When Elena and her little brother, Carlos, leave their Mexican seaside village to search for their immigrant father in Los Angeles, they encounter intrigue, crime, mystery, friendship, and love.

When Elena and her little brother, Carlos, leave their Mexican seaside village to search for their immigrant father in Los Angeles, they encounter intrigue, crime, mystery, friendship, and love.

When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, reluctantly moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.

âThe Best Places to Stay in Playa Blanca, Lanzaroteâ in this book we take an in depth look at the best places to stay when on holiday in Playa Blanca, Lanzarote.Selected from more than 2,000 places to stay, these distinct hotels are rated by well-traveled and demanding individuals, whose varied perspectives will help travelers to choose a retreat that suits their mood and budget.The editors of âThe Best Places to Stay in Playa Blanca, Lanzaroteâ combine their own research with comments from regular contributors and hundreds of volunteer correspondents to help them find the finest accommodation of comfort, and value throughout Playa Blanca, Lanzarote.

In the religious prison of 1730s Lanzarote, Milago is a victim of her desires. Outcast, pregnant, she suffers the cruelties of her lover's family when a volcano ravages the island and their lives. Driven by love for her son and by her own wild sensuality, Milagro is caught in a spiral as cruel as the fiery death delivered by the volcano's lava.

There has been a dramatic increase in the amount of narrative work published by Chicana and Latina authors in the past 5 to 10 years. Nonetheless, there has been little attempt to catalog this material. This reference provides convenient access to all forms of narrative written by Chicana and Latina authors from the early 1940s through 2002. In doing so, it helps users locate these works and surveys the growth of this vast body of literature. The volume cites more than 2,750 short stories, novels, novel excerpts, and autobiographies written by some 600 Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, and Nuyorican women authors. These citations are grouped in five indexes: an author/title index, title/author index, anthology index, novel index, and autobiography index. Short annotations are provided for the anthologies, novels, and autobiographies. Thus the user who knows the title of a work can discover the author, the other works the author has written, and the anthologies in which the author's shorter pieces have been reprinted, along with information about particular works.

When sixteen-year-old Caro Torres goes to help her Tia Matilda at her bed-and-breakfast in Two Sands, California, she ends up also helping her aunt fend off the attempts of her ex-husband to buy the property and steal the treasures that are hidden there.