Scandalous with an intense storyline surges a woman and her mysterious relationships with various men from the small Mexican village she lives in. Otilia has a huge capability to love that leads her to live a very tragic love story of epic proportions.

"Around the world, low-income tobacco farmers face skyrocketing cancer rates with more devastating repercussions affecting their children. Choosing between poverty or poison, Latin American growers use chemicals such as Monsanto's glyphosate and Bayer's Confidor, in order to certify and sell their crops to Big Tobacco. These chemicals cause severe physical deformities and mental disabilities."--Amazon.com

Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair, born with mysterious hands and a strange secret, finds his life further complicated when he saves a baby after a plane crash and meets a beautiful girl.

Wonder: "August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school--until now. He's about to enter fifth grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid, then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, despite appearances?"--Container. The Julian Chapter: "From...

Niko von Glasow looks for eleven people who, like him, were born disabled due to the disastrous side-effects of Thalidomide, and who are prepared to pose nude for a book of photos--to allow those who regularly throw furtive glances at Thalidomiders and other physically disabled people, to take a good, long look. In the process, Niko discovers many fascinating characters who work in such diverse areas as politics, the media, sport, astrophysics and...