In the Dominican Republic, as early as 1512, African slaves escaped from Spanish plantations and lived with the island’s Taíno Indians or on their own in mountainous jungles in the remote frontier land of Hispaniola. These people who were known as “cimarrones,” meaning “maroons,” created their own independent communities that have survived for centuries and until recently remained isolated from mainstream Dominican society. These resilient...

“American Chapters” presents short stories in vivid and easy-to-read, 500-word chapters, perfect for English language learners internationally and adult literacy learners in countries where English is commonly used. All stories are also offered as audio books for learners who want to hear stories and hear the sounds of American English. Summer in Cimarron Rhonda lives in a small, old trailer at the Cimarron Highway Motel and Trailer Park. She...

When Hackberry Holland became sheriff of a tiny Texas town near the Mexican border, he'd hoped to leave certain things behind: his checkered reputation, his haunted dreams, and his obsessive memories of the good life with his late wife, Rie. But the discovery of the bodies of nine illegal aliens, machine-gunned to death and buried in a shallow grave behind a church, soon makes it clear that he won't escape so easily.

En los alrededores de Ushuaia un peligro acecha. Se presenta con la ferocidad y el descontrol de lo salvaje, en medio de un desierto blanco que se expande hasta correr fronteras. El polaco Boris Karakzuk aparece muerto cerca del Lago Escondido. Su cuerpo ha sido mutilado a dentelladas: ambos brazos desprendidos, el abdomen eviscerado, el cráneo con el cuero cabelludo totalmente desgarrado. Los embates de perros cimarrones empiezan a repetirse y multiplicarse...