Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.
Through two trials, America watched with baited breath as Juan Martinez fought relentlessly to convict Jodi Arias of Murder One for viciously stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander to death. What emerged was a story wrought with sex, manipulation, and deceit that stunned the public at every turn. Arias, always playing the wronged and innocent woman, changed her story continually as her bizarre behavior surrounding the crime and its aftermath came to light. Unwavering, Arias and her defense team continued to play off the salacious details of the case, until she was finally found guilty and—controversially—sentenced to life behind bars.
Now, speaking openly for the first time, prosecutor Juan Martinez will unearth new details from the investigation that were never revealed at trial, exploring key facts from the case and the pieces of evidence he chose to keep close to the vest. Throughout the trials, his bullish and unfaltering prosecution strategy was both commended and criticized, and in his book, Martinez will illuminate the unique tactics he utilized in this case and how they lead to a successful conviction, and-for the first time-discuss how he felt losing the death penalty sentence he’d pursued for years.
Going beyond the news reports, Martinez will explore the truth behind the multiple facades of Jodi Arias. Sparring with her from across the stand, Martinez came to know Arias like no one else could, dissecting what it took for a seemingly normal girl to become a deluded, cunning, and unrepentant murderer.
With new stories from behind the scenes of the trial and Martinez’s own take on his defendant, the book takes you inside the mind of Jodi Arias like never before. Complete with 16 pages of photos from the case and trial, this book is the definitive account of the case that shocked America.

Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars

History

Martínez, Juan

Americas

William Morrow

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

The growth and religious commitment of the Latino community in the U.S. presents a unique set of challenges for pastors in that community. Walk with the People: Latino Ministry in the United States identifies and analyzes the contemporary challenges facing Latino churches in the U.S. and some of the issues they are likely to face in the future. Latino pastors, and others working in the community, need to understand and grapple with these challenges. As the Latino community continues to grow and diversify, effective church leaders in Latino congregations will need to retool their ministries to address these changes.

Walk with the People: Latino Ministry in the United States

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

ABINGDON PRESS *

In a rundown neighborhood in the heart of Las Vegas, the Alicia hotel awakens and beckons to the most vulnerable—those with something to hide.\nAfter his parents are killed in a horrific roadside execution, Alvaro flees his home in Colombia and finds work as a line cook at the seedy hotel. Together with his sister, Carmen, he begins to make a new life in the desert, earning a promotion to management along with an irresistible offer to stay at the hotel rent-free. But as beloved photographs go missing, cockroaches seep from the walls, and grotesque strangers wander the corridors, the promise of the Alicia decays into nightmare. Alvaro discovers that the hotel is a small appendage of an enormous creature that feeds on guests and their secrets, one that will eventually bring him face-to-face with the memories he most wants to outrun. Alvaro, Carmen, and their friends decide to cooperate with the creature rather than fight it. But in their efforts to appease it, do they sacrifice too much of themselves?\nHaunting and visceral, Extended Stay uses the language of body horror and the gothic to comment on the complicated relationship between the Latinx undocumented experience and capitalism, the erasure of those living and working on the margins, the heavy toll exacted by memory, and the queasy permeability of boundaries that separate the waking world from the world of dreams.

Extended Stay (Camino del Sol)

United States

University of Arizona Press

Journey to el Norte is the story of a boy dreaming of horses and haciendas in rural Mexico who then heeds the call of el Norte and comes to work in the fields of the United States. In episodes that are drawn in painterly detail, the book narrates his charmed childhood; a pastoral that sustains the grown man as he faces border patrols, Immigration surveillance, demanding relatives and tedious sweat labor. Tender and dramatic, humorous and moving by turns, it is written in a poetic prose of remarkable clarity. This is above all a poignant tale of love lost and love found. &#8220;An emotionally rich, lucidly written account of the dilemma faced by the migrant worker from Mexico. The book superbly establishes a sense of place and person while evoking a lyrical mood.&#8221; P. Hockings, Editor-in-Chief Visual Anthropology

Journey to El Norte

Merchant, W. D.

