Author: Isabel Cañas
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593436717
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches... During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security that his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost. But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined. When Rodolfo returns to work in the capital, visions and voices invade Beatriz’s sleep. The weight of invisible eyes follows her every move. Rodolfo’s sister, Juana, scoffs at Beatriz’s fears—but why does she refuse to enter the house at night? Why does the cook burn copal incense at the edge of the kitchen and mark the doorway with strange symbols? What really happened to the first Doña Solórzano? Beatriz only knows two things for certain: Something is wrong with the hacienda. And no one there will save her. Desperate for help, she clings to the young priest, Padre Andrés, as an ally. No ordinary priest, Andrés will have to rely on his skills as a witch to fight off the malevolent presence haunting the hacienda and protect the woman for whom he feels a powerful, forbidden attraction. But even he might not be enough to battle the darkness. Far from a refuge, San Isidro may be Beatriz’s doom.

Author: Peter Hook
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847378471
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Legendary musician Peter Hook tells the whole story - the fun, the music, the vast loss of money, the legacy - of Manchester's most iconic nightclub Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created. This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined. As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write HACIENDA. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith.

Author: Vincent Anthony Pérez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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What the plantation has been to the history and literature of the American South, the hacienda has been to Mexico and the American Southwest. In Remembering the Hacienda, Vincent Perez makes the case that the hacienda offers the emblem of an antebellum, agrarian social order that predates the United States. It is the site in which the Mexican American community's heroic, genteel forebears lived in dignity and pride, and it is the heritage from which they were cast out as orphans, both in mother Mexico by the Revolution and in the American Southwest when the wars of 1836 and 1846-48 and capitalist land grabs dispossessed the Mexican hacendados. The hacienda, Perez argues, had its own orphans, too: Indians, mestizos, women, and peons. American culture, Perez examines five novels and autobiographies: Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero: A Historical Novel (written in the 1930s and 1940s and later published by Texas A&M University Press), Maria Maparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don (1885), Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo's Historical and Personal Memoirs Relating to Alta, California (1874), Leo Carrillo's The California I Love (1961), and Francisco Robles Perez's immigrant autobiography Memorias. The last work is Perez's own grandfather's life narrative.

Author: Allan Aldiss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478289487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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This is the story of a young Englishwoman, Diana Carstairs, who goes out to the Central American police state of Costa Negra to reclaim her inheritance only to be arrested on trumped-up charges of drug smuggling.Sentenced to years of harsh imprisonment, she is acquired as an indentured servant, a virtual slave, by the man she had sought to supplant, the harsh owner of the remote plantation.In this stand-alone sequel her troubles become worse as she is treated as a bood mare and subjected to forced breeding.

Author: Allan Aldiss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781478289456
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78

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A young Englishwoman, Diana Carstairs, goes out to the Central American police state of Costa Negra to reclaim her inheritance, only to be arrested on trumped-up charges of drug smuggling.Sentenced to years of harsh imprisonment, she is acquired as an indentured servant by the man she had sought to supplant, the harsh owner of the remote plantation.Her owner is a keen breeder and trainer of two and four legged ponies and Diana finds herself being put through her paces!

Author: Frank Tannenbaum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Daniel Nierman
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Karen Witynski
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586852610
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Travel behind the scenes with authors Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr as they open the doors to Mexico's remote country estates and reveal innovative interiors, artifacts, and antiques that echo the hacienda's original architectural splendor.

Author: Shirlee Busbee
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
ISBN: 1614177023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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As a young child, Sabrina del Torres fell in love with Brett Dangermond while at her aunt's wedding. But Carlos, Sabrina's cousin, wants Sabrina for himself. Years later, at Sabrina's father's invitation, Brett arrives at the del Torres rancho. Sweet passion blooms between the pair, until Brett's previous lover mysteriously turns up, claiming Brett abandoned her and her unborn child to marry the rich Sabrina del Torres. Bret does not deny the charges, neither does he claim to love Sabrina. Then Sabrina's father is found murdered, and at the reading of his will, Sabrina learns she must marry a man of Brett's choosing or forfeit her fortune. Brett, having vowed never to fall hostage to love, leaves the ranch, ordering Sabrina to remain until he returns. Now Sabrina can either dig up the truth that'll unlock Brett's heart or prepare to marry the man he chooses. REVIEWS: "One of the best romance writers of our time." ~Affaire de Coeur THE SOUTHERN WOMEN, in series order The Tiger Lily Each Time We Love At Long Last Love a Dark Rider THE LOUISIANA LADIES, in series order Deceive Not My Heart Midnight Masquerade Love Be Mine

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620

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