The Road to Esmeralda
The Road to Esmeralda

Author: Joy Nicholson

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2013-12-31

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1466861495

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From the author of The Tribes of Palos Verdes, a compelling new novel about a couple's getaway to a Mexican paradise that goes horribly wrong. Joy Nicholson's second novel, The Road to Esmeralda, is a dark, seductive story about Americans abroad. Fed up with their L.A. lives, Nick and Sarah decide to head south to Mexico. They are looking for something: love, self-fulfillment, inspiration, or even just peace of mind. However, as the roads get windier and the jungle thicker, this naïve pair realizes that all of the trappings of society-greed, drugs, violence and jealousy-exist even in the remotest of places. Even tiny Esmeralda has a secret agenda . . . While her prose remains hearfelt and spare, Nicholson, in The Road to Esmeralda, also reveals a political edge. In exploring the prejudices of a small Mexican town, she weaves a harrowing and tragic story of love, devastation, and what it means to be a young, intelligent American in a very angry world.

The Road to Esmeralda
The Road to Esmeralda

Author: Joy Nicholson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780312268633

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Seeking an escape from their lives in Los Angeles, lovers Nick and Sarah embark on what they hope will be a romantic adventure in the Mexican jungle but instead encounter a dangerous world of drugs, violence, and secret agendas.

Conquistadora
Conquistadora

Author: Esmeralda Santiago

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-07-10

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 030738859X

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As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in handsome twin brothers Ramon and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. Marrying Ramon at the age of eighteen, she travels across the ocean to Hacienda los Gemelos, a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited. But soon the Civil War erupts in the United States, and Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own in this epic novel of love, discovery and adventure.

The Tribes of Palos Verdes
The Tribes of Palos Verdes

Author: Joy Nicholson

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1998-08-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780312195328

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The friendship of a brother and sister in California, united by their love of surfing, but divided by their parents' crumbling marriage. Medina sides with the father, a doctor, Jim with the ex-model mother.

Esmeralda’S Web
Esmeralda’S Web

Author: J.R. Gonzalez

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2017-08-09

Total Pages: 896

ISBN-13: 1543438504

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During the Spanish Inquisition, two kids fall deeply in love and then are caught up in it. She is burned at the stake, and he is boiled in acid, but death isnt the end, merely a short stop of two hundred years. They then find themselves in Los Angeles, California, and they are facing the same enemy. This time, they might have a chance.

Las Mamis
Las Mamis

Author: Esmeralda Santiago

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2001-04-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 037572687X

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A marvelous new anthology from the editors of Las Christmas in which our most admired Latino authors share memories of their mothers. The women lovingly portrayed in Las Mamis represent a cross section of Latino life and culture. They come from rich families in the big cities of Latin America, from rural immigrant families, and from the worlds in between-and they share an extraordinary inner strength, often maintained against incredible odds. Pressed by conflicting cultural expectations, circumstance, and religion, they have managed the challenges of motherhood, leaving enduring legacies for their children. Now, in these vivid, poignant, and sometimes hilarious reminiscences-all of them infused with distinct sabor latino-Las Mamis celebrates the universality of family love and the special bond between mothers and children. Contributors include: Esmeralda Santiago, Piri Thomas, Marjorie Agosin, Junot Diaz, Alba Ambert, Liz Balmaseda, Mandalit del Barco, Gioconda Belli, Maria Escandon, Dagoberto Gilb, Francisco Goldman, Jaime Manrique, Gustavo Perez-Firmat, Ilan Stavans

The Legends of Capia
The Legends of Capia

Author: John M. Deckelmann

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1483696251

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Book II of The Legends of Capia series tells of twelve newly discovered ancient scrolls that may be found to be a missing segment of The Chronicles of the Capian Empire. This story is the first from among these scrolls which tell of life on the world of Monsro after the great plague. The adventure is only the beginning as Cassia-Ren finds herself obsessed with a legendary object that gives one visions of the future. She finds that this object is in the hands of an evil nightwalker queen who seeks to use its power to rule the world, threatening the peace in Nether World in the process. Five years after the devastation of the plague, the now Emperor Claudius Drudia shocks the public by naming a relatively unknown man to assume the throne of Capia after his death. This creates a storm of controversy as an assassination plot unfolds to rid the nation of this stranger. A Centurion General investigates a murder which eventually leads him to the discovery of the truth behind the Night Brigade and the existence of Nightwalkers. Join us in reading of a tale of intrigue and conspiracy among those that lead nations. They will find that their greatest enemy may not be across a border, but may actually be standing right next to themA tale that surely will have a little fact, a little fictionmixed with whatever you choose to believe.

Los Angeles Magazine
Los Angeles Magazine

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2005-06

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13:

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Los Angeles magazine is a regional magazine of national stature. Our combination of award-winning feature writing, investigative reporting, service journalism, and design covers the people, lifestyle, culture, entertainment, fashion, art and architecture, and news that define Southern California. Started in the spring of 1961, Los Angeles magazine has been addressing the needs and interests of our region for 48 years. The magazine continues to be the definitive resource for an affluent population that is intensely interested in a lifestyle that is uniquely Southern Californian.

Esmeralda
Esmeralda

Author: Betty Neels

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-04-16

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1459239709

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She was a most unlikely bride Esmeralda Jones was a sweet and pretty girl—easy to love. But sadly, she had always felt invisible to the opposite sex. Esmeralda often blamed her lack of romantic adventures on the impaired foot she had struggled with since childhood. So when the brilliant surgeon Thimo Bamstra offered to cure her, she was over the moon and quickly accepted. Much to her surprise, Thimo also managed to mend her broken heart. Esmeralda had never imagined marriage as part of her future, but now she could dream of little else….

Esmeralda's Christmas Visit to the Farm
Esmeralda's Christmas Visit to the Farm

Author: Cheryl Hixson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1304728544

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The Esmeralda books tell the stories of a mother and daughter who live in the city but love to visit the country farm where the child's grandmother lives. This is the second in the series of Esmeralda books. The tales originated as stories created by the author to entertain her grandchildren while they were riding in her car. They would sit quietly, completely enthralled with Esmeralda's adventures. The author could see their reactions in her rear view mirror as each story unfolded. "Nana, Esmeralda! Esmeralda!" would be heard from the back seat of the car soon after each journey began. The characters have become part of their family, and Esmeralda's adventures often cross their minds. The descriptions in the stories are inspired by four generations of the author's family, their animals, and moments they spent together. Simple tales of the love shared by a very special family.