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Adventures in Wallyworld by J.R. Lewis
Gripping fact-based story of a journey from graveyard-shift janitor to General Store Manager, and recipient of the coveted "Store of the Year" award, in less than five years.
J.R. Lewis paints a clear and convincing picture of life as a Walmart "associate", the company's internal politics and about just how little say the store management team has on store operations.
This novel exposes many of the borderline illegal schemes of the world's number 1 retailer to control markets, receive corporate welfare, manipulate federal, state and local elections, remain Union free and avoid paying taxes.
A very interesting read, with hearty doses of humor and illicit "fraternization"
Pancho Villa in Afghanistan? by David Silva
Pancho Villa, the famous Mexican revolutionary, and Osama bin Laden, the infamous puppeteer behind the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, are the only two foreigners to attack the continental US with impunity.
In both cases, US troops were sent to capture and kill these aggressors. The "Punitive Expedition" invaded Mexico chasing Villa, without ever finding him. Afghanistan was invaded in a yet futile search of bin Laden.
Pancho Villa was never captured. Osama bin Laden is still free.
This well researched novel explores the similarities between the two men, following the newly appointed Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Afghanistan, whose mission is to successfully end the war: Mexican-born US General Francisco Villa, Pancho Villa's great-grandson.
An avid student of his great-grandfather, Gral. Villa applies his ancestor's strategy and tactics to capture bin Laden.
Who will emerge victorious? Pancho Villa through his great-grandson, or will Osama bin Laden strike again?
Uprooted by Alma Robinson
Entertaining novel about a family's adventures and misadventures when they decide to leave their frigid home North-of-Anywhere to move to a Tropical Paradise: Puerto Vallarta.
Fascinating read for anyone considering such a change. The main characters show us the emotional ups and downs of a move like this; as well as the seemingly endless tasks and procedures involved: from defining which accounts to cancel, and which to keep, and canceling services, to struggling with authorities and providers at their destination... and just to get there! In addition to determining which of their possessions are essential and which must be discarded.
A definitive guide for those coming back home and for those who just started calling Mexico home.
Salve Regina ...the Series continues
by Erica Fuentes & Annemarie Stonewater
Unholy Trinity
(Coming soon to your favorite bookseller.)
Unholy Trinity, loosely based on an intriguing true case, evolves from Marisa's pro bono defense of a purportedly innocent man accused of murder, into a frightening journey through a labyrinth of evil and deceit, the nucleus of which seems to point to an obscure parish church ministered by an enigmatic old priest with a special fondness for his young acolytes. Marisa involves her co-heroine, Erin, who brings in their unique clan of recurring support characters, including a semi-retired Jesuit monk licensed by the Vatican as an exorcist.
This terrifying and spellbinding tale affirms the predominance of true power ever prevailing over the overt corruption and vying struggle between the powers of Church and State, but only after many unexpected twists and turns into realms that shake the characters' veritable core of truth and faith.
Sacred Secrets
(Available Fall, 2011)
The story begins when Marisa finds herself in a quandary after bringing a few pre-Columbian artifacts back from Mexico; their provenance questionable, at best.
What begins as a prank evolves into a highly suspenseful escapade into the world of clandestine art trafficking that eventually leads the group to the unexpected discovery of the treasures amassed during the Jesuit missionary era in the Californias before their expulsion from New Spain in 1867.
The historical provenance and international treaties inherent to the questionable ownership of such treasures throw both countries into a legal battle with each other and against the Jesuits, while the group of characters follow their own agenda.
This novel is laced with the customary bantering among the cast of characters and humorous moments found throughout the series.
The Hunt Club
(The Adventure Begins)
a novel by Erica Fuentes
(Available Winter, 2011)
The Hunt Club is a mainstream novel of fiction revolving around a Mexican-American lawyer whom we first meet during one of her weekly outings in the Blue Ridge Mountains. When one of her front tires blows out on a steep and twisty road, a young state trooper stops to help her, and he quickly realizes that her tire has been slashed. This is only the first, and definitely the most benign of her adventures that develop from the disappearance of a young couple from the Ivy League university where her husband teaches Spanish literature. As a police and court reporter for the nations smallest newspaper, Marisas enthusiasm and natural curiosity lead her into a complicated murder investigation that unfolds into a terrifying ordeal involving toxic waste dumps and underground compounds; and terrifying human hunting involving a privately owned state correctional facility and top government officials.
The Hunt Club is the novel that inspired the series of masterfully written historical Church intrigues co-authored by two multi-published authors: Erica Fuentes and Annemarie Stonewater. In a unique middle-aged Mexican-American-meets-Native-American approach to finding their way through veritable labyrinths of Church and international intrigue, the two voices blend undetectably into one, as the characters themselves seem to tell the story.