forgotten Village is unique among them in that Steinbeck wrote the text before a single picture was shot. The book and the movie from which The Forgotten...

The acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican recounts her love affair with a possessive filmmaker seventeen years her senior in this coming-of-age memoir."Santiago is a born storyteller." — New York Times Book ReviewIn the third episode of her entrancing trilogy, Esmerelda finally breaks out of the monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to elope into the s...

These flashcard books are designed with large, engaging pictures to help your little one learn Portuguese - one fun, easy lesson at a time.  This collection includes: - Portuguese Lesson 5: Toys & Games - Portuguese Lesson 6: Days, Months & Seasons - Portuguese Lesson 7: Parts of the Body - Portuguese Lesson 8: Clothes, Shoes, Jewelry & Accessories Each lesson has everything you need to teach your child these Portuguese words including: - The ...

An inspiring YA debut from the author of Dangerous Minds*.*Eddie Corazon is angry. He’s also very smart. But he’s working pretty hard at being a juvenile delinquent. He blows off school, even though he’s a secret reader. He hangs with his cousins, who will always back him up—when they aren’t in jail.Then along comes Lupe, who makes his blood race. She sees something in Eddie he doesn’t even see in himself. A heart, and a mind, and something more: a poet. But in Edd...