Download or read book The World of Sof a Velasquez written by Sofía Velasquez and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The captivating oral history of a second-generation, urban-born woman struggling to survive in the city of La Paz.

Download or read book River of Lies written by R. Morgan and published by The Fourth Gorgon. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is wrong in the city of La Bene. It’s January, and the midsummer market is in full swing, with a music competition on one side and an exhibit of new magical machines on the other. The atmosphere sours when rumors of the return of the malarial mosquito fairies inflame angry crowds and suspicion of foreigners. Detectives Rocío Díaz Rossi and Hala Haddad Sosa are on the spot when a conflict between an angry crowd and a boat full of despised river folk boils up. Rocio is known for her people skills and Hala has a talent for putting unlikely clues together. But nothing is what it seems in this case. Is their city at risk? Or are the stakes much more personal? This short novel takes place before the events of Shadow of the City, “A police procedural set in one of the snazziest fantasy settings ever.” — Rachel Neumeier, author of The Floating Islands

Download or read book Fruteros written by Rocío Rosales and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the “ethnic cage” to explain both the promise and pain of community.

Download or read book Iberia written by James A. Michener and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Massive, beautiful . . . unquestionably some of the best writing on Spain [and] the best that Mr. Michener has ever done on any subject.”—The Wall Street Journal Spain is an immemorial land like no other, one that James A. Michener, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and celebrated citizen of the world, came to love as his own. Iberia is Michener’s enduring nonfiction tribute to his cherished second home. In the fresh and vivid prose that is his trademark, he not only reveals the celebrated history of bullfighters and warrior kings, painters and processions, cathedrals and olive orchards, he also shares the intimate, often hidden country he came to know, where the congeniality of living souls is thrust against the dark weight of history. Wild, contradictory, passionately beautiful, this is Spain as experienced by a master writer.

Download or read book Valley of Fire written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micah Bishop is busted out of jail by a gun-toting nun who wants him to travel with her into the most lawless part of New Mexico Territory, in order to give some of her fellow nuns a proper burial--and find the gold that they share the ground with. Original.

Download or read book Shadow of the City written by R. Morgan and published by The Fourth Gorgon. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A police procedural set in one of the snazziest fantasy settings ever.” Rachel Neumeier, author of The Floating Islands “A fun fantasy mystery featuring a vibrant, inclusive world and a deep friendship between the protagonist and her partner sleuth. If you'd like a diverting escape to lift your spirits, Rocio and Hala have just the adventure for you.” Courtney Schafer, author of the Shattered Sigil trilogy “A fun, sometimes serious novel that blends humor, mystery, and magic beautifully.” A. T. Greenblatt, Nebula Award-winning author of “Give The Family My Love” A delightful fantasy of friendship and mystery in a setting reminiscent of Latin America, by a fresh new talent. La Bene is a city poised on the edge of change, where automobiles mingle with horse-drawn trolleys and musicians rub shoulders with politicians in trendy cabarets. Every day brings new magical machines, new immigrants … and a new mystery to solve. Detectives Rocío Díaz Rossi and Hala Haddad Sosa have investigated many crimes together, and Rocío’s intuition and Hala’s logic make them ideal partners. But this time they’re baffled by a newly discovered crypt in the subway, a missing choreographer, and reports of impossible magic. As the clues pile up, they discover that they’re not working any ordinary kidnapping. Something darker and more sinister is taking root in the city, perhaps the return of a magic so destructive that no one dares to speak of it. If their suspicions are correct, they will have to face an opponent who threatens not only their commitment to justice, but everyone living in their beloved city. woman-authored fantasy, women's friendships, female friendships, LGBTQ fantasy, nonbinary characters, non-European setting, Latin American setting, great worldbuilding

Download or read book Ambiguities and Tensions in English Language Teaching written by Peter Sayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of this book is the ambiguities and tensions teachers face as they attempt to position themselves in ways that legitimize them as language teachers, and as English speakers. Focusing on three EFL teachers and their schools in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, it documents how ordinary practices of language educators are shaped by their social context, and examines the roles, identities, and ideologies that teachers create in order to navigate and negotiate their specific context. It is unique in bringing together several current theoretical and methodological developments in TESOL and applied linguistics: the performance of language ideologies and identities, critical TESOL pedagogy and research, and ethnographic methods in research on language learning and teaching. Balancing and blending descriptive reporting of the teachers and their contexts with a theoretical discussion which connects their local concerns and practices to broader issues in TESOL in international contexts, it allows readers to appreciate the subtle complexities that give rise to the “tensions and ambiguities” in EFL teachers’ professional lives.

Download or read book Bernardo and the Virgin written by Silvio Sirias and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1980, and the Sandinistas are newly in power in Nicaragua. Bernardo Martínez, a modest, unassuming tailor in the town of Cuapa, witnesses an extraordinary thing: an otherworldly glow appears around the statue of the Virgin Mary in the church, and soon the Holy Virgin appears. Though a work of fiction, Bernardo and the Virgin is based on the real-life experiences of Bernardo Martínez. Silvio Sirias’s sweeping novel tells many stories, weaving together the true account of this humble, devout man with the moving and often humorous fictional tales of the people whom he influenced and inspired. It is also a stormy epic of Nicaragua through the long Somoza years and the Sandinista revolution.

