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Memories of the Alhambra
Nash Candelaria
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 1977
Memories of the Alhambra
Jose Rafa, nearing retirement, leaves his ninety-five year old father's funeral in New Mexico with a burning obsession. To search for his true 'Spanish' origins as a descendant of conquistadors. He disappears, leaving no word with his wife. A part of their ...
Crossing
Manuel Luis Martinez
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 1998
Survival of the Fittest
Intrigued by an actual news story relating the deaths of undocumented workers found in a railroad boxcar, Martinez envisions what prompted these deaths in this book. This is an intense story about Luis' crossing to the United States and the unexpected events that take ...
Luna's California Poppies
Alma Luz Villanueva
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 2002
Cleverly crafted, reader engaging
The first half of Luna's California Poppies by Alma Luz Villanueva is the story of twelve-year old Luna, a girl who is deserted by her mother and taken into the home of a kind stranger who provides her with food, shelter, and security -- and who also encourages her to ...
Captain of All These Men of Death
Alejandro Morales
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 2006
Ancient American Poets
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 2005
Ancient American Poets presents a survey of indigenous poetry that focuses on three Amerindian poets. Included are The Flower Songs by Nezahualcoyotl (Aztec), The Songs of Dzitbalche by Ah Bam (Yucataec Maya), and The Sacred Hymns of the Situa by Pachacuti (Inca), followed by biographies and commentaries on these poets? lives and times. Each poem ...
Pawns of a House/ Los Empenos De Una Casa
Juana Ines de la Cruz
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 2005
Bilingual edition (English-Spanish). In this hilarious seventeenth-century cloak-and-sword play, eight characters are enmeshed in a tangled web of mutual obligations. When they find themselves thrown together in the house of Don Pedro de Arellano in Toledo, they struggle to fulfill, or escape, those obligations. The action involves female ...
Sor Juana and Other Plays
Estela Portillo Trambley
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 1983
drama
Chicano Art for Our Millennium: Collected Works from the Arizona State University Community
Mary Erickson
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Pat Villeneuve
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Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 2004
This beautifully produced coffee-table book showcases more than 120 works of Chicana and Chicano art and provides a good representation of the art movement for general readers as well as students. Created in part as a catalog for the 2004 exhibition of the same name, the book is also designed to serve as a useful tool for teaching Chicana/o art ...
The Astonishing Story of the Saint of Cabora
Brianda Domecq
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Kay S. Garcia
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 1998
Highly recommended
Ms Domecq was able to bring to life the story of Teresa Urrea through in-depth believable characters and beautiful poetic imagery. A great read.
The Devil in Texas/El Diablo En Texas (Chicano Classics 5)
Aristeo Brito
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 1990
PRAISE FOR EL DIABLO IN TEXAS
ARISTEO BRITO'S NOVEL IS AN EMOTIONAL JOURNEY. HIS SINCERITY IS OBVIOUS AND HIS IMAGES ARE TRUE PRINTS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT.I HAVE NOT BEEN SO MOVED BY THE INTENSITY OF A NOVEL IN A LONG TIME. THE PLIGHT AND HEROISISM OF A PEOPLE SO OPPRESSED COULD ONLY BE DESCRIBED SO ...
Ritchie Valens: The First Latino Rocker
Beverly Mendheim
Bilingual Review Press, 1987
WHY WASN'T THE MOVIE LIKE THIS??
This was a great biography. I foolsihly thought that the movie was accurate, but this book proves me wrong. It would have been good for the movie to be just like this book, but of course the show business just wants to make it look good to make a profit! As well, ...
Sanctuary Stories
Michael Smith
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 1996
18 stories & 5 essays focused on Central Americans
Entre Letras Y Ladrillos (Spanish Edition)
Miguel Mendez
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 1996
edition Espanol, renowned Chicano's first novel
Scar Tissue
Gustavo Perez Firmat
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 2005
In this, his most revealing and courageous book to date, the widely-acclaimed author of Life on the Hyphen and Next Year in Cuba tells the story of how it is to experience two of the shaping events in our lives?surviving illness, enduring loss?in more than one language. Writing with candor and conviction, Pérez Firmat chronicles, in prose and ...
Stars Always Shine
Rick P. Rivera
Bilingual Review Press (AZ), 2001
this guy was my Teacher
I bought this book a while back. I still enjoy reading it. I don't want to give anything away. It's a very deep story, that deals with what many Mexicans in the U.S., deal with. I think that policy makers and the people that don't understand Illegal Immigration, should ...
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