ONE OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE’S 100 GREATEST WESTERN NOVELS • From the author of the first annual California Classics Litquake Barbary Coast Award, comes the story of four generations of the Washo in Nevada and Eastern California—a story of dreams, dying, the loss of power, death, and apotheosis."Rabbit Boss deserves to become an American classic. A great novel, spanning a century in the life and death of an Indian tribe, told with epic perspective an...

Like his lavishly praised novels Rabbit Boss and Mile Zero, Thomas Sanchez's Zoot-Suit Murders combines a tautly arched narrative with fiercely visual prose and a starkly revisionist view of the American melting pot.

From the author of Mile Zero come a heart-racing, “power-packed thriller" (San Francisco Chronicle) set in Key West that illuminates a world of dark desires, hidden truths, and colliding destinies at America’s famous southernmost continental point.Key West is being terrorized by a series of bizarre murders committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin. With each new kill, it becomes clearer that the skeleton-clad executioner has an ecological agenda. ...

In this story of an astonishing love, Thomas Sanchez portrays the violence, hope, and grandeur of lives transformed by war and exile. At the heart of the novel are Zermano, a world-famous Spanish painter, and his beautiful French muse, Louise Collard -- whose lives are torn apart by the German invasion of France in World War II. Leaving Louise in Vichy-controlled Provence, Zermano returns to occupied Paris. But while he eventually goes on to celebrity and fortune, Louise disappears into ob...

Havana, New Year’s Eve 1957, a terrorist bomb rips through the Tropicana nightclub. King Bongo, a rogue Cuban-American, tortured by a mysterious past and possessed of a mythic musical talent, goes on the hunt for the culprits, and for his sister, Cuba’s most exotic showgirl, who disappeared in the explosion.Navigating Havana’s maze of Colonial backstreets, red-light districts, swank country clubs, and opulent casinos, Bongo encounters an outrageous cast of characters—American hit m...

Does transportation affect the lives of minority, low-income, elderly, and physically disabled citizens? The answer is yes, and those effects can be profound, according to The Right to Transportation. The authors argue that transportation policies can limit access to education, jobs, and services for some individuals while undermining the economy and social cohesion of entire communities. Policies that have nurtured the U.S. highway system and let public transportation wither have...

"Mile zero" marks the location of Key West -- the island that defines the end of the American road, the cultural junction where Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Afro worlds collide. On this island, with its cruel legacy of slave trade and Latin revolution, and its turbulent present of marijuana millionaires, threadbare illegal immigrants, and hard-luck treasure hunters, lives St. Cloud, an American expatriated in his own country, a fugitive from the unresolved anguish of his generation. Chronicling...

Thomas Sanchez's international bestseller, Mile Zero, set in Key West, was hailed by the Washington Post as a 'holy terror of a book of immense power and passion,' lauded by Vanity Fair as 'mythmaking and magisterial,' and acclaimed by the New York Times as 'dazzling.' Sanchez returns to Key West, America's famous southernmost continental point, with a heart-racing ecological thriller. The exotic island city of the Florida Keys is being terrorized by murders committed by a mysterious voodo...

Dreaming of a perfect sophomore year, Marjorie Dean is thrilled when her best friend visits Sanford High. But jealousy rears its ugly head, threatening to ruin everything. Whispers and rumors swirl, friendships fracture, and Marjorie finds herself at the center of a high school drama. Can she navigate the treacherous halls, stand up for what's right, and clear her name? Find out in "Marjorie Dean, High School Sophomore" by Jessie Graham Flower. Will loyalty prevail, or will suspicion and s...