southern california

Carlos and his friends work at whatever jobs they can find in Southern California, but they live in constant fear of people who want to send them back to Mexico and those who want to see them dead.

Nataly and Consuelo, cheese plant workers in Lava Landing, California, try to find a way to cure Consuelo of her fear of public transportation and long car rides in order for the girls to take a trip to Mexico and do what needs to be done to free her recently deceased father from purgatory.

The Salcido family, immigrants to the United States from Mexico, struggle to reconcile their need for jobs at the mighty Nazareth steel mill in Southern California with the low pay, back-breaking labor, and harsh treatment they receive--a situation that weighs most heavily on twenty-year-old Johnny, a second-generation mill worker.

For seven hundred years, the souls of Romeo and Juliet have repeatedly inhabited the bodies of newly deceased people to battle to the death as sworn enemies, until they meet for the last time as two Southern California high school students.

Tommy Phan, a thirty-year-old Vietnamese-American detective novelist, is forced to run for his life when the odd rag doll he found lying on his doorstep turns into an indestructible reptilian creature with evil intent.

Single mother Christine Scavello turns to private detective Charlie Harrison for help when her young son Joey becomes the target of a fanatical religious group that believes the child to be the Antichrist.

Continues the teenaged exploits of Dee Dee, Raquel, and Evie--three upper class, Mexican American best friends growing up in Southern California.

Ambitious young accountant Ivan Davis's plan to promote business network events among the rich and famous in southern California brings him to the attention of Lucina Gallo, reigning diva of San Diego's nightlife culture, and they form a partnership that is so successful Ivan is soon unable to draw a line between business and pleasure, and begins to wonder how much money and power is enough.

Fifteen-year-old Molly gains support from her extended Irish American family and enlightenment in Girl Corps philosophy and activities, as she deals with a cheating boyfriend and overbearing best friend.

No one is surprised when Amy Redwing brings a rescued female golden retriever into her home, however, her joy is overshadowed by a series of mysterious incidents and the feeling that she is being watched.