Download or read book Mrs Vargas and the Dead Naturalist written by Kathleen Alcalá and published by Calyx Books. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories revolving around women who live in the United States within a Mexican social structure, including such pieces as "Gypsy Lover," "A Pearl in the Desert," "Flora's Complaint," and the title story

Download or read book Mrs Vargas and the Dead Naturalist written by Kathleen Alcalá and published by Calyx Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling short stories, written in the Latin tradition of magical realism

Download or read book Spirits of the Ordinary written by Kathleen Alcalá and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel, Alcala presents a magical, multigenerational tale of family passions set along the Mexican-American border in the 1870s. "A strong and finely rendered book in which passions both ordinary and extraordinary are made vivid and convincing".--Larry McMurtry.

Download or read book Treasures in Heaven written by Kathleen Alcala and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Estela moves to Mexico City in the late 1800s and meets La Señorita, "what starts as lessons to educate poor children grows into a school for prostitutes, and that soon leads to a controversial all-women orchestra, a radical underground newspaper, and an increasingly dangerous movement for social change that foreshadows the Mexican Revolution."--Jacket.

Download or read book Hotel Angeline written by Seattle7Writers and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVThirty-six of the most interesting writers in the Pacific Northwest came together for a week-long marathon of writing live on stage. The result? Hotel Angeline, a truly inventive novel that surprises at every turn of the page./divDIV /div DIV /divDIVSomething is amiss at the Hotel Angeline, a rickety former mortuary perched atop Capitol Hill in rain-soaked Seattle. Fourteen-year-old Alexis Austin is fixing the plumbing, the tea, and all the problems of the world, it seems, in her landlady mother’s absence./divDIV /divDIVThe quirky tenants—a hilarious mix of misfits and rabble-rousers from days gone by—rely on Alexis all the more when they discover a plot to sell the Hotel. Can Alexis save their home? Find her real father? Deal with her surrogate dad’s dicey past? Find true love? Perhaps only their feisty pet crow, Habib, truly knows./divDIV /divDIVProvoking interesting questions about the creative process, this novel is by turns funny, scary, witty, suspenseful, beautiful, thrilling, and unexpected./div

Download or read book The Deepest Roots written by Kathleen Alcalá and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As friends began “going back to the land” at the same time that a health issue emerged, Kathleen Alcalá set out to reexamine her relationship with food at the most local level. Remembering her parents, Mexican immigrants who grew up during the Depression, and the memory of planting, growing, and harvesting fresh food with them as a child, she decided to explore the history of the Pacific Northwest island she calls home. In The Deepest Roots, Alcalá walks, wades, picks, pokes, digs, cooks, and cans, getting to know her neighbors on a much deeper level. Wanting to better understand how we once fed ourselves, and acknowledging that there may be a future in which we could need to do so again, she meets those who experienced the Japanese American internment during World War II, and learns the unique histories of the blended Filipino and Native American community, the fishing practices of the descendants of Croatian immigrants, and the Suquamish elder who shares with her the food legacy of the island itself. Combining memoir, historical records, and a blueprint for sustainability, The Deepest Roots shows us how an island population can mature into responsible food stewards and reminds us that innovation, adaptation, diversity, and common sense will help us make wise decisions about our future. And along the way, we learn how food is intertwined with our present but offers a path to a better understanding of the future. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFG8MpTo_ZU&feature=youtu.be

Download or read book Sharp Sugar Tooth written by Octavia Cade and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharp & Sugar Tooth: Women Up To No Good is a horror anthology of dark fiction and darker appetites, edited by Octavia Cade. Containing 22 stories of "bad" women, and "good" women who just haven't been caught yet, it features 22 fearless writers who identify as female, non-binary, or a marginalized sex or gender identity. It's the third in the Women Up To No Good series, which can be read in any order, or as standalone anthologies. Contributors are based in or hailing from Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, the UK, and all over the United States. Between them, they have won the Andre Norton, Eugie Foster Memorial, Hugo, Lambda, Locus, Mythopoeic, Nebula, Prix Imaginales, Rhysling, Romantic Times' Critics Choice, This Is Horror, James Tiptree Jr., and World Fantasy Awards, and been shortlisted for the Bram Stoker, John W. Campbell, and Shirley Jackson Awards! They are: Kathleen Alcalá, Betsy Aoki, Joyce Chng, Katharine Duckett, Anahita Eftekhari, Chikodili Emelumadu, Amelia Gorman, Jasmyne J. Harris, A. R. Henle, Crystal Lynn Hilbert, Erin Horáková, Kathryn McMahon, H. Pueyo, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, Rachael Sterling, Penny Stirling, Catherynne M. Valente, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Damien Angelica Walters, Rem Wigmore, Alyssa Wong, and Caroline M. Yoachim. Editor Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer with a PhD in science communication and a particular interest in science history and marine studies. She been published in places like Clarkesworld, Asimov's, and Apex Magazine, and is the author of Food and Horror: Essays on Ravenous Souls, Toothsome Monsters, and Vicious Cravings (Book Smugglers, 2017), a book of poetry and several novellas. She has been nominated for BSFA and Elgin awards, and has won three Sir Julius Vogels, twice for best novella (The Ghost of Matter and The Convergence of Fairy Tales) and once for best fan writing, for a series of columns on food and horror.

