Download or read book Tortilla Chronicles written by Marie Romero Cash and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional Hispanic culture of 1950s Santa Fe comes alive through the members of the hardworking Romero family.
Download or read book Tortilla Flat written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Steinbeck is an artists; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a gentle and poetic purity of heart and of prose." —New York Herald Tribune A Penguin Classic Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, John Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California, and peopled it with a colorful band of knights. At the center of the tale is Danny, whose house, like Arthur’s castle, becomes a gathering place for men looking for adventure, camaraderie, and a sense of belonging—men who fiercely resist the corrupting tide of honest toil and civil rectitude. As Nobel Prize winner Steinbeck chronicles their deeds—their multiple lovers, their wonderful brawls, their Rabelaisian wine-drinking—he spins a tale as compelling and ultimately as touched by sorrow as the famous legends of the Round Table, which inspired him. This edition features an introduction by Thomas Fensch. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Download or read book The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo written by F. G. Haghenbeck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Mexico’s most celebrated new novelists, F. G. Haghenbeck offers a beautifully written reimagining of Frida Kahlo’s fascinating life and loves. When several notebooks were recently discovered among Frida Kahlo’s belongings at her home in Coyoacán, Mexico City, acclaimed Mexican novelist F. G. Haghenbeck was inspired to write this beautifully wrought fictional account of her life. Haghenbeck imagines that, after Frida nearly died when a streetcar’s iron handrail pierced her abdomen during a traffic accident, she received one of the notebooks as a gift from her lover Tina Modotti. Frida called the notebook “The Hierba Santa Book” (The Sacred Herbs Book) and filled it with memories, ideas, and recipes. Haghenbeck takes readers on a magical ride through Frida’s passionate life: her long and tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera, the development of her art, her complex personality, her hunger for experience, and her ardent feminism. This stunning narrative also details her remarkable relationships with Georgia O’Keeffe, Leon Trotsky, Nelson Rockefeller, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, and Salvador Dalí. Combining rich, luscious prose with recipes from “The Hierba Santa Book,” Haghenbeck tells the extraordinary story of a woman whose life was as stunning a creation as her art.
Download or read book Kaqchikel Chronicles written by and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of documents known as the Kaqchikel Chronicles consists of rare highland Maya texts, which trace Kaqchikel Maya history from their legendary departure from Tollan/Tula through their migrations, wars, the Spanish invasion, and the first century of Spanish colonial rule. The texts represent a variety of genres, including formal narrative, continuous year-count annals, contribution records, genealogies, and land disputes. While the Kaqchikel Chronicles have been known to scholars for many years, this volume is the first and only translation of the texts in their entirety. The book includes two collections of documents, one known as the Annals of the Kaqchikels and the other as the Xpantzay Cartulary. The translation has been prepared by leading Mesoamericanists in collaboration with Kaqchikel-speaking linguistic scholars. It features interlinear glossing, which allows readers to follow the translators in the process of rendering colonial Kaqchikel into modern English. Extensive footnoting within the text restores the depth and texture of cultural context to the Chronicles. To put the translations in context, Judith Maxwell and Robert Hill have written a full scholarly introduction that provides the first modern linguistic discussion of the phonological, morphological, syntactic, and pragmatic structure of sixteenth-century Kaqchikel. The translators also tell a lively story of how these texts, which derive from pre-contact indigenous pictographic and cartographic histories, came to be converted into their present form.
Download or read book The Martin Chronicles written by Mary Beth de Ribeaux and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura set the bassinet down gently and backed away, smiling at us. Eugene nudged me, but I was shaking so hard, I couldn't pick up the baby. Eugene quickly scooped him up instead and cuddled him before placing him in my arms. Little Martín stared at me intently and then... he smiled. From the emotional moment when they first met, Eugene and Mary Beth were entranced by the three-month-old baby they'd traveled to Mexico to adopt. Then life took an unexpected turn. Bureaucratic bungling, political wrangling, Mexican holidays, and plain bad luck repeatedly delayed the adoption's final approval. Meanwhile, Eugene returned to the U.S., leaving Mary Beth in Puerto Vallarta with Martín. The Martin Chronicles-originally a series of email messages Mary Beth sent home to family and friends-recounts the trials and joys of a first-time mother with limited Spanish skills who was determined to make the best of a precarious situation. This heartwarming, lively narrative reveals a growing love not only for an adopted baby, but for his native country as well. Through comic adventures, budding friendships, and cultural celebrations, The Martin Chronicles gives an account of one family's incredible saga to bring their baby home.
Download or read book The Brighton Chronicles Frozen Curse written by K. Robichaud and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anneliese Alianov is your typical young woman that is twenty-seven with a normal life...That is, until she meets Murdock Blake, a former lab rat who has been experimented on in a Virginia lab called Farling since birth and has been living on the run since he was sixteen. After spending several months together, Murdock and Anneliese become close friends and lovers until the two marry and meet long-lost relatives. But, when the scars of Anneliese and Murdock's pasts come back to haunt them, the couple must work together to battle a spell known as the Tenegene Curse, which was cast upon the man by a mysterious woman known as The Poison Apple.
