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Sia is an innocent 21-year-old girl from a wealthy Navarro family who had an accidental one-night stand with a strange man she saved from getting killed. Afraid of the consequences of getting pregnant out of wedlock, she fled from home and went searching for her baby's father. However, things didn't go as she planned. Emiliano Alvaro is a charming, charismatic, and handsome young bachelor, the heir to the Alvaro fortune, and a Casanova who doesn't take life seriously. He likes having fun and hates commitments, but his life will take a huge turn when a woman drops at his doorstep with a CHILD claiming it to be HIS. What will happen when two people who hate each other to the core are trapped in a contract arranged marriage? Will love blossom, or will the dark secrets lurking in the shadows ruin everything?
All areas of the United States have been surveyed to insure balanced national coverage in this work on Hispanic Americans. The work covers individuals from a broad range of professions and occupations, including those involved in medicine, social issues, labour, sports, entertainment, religion, business, law, journalism, science and technology, education, politics and literature. Listees have been selected on the basis of achievement in their fields and/or for considerable civic responsibility.
Winner, 2020 Al Lowman Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas County or Local History There is a deep and abiding connection between humans and the land in Pinto Canyon—a remote and rugged place near the border with Mexico in the Texas Big Bend. Here the land assumes a certain primacy, defined not by the ephemera of plants and animals but by the very bedrock that rises far above the silvery flow of Pinto Creek— looming masses that break the horizon into a hundred different vistas. Yet, over time, people managed to survive and sometimes even thrive in this harsh environment. In the Shadow of the Chinatis combines the rich narratives of history, natural history, and archeology to tell the s...
Stunned by a diagnosis of Cancer and forced to come to terms with the fragile nature of life, retired sniper Bobby Riley decides to delay surgery until after he takes his sailboat on a trip from Dana Point, California to Cabo san Lucas, Mexico to visit his best friend. Unfortunately the vast Pacific Ocean can be capricious, dangerous, and unforgiving. His boat is damaged in a collision with floating debris and he is forced to limp into a small Mexican port for repairs. His peaceful world is torn asunder when he witnesses an assault on a woman and must fall back on his military training to affect her rescue, resulting in the deaths of her attackers. As they escape in his boat, he learns that ...
This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic radically changed many aspects of the lives of individuals and entire societies. This crisis and the unprecedented experience required extraordinary solutions, regulations, and rapid responses from decision-makers to limit the spread of the disease and protect societies. To this end, during this period, many countries chose to impose states of emergency, resulting in the granting of extraordinary powers to the executive. This has sometimes been a very convenient pretext for introducing various types...