Download or read book White Leg written by Max MartÕnez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1996-03-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Leg, Texas, is becoming a dangerous place. Especially for Gil Blue, a small-time criminal who suddenly has a price on his head. The local police, the FBI and the Texas Rangers want him behind bars. The town boss and his badass hit man, Flaco, want him dead. So does a swarm of out-of-town killers. Set up to take a hard fall, Gil must survive in a town where no one wants him alive. Told with mordant wit, this classic tale of betrayal and revenge takes more twists and turns than a Texas tornado as it rushes to a climactic and shocking finish. With White Leg, MartÕnez has thrillingly updated a uniquely American genre.
Download or read book written by April Thomas and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is filled with intrigue, romance, humor and adventure. The story is about a young couple named Max and Mei who are destined to be together. When Mei discovers that she is pregnant her life immediately gets turned around and, now she is in a place she would never have imagined. Max is a young aristocrat coming from a wealthy family, and has seen his fair share of evil. Max could care less about his life until he first laid eyes on Mei Gordon at the local youth center. Although he was not yet old enough to even understand girls he knew in his heart one day she would be his. Now in their junior year of High school Max is losing hope on ever being with Mei as an unconscious last resort Max calls to her but, will she answer.
Download or read book Short Fiction By Hispanic Writers of the United States written by Nicol‡s Kanellos and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States includes representative works by the most celebrated Cuban-American, Mexican-American and Puerto Rican writers of short fiction in the country. The texts cover a full range of expression, themes and styles of US Hispanics and are introduced by informative entries which place the authors in their cultural and historic frameworks. In these pages, the reader will not find picturesque, folksy or touristy renditions of Hispanic culture. Instead, Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States brings together works that are clear, incisive and authentic representations of Hispanic life in the United States. The selections are as diverse as Hispanic culture itself and as varied as the personalities of their authors. Here are Max Mart’nezÕs outrageous challenge of racial and social structures, Roberta Fern‡ndezÕs construction of Hispanic womenÕs aesthetics, Roberto Fern‡ndezÕs subversion of the English language, Nicholasa MohrÕs humorous attack on patriarchy, and Judith Ortiz CoferÕs poetic evocation of childhood and biculturalism. This collection engages in aesthetic and cultural experience that will result in a re-defined canon and a new identity for the country as whole. They are re-focusing our perception of ourselves as a people and a culture. The pressure and the commitment to do so, of course, make for excellence and innovation in literary expression. It also makes for enjoyable reading. Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States is recommended for the general fiction reader and for use in high school and college literature classes in search of a multicultural perspective.
Download or read book California Court of Appeal 2nd Appellate District Records and Briefs written by California (State). and published by . This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number of Exhibits: 10
Download or read book The Face of Satan written by Carroll Silvera and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Face of Satan By: Carroll Silvera They're on the most dangerous hunt of their lives. When the FBI gets called in to look into the disappearance of a young woman, no one expects the case to lead to something bigger. But as more and more disappearances are uncovered, suspicions lead to a human trafficking ring and a serial killer. Time is limited and they have to act fast ...but will it be fast enough?
Download or read book Schoolland written by Max Martinez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1988-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schoolland depicts the daily life of a Mexican American family in rural Texas during the year of a great drought in the 1950Ís. Struggles with nature and society form the backdrop for the eternal tale of a child coming of age as his grandfather is waning. Rural life, dialects and family conflicts are all rendered poetically and with the authenticity of having been born and raised in Schoolland, Gonzales, Smiley, Texasas was MartÕnezand with the modern, critical eye of having returned to the family farm to examine the pastas did MartÕnez. We are all, consequently, enriched by this portrayal of Texas Mexican life as it has never before appeared in American literature.
Download or read book Layover written by Max Martinez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Max Martinez once again finds murder and mayhem in the central Texas farm country featured in his tour-de-force White Leg. Here, a young, educated and hip Priscilla Arrabal had unwittingly become embroiled in a life threatening game of hide-and-seek with the police and an amoral killer. Her gradual awakening to her increasingly dangerous predicament makes for a suspenseful and surprise-filled read, one that regales readers with colorful characters, unexpected turns of plot and an unforgettable sampling of Texas back-country culture.