Download or read book The Drug Chronicles written by Gary Phillips and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide range of bestselling and acclaimed writers—from masters of noir to literary lights—explore the milieu of drug culture in this “eye-opening series” (New York Journal of Books). From Lee Child to William T. Vollmann, Joyce Carol Oates to Sherman Alexie, Eric Bogosian to actor James Franco, many of the finest contemporary writers of fiction weigh in on the lure and destruction of drug use, society’s ambiguous relationship to drug culture, and criminal behavior with short stories that are alternately harrowing, funny, sad, or scary—but always original and gripping. The Cocaine Chronicles edited by Gary Phillips and Jervey Tervalon Contributors include Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, and Susan Straight “Urban, gritty, and raw noir.” —Harlan Coben The Speed Chronicles edited by Joseph Mattson Contributors include William T. Vollmann, Sherman Alexie, James Franco, and Megan Abbott “Deserves great praise for the audacity of the topic, the depth of the discussion, the diversity of voices, and plain, old, good storytelling.” —New York Journal of Books The Heroin Chronicles edited by Jerry Stahl Contributors include Eric Bogosian, Lydia Lunch, Ava Stander, and Gary Phillips “[An] impressive array of writers . . . these tales of chasing the dragon, with corollaries often violent and savage, will satisfy devotees of noir fiction and outsider are alike.” —Publishers Weekly The Marijuana Chronicles edited by Jonathan Santlofer Contributors include Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Child, Raymond Mungo, and Rachel Shteir “Joyce Carol Oates is in a rare class of her own . . . So, too, are other contributors to this collection, including Lee Child and the always enjoyable Raymond Mungo.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Santa Fe written by Elizabeth West and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This question-and-answer book contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than 400 years ago. Not a traditional history book, this group of questions is presented in an apparently random order, and the answers occasionally meander off topic, as if part of a casual conversation.
Download or read book Dragon Mage Chronicles written by Aimee Easterling and published by Wetknee Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three dragon shifters. Three elemental witches. Three stories "full of excitement and adventure." Fire mage Fee cut her teeth on tales of dragons' dastardliness. So she willingly straps explosives to her belly and sets off to infiltrate the home base of the shifters who rule over all mankind. Peaceful earth mage Amber finds a dragon in her garden and is faced with defending her enclave of illegal magic users with every weapon at her disposal...up to and including the use of deadly force. And wind witch Sabrina butts up against a dragon's honor as she chooses between shielding precious friendships and allowing layer upon layer of deceit to finish turning her family name to mud. USA Today bestselling author Aimee Easterling's romantic fantasy series contains two novels and one novella. Together, the titles have racked up over 150 glowing five-star reviews: "Electric story telling" — JOJO "Wild post apocalyptic world building" — Tera Comer "This was one of those rare stories that sweep you away into another world, and you leave it looking forward to your next visit." — BookAddict "I lost sleep to read it fully, then when I did sleep I woke early to get back to the story. Do not attempt to read if you have work to do first." — Cynthia Stevens "This book has it all. Bad guys, good guys, people you can love and people you can hate. Action, adventure, and love." — VaWineLover "Dragons, Magic and Adventure...who could ask for more???" — Sara F
Download or read book The Corner Booth Chronicles written by Mimi Thebo and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing ever happens in Eudora, and that's the way this small town likes it. Then a former resident publishes a novel with characters based on a number of townspeople. Suddenly, there are a whole lot of new ideas in town and not all of them are good.
Download or read book MultiCultural Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How Dare We Write written by Sherry Quan Lee and published by Modern History Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse offers a much-needed corrective to the usual dry and uninspired creative writing pedagogy. The collection asks us to consider questions, such as "What does it mean to work through resistance from supposed mentors, to face rejection from publishers and classmates, and to stand against traditions that silence you?" and "How can writers and teachers even begin to make diversity matter in meaningful ways on the page, in the classroom, and on our bookshelves?" The expanded 2nd edition includes six new works, Creating Literary Spaces, that reach beyond the personal, beyond the present, into unknown spaces that make a difference. How Dare We! Write is an inspiring collection of intellectually rigorous lyric essays and innovative writing exercises; it opens up a path for inquiry, reflection, understanding, and creativity that is ultimately healing. The testimonies provide a hard-won context for their innovative paired writing experiments that are, by their very nature, generative. -- Cherise A. Pollard, PhD, Professor of English, West Chester University of Pennsylvania So-called "creative writing" classes are highly politicized spaces, but no one says so; to acknowledge this obvious fact would be to up-end the aesthetics, cultural politics (ideology) and economics on which most educational institutions are founded. How Dare We! Write, a brilliant interventive anthology of essays, breaks this silence. -- Maria Damon, Pratt Institute of Art; co-editor of Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader How Dare We! Write is a collection of brave voices calling out to writers of color everywhere: no matter how lonely, you are not alone; you are one in a sea of change, swimming against the currents. -- Kao Kalia Yang, author of The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, and The Song Poet, a 2017 Minnesota Book Award winner How Dare We! Write is a much-needed collection of essays from writers of color that reminds us that our stories need to be told, from addressing academic gatekeepers, embracing our identities, the effects of the oppressor's tongue on our psyche and to the personal narratives that help us understand who we are. ---Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, writer, spoken word poet/performer and contributing author to A Good Time for the Truth: Race In Minnesota Learn more at http: //blog.SherryQuanLee.com From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com Read less
Download or read book The Chronicles Of Derleo written by Leonard Coleman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humankind is being consumed in a world of chaos and climate change. The oceans are being depleted of oxygen. Natural resources are diminishing and are being rationed. Can JD Jorgenson and his group of friends band together to survive? Can they establish their own secret, self sustaining community? Enjoy this epic tale of survival in a climatic changing world. Travel with them on their journey of seeking the truth. The future for every reader lies within his or her own hands, so better one seeks the truth, than not.
