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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"There's a 100% chance you'll be paging through this book to uncover the secrets and deception that could potentially burn everything down!" - Reese Witherspoon"This is by far one of the most endearing L.A. novels in recent memory."- Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "A capacious book, chock-full of human drama...Escandón's narrative voice is often witty and warm, and her meditations on Los An...

FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of a Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of SaintsL.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a ...

L.A. Weather is a fun, fast-paced story of an affluent Mexican American couple who announce their impending divorce after nearly forty years of marriage, forcing their three grown daughters to take a hard look at their own disjointed relationships.L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everyt...

Comienza con un milagro: la joven viuda Esperanza está velando a su hija Blanca de doce años, fallecida de forma repentina, después de una operación rutinaria, cuando de pronto se le aparece San Judas TAdeo para darle un importante mensaje: Blanca está viva y ella debe salir a buscarla. Entonces Esperanza inicia una larga travesía no sólo geográfica, sino también espiritual, llena de aventuras, milagros, y dolorosas experiencias que la llevan ...

Libertad González purga su pena en una cárcel mexicana por haber cometido un crimen del que, sin embargo, se resiste a hablar, pero ha descubierto una estupenda manera de combatir el tedio de la vida carcelaria: crear un club de lectura donde las presas se pueden entretener escuchando sus lecturas. Pero en realidad lo que les lee Libertad no son los libros de la biblioteca, sino que les cuenta su propia historia. Así es cómo conoceremos la dis...

From the author of "Santitos" (a bestseller in English as "Esperanza's Box of Saints") comes a hilarious and heartbreaking novel about the bonds of family and the power of women's friendship. Incarcerated in the Mexicali Penal Institution for Women, Libertad recalls her life with her father, growing up in the cab of his 18-wheeler.

Serving a sentence in a prison in Mexico, Libertad Gonzalez finds a clever way to pass the time with the weekly Library Club, reading to her fellow inmates from whatever books she can find in the prison's meager supply. The story that emerges, though, has nothing to do with the words printed on the pages. She tells of a former literature professor and fugitive of the Mexican government who reinvents himself as a trucker in the United States. T...

Like Water for Chocolate" meets "Candide" in this stunning debut novel about a beautiful young widow's search for her missing child--a magical, humorous, and passion-filled odyssey that takes her from a humble Mexican village to the brothels of Tijuana and the streets of Los Angeles.