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Even good people do bad things... Ten years ago, eighteen-year-old Ariana Callum disappeared on the eve of her high school graduation in one of the most gruesome crimes Miami has ever seen. Everyone thinks they know what happened to her that night, but her best friend, Delphine Quin, knows more than she’s willing to admit. After all, she was at Ariana’s house moments before she disappeared... Today, Delphine is the embodiment of the perfect woman who has it all: a loving husband, a beautiful home and a company on the verge of going public. All traces of her friendship with Ariana have been erased, as if their lives never intersected at all. That is until Ariana shows up in Miami one day,...
Winner, 2013 3rd Annual Latino Books Into Movies Award for Suspensee/Mystery The sun, the sand, a young beauty named Rachel in a white bikini—there's no better way to recover from the aches and pains of your latest case. At least that's what attorney and part-time detective Luis Montez thinks until the woman gives him the manuscript of her novel and vanishes. Montez just wants to rebuild his Denåver practice, but an aggressive young P.I. with an emotional attachment to Rachel draws him in. With the woman's powerful adopted family on one side and unexplained death of a writer friend on the other, Montez digs up a series of long-told lies and long-hidden ugly truths. He also finds himself confronting one of the great unsolved mysteries of recent Chicano history. What happened to Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, the iconic activist-writer presumed dead since 1974? More to the point, what made Rachel insist the legendary Brown Buffalo was alive-and that he was her real father?
Discover "You Are Not a Failure: From Failure to Unlimited Success" by Diego Segura, a revelatory journey that takes you from the depths of failure to the heights of success. This book is not just a collection of personal anecdotes but a transformative manual for those looking to turn their setbacks into the foundation of their greatness. Diego Segura, a serial entrepreneur and renowned author, shares his own journey from the darkest moments of his life to his most brilliant triumphs. With a direct and honest approach, Diego breaks down the most valuable lessons he has learned along the way, demystifying failure and revealing it as an essential part of the path to success. Through captivatin...
"Examines the widespread Latin American phenomenon of illegal land seizures and squatter settlement development. Explains, based on case studies in Peru and Ecuador, how invasion organizations mobilize, why they succeed or fail, and why they endure or disappear"--Provided by publisher.
HEARTFELT EMOTIONS is a work of art which reassures and serves as an ultimate comfort for those who given up the importance of what is sentimental and passionate in a world whose apathetic and calculated passions have concealed everything. This book comes to remind us that there exists a beautiful passion, defiled and sublime which is the passion of love. All of these poems, which are a concatenation of heartfelt emotions, emotions that we have felt at one time or still feel, that identifies us with relevancy, a story, an ardent declaration of love that molds in each one of these poems, extending itself to us as an expression of our most intimate and sincere being; it is a wonderful expressi...
A critical look at the realities of community policing in South Los Angeles The Limits of Community Policing addresses conflicts between police and communities. Luis Daniel Gascón and Aaron Roussell depart from traditional conceptions, arguing that community policing—popularized for decades as a racial panacea—is not the solution it seems to be. Tracing this policy back to its origins, they focus on the Los Angeles Police Department, which first introduced community policing after the high-profile Rodney King riots. Drawing on over sixty interviews with officers, residents, and stakeholders in South LA’s “Lakeside” precinct, they show how police tactics amplified—rather than resolved—racial tensions, complicating partnership efforts, crime response and prevention, and accountability. Gascón and Roussell shine a new light on the residents of this neighborhood to address the enduring—and frequently explosive—conflicts between police and communities. At a time when these issues have taken center stage, this volume offers a critical understanding of how community policing really works.
Includes the decisions and orders of the Board, a table of cases, and a cross reference index from the advance sheet numbers to the volume page numbers.