Half-Cherokee Marquitta "Skeet" Bannion thought she was leaving her troubles behind when she fled the stress of being the highest ranking woman in the Kansas City Police Department. Moving to a small town to be chief of the campus police force, she builds a life outside of police work. She might even begin a new relationship with the amiable Brewster police chief. All of this is threatened when the student editor of the college newspaper is found murdered on campus. Skeet must track down the kil...
It is 1957 in Marianao, a suburb of Havana. Adela Santiago is 13 years old and lives in a small blue house with her mother, father, brother, and grandfather. And yet something is amiss. The students on her street are disappearing. Not only that but her parents' marriage seems to be disintegrating and her cousin is caught up in a bombing at the Hotel Nacional. Welcome to a world where a revolution is brewing. Welcome to Cuba.
*NOW A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME*'Breathtaking... I haven't been so entirely consumed by a book for years' Telegraph'I'll never stop thinking about it' Ann PatchettFEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE.Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is an unforgettable story of a mother and son's attempt to cross the US-Mexico border. Described as 'impossible to put down' (Saturday Review) and 'essential reading' (Tracy Chevalier), it is a story that will leave you utterly change...
Friday Night Chicas
by Mary Castillo, Caridad Pineiro Scordato, Berta Platas, and Sofia Quintero
"Friday Night Chicas" is a collection of four flirty novellas. Set in New York City, Miami's South Beach, downtown Chicago, and L.A., these stories explore dating, marriage, friendship, and sex, through the eyes of four different Latina women. "Friday Night in L.A" by Mary Castillo. Isela Harris, with an invitation to the hottest charity event in-hand, is determined to meet director extraordinaire Tyler Baxter. "Friday Night in South Beach" by Caridad Peneiro. It's Tori Rodriguez's thirtieth bir...