Diana Leon Clark
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Sometimes, monsters hide behind a polite smile.Angela Castro is an unhappy, frightened young woman married to a man her family and friends see as an ideal husband--handsome, wealthy, and seemingly devoted to his wife. Pregnant and desperate, Angela flees to a married cousin in Venezuela, where she slowly remakes her life. In time, she meets a Chilean professor exiled for speaking out against the military dictatorship's assault on academic freedom.Over...
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"Money, Douglas, money and power. That's what oil and gas is all about. Why should I worry if a few lousy field workers get sick?" Problems with radiation in the oil and gas industry is the last thing on geologist Cherlynn Rodgers mind as she begins her new job at the Museum of Northern Arizona. All that changes, however, when a brash field geologist seeks the advice of his former professor, a summer geologist-in-residence at the museum. Despite her...
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Bright,, well connected, and good looking, Michael De Benedetti looks forward to his second diplomatic posting in Santiago, Chile. After a military coup there and the establishment of a ruthless dictatorship, his enthusiasm quickly wanes. The indiscriminate violence of General Augusto Pinochet's regime is bad enough, but Michael is enraged by his own government's behavior. Throughout Latin America, the U.S. tolerates the hunting, torture, and murder...
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"True love can defeat the forces of time, distance, and foolish mistakes," Alicia RiveraAntonio Pereira loves his work, homeland, and family- well, most of them. Only his wife, their distant and difficult relationship, is a disappointment.The need to escape her and his own disastrous error in judgment will send him into the Amazon's wildest corners and then on to Europe. Here, he masquerades as a carefree bachelor married to his work.Only two women...
