Bøger af Diana Leon Clark

"I won't give up on us, Barbara. Not today, not tomorrow, not with my last breath."Barbara Baines Allen has finally gotten the life she wants--a great job, a comfortable home in southern California, and friends she can count on. Her classes on familicide and family dynamics are always full, and she's confident she'll move up to Associate Professor in two or three years. The only fly in the ointment is her occasional court appearances as an expert witness in indigenous familicide. One case brings her into the orbit of an annoyed FBI agent who doesn't appreciate her torpedoing two of his cases. Her superior takes a more tolerant view and a second look at Barbara. Later, on the run from the Mexican mafia and rogue FBI agents, Barbara faces a hard truth. Sometimes, you can't control everything. Maybe you can never control anything.

"Write what you know." But what if that could get someone you love in trouble? Alexandria McCall has a big problem. Everyone close to her knows exactly what her future should look like--everyone except her. Determined to find that future on her own, Alex takes a small bequest from a favorite aunt and flees to southern Spain. There, she encounters a talented and reclusive Spanish musician determined to help her find that future. Determined to focus on her writing, Alex now has another decision to make. Does her future lie in Spain or the United States? As always, she will lead with her heart.

"Mysteries, like great beauty, sometimes reveal themselves slowly." Beauty starts within. That is the message Peter Vilaro gently delivers to young Lizzie Vitale, his troubled thirteen-year-old neighbor. Pere's faith in her future and his tender support for Lizzie, who is bullied at school and unappreciated at home, transcends his sudden death. As she matures, Lizzie, now Liz, carries her warm memories of the old man with her to Chapel Hill, where she manages an international database. Her quick intelligence and skills as a researcher prove useful as she tries to discover what happened to her friend more than a decade earlier. Befriended by the old man's nephew, Lluc Toset, Liz gradually unravels the secrets surrounding her beloved Pere's death. But this isn't the only mystery in Peter Vilaro's life. Lluc now knows why his famous uncle left Spain and where he went, but other questions remain. Unwilling to share his concerns with a woman he's come to love, Lluc returns to Spain to tackle his fears alone, leaving behind a grieving Liz.

"Money, Douglas, money and power. That's what oil and gas is all about. Why should I worry if a few lousy field workers get sick?" Problems with radiation in the oil and gas industry is the last thing on geologist Cherlynn Rodgers mind as she begins her new job at the Museum of Northern Arizona. All that changes, however, when a brash field geologist seeks the advice of his former professor, a summer geologist-in-residence at the museum. Despite her initial dislike for the irritating fieldman, Cherlynn soon joins the two Texans in a search for ways to make the lives of David Piper's men safer. It isn't long before their own safety becomes a concern as Cherlynn learns just how ruthless powerful men with a lot to lose can be.

"Sometimes, democracy must be bathed in blood." General Augusto Pinochet A young Jesuit priest returns to Chile and a politically divided Catholic Church. After a violent military coup, his bishop assigns Alejandro the task of guiding and protecting the women of a church-sponsored workshop. At first reluctant to waste his time with lower-class women, Father Saavedra soon discovers their extraordinary courage and unexpected wisdom. He also comes to admire the beauty of the arpilleras, or tapestries, they create to protest the violence of General Pinochet's regime and its personal toll on their lives.. The women of the Holy Rosary workshop, brutally frank and disrespectful of all authority, gradually form a family with Father Saavedra and the three upper-class women who assist them in surprising ways. For nearly seventeen years, young or old, they share their personal stories, learn from each other, and fight against a government determined to incarcerate or kill anyone who opposes or criticizes them and quash their own countrymen's struggle for human dignity.