Download or read book The Desert Remembers My Name written by Kathleen Alcal‡ and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My parents always told me I was Mexican. I was Mexican because they were Mexican. This was sometimes modified to ÒMexican American,Ó since I was born in California, and thus automatically a U.S. citizen. But, my parents said, this, too, was once part of Mexico. My father would say this with a sweeping gesture, taking in the smog, the beautiful mountains, the cars and houses and fast-food franchises. When he made that gesture, all was cleared away in my mindÕs eye to leave the hazy impression of a better place. We were here when the white people came, the Spaniards, then the Americans. And we will be here when they go away, he would say, and it will be part of Mexico again. Thus begins a lyrical and entirely absorbing collection of personal essays by esteemed Chicana writer and gifted storyteller Kathleen Alcal‡. Loosely linked by an exploration of the many meanings of Òfamily,Ó these essays move in a broad arc from the stories and experiences of those close to her to those whom she wonders about, like Andrea Yates, a mother who drowned her children. In the process of digging and sifting, she is frequently surprised by what she unearths. Her family, she discovers, were Jewish refugees from the Spanish Inquisition who took on the trappings of Catholicism in order to survive. Although the essays are in many ways personal, they are also universal. When she examines her family history, she is encouraging us to inspect our own families, too. When she investigates a family secret, she is supporting our own search for meaning. And when she writes that being separated from our indigenous culture is Òa form of illiteracy,Ó we know exactly what she means. After reading these essays, we find that we have discovered not only why Kathleen Alcal‡ is a writer but also why we appreciate her so much. She helps us to find ourselves.

Download or read book The Adventures of Mona Pinsky written by Harriet Ziskin and published by Calyx Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Harriet Ziskin's The Adventures of Mona Pinsky is one of the best, most delicate and intriguing novels it has ever A been my privilege to read. Her blend of politics and mysticism is absolutely delicious."a? Judy Grahn " The Adventures of Mona Pinsky is crowded with authentic and singular characters a? living and otherwise. I liked Uncle Gabe and the world of mythic spirits that fit so comfortably into Mona's everyday world. Mona is an especially engaging character who has carved out, with her heroic reluctance and naive flamboyance, a niche in my memory where she will always abide."a?M.K. Wren In this tale of adventure filled with magic and truth, sixty-five-year-old Mona Pinsky uncovers a plot of political manipulation and theft. She faces ridicule, anti-Semitism, and ageism as well as alienation from her daughter, but Mona refuses to be silenced. She uncovers the inner strength to stand by her convictions and to speak out on an enchanting and heroic journey.

Download or read book Into the Forest written by Jean Hegland and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home. Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other. Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America. Praise for Into the Forest “[A] beautifully written and often profoundly moving novel.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A work of extraordinary power, insight and lyricism, Into the Forest is both an urgent warning and a passionate celebration of life and love.”—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade “From the first page, the sense of crisis and the lucid, honest voice of the . . . narrator pull the reader in. . . . A truly admirable addition to a genre defined by the very high standards of George Orwell's 1984.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reviews “This beautifully written story captures the essential nature of the sister bond: the fierce struggle to be true to one’s own self, only to learn that true strength comes from what they are able to share together.”—Carol Saline, co-author of Sisters “Jean Hegland’s sense of character is firm, warm, and wise. . . . [A] fine first novel.”—John Keeble, author of Yellowfish

Download or read book Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila written by Marianne Villanueva and published by CALYX Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful and poignant stories set in the Philippines

