Bøger af James Prothero

Ana Sanchez would like her senior year at Aztlan High to go smoothly. But her twin brother, Eduardo, who dropped out and was thinking about joining the Los Rios gang, is found dead on the tracks across from the high school. The only clue he scratches in the dirt as he dies: the word "coyote." Though her teacher warns her against investigating when the police drop the matter, Ana must find out. A bullet through her car window raises the stakes, as does the handsome gringo son of the teacher she's in hiding with. When the police arrest Leo Chacon, the leader of Los Rios, Ana knows he didn't do it, and that the real killer is out there still, hunting her. Ana must uncover the real killer and prove Leo Chacon not guilty if she hopes to survive and finish school, not to mention get into college.

Ana's romance breaks up and immediately she is kidnapped by three dark men in long coats. She discovers that the cartel is out to capture or kill her, in hopes of taking revenge on her father. And she discovers too that she has the powers of a Curandera. The FBI helps her hide but four men are out after her. She has to take them all out if she's going to get to go to college and have a normal life.

Fourteen year old Sam Plunkett overhears a mountain man in his grandfather's shop mention the fact that his father is alive, not dead. In the spring of 1833, Sam lights out for the west, following the mountain man, in search of the father Sam needs and who doesn't know he's alive. The journey forces Sam to find his courage, and to learn a new world among the sweeping prairies and the alien cultures of the Native American peoples on the high plains. Sam's unstoppable determination keeps him growing toward that moment he both longs for and dreads: the moment he meets his father face to face.

Eddy and Paul McCabe are twin brothers growing up in the sixties and seventies in Southern California. But they are total opposite and come to blows. Their confrontation sends them off into different worlds as far as the American Rockies and South Vietnam. Through pain and misunderstanding they learn about life, till that moment that they can perhaps meet again and maybe become brothers.

Popular anthologies hold that the Romantic Era in Great Britain ended promptly in 1832 and that the early Twentieth Century was the time of Modernism and the rejection of the Romantic in British letters. However, in Wales, just the opposite was true. This study traces the work of poets and novelists in Wales in the early- to mid-Twentieth Century who all found their poetic master to be William Wordsworth.In the early part of the century, W. H. Davies, John Cowper Powys and Huw Menai - a tramp, a mystic novelist and a coal miner - produce novels and poetry with Wordsworth as their acknowledged master. By mid-century, Idris Davies, a coal miner turned teacher, R. S. Thomas, an Anglican priest, and Leslie Norris, another teacher, are writing in the "e;mountainous shadow of William Wordsworth."e;While the literary lights of London are leading the Modernist revolution, in Wales, the inspiration is still the English poet, Wordsworth. This study will illuminate this flare up of Romanticism, and show the way in which Romanticism re-emerges from unexpected quarters.