"Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him as he discovers himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn, there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world . . . and will nurture...

Focusses on an ex-Golden Glove champion who meets up with a writer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, while searching for his father.

Explores the meaning of pain and suffering in a hospital for crippled children.

With her father away fighting in World War II and her grandfather too sick to create the traditional luminaria, Luz helps create farolitos, little lanterns, for their Christmas celebration instead.

With Christmas only days away, it snows so heavily that Jacobo the wood carver and his visiting grandson are afraid the roads will not be cleared in time for the rest of the family to come from the city, and that a sick neighbor will not get the help he needs. Presented in English and Spanish.

When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the Bath House at Jemez Springs, Albuquerque private eye Sonny Baca is called in to investigate. As he soon learns, murder is only the beginning of the evil that Sonny must sort out. Someone has planted a bomb in the Valles Caldera, not far from the Los Alamos National Laboratories and it is set to detonate in just a few hours. Is this the work of terrorists or is Sonny's old nemesis, Raven, mixed...

A mystery fantasy on PI Sonny Baca of Albuquerque, New Mexico, as he tries to outwit the evil spirit, Raven. The spirit has abducted some girls and the parents have asked Baca to get them back. The struggle plays out in Baca's dreams

Una extraordinaria novela de una familia de chicanos en el suroeste de los Estados Unidos.