Lion Eyes is the exciting true story of Jan Milburn, who came face-to-face with his totem—and was transformed. As a love-deprived young child, he got lost in a snowstorm in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, and a huge mountain lion led him safely home . . . setting him on a course for a miraculous life. Acclaimed best-selling author Victor Villaseñor gives voice to Jan’s thrilling tale, full of danger, clashes between light and darkness, romance, and healing miracles.
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Will be available in Spanish on July 2011
Beyond Rain of Gold is the incredible story behind the writing and publication of Victor Villaseñor’s national bestseller Rain of Gold. In the process of ensuring that his family’s saga would be published as the authentic, true account it was, Villaseñor forged a sacred bond with his father and his indigenous ancestors, who were guiding him from the Other Side. The book eventually became a national bestseller and an enduring favorite of millions of readers.
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»New York Times Review

RAIN OF GOLD is a true-life saga of love, family and destiny, pulsing with bold vitality, sweeping from the war-ravaged Mexican mountains of Pancho Villa’s revolution to the Prohibition days of California. Bursting from the pages with real-life characters and passionate drama, RAIN OF GOLD is a major work by a Mexican-American writer of extraordinary power, Victor Villaseñor. [Read more...]

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»San Diego Union Review

In WILD STEPS OF HEAVEN the prequel to RAIN OF GOLD, Victor Villaseñor breathes life into his father’s family, and in particular, the Villaseñor women. Mothers and daughters, sisters and lovers – their faith transcends the madness that surrounds them, and their love is powerful, life-giving, and touched by the miraculous. Margarita is the indomitable Indian matriarch who guards her family and conquers her enemies with the cutting edge of unconditional love – and a touch of magic. [Read more...]

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»The Washington Post Review

THIRTEEN SENSES, the sequel to RAIN OF GOLD, continues the powerful family epic as told by master storyteller Victor Villaseñor. Set in the colorful backdrop of Southern California amidst the bygone era of Prohibition and the Great Depression, this memoir recalls the story of Salvador and Lupe’s first years of marriage. Filled with thrilling action, gut-wrenching suspense, ancestral wisdom, and timeless love, this adventure never lets up. Embracing unconditional love, profound grit, and the tenacity of two spirits which transcend all obstacles, THIRTEEN SENSES demonstrates the strength of women, the power of magic, and eliminates the narrow boundaries set by Euro-American five sensory world. [Read more...]

BURRO GENIUS, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a Nationally Acclaimed Best Seller, was included in the 2005 New York Public Library Books Teen Age List, 12 to 18 years old. Also available in Spanish. [Read more...]

»Publishers Weekly Review

BURRO GENIUS continues the Villaseñor family story and goes into Victor Villaseñor’s own youth and education. With his signature of bold vitality, and his own incredible life-story, BURRO GENIUS takes the reader into the soul of a young boy full of confusion . . . and yet encouraged by the love for his brother and a sense of artistic destiny and magic.

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It’s been almost half a century since Victor Villaseñor — then a teenaged eclectic spirit if there ever was one — had an epiphany while driving through the rolling plains of Wyoming, screaming an oath to God and the heavens that he would become a writer and tell his people’s story with all his heart and soul.

Since that dramatic declaration, Villaseñor has given the literary world the highly acclaimed best-seller “Rain of Gold” and the Pulitzer Prize nominee “Burro Genius,” two volumes that detail his family’s immigration to the United States from Mexico, along with other memorable works of nonfiction.   [Read more...]

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MACHO details seventeen-year-old Roberto Garcia’s journey from the state of Michoacán, Mexico, to his illegal entry into the United States. His backbreaking work in the vegetable fields of California and the workers’ divided sentiments over César Chavez’s efforts to unionize the workers are chronicled in a style that many critics have compared to the best of John Steinbeck. MACHO is a novel of the conflict of spiritual, social and economic values during the coming of age of a young Mexican. [Read more...]

The page-searing, hour-by-hour documentary that takes you inside the locked doors of the courtroom and reveals the shocking truth behind “the worst series of murders in U.S. history.” –Time Magazine. Twenty-five mutilated bodies – and a man’s life hung on the verdict. From the secret deliberations of the twelve jurors faced with the grim decision…to the bizarre tangle of false evidence, grisly errors, and raging emotions that made their task a soul-wrenching ordeal. [Read more...]

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Best-selling novelist Victor Villaseñor grew up with stories of magic and wonder that he is now sharing with young people far and wide. Within the pages of WALKING STARS is a cast of dogs and horses and wild, lovable children and teenagers whose perseverance take them to stardom, but not the stardom found on television and the popular media. This is the brilliance of becoming strong, confident walking stars, humans who are able to bring positive, magical change to society against all odds. [Read more...]

We have Christmas, we have Hanukah, we have Easter and Halloween and Valentine’s Day, but we have no celebration for world-wide peace and harmony. And if we really want peace and harmony on earth, then we need a day to rally around, a day of fun and joy. So let’s take our U.S. celebration of Thanksgiving and go global with it. Check our Snow Goose website and learn how there’s nothing we can do to stop World Harmony and Peace. It’s written in the stars and from where we came and to where we will return. [Read more...]

Children Collection

Children collection

The home of a mother fox, Mamá Zorra, and her three babies is hidden by the roots of a tree stump in a long valley. In the beautiful fields around their home, Mamá Zorra cares for her children, who are so tiny they fit in the palm of a human hand. She brings them treats to eat, and she leads them to sit on the rocks in the sun. But Mamá Zorra must always be wary because an old coyote shares their valley with them. Though he is lonely, the mean coyote searches for food rather than a friend. “After all, this is the way the world works.”  [Read more...]

Children Collection

There are many creation myths and many of these are available in the form of picture books for young children: however, this one, of Mexican origin and told to the author as a small boy by his father, could be unique in making its listener laugh. If there is one thing almost guaranteed to have small children giggling, it is the word ‘fart’. Could this be the reason humanity was put on the earth? Was this why Mother Nature sent something new to the other creatures ‘this late in the Spring of Creation ‘? ‘Never before had a creature come into the world that did not make sense.’ [Read more...]

Children Collection

“Papá, I don’t want to go to sleep. I’m scared.”

Everyone knows that the trick to putting children to bed is creating a bedtime routine, and in this new children’s story from Victor Villaseñor, he recreates his own family’s bedtime tradition. Papá tells his son that every night when he was a boy, his mother would sing him to sleep with the turtledove song.    [Read more...]

Children Collection

In a world where grown-ups are always right, young readers will be delighted by this bilingual story, which teaches that even the youngest one can teach an adult a thing or two. Frustrated by the crows that steal his chicken’s corn, the narrator asks his father why he can’t ever catch them. Laughing, his father tells him a story passed down through the generations from the boy’s great-grandfather in Mexico.   [Read more...]

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One day in a small California barrio, a scary-looking stranger with an ugly scar on his face arrives. Silence falls on the streets. Normally raucous children stop playing, and their fearful mothers quickly beckon them inside. Everyone peeks out of windows and doors to watch the stranger walk down Main Street. Later in the week, the stranger again appears in town. And a few days later, on a pleasant Sunday morning, the man shows his frightening face yet again. But this time, he’s not alone. Cradled in the stranger’s arms is a big, red rooster with a yellow ribbon tied around its neck….   [Read more...]