San Antonio College Library

Volume 1: A novel, set in South Texas, that challenges the Lone Ranger story with a Chicano Superhero in the early 20th century. Mexican Tejano families have been living in South Texas for hundreds of years. The completed railroad has brought another wave of Anglo settlers seeking new lands by any means necessary. Chonnie's family has been murdered and Mexican Tejanos are being terrorized in the name of progress by a ruthless organization known as...

A collection exploring issues surrounding Mexican-American life. The title story is on two cousins who have a fight over a dead pig, but come to a sincere reconciliation, in Tina La Tinaca a woman grieving the death of her son grows so fat that when she dies an emergency crew must widen a door to remove the body, while The Circumstances Surrounding My Penis is on a boy's embarrassment in discovering a physical difference from others his age.

The story of Martin Brady, a paid "pistolero" with blood on his hands and torn between two ways of life.

When a rivalry between a white rancher and a Mexican cattle baron escalates to deadly levels, young Texas Ranger Andy Pickard teams up with former Confederate soldier Farley Brackett to prevent a violent showdown.

Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.

A tale of drug smuggling and murder on the Mexican border whose protagonist is Rafe Buenrostro, a Texas policeman. He discovers that some very respectable people are dealing in drugs. By the author of Partners in Crime.

"When Juan José Ramos and his family return home to Ramos (in South Texas) after picking cotton in West Texas, they find their daughter Chita leading a school boycott. At first Juan José argues that the children are wrong: because the students are protesting, the Anglos are denying work to their parents. But at a meeting of the school board and parents, Juan José suddenly stands up to tell the community things he never dared say before..."--P....

From the Publisher: It's the summer of 1998 and for five years over a hundred mangled and desecrated bodies have been found dumped in the Chihuahua desert outside of Juarez, Mexico, just across the river from El Paso, Texas. The perpetrators of the ever-rising number of violent deaths target poor young women, terrifying inhabitants on both sides of the border. El Paso native Ivon Villa has returned to her hometown to adopt the baby of Cecilia, a pregnant...

Even though he knows his best friend Artie is a liar, when the coincidences start to add up, seventh-grader Joshua starts to believe that there might be merit to his friend's idea of a body buried in the neighbor's yard.