Carjacked in Mexico by highway gunmen, an American tourist is shot and left for dead, his teenage daughter abducted. He awakens in a local hospital with one foot, no money or identification, and no trace of his daughter. His search to find her sets in motion a chain of violence that blurs the line between what a man does in…
After 9/11, life in small town Ohio changes for fourteen-year old Mohammed and his family. Their masjid is desecrated. The family business is boycotted. At middle school, he becomes the object of anti-Muslim taunts and threats. On top of this, his trip to New York City with the Young Engineers Club is cancelled. Seeing New York has been Mohammed's boyhood dream. He…
It was the ugliest Christmas tree ever...until... When eleven-year old Charlie Roebecker befriends Chief Goodyear, a homeless evacuee from a Gulf Coast hurricane, he is not expecting any miracles. As he says, "You can do only small things to fix a big problem." Chief Goodyear is an arborist - a fixer of trees. His arrival in Charlie’s town starts the…
Retch Barter waits on a waterless ranch for a driller to sink his well. Come to Mexico in bad company and running from a sordid past, Retch lives with Dolores Anguamea, a dark-skinned woman whose history is as scarred as her pockmarked face. While Retch stakes his future on the arrival of the driller, Dolores waits for a chance to…
Cuando Tu Camión Escolar Se Va a México A Bilingual Book Sara and her brother Jett are the last kids on their school bus the afternoon it breaks down on the road. While they wait for another bus to take them home, Joe, their bus driver, offers to tell the children a story–a story about an old school bus. So…
