A young boy takes good care of his pet chicken, and when she is grown up she gives him a surprise.

"This multiple viewpoint novel, set in El Paso, Texas, is a story of two families-one Mexican-American, one Anglo-who find themselves unexpectedly entangled with one another when each of their households separately implode. When the Mexican maid working in both houses begins to suspect that all is not what it seems, she is implicated in the unfolding of a web of mysteries, history, and border politics that forces all concerned to question their own...

Have you ever wondered why some people get nervous when they see a black cat or a broken mirror? Why are there events that we qualify as irrational, spiritual or superstitious? Would you like to know the historical load behind these events? So he reads on... "The superstition we were brought up with retains its power over us even when we come to disbelieve it."-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. In a reality where the meaning is yet to be determined, superstitions...

Gabriel dreads his first day at a new school, feeling he has nothing special to share with his class, but his grandmother has hidden something special in his backpack.

Bennie Shelton leaves familiar life on mountain to learn from strangers in the new town of Helen. She doesn't know if she can keep her past a secret, but must get little girl in school. She avoids town's new preacher as she helps prepare for rich Atlanta visitors, who use Helen train to visit amazing mountain sites. She acquires second daughter and wonders how she can keep promise to write to preacher. Bennie's oldest daughter is, left widow when...

REBEL IN VENUS takes place over one 'girl's night in' spent between best friends, Maria and Layla. Over the course of the witty and unexpected evening, Layla's memory is jolted, and her once carefully repressed past begins to return to her, triggering a sequence of events that ultimately jeopardizes Layla's unconventional life. In REBEL IN VENUS, the bold, and sometimes brutally honest stories that unfold, are filled with sexual revelations, high-school...