Anything is possible in The Practice Room. Experiment, push your limits, and crawl into your dreams. You're invited on one woman's sensuous quest to achieve a mastery of a life she defines, not one dictated and imposed by an archaic, stale, failing status quo. Lightheartedly stumble with her through her shamelessly steamy, often dangerous, arguably elegant, encounters. Fantasy mingles with reality while joyful success as well as embarrassing mistakes are played out, corrected, transcended. Struggle isn't always sexy or kind when you find out the fairy tale lies but with practice you survive....

From the author of the Practice Room comes a sequel, Sneaker Wave, where sexual escapism reaches its climax and fear meets its match. Some are too afraid to leave; she was too terrified to stay. Linger too long and she'd surely be blindsided. Never again. No. Keep moving, never look back, never get hurt... But the past is never far behind, for each lover is no more than an incubus, a seductive manifestation of the very demons she is trying to keep at a distance. A chance (re)encounter with a soul as tormented as her own ignites an awakening. What kind of strange paradise is this mingling of...

Focusing on shopkeepers in Latino/a neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Dolores Trevizo and Mary Lopez reveal how neighborhood poverty affects the business performance of Mexican immigrant entrepreneurs.