by Jerome Charyn (1998)
Yolanda's a convict, caught by the cops while her boyfriend was robbing a bank. Now all the Hell Sisters at Harrington Hills prison farm are in love with her. Their leader wants to "marry" her. Yolanda has to find a way out. She's been taking a philosophy course in jail from Melvin P. Sparks, a Cornell professor who talks to the female convicts once a week about ecology, in galoshes and a torn shirt. But it's only a disguise. He's actually a member of the Christian Commandos, a ragtag group of environmental rangers who aren't quite soldiers or spies. Yolanda happens to be the cousin of Ruben Falcone, king of the Medellin cartel. The rangers want to meet with Ruben, who's hiding in the jungles of Colombia, while a dozen agencies destroy the rain forest tracking him. Sparks helps Yolanda get out of jail, whisking her off to Medellin to find her long lost cousin.
Vera and Bill Cleaver
Eleven-year old Ellen is sent to live with Mrs. McGruder. Her active imagination and friendship with Ira, a solitary but harmless old man, leads to his blurting out to Ellen the story of his brutal parents and what he did to them.
Peter Cameron
A man leaves his American life behind him and travels to La Plata, Andorra where he settles and gradually meets the city's most prominent citizens. As he becomes involved in their lives, the mystery surrounding his deepens.
Shauna Singh Baldwin
"Shauna Singh Baldwin's passionate stories dramatize the lives of Indian women from 1919 to today, from India to North America, and from the closed circle of the family to the wilderness of office and university. These women inhabit silence; by saying little, they can know everything. Some, imprisoned by silence, choke on their knowledge. Some use knowledge with bloody force against their oppressors. And some harness its power to seize their freedom."--Jacket.
Rebecca Winters
Had he betrayed her people? Courtney Blake valued her Miccosukee heritage deeply. Although she lived in Miami, she frequently visited the Everglades to see her mother's family, who still adhered to the tribe's old ways. Now Courtney was running back to the 'Glades to escape Jonas Payne--the man she loved. Jonas, working for his father's law firm, had successfully defended the tribe's land claim. But Courtney had reason to believe he'd done it only to further his family's political ambitions. He'd used the tribe, used her. Then her certainty of his guilt began to waver. Had she been wrong to accuse him of duplicity--and to question his love?