Barrio Princess: Growing Up In Texas is a heart-warming, true-life tale by Consuelo Samarripa. Chronicling the author’s life before adulthood, this autobiographical work looks at the ups and downs of being raised as a Mexican-American, largely in the Texas and Alabama areas. The book is...

Birdbrain by Virginia Arthur is a sweeping semi-autobiographical chronicle (the author states in the foreword that many of the book’s events actually happened) of the life of a birder biologist/conservationist whose journey takes her to some of America’s most biologically diverse and unspoiled places. Protagonist...

Charity Bright is on the cusp of change - she had never really taken time for courtship because she always felt her dad needed her at home to help with her brothers and take care of the home. She had made a promise to herself...

In "Back to Blood", Tom Wolfe tells a complex tale of modern Miami with all of its racial, social, and cultural conflicts. The story focuses on the lives of two young Cubans struggling to rise above the constraints of their circumstances. They start out as...

There are books written that draw the reader in to read each and every word, and "Born in Rio" is one of those! It is 2007 and Rita Ray is a New York executive who lives and breathes her job. Then she receives a phone...

In this third book of the series, Author Whitney LeBlanc goes to the third generation of A Louisiana Creole family who has struggled to come of age after a history of conflict and racism. The two grandchildren of Martha Broussard are now grown and looking...

This story begins in a tea room at a museum. The people listened closely as he told the story of the Starwatchers and Boann. Theirs was a simple society. They were concerned because foreigners were moving in. their Pikes would be useless against the weapons...