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.

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.

Among the most tumultuous conflicts of modern America is the war over legal and undocumented immigrants currently residing within U.S. borders. Since the passing of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act, America has witnessed an unprecedented flow of immigrants onto its shores, with increased diversity of race and culture. Battleground: Immigration examines the most critical issues surrounding immigration today, including effects on the economy, education, and employment, as well as the viability of the foreign-born in American society. All sides of the immigration debate are explored in this comprehensive 2-volume set, with special weight given to the very specific issues that have arisen in post-9/11 America: homeland security and border control, 9/11's impact on legislation and civil liberties; the Department of Homeland security and its role in border control; transnational organized crime, human smuggling and trafficking; and post 9/11 border control and security impact on immigration. With direct ties to the curriculum, this set is a valuable resource for students of sociology, current events, American history, political science, ethnic studies, and public policy.

After suddenly being orphaned, twelve-year-old Consuelo reluctantly moves in with her American grandmother while hoping to return soon to her Mexican American family. Consuelo, a recent arrival in Los Angeles, becomes involved in finding the criminals who are committing mysterious local robberies. Intrigue & danger weave a web around young Consuelo as she is thrust into a new life in unfamiliar surroundings & an exciting mystery that begs to be resolved.