Download or read book Ink written by Sabrina Vourvoulias and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What happens when rhetoric about immigrants escalates to an institutionalized population control system? Ink opens as a biometric tattoo is approved for use to mark temporary workers, permanent residents and citizens with recent immigration history--collectively known as inks"--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes written by Barbara J. Scot and published by Calyx Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Barbara Scot gives us the Nepal she saw, touched, visited with a feminist's respect for difference. Hers is a tale of sharing, and we are privileged to see through her eyes, understand through her exquisite sensibility."-Margaret Randall "This provocative book deserves attention from anyone interested in cross-cultural communication and the complex issues of development work."- Yoga Journal "Scot's year in Nepal was extraordinary. What she discovered about herself, about Nepal and the Nepalis themselves is beautifully told."- Seattle Times "While Scot never sugarcoats the hardships, she fulfills two of the travel writer's most important tasks: evoking a deep sense of place and instilling in readers a desire to go there."- Booklist The Violet Shyness of Their Eyes is a moving account of a Western woman's transformative sojourn in Nepal. Barbara Scot demonstrates insight into cultural difference while confronting the complex issues of development work and the status of women in Nepal. In vivid descriptions of mountain climbs, moving stories of the Nepalis and the retelling of her personal memories, Scot challenges readers with women's global struggles while nurturing a deep empathy and respect for the Nepali people. Scot updates her travels in this revised edition. Barbara J. Scot is an avid climber, hiker and naturalist. She is the author of Prairie Reunion (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), which received a New York Times Notable Book citation, and The Stations of Still Creek (Sierra Club Books). She lives on a houseboat near Portland, Oregon.

Download or read book Scrap Metal Sky written by Erika Brumett and published by Shape&nature Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cody County, Lux and his little girl Sadie live among rust and weeds in their scrap yard, eking out a living selling "treasure" and shuttling local drunks in Lux's cobbled-together limousine. Haunted by the memory of Sadie's dead mother, a junkie named Calista, Lux attempts to preserve Sadie's innocence in a town full of people also trying to forget. In a series of vignettes, written in poetic prose, an exotic dancer and a drunk free a bird from a third-rate hotel, a fear-ridden widow steals a mannequin, and someone is breaking into people's houses and sleeping in their beds. Unwittingly entangled in these grim lives, Lux is driven to the edge. At once tough and tender, Scrap Metal Sky is a novel about the durability of love and the good intentions often behind our bad ideas.

Download or read book Latinx Rising written by Matthew David Goodwin and published by Mad Creek Books. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Latin@ Rising is the first-ever anthology of Latino/Latina speculative literature -- science fiction and fantasy stories, poetry, artwork and drama."--

Download or read book The Flower in the Skull written by Kathleen Alcalá and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the lives of a nineteenth-century Indian woman who flees the desert of New Mexico when Mexican soldiers attack her village, her daughter, and a Latina woman from present-day Los Angeles who becomes fascinated by her own ancestry.

Download or read book Adverse Effects of Vaccines written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900, for every 1,000 babies born in the United States, 100 would die before their first birthday, often due to infectious diseases. Today, vaccines exist for many viral and bacterial diseases. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, passed in 1986, was intended to bolster vaccine research and development through the federal coordination of vaccine initiatives and to provide relief to vaccine manufacturers facing financial burdens. The legislation also intended to address concerns about the safety of vaccines by instituting a compensation program, setting up a passive surveillance system for vaccine adverse events, and by providing information to consumers. A key component of the legislation required the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to collaborate with the Institute of Medicine to assess concerns about the safety of vaccines and potential adverse events, especially in children. Adverse Effects of Vaccines reviews the epidemiological, clinical, and biological evidence regarding adverse health events associated with specific vaccines covered by the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), including the varicella zoster vaccine, influenza vaccines, the hepatitis B vaccine, and the human papillomavirus vaccine, among others. For each possible adverse event, the report reviews peer-reviewed primary studies, summarizes their findings, and evaluates the epidemiological, clinical, and biological evidence. It finds that while no vaccine is 100 percent safe, very few adverse events are shown to be caused by vaccines. In addition, the evidence shows that vaccines do not cause several conditions. For example, the MMR vaccine is not associated with autism or childhood diabetes. Also, the DTaP vaccine is not associated with diabetes and the influenza vaccine given as a shot does not exacerbate asthma. Adverse Effects of Vaccines will be of special interest to the National Vaccine Program Office, the VICP, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vaccine safety researchers and manufacturers, parents, caregivers, and health professionals in the private and public sectors.