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Pelo bueno, pelo malo    by Carmen L. Montañez
Price: $9.99 USD. 26690 words. Published by Terranova Editores on December 11, 2009. .

Premiada por el PEN CLUB de PR Pelo bueno, pelo malo inscribe a la autora en el árbol genealógico de las grandes escritoras caribeñas. Las hablantes de esta novela, vienen a ser voces arquetípicas que se conjugan en la personaje principal como si todas fueran una sola. Los cambios de perspectiva narrativa metaforizan la ambigüedad inherente en la hibridez caribeña.
Embrace the Rain: A Novel    by Michael Holloway Perronne
Price: $4.95 USD. 41260 words. Published by Chances Press, LLC  on June 2, 2010. .

Critically acclaimed novelist and Mississippi native, Michael Holloway Perronne explores how a forbidden teen romance and the violent act of a desperate boy forever binds a community in post-Katrina coastal Mississippi.
Bloody Twist: A Lupe Solano Mystery    by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
Price: $4.99 USD. 100960 words. Published on July 19, 2010. .

Bloody Twist is the seventh novel in the Bloody Series (three murders per book or your money is refunded) featuring Lupe Solano, the Cuban-American private investigator who lives and works in Miami. Two years after having been shot, (Bitter Sugar), Lupe is back on the job, helping Tommy MacDonald, Miami’s premiere criminal defense attorney and sometime lover.
Patuto: Ya Soy Grande    by Roberto Avaria
Price: $0.99 USD. 25130 words. Published on September 6, 2010. .

Patuto es una novela para los padres que todavía conservan el alma de un niño. Volverán a ser inocentes y curiosos a través de los ojos de Patuto. Los hará reír a carcajadas, los hará reflexionar con su lógica infantil y se sentirán parte de sus aventuras. Ambientada a fines de los setenta´s, cuando el mundo era más simple, sin Internet, ni videojuegos.
Spanish Simple & Easy!    by D. DeJuan Turner
Price: $6.99 USD. 11860 words. Published on October 28, 2010. .

Have you read other spanish language books or listened to cassettes and CD’s that promise quick learning but you still cannot say much more than ‘hola’ (hello)? If so, this is the only book you need! SPANISH SIMPLE & EASY will teach you to speak, read, and write spanish more clearly and directly than any other publication out there. This book also serves as an excellent reference guide.
And Justice For All: The Story Of Cesar Chavez    by Waln Brown
Price: $4.99 USD. 4830 words. Published on January 5, 2011. .

Cesar Chavez was born in Arizona. At age 10, Cesar's family lost their 160 acre homestead, when a long drought forced a public sale of their farm. The Chavez family moved to California to join the many migrant workers who roamed from farm to farm. Cesar became a labor leader for the National Farm Workers Association, helping to improve wages and conditions for America's migrant workers.
Contraband    by Charlie Vázquez
Price: $4.99 USD. 66210 words. Published by Rebel Satori Press  on April 1, 2011. .

This riveting work of Latino noir follows the paranoid underworld exile of Volfango Sanzo, a man so haunted by his secrets that he escapes to sprawling networks of underground tunnels and labyrinths in near-future America—where dissidents and “lunars” seek refuge from the smoldering ruins of a nation plagued by a deadly civil war and revolution.
Along the River: An Anthology of Voices from the Rio Grande Valley    by David Bowles
Price: $4.59 USD. 35480 words. Published by VAO Publishing  on May 4, 2011. .

These unique voices combine in a harmony of Mexican and American, of magical and ordinary, of tragedy and triumph. From established writers to emerging talents, the contributors to this volume represent the depth and beauty of a community that is just beginning to make itself heard. Featuring the short story "The Time About the Dog" by Álvaro Rodríguez, co-screenwriter of Machete and Shorts.
Naked in Detroit    by J Hacker
Price: $0.99 USD. 70850 words. Published on June 16, 2011. .

A strong-willed Nordic beauty, Frista Hiimstead, uses her contract seaplane pilot skills to launch a medical mission of revenge against an insane gaggle of Colombian drug-lords who threaten her lover, and her Mafia benefactor. Set in South Florida and the out-back islands of the Caribbean,Frista must use her wit, her guile, seduction and her handy supply of high explosives to make justice prevail.
Portcoma    by Daniel Sandoval
Price: $0.99 USD. 67170 words. Published on June 20, 2011. .

Isolated from his nation of Portcoma, 16 year old Lino watches his father create a new animal species which blows open the doors for desert colonization. Unveiled by this creation are organized threats that will shake the foundation of a forgotten tribal people ready to reclaim their land of what once was the western United States.