AuthorHouse

Winner of the inaugural Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award
These are the best Americans, the worst Americans. In these stories (these cities, these people) there are labyrinths, rivers, wildernesses. Voices sound slightly different than expected. There's humor, but it's going to hurt.
In "On Paradise," a petshop manager flies with his cat to Las Vegas to meet his long-lost mother and grandmother, only to find that the women look exactly like they did forty years before. In "The Spooky Japanese Girl is There For You," the spooky Japanese girl (a ghost) is there for you, then she is not.
These refreshing and invigorating stories of displacement, exile, and identity, of men who find themselves confused by the presence or absence of extraordinary women, jump up, demand to be read, and send the reader back to the earth changed: reminded from these short stories how big the world is.

Best Worst American: Stories

Small Beer Press

Prison Break: 21 Days to Spiritual Freedom

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Charisma House

The compelling story of the life and death of a Salvadoran gangster As a boy, Miguel Ángel Tobar’s small town in El Salvador was torn apart by guerrillas and US- backed death squads. Still a preteen, he joined a different kind of death squad—the Hollywood Locos Salvatrucha—a clique of the Mara Salvatruchas, better known as MS-13. This international criminal organization began on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s, as Salvadoran children, whose families had fled their country’s civil war, banded together to defend themselves from LA gangs. Denied refugee status, the Salvadorans found themselves pushed into the shadows and besieged by violence, and MS-13 itself mutated into a gang. When large-scale US deportations began, violence was exported from the United States to El Salvador, helping make it one of the world’s deadliest countries and in turn propelling new waves of refugees northward. The Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martinez and his anthropologist brother Juan José Martínez got to know the Hollywood Kid when he informed on MS-13. In his hideaway shack, he recounted a life of killing—a death toll of more than fifty rival gang members—until his own murder ended the story. Vivid and violent, The Hollywood Kid brings a brutal world to life, illustrating the geopolitical forces propelling a country toward ever more vicious extremes.

The Hollywood Kid: The Violent Life and Violent Death of an MS-13 Hitman

Biographies & Memoirs

Martínez, Óscar

Community & Culture

Verso

The book you are holding in your hands is not all about leafleting in front of the factory gate at dawn. There’s another slice of life here. It’s the real deal salted with a dash of humor, peppered with a pinch of wisdom and a rub of romance. Interviews were conducted with 63 local risk-takers, troublemakers, change agents, and community and labor union organizers who have been active across the Salinas Valley and the Monterey Peninsula since 1934. These stories are told in the context of the importance of effective and nonviolent community organizing and progressive advocacy that promotes personal and institutional change in human affairs. Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. — DOLORES HUERTA, President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation ,Co-founder of the United Farm Workers The weight of cruelty’s consequences lands heavy on our heads and without warning or training, we become organizers. We organize in offices, in fields, the halls of government. We write, we picket, we debate, we leaflet, we sing. We feel scared, lonely, foolish, discouraged and exhausted. We win a little victory that beckons us on, that gives us hope. And we look back and say, “Look what we did? We did that!” — Holly Near, singer, songwriter, activist, and actress To the organizers who, with hopeful heart, critical eye, and skillful hand, bring us together to change ourselves, our communities, and our world. — Marshall Ganz, veteran organizer and Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, author of Why David Sometimes Wins When I lived in Monterey County, I became acquainted with several contributors to this collection who inspired me with their courage and perseverance. These stories are packed with history as it was being made, personal and revealing. The human dimension of being an activist is often overlooked but very much alive in these accounts. — Dr. Charlie Clements, human rights activist, public health physician, and author of Witness to War

Voices of Change: The People’s Oral History Project Interviews with Monterey County Activists and Organizers 1934-2015

Karnes, Gary

Araujo, Karen

Leaders & Notable People

Park Place Publications

Beyond the Yellow Brick Road: Unlocking the Promises of God

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Foreword by Evangelist John Ramirez. Pastor Juan Martinez of Get Wrapped Church gives you the keys for unlocking the promises of God in Beyond the Yellow Brick Road. This dynamic pastor peppers Holy Spirit truths with honest insights about his struggles from New York’s street life, to hard time in the Texas prison system, to a radical transformation that saved his life and launched an impassioned ministry that’s leading the lost to meaningful relationships with Christ. Get Wrapped and experience the powerful miracles God has waiting for you.

Five Stones Press

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