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Join us for This Tour:  September 20 to October 8   Book Details:   Book Title :   Lost and Found by Ronald L. Ruiz Category : Adult Fiction (18+), 292 pages Genre :  Literary Publisher :  Embajadoras Press Release date:   June 2021 Content Rating :  R -  Includes f-words and profanities throughout, one sex scene     Book Description:  ​   When community leaders began to doubt Abel Mendoza, the law practice he had spent years building began to crumble. It was the 1960s and there was but a handful of Mexican lawyers in California. Abel had worked tirelessly to earn respect in the courts, avoiding any semblance of a personal life to achieve his goals. Now, his personal and professional lives had collided and he found himself being rejected by the community that had previously supported and admired him. His fears of inadequacy kindled, Abel began to question who he really was, what he did, and where he belonge...

    Book Details: Book Title: Life Long by Ronald L. Ruiz Category: Adult Fiction, 268 pages Genre: Literary Fiction Publisher: Amika Press Release date: June 9, 2017 Tour dates: Sept 18 to Oct 6, 2017 Content Rating: PG-13 + M (For foul language and questions about the existence of God) Book Description: Ray Lopez is on the run with a duffel bag full of cash. Both drug dealers and the police are after him. But Ray is not a criminal. His last brush with the law was over traffic tickets. Recently released from the hospital with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, he is haunted by voices, auditory hallucinations, that frighten him and cause him to question his every move. Ray’s journey from California to Laredo is perilous. Like so many Americans before him, he travels through unfamiliar territory with no clear way of knowing who will help and who will harm him. And he may well find himself on the wrong side of the border with a mind that has no borders. Prai...

Book Details: Book Title :   Jesusita  by Ronald L. Ruiz Category :  Adult fiction, 275 pages Genre :  Literary Publisher :  Amika Press Release date :  May 2015 Available for review in :  Print, ebook (mobi for Kindle) other Will send print books :  USA & Canada Tour dates :  Nov 2 to 2, 2015 Content Rating :  R  (There are subject matters of physical and sexual abuse in this novel as well as prostitution.) Book Description:    Jesusita  is the story of immigrants—legal and illegal—trying to survive in California in the years after World War II. Jesusita, alone and impoverished, struggles to keep her four young children together. Though she finds support from Padre Montes at St. Teresa’s Catholic Church, her faith won’t solve her problems, especially those with her daughter, Paulina. Far from home, Filipino laborers are denied by law any contact with white women. Angie, the young daughter of a...