Product Description: Our story continues as Anna's desires continue to control her actions. After sleeping with her murdered lover's best friend, they have a secret relationship that is exposed. Chaos ensues, a former lover returns and tensions are high...read more

Product Description: I'm sick of you punks, Micaela said. And I m warning you now. I'm going to get you for that murder! In the title story, the Latino community in East L.A. suffers horrible gang-related violence. Children are killed in the crossfire and young people use and sell drugs...read more

Product Description: Joseph and Walter Simons are ambitious entrepreneurs who, in the late nineteenth century, launch the Simons Brick Factory in Southern California. With the help of a Mexican who teaches them everything he knows about making bricks, the brothers build a life for themselves on the backs of the Mexicans who work the kilns...read more

Product Description: Three provocative plays by Cuban-American dramatist Alejandro Morales. Mixing gothic horror, humor and Lorquian homages, this collection is a bold look at new US Latino drama's possibilities. Prefaced by interview with award-winning playwright Caridad Svich

Product Description: Novel. Author of novels that include DEATH OF AN ANGLO, RETO EN EL PARAISO, THE BRICK PEOPLE and THE RAG DOLL PLAGUES, Morales currently teaches at U.C. Irvine. BARRIO ON THE EDGE presents contemporary barrio life through the eyes of two teenaged boys; avant-garde and politically engaged, the novel blends characters and voices, plays with time, and twists the narrative to create an image of an inner city in crisis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Time is cyclical and eternal, as a doctor and his descendats are condemned to enter into an ever-consuming battle with a mysterious plague in three separate moments in history: colonial Mexico, contemporary California and the next century in a newly emerged country...read more

Chronicles the growth of California due to the developments at the Simons Brick Factory from the nineteenth to the twentieth century

Product Description: Alejandro Morales's second novel, originally issued in Spanish as La verdad sin voz, is a fictionalized account of an idealistic young doctor's attempts to improve the lives of the Chicano residents of Mathis, Texas, in the early 1970s.

Product Description: Spanish-language edition