"A California epic following several native, diverse Californians grasping for air in a world that continues to marginalize them"-- Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie...

"A collection of five genre-defying stories that offer a look at our innermost selves and characters who try to make sense of the world and their place in it."--

"After spending five years in LA working successfully as a screenwriter, the protagonist of this novel decides it's time to return to his hometown, Santa Luz, New Mexico, to pen the novel he has always needed to write about the strained relationship with his father. He reconnects with old friends and meets new ones, and the parade of quirky characters--self-proclaimed artists, wealthy retirees, corrupt lawyers--distracts him from his project. There's...

In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family, William T. Vollmann wrote of pimps, prostitutes, addicts and homeless dreamers in San Francisco's Tenderloin district. In this new novel, Vollmann returns there with a story that centers around a woman with magical powers whom everyone loves, and who has to love them all back. After being initiated into a coven of island witches, Neva begins to fulfill her fate in a Tenderloin...

"Kat Finn no conoce a m�as vampiros que su madre. Ambas, que viven entre humanos, no pueden llegar a fin de mes. Como todos los vampiros, beben Hema, un sustituto artificial de la sangre, para sobrevivir ya que casi toda la humanidad ha sido infectada por un virus, con lo que la sangre humana es fatal para los vampiros. Kat siente que todo mejorar�ia si la admitieran en Harcote, el instituto de �elite para j�ovenes vampiros. Eso le asegurar�ia...