the virgin's guide to mexico

“Martin's earnestly beat novel tracks homely, studious Alma Price—resigned to being forgettable—as she disappears from her affluent Austin, Tex., home to trace her Mexican roots….Part bildungs-road novel, part family saga and part identity lit, Martin's third novel is all heart.” (Publisher Weekly, March 2007) more

winners

* A novel of turn-of-the-21st-century excess * Starring chimney sweeps, new media moguls, crack dealers and pick-up basketball legends * Finalist for the Northern California Book Award *  more

luck

* A first novel of exploding mailboxes, tobacco fields, desire, and the changing face of the new South * “An impressive story of love and of the struggle for social justice.” --J. M. Coetzee * There is bad luck, and then there is bad luck...  more

campfire

* First in Chronicle Book's popular Campfire series * features the short story "The Red Man" * I get scared.  more