When Natasha, a young ambitious professional, moved to Texas to advance her career, she left her family and way of life in Mexico, and seemingly her faith. She never intended to fall in love with Sean, an American, who makes her laugh, understands her, and reawakens her faith in God. When she returns to Mexico, she struggles with separation from Sean, the allure of old dreams, and an elusive diagnosis of the mysterious disease that is killing her. This romance is portrayed on the rich tapestry of two vibrant cultures. Texas and Mexico come alive while a young woman tries to rediscover the God of her youth - Before it's too late.
The Adventures of Don Roberto is a book of action, mystery, friendship and fun. Roberto is a gringo who meets Chapo, the son of a Mexican migrant worker, when his uncle brings Chapo's family from Mexico to work his cotton fields in West Texas. At the tender age of seven, Robert takes the Spanish version of his name. In his mind, the only thing he lacks to be a real Mexican is a Green Card. The boys are friends for life, and the story revolves around their antics when they are young and their adventures, together and separately on both sides of the border, as they become men. Roberto accidentally discovers an international drug smuggling operation and drags a reluctant Chapo into the middle of it. Things get serious when Chapo has to choose between the lives of his wife and children or the life of his friend.
Uncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the formation of Latino identity In the first ever book-length study of Latino manhood before the Civil Rights Movement, Before Chicano examines Mexican American print culture to explore how conceptions of citizenship and manhood developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The year 1848 saw both the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the U.S. Mexican War and the year of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first organized conference on women’s rights in the United States. These concurrent events signaled new ways of thinking about U.S. citizenship, and placing these historical moments into conversation with the archive of Mexican American print culture, Varon offers an expanded temporal frame for Mexican Americans as long-standing participants in U.S. national projects. Pulling from a wide-variety of familiar and lesser-known works—from fiction and newspapers to government documents, images, and travelogues—Varon illustrates how Mexican Americans during this period envisioned themselves as U.S. citizens through cultural depictions of manhood. Before Chicano reveals how manhood offered a strategy to disparate Latino communities across the nation to imagine themselves as a cohesive whole—as Mexican Americans—and as political agents in the U.S. Though the Civil Rights Movement is typically recognized as the origin point for the study of Latino culture, Varon pushes us to consider an intellectual history that far predates the late twentieth century, one that is both national and transnational. He expands our framework for imagining Latinos’ relationship to the U.S. and to a past that is often left behind.
Ainslon O’Neil is co-owner of Turn the Page, the most popular children’s and comic bookstore in Garriety. Her life revolves around her business and family. Romance is far from her mind, until one day Lauren Millán walks into her store and commissions Ainslon to find a first edition of Mary Poppins. Ainslon can’t stop thinking about Lauren and, as fate would have it, the two seem to frequently run into each other. The one rule Ainslon made for herself was never to mix business with pleasure. The two agree to be friends. But, Ainslon finds she yearns for more with Lauren. Should Ainslon stick to the rules? Or follow her heart? Lauren Millán, owner of the successful candy store, C and C, is content with running her business and spending time with family and friends. While Lauren’s not averse to finding Ms. Right, she’s not searching for her either. When she walks into Turn the Page, a pair of green eyes and an Irish accent ambushes her heart. Yet, as much as she would like to pursue more than a friendship with Ainslon, their ten-year age difference gives her pause. Then there’s Ainslon’s promise never to mix business with pleasure. Welcome back to Garriety, where the food is plentiful, the people are always willing to lend an ear, and meeting the love of your life is just around the corner. Join Ainslon and Lauren, along with the characters from Add Romance and Mix and Blueprint for Romance, while they navigate the ups and downs of falling in love.
In the Upper Amazon, mestizos are the Spanish-speaking descendants of Hispanic colonizers and the indigenous peoples of the jungle. Some mestizos have migrated to Amazon towns and cities, such as Iquitos and Pucallpa; most remain in small villages. They have retained features of a folk Catholicism and traditional Hispanic medicine, and have incorporated much of the religious tradition of the Amazon, especially its healing, sorcery, shamanism, and the use of potent plant hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. The result is a uniquely eclectic shamanist culture that continues to fascinate outsiders with its brilliant visionary art. Ayahuasca shamanism is now part of global culture. Once the terrain of anthropologists, it is now the subject of novels and spiritual memoirs, while ayahuasca shamans perform their healing rituals in Ontario and Wisconsin. Singing to the Plants sets forth just what this shamanism is about--what happens at an ayahuasca healing ceremony, how the apprentice shaman forms a spiritual relationship with the healing plant spirits, how sorcerers inflict the harm that the shaman heals, and the ways that plants are used in healing, love magic, and sorcery.
Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! SNOWED IN WITH A COLTON (A Coltons of Colorado novel) by Lisa Childs Certain her new guest at the dude ranch she co-owns is hiding something, Aubrey Colton fights her attraction to him. Luke Bishop is hiding something—his true identity: Luca Rossi, an Italian journalist on the run from the mob. CAVANAUGH JUSTICE: THE BABY TRAIL (A Cavanaugh Justice novel) by USA TODAY bestseling author Marie Ferrarella Brand-new police detective partners Korinna Kennedy and Brodie Cavanaugh investigate a missing infant case and uncover a complicated conspiracy while Korinna is slowly drawn into Brodie's life and family—causing her to reevaluate her priorities in life. DANGER AT CLEARWATER CROSSING (A Lost Legacy novel) by Colleen Thompson After his beloved twins are returned from the grandparents who’ve held them for years, widowed resort owner Mac Hale-Walker finds his long-anticipated reunion threatened by a beautiful social worker sent to assess his fitness to parent—and a plot to forcibly separate him from his children forever. TROUBLE IN BLUE (A Heroes of the Pacific Northwest novel) by Beverly Long Interim police chief Marcus Price is captivated by newcomer Erin McGarry, who has come to Knoware to help her sick sister. But he has his hands full with a string of robberies and a credible terrorist threat, and he's not confident that Erin didn't bring the danger to the small community or that either one of them will survive it.
It's the reunion of his life… Until someone wants him dead Finally back together with his children, widower Mac Hale-Walker faces an unexpected obstacle: their temporary guardian. Social worker Sara Wakefield stands in the way of Mac regaining custody. He'll stop at nothing to prove he's a loving dad, even figure out who's threatening his bond with his family. But can Mac manage to clear the danger swirling around Clearwater Crossing before it engulfs them all? From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of the Lost Legacy series: Book 1: Danger at Clearwater Crossing