Download or read book A Brother Knows written by Fernando S. Aranda and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Brother Knows, a young boy named Alejandro mysteriously vanished without a trace from a small town in Mexico. He had been taken by a Mexican drug lord for punishment of the boys father having stolen funds from him. Alejandro is taken to the United States and brainwashed to believe he is Alex and has a new family and leads a new life. His older brother Eduardo knew that his Alejandro was alive somewhere and would not give up until he would find him. Years passed and Alejandro was nowhere to be found until one day they crossed paths in the United Stated and started a friendship. Eduardo was certain Alex was his younger brother who had vanished. However, Alex had forgotten all about his prior life and did not recall having a brother. Eduardo knew in his heart this was his brother and would do everything in his power to find out for certain and get him back to his mother who was waiting for him back in Mexico. Eduardos determination to find out if Alex is his long lost brother pushes him to seek help from an old friend and possibly put everyone he loves in danger, including his found brother. His plan to get his brother back involves getting even with the people who brainwashed his brother and the Mexican drug lord who started it all. Things dont go as planned and takes a twist when Alex finally realizes hes not who he is and the drug lord finds out about his plot to take revenge. However, it was Eduardos devotion to his brother and getting him back to his mother at any cost that determines their fate.

Download or read book Where Something Catches written by Victoria I. Munoz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1995-10-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where "Something Catches:" Work, Love, and Identity in Youth is a qualitative study of Latina and Latino youth. Youths from different regions of Puerto Rico and with a range of interests are interviewed about work, love, community, alternatives, and the support that they have been given. Using an innovative framework, a psychology of identity is explored by incorporating an analysis of the cultural, historical, and political context. The text includes documentary photographs.

Download or read book The Barcelona Brothers written by Carlos Zanón and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate man murders his close friend in a dingy Barcelona bar. The reason for his attack is gradually revealed as he is protected and sought by his brother and the bartender, who, to save him, blame the killing on an innocent Pakistani man.

Download or read book Learners Stories written by Phil Benson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-07 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. This volume is a collection of nine original papers exploring dimensions of individual difference in language learning from narrative and biographical perspectives. Topics covered include motivation, emotion, age, learning strategies and beliefs, identity and the influence of classroom, distance and self-instructional settings. The authors use a variety of research methods to investigate learners' experiences of these aspects of the learning process. Among the countries represented in the research are Australia, Bahrain, China, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States. The studies will be of interest to teachers, teachers-in-preparation, teacher educators and researchers.

Download or read book The Last of the Menu Girls written by Denise Chávez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rocío Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She defines her neighborhood by its trees—the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree. Rocio knows she was born in the closet where she and her sister now take turns looking at the picture of Jesus whose eyes light up in the dark. But at night she enters a magical realm, and in her imaginary Blue Room, she can fly. At first she is a mesmerized observer of the lives of older girls and their boyfriends, but as she finds a job at the local hospital, and discovers a passion for drama and stories, Rocio begins to make her own choices in love and work. Alive with the taste of tamales and the lyrical tang of the Esquibels’ talk, The Last of the Menu Girls becomes a rich celebration of Chicano culture, and a universal story of finding one’s way in the world.

Download or read book Bird of Paradise written by Raquel Cepeda and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker chronicles her personal year-long journey to discover the truth about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing her findings as well as her insights into controversies surrounding modern Latino identity.

Download or read book Equinox written by Gonzalo Gums and published by Gonzalo Guma. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the eternal wall of Equinox lie the answers to humanity's most ancient existential questions: Are our whole lives predetermined by a higher power? What happens to the soul when the body dies? This fantastic novel takes us on a journey to that enigmatic place —whether a parallel universe, a traveling waypoint or a bizarre Purgatory is for us to discover— where Tomás’s soul is trapped following a serious accident. To turn the first page of “Equinox: Whispers of Destiny” is to involve ourselves in an original and fascinating tale of adventures that captivate from beginning to end. Have you ever had the feeling something or someone was “playing” with your Destiny?

Download or read book Juan Pablo and the Butterflies written by JJ Flowers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After facing a vicious drug cartel in Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly sanctuary, Juan Pablo and his best friend Rocio risk everything and try to escape the cartel’s henchmen—determined to pursue them at all costs—by following the butterflies’ migration all the way to California. Juan Pablo lives in El Rosario, Mexico’s butterfly sanctuary, where millions of winged creatures gather together in one magical place. It is his home, his life. He loves his music, the butterflies, and his grandmother, who has fallen fatally ill—which is why he can’t leave, even when a nefarious drug cartel overtakes the town. But the threat of the cartel becomes ever more menacing, finally endangering the life of his best friend Rocio, the girl he loves. In a heroic act of desperation to save her, Juan Pablo poisons eight members of the cartel. Together, Juan Pablo and Rocio flee, following the instructions his grandmother gave before she took her last breath: Follow the migration of the butterflies, where someone will be waiting for you. But are they following the wings of freedom? Or death?

Download or read book Trident Witches written by E Clay and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Trident is three magic beings joined together, to fight Evil and its children. Elizabeth, Mallory, and Rocio have been this definition, for a few months, but already they feel like sisters. But when an old enemy from Elizabeth and Mallory’s past drops in, Rocio learns what happens when a witch turns and what could happen when you face a Dark One more powerful than any before. Rocio and Mallory have two problems, that they don´t know yet and Elizabeth has to make sure she can stay focus. Or she could loose more just herself.