epub |eng | | Author:Joshua Davis

OSCAR RETURNED to the robotics closet with a mix of excitement and fear. The anxiety he felt at the immigration checkpoint had dissipated, but the threat was still there. He ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Joan Biskupic [Biskupic, Joan]

NINE The President’s Choice A few weeks after Barack Obama’s November 2008 presidential election, he huddled with legal advisers in his Chicago transition office to thrash out priorities. The Supreme ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ojito, Mirta [Ojito, Mirta]

CHAPTER 8 A TORN COMMUNITY Mayor Paul Pontieri was reading the paper in his backyard when he received the call at about 10:30 a.m. It was a fine Sunday morning. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ojito, Mirta

CHAPTER 8 A TORN COMMUNITY Mayor Paul Pontieri was reading the paper in his backyard when he received the call at about 10:30 a.m. It was a fine Sunday morning. ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-26 | Author:Luis J. Rodriguez [Rodríguez, Luis J.]

Chapter Six “There are choices you have to make not just once, but every time they come up.” —Chente IT STARTS WITH A dream. This dream creeps beyond others of ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2009-07-30 | Author:William T. Vollmann [Vollmann, William T.]

Welcome to the Coachella Valley. Desert scrub is the dominant habitat here, but the influences of nearby agriculture, urbanization and natural and ornamental oases add to the richness of the ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-25 | Author:Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

rubies, and sapphire, and other precious stones, and pearls, and any articles of dress decorated with precious stones, and belts, and golden chains, and golden vessels, and silver ones, and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2008-02-13 | Author:Luis Alberto Urrea [Urrea, Luis Alberto]

The cutters know many things about a person by the nature of his tracks. They learned something about Mendez and his pollos in the days to come. Mendez always walked ...

mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Marie Arana

THE EARTH WAS always moving in those days. Pachamama was temperamental, moody, shifting her weight heavily beneath us, tossing from side to side. My mother and father were pricked with ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-03 | Author:Esmeralda Santiago

Mami talked to Doña Andrea. She smiled and nodded her head and smiled again. When Doña Andrea handed her a pot full of chickpeas with pig’s feet, Mami didn’t want ...

mobi |eng | 2004-04-02 | Author:Luis Alberto Urrea

The cutters know many things about a person by the nature of his tracks. They learned something about Mendez and his pollos in the days to come. Mendez always walked ...