An Adventurous Life(Collection of Tales from Daily Life) Life is never easy but specially so when your born in a boxcar in the center of a railroad siding in the Great Depression. Add in the fact the Dust Bowl is flooding the air your can hardly breathe to survive each day. Being from the other side of the tracks is hard enough, try being from off the tracks themselves. Growing up is a constant battle to be accepted and finding success.

A terrifying sea creature emerges from the deep to hunt for human prey in this debut monster thriller by the author of Resurrection Pass. Deep beneath the ice of the Arctic Circle, something has awakened. A primordial creature frozen in time, it is the oldest, largest, most efficient predator that nature has ever produced. And it is ravenously hungry… Thirty-five miles off the Massachusetts coast, a small research ship is attacked. All but one of its crew is killed by the massive serpentine horror that rises from the sea. Now the creature knows the taste of human prey. And it wants more… Responding to a distress signal, fishing-boat captain Brian Hawkins arrives in time to save the ship's last survivor. But the nightmare is just beginning. A casino cruise ship carrying high-stakes passengers--and a top-secret cargo--becomes the creature's next target. Desperate but determined, Hawkins goes after the biggest catch of the century. But there's something he didn't count on: There's more than one…

ñI tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? YouÍre so good and yet you suffer so much,î a young boy tells his mother in Tomàs RiveraÍs classic novel about the migrant worker experience. Outside the chicken coop that is their home, his father wails in pain from the unbearable cramps brought on by sunstroke after working in the hot fields. The young boy canÍt understand his parentsÍ faith in a god that would impose such horrible suffering, poverty and injustice on innocent people. Adapted into the award-winning film ƒand the earth did not swallow him and recipient of the first award for Chicano literature, the Premio Quinto Sol, in 1970, RiveraÍs masterpiece recounts the experiences of a Mexican-American community through the eyes of a young boy. Forced to leave their home in search of work, the migrants are exploited by farmers, shopkeepers, even other Mexican Americans, and the boy must forge his identity in the face of exploitation, death and disease, constant moving and conflicts with school officials. In this new edition of a powerful novel comprised of short vignettes, Rivera writes hauntingly about alienation, love and betrayal, man and nature, death and resurrection and the search for community.

"I tell you, God could care less about the poor. Tell me, why must we live here like this? What have we done to deserve this? You're so good and yet you suffer so much," a young boy tells his mother in Tomas Rivera's classic novel about the migrant worker experience. Outside the chicken coop that is their home, his father wails in pain from the unbearable cramps brought on by sunstroke after working in the hot fields. The young boy can't understand his parents' faith in a god that would impose such horrible suffering, poverty and injustice on innocent people. Adapted into the award-winning film ]€]and the earth did not swallow him and recipient of the first award for Chicano literature, the Premio Quinto Sol, in 1970, Rivera's masterpiece recounts the experiences of a Mexican-American community through the eyes of a young boy. Forced to leave their home in search of work, the migrants are exploited by farmers, shopkeepers, even other Mexican Americans, and the boy must forge his identity in the face of exploitation, death and disease, constant moving and conflicts with school officials. In this new edition of a powerful novel comprised of short vignettes, Rivera writes hauntingly about alienation, love and betrayal, man and nature, death and resurrection and the search for community.

You may picture a bully as a muscular high school kid wearing a letterman jacket, who enjoys picking on the smaller kids or someone writing offensive comments to someone online. Bullies may also wear scrubs, carry stethoscopes, give medications, care for the sick, and call themselves nurses. Bullies may also be sick patients and family members of the sick patients. Bree, a new nurse at Shady Oaks Assisted Living Facility, soon learns that her new nursing job feels a lot like she stepped back into high school. Shady Oaks is full of gossiping, fights, cliques, medication errors, and unprofessionalism. Bree realizes that some nurses have a can't sit with us mentality, and Sadie and a few other nurses are exactly that way. Sadie, a more seasoned nurse, has been a nurse for over twenty years and enjoys whipping new nurses into shape, even if it means getting them fired. Lou, a new patient at Shady Oaks Assisted Living Facility is determined to get out of the nursing home and back to her husband, even if it means kicking, hitting, and spitting on nurses. Shady Oaks Assisted Living Facility is picturesque on the outside, but a disaster on the inside. From nurses fighting to the patients trying to escape, Shady Oaks is falling apart. Bree is trying to earn her seat at the nursing table, Sadie is trying to keep her seat at the nursing table or one day be at the head of it, and Lou just want to be at her own table. Can't Sit With Us is a story told through the eyes and minds of Bree, Sadie, and Lou. This is a story about how nurses devour their young.

To save her betrothed's father, Lorena makes a deal with a notorious prince which reveals her hidden powers and sets her on a journey to better understand both her secret abilities and the dangers facing the nation.