Raw, brutal, savage story of a terrifying childhood. Young Victor Alameda, along with his five siblings, has to endure years of violent beatings, hunger, neglect, abuse, insults, and abandonment in a toxic home with pathological parents too violent and irresponsible for the proper care of children. As a young adult Victor thinks he has finally escaped from the true hell that was home, only to slowly realize that the seeds of depraved madness are already deep inside his soul, sprouting one at a time as he meets the challenges of life. Yet the greatest challenge he must face is to confront the...

Tangerine Tales es una recopilacion de mas de 50 micro-relatos que llevan al lector al mundo de los diversos suenos y pesadillas del autor. Son fantasias con toques oscuros con los que todos se podran identificar."

A devastating seaquake at the Marianas Trench deep in the Pacific Ocean takes hundreds of thousands of lives, and produces a gargantuan tsunami that engulfs major portions of nations in its path. A week earlier, the U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Base in Groton, CT, had received an urgent communication predicting the seaquake to the minute. Why had the American military not taken action? After the prediction proves to be deadly accurate as to location, date, and time, Navy intelligence officers Troy Hamilton and Karla Bloomfield are immediately dispatched to London to investigate the source of...

The harrowing story of a Latina single mother struggling between two cultures, who discovers the terrible secrets of her childhood, and the real reason her mother suddenly disappeared nineteen years earlier without a trace. Olivia Cervantes fights against the crushing effects of psychological shock, and ruthless social forces, to maintain her emotional sanity and to support her young daughter. But in the midst of her valiant efforts, she subsequently comes under a vicious and humiliating attack by the State, a defining battle she must win at all costs and by any means, because losing is...

The American Dream means many things to many people, but in general it can be said that it connects the idea of freedom to the opportunity for prosperity and upward social mobility.
Sandra L. Hanson and John K. White have joined together with a group of social scientists to explore the attitudes, experiences, and expectations of Latinos in their quest for the American Dream. The Latino/a American Dream asks many timely questions, including: how do Latino/as view the American Dream? Has the recent economic downturn affected their hopes of achieving the Dream? What about recent...