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During the Great Depression, the U.S. government illegally deported more than a million Mexican-American citizens to make room on the welfare rolls and alleviate unemployment for white Americans. Carlos Moreno is a young man who has known only hardship and poverty, chasing rumors of work across Texas during the 1920s. Pursued by a renegade Texas Ranger who thinks he holds the key to a secret, Carlos takes refuge in "Little Mexico," Houston's colorful, boisterous barrio. He picks the worst possible time to fall in love.As the U.S. launches its repatriation campaign, the ranger joins forces with Immigration agents to step up his personal manhunt. Now Carlos and his wife will have to rely on their courage and ingenuity to avoid a dragnet that will ensnare an entire population.
Return to Hardscrabble Road is the winner of the Literary Titan Book Award and Readers' Favorite Award Bronze Medal.
A favorite of book clubs throughout North America and now in Europe, Hardscrabble Road is a story of perseverance, an inspiring tale of getting through terrible times with heart, hope, and humor.
To what lengths will a woman go to save her family? Web-radio personality Bo Riccardi is pushed beyond her mental and physical limits when her husband, Oscar, is kidnapped by a man from her dark past. The abductor commands her to interview him live on her show, with Oscar's life on the line.Giving in, though, creates an endless nightmare for Bo, as Oscar's captor begins to destroy her career and alienate her from everybody she loves.Bo's secret asset is chromesthesia, seeing colorful shapes that reveal the intentions behind anyone's speech. She can literally watch what they say. But relying too much on this gift has compromised her, making her even less likely to rescue Oscar-and escape the guilt and shame that binds her to the kidnapper.
Janet Wright left tiny Graylee, Georgia, at age five, when her mother fled a destructive marriage. Now forty and reinventing herself aft er a failed engagement, Janet returns as the sole inheritor of her recently murdered father's valuable estate. Life should be easy, but she can't resist pulling at the threads of the apparently open-and-shut case. Before long, she finds herself tangled in Graylee's web of secrets, lies, and scandals-and in fear for her own life.
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