Download or read book Agricultural Appropriations for 1953 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Indiana College Mathematics Competition 2001 2023 written by Adam Coffman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oversight of Census Awareness and Community Outreach Programs for the 1990 Census written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Government Information and Regulation and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climatological Data for the United States by Sections written by and published by . This book was released on 1956-12 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Dogs written by Benjamin Blackie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An UNRIVALLED and CONCEALED EVIL has returned. In 1597, Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake; Captains of the infamous Sea Dogs, commenced a secret crusade for Queen Elizabeth I to vanquish a demonic evil, from which they never returned... The DOGS are BACK! In 1944, Captain Jensen Singer and the infantrymen of Dog Company will dare to finish that crusade and face the demons buried beneath layers of history. But to complete this mission... EVERYBODY. MUST. DIE. The soldiers of Dog Company are heroic and fearless.They thought they had seen it all after surviving the shocking events of Operation Carnage... they are about to discover, it was merely practice. In order to kill this wicked and potent new evil, they must all be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice in a scuttle big enough to leave no survivors - not even history. Every Dog has its day. Theirs starts NOW.
Download or read book The Skyscraper that Flew and Other Stories written by JesÏs Salvador TreviÐo and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2005-09-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ñArroyo Grande is an ordinary town where unusual things sometimes happen,î Choo Choo Torres tells his friends. Indeed, this little West Texas town proves to be a place where unusual things often happen. From an enormous crystal skyscraper that mysteriously appears in the middle of the Arroyo Grande SluggersÍ baseball fielda midnight media shower that inspires a pachanga, complete with music and concessions in an abandoned parking lota sudden shift in the whole townÍs circadian rhythms, keeping everyone up at night and asleep during the daya repair shop in town that boasts ñWe Fix Anythingî in the window and even extends the offer to broken heartsthis collection of short stories brims with offbeat events. In this, the sequel to The Fabulous Sinkhole and Other Stories, JesÏs Salvador TreviÐo once again populates his hamlet with a lively community. ThereÍs Chicas Patas, a zoot-suited newcomer who speaks a 1940s-era slang; Yoli Mendez, a spunky teen who steals the show by performing quadratic equations in her head; Ed Carillo and Mayor Al Snyder, local politicians who seize every opportunity to campaign; and, a bevy of other interesting and unique citizens of Arroyo Grande.
Download or read book Brown eyed Children of the Sun written by George Mariscal and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad study of the Chicano/a movement in the Viet Nam War era.
Download or read book Boxing in Black and White written by Andrew Lindsay and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional sports in America offer numerous examples of equal opportunity and broken down racial barriers. These developments call for pride and celebration. Yet skin color continues to have an influence in how Americans experience sport. From Al Campanis' statement about the under-representation of blacks in baseball front offices to the almost exclusively white ownership of professional teams, one sees that sports, though admirably more equitable than other societal institutions, are hardly a colorblind American pursuit. Choosing the racially charged sport of boxing for investigation, the author has compiled dozens of statistics measuring whether or not America's racial majority still yearns for a white champion--a Great White Hope. Drawing upon data from The Ring Magazine and its annual record books, this study endeavors to bolster or refute the popular perception in boxing circles that white fighters of lesser ability are helped along to their sports elite level, as a result of being promotional gold in the eyes of the public.
Download or read book VALDEZ S BARTERED BRIDE written by Takako Hashimoto and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I can't lose my heart to an arrogant millionaire… Lydia discovers that she was used as collateral for a loan by her missing father. In exchange for the huge debt her father incurred, she's supposed to marry Raul, the arrogant millionaire who once insulted her. He looks at Lydia with the same cool eyes as before and proposes a contractual marriage for two years, threatening to seize her beloved grandmother's house if she does not accept. When Lydia accepts his terms, Raul takes her to Madrid and kisses her passionately in front of the media, publicizing their marriage!
Download or read book Spirit written by Anthony Head and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he lay bleeding in a Vietnamese rice paddy, his right arm shredded by shrapnel, artist Jesse Treviño realized that he wanted to honor and preserve his family and his cultural heritage through his artwork. After receiving a Purple Heart and undergoing two years of rehabilitative therapy and the amputation of his right forearm—including his painting hand—Treviño enrolled in San Antonio College, determined to learn how to draw and paint with his left hand. In 1974 he produced the impressive La Historia Chicana, a one hundred-foot-long work embracing six centuries of Mexican American heritage now on display inside the Sueltenfuss Library at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio. Since then, Treviño has completed many more paintings and public artworks, including Spirit of Healing, the nine-story hand-cut tile mosaic that graces Christus Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital in downtown San Antonio. His work has been collected by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, and the San Antonio Museum of Art. Anthony Head’s sensitive and elegant biography now offers readers an intimate view of the artist’s life. Head captures Treviño’s determination, artistic vision, and the deep pride in his Chicano heritage that he transmits to the world through his creations. Spirit: The Life and Art of Jesse Treviño promises to engage and inspire readers with its vivid portrayal of this triumph of art and the human spirit.
