Return to Dos Encinos
Return to Dos Encinos

Author: Charles Clark

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-02

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0595372732

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Sarah Levin Cisneros returns from her honeymoon to face a quandary: should she continue school and pursue a career as an advocate of human rights, or should she relegate her life to being Charro Cisneros' wife, raise a family, and settle into the comforts of living as the matron of the gigantic Dos Encinos Ranch? Luisa, wife of Charro's partner, Carlos Resendez, encourages Sarah to do both. After graduation, Sarah becomes a contributing editor to the San Antonio Express newspaper. Her controversial articles, strongly flavored with women's rights issues, make Sarah a popular figure among women's rights activists and suffragists. In an effort to demonstrate to the people of Texas that women are capable of being more than mothers and homemakers, Sarah participates as a working vaquero on a perilous cattle drive. Childbirth burdens Sarah's already packed schedule of writing, speaking, and promoting the suffrage movement. But while she is away, a tragedy at home rekindles her dilemma. Guilt-ridden from her self-perceived negligence as a wife and mother, should Sarah continue her leadership role as a women's rights activist, or should she return to Dos Encinos to solely be Mrs. Charro Cisneros?

Dos Encinos Legacy
Dos Encinos Legacy

Author: Charles Clark

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1450217109

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Sarah Cisneros believes her sixteen-year-old twin sons, Adam and Benji, are far too young and far too innocent to participate in the ranch's upcoming cattle drive. But the boys are insistent and are eager to build the legacy of Dos Encinos. This will be one last adventure before they head off to college. Adam sustains serious injuries during a stampede while on the ride. As he recuperates in the small central Texas village of Comanche, he becomes enamored with the innkeeper's daughter, Martha Taylor. Adam and Martha pledge to wait for each other as Adam enters medical school in Fort Worth, Texas. Meanwhile, Benji pursues his dreams of becoming an architect. After graduation from medical school, in spite of more enticing and lucrative opportunities to settle in an urban community, Adam returns to Comanche, re-unites with Martha, and starts his medical practice. He doesn't realize the hostilities and personal threats he would face in bringing new concepts of medical treatment to a community served only by charlatans and untrained doctors. Adam must rely on his heritage of strength from the pioneer cattlemen of south Texas his Dos Encinos legacy to guide him through the strife he faces.

Trails to Dos Encinos
Trails to Dos Encinos

Author: Charles Clark

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0595278752

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Does everything happen for a reason? Sixteen-year-old SARAH LEVIN finds that particular idea hard to believe when she and her family are forced to flee their home in mid-19th century Germany for America. Tragedy strikes when a hurricane capsizes the ship, sending Sarah into a raging sea. Washed ashore, starving and alone, she staggers into a settlement in Mexico and collapses in the village's church. The priest and his custodian nurse her to health. Sarah's encounter with murderous bandits brings Charro Cisneros, a young rancher, to her rescue. Charro then volunteers to escort Sarah to America. In the course of the trip, Charro becomes enchanted by Sarah's beauty, resourcefulness, and courage. Meanwhile, she grows enamored by his rugged good looks and quiet competence, as well as his mischievous nature that matches her own. Charro and Sarah are drawn to each other by their unprofessed love but held apart by insurmountable barriers. On the verge of a breakdown and severe depression, Sarah undertakes a perilous journey back to Mexico and seeks closure on the loss of her parents. When Charro learns that Sarah has set off across the wild rangelands alone, he races after her. But, is he too late?

Beach to Nowhere
Beach to Nowhere

Author: Charles Clark

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-10-11

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1462046355

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Dallas Police Lieutenant, Vince Palter, accused of theft, misconduct, and suspected of murder, is determined to right the wrong that ruined his law-enforcement career. As a Deputy Sheriff in Corpus Christi, Texas, two years later, he is placed in a position of having to investigate a washed-ashore murder victim and finds that it is linked to the very scam responsible for the two year-old wrongful accusation. The FBIs involvement in the case leads to Vinces affiliation with an FBI Organized Crime Task Force Team assigned to investigate an international scheme involving nuclear missile solid-fuel that could jeopardize the security of the country and world peace. Compelled to perform in accordance with family tradition, after going undercover, he fights to preserve his relationship with his eighteen year-old son, with aspirations to follow in his fathers footsteps in law-enforcement.

Unveiled
Unveiled

Author: Perry L. Westmoreland

Publisher: LEE AND VANCE PUBLISHING CO

Published: 2007-04

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 0979324807

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Unveiled is a five hundred year old story about a beautiful Bedouin, Jasmine, and her relationship with her two sons. The older boy is a Moslem, who is half Sunni and half Shiite, and her younger son is a Christian. Religious terrorism currently hangs heavily upon men's hearts and minds. An advancement of one religious cult over another is not a suitable answer. We need to come to grips with this growing plague and understand the reasons for this fatal affliction. As reported in this tale of an ancient time, the causes of religious terrorism have more to do with the abuses of power by the world's governmental and spiritual leaders who encourage religious terrorism than with the religions themselves. Unveiled provides some of the reasons and explanations that can lead us to a solution to this dilemma facing our shrinking planet.

Encino Man
Encino Man

Author: Nicholas Edwards

Publisher: Scholastic

Published: 1992-06

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780590459785

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Dave Morgan has two wishes in life: to be Prom King and to go out with the chillin' Robyn Sweeney. Both look hopeless. Then Dave and his buddy Stoney dig up a real, live caveman in Dave's backyard.

The Immigrant
The Immigrant

Author: Charles Clark

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-03

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 0595474713

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All eleven-year-old Ignacio Narvaez and his parents wanted was a better life, even if they had to illegally enter the United States from Mexico to get it. But their dream was cut short when a fiery freeway crash results in both parents' death, leaving Ignacio grief-stricken and alone in America. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service attorney Megan Andrade takes a special interest in the child, and she and her friend Jeffrey Harrison manage to get custody of the boy. But all Ignacio wants is to return to his village in Mexico, where his sister Esmeralda waits. Hoping to help his cause, Ignacio gives a package he found at the accident site to Megan and Jeffrey. Unfortunately, a major drug cartel in northern Mexico wants the package back-and they'll do anything to get it. Megan and Jeffrey know they cannot let the contents of the package fall into the cartel's hands. But even more importantly, they must reunite brother and sister and bring healing to a broken family. From Texas to Mexico, the three make a journey fraught with danger, deadly secrets, and devastating betrayal. It is a journey that will threaten everything Megan holds dear-even her life.