La joya de Laura

Jose Antonio Villarreal illuminates here the world of pochos, Americans whose parents come to the United States from Mexico. Set in Depression-era California, the novel focuses on Richard, a young pocho who experiences the intense conflict between loyalty to the traditions of his family's past and attraction to new ideas. Richard's struggle to achieve adulthood as a young man influenced by two worlds reveals both the uniqueness of the Mexican-American experiences and its common ties with the struggles of all Americans--whatever their past.

Gideon is a lonely, horny young Englishman who arrives in Paris to take up a teaching post in the local Berlitz, and becomes increasingly fascinated by the intoxicating atmosphere of erotic banter and bragging in the school's all-male and virtually all-gay common room. The moment has surely arrived for him, too, to overcome his own chronic timidity and actually do what he has only ever dared fantasize about. Yet Gideon has a secret - one he is prepared to share with nobody but the reader, a secret he is finally obliged to confront, with surprising results.

Habiendo en juego la adquisición de una nueva empresa, Giannis Gekas se vio en la necesidad de deshacerse de su reputación de playboy, y para ello nada mejor que reclutar a la hermosa Ava Sheridan y que ella se hiciera pasar por su prometida. Pero, tras las puertas cerradas, ¡la atracción que sentían el uno por el otro podía calificarse de todo menos de falsa! Que Ava intentase mantener en secreto las consecuencias de su pasión lo puso verdaderamente furioso y, para legitimar a su hijo, solo le dejó una opción: ¡hacer de ella su esposa!

Caleb Tanner, a British detective on the trail of a French spy, takes a position as a stable groom on the estate of famed courtesan Gabriella Durant, whose protégé and niece, Vermillion, is one of Caleb's prime suspects. Finding herself both captivated and infuriated by this arrogant, attractive man, Vermillion promises herself that she shall not stray from her duty to the line of courtesans in her family. But the passion that each has provoked in the other cannot be ignored, not even by two such masters of the art of deception. Caleb Tanner, un oficial británico que está cazando a un...