Download or read book The Complete Kane Chronicles written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 1353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection fit for the (Egyptian) gods! All three books in the blockbuster Kane Chronicles trilogy are together at last! This series will be treasured by readers of all ages, whether they're experiencing Sadie and Carter's amazing adventures for the first time or are faithful fans eager to devour the saga all over again.
Download or read book Kaylid Chronicles Complete Series written by Mel Todd and published by Bad Ash Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 2581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 2% of the world changed into animals, police officer McKenna Largo found herself at the center of the social media storm and cultural shift. If you are looking for action and adventure with no romance? Want characters that grow and learn? Grab this complete series and go from small town cop to last hope for humanity. No Choice Handling the cat calling as a female police officer is one thing, being a literal cat is something else. When the world's population shifts into animals, the last thing McKenna expected was to be at the center of the controversy. When she gets caught in the crossfire of a get rich quick scheme, she'll have to decide what price she'll pay to protect the innocent. And if she'll still be human by the end. Commander It can always get worse, unfortunately. Discovering an Artificial Intelligence lives in your head, strike one. Having the Artificial Intelligence explain aliens are the origin of shifters on Earth, strike two. Having it announce you are the commanding officer of the earth shifters, strike three. After one too many successes, these enemies target not just on her, but also her family and friends. Finding herself in a situation she never imagined, McKenna must step up and be the leader they need, a true commander. Now if she could just devise a plan that won't get them all killed. Incoming Aliens are coming! Getting back home with the knowledge that aliens are coming for your planet is one thing. Figuring out how to get anyone in a position of power to listen to you is something else. With the knowledge that the Elentrin are weeks away from Earth, McKenna must persuade the government that she isn't crazy and that aliens are coming. But first she has to convince friends and family, after that the world will be easy. Allies Having a dragon walk out of a portal changed everything. When a member of the Drakyn race, the ones the Elentrin want to destroy, shows up to offer aid in Earth's fight for survival, McKenna has hope. Their visitor unlocks information buried in her friends' heads and gives them a chance against this enemy. Calling in the government seems like the best idea, after all it's a worldwide battle. But they soon discover the Drakyn don't have weapons, ships, or even troops to help in this war. What they do offer is a way onto the ships hanging over Earth. The catch is McKenna and her friends are the only ones who can lead the way. Because not only are more Elentrin coming, but when they are done, they'll destroy the Earth. Family What price would you pay? Being in the middle of creating history isn't a comfortable place. Toni Diaz has dealt with a lot in her life, but turning into an animal, meeting aliens, and trying to save the world wasn't anything she'd ever seen in her future. Trying to do the best thing for everyone she'll need to balance the good of her family with what is best for Earth. Even as she prepares to do the impossible, she'll try to keep her loved ones safe, and pray the choices they have made are the right ones. Not just for her, but for all Kaylid left on Earth.
Download or read book The Yther Chronicles Book 3 BAD DREAMS written by Ellwyn Hayslip and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2023-05-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nightmare Queen’s sinister sleep spell is broken, but she isn’t going to give up without a fight. She challenges the heroes Coleus, Abby, Lademer, Blustera, Cayla and Matt to a challenge in her own realm, the dimension of true dreams. At first glance, this challenge appears similar to a board game, with the six adventurers as pieces. It soon becomes evident that it is far more than that. Guided by a mysterious dream creature, the six heroes must pass through seven bizarre dreamscapes, each contaminated with the Nightmare Queen’s evil energy. From volcanic wastelands to lush jungles, from an endless road to the peaks of a frozen mountain and even into outer space, Coleus and his friends move ever closer to the center of the gameboard, and the Nightmare Queen’s hallucinatory stronghold.
Download or read book The Timekeeper Chronicles Book 1 written by J. L. Mihulka and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dragon, burning, stabbed in the tail and in the chest, bleeding and with one eye blinded, towered over the three children. The adults trying to save them knew there wasn’t much they could do, setting the dragon on fire was already so much more than the five of them ever thought they could do and that hadn’t done anything to stop it from advancing. There wasn’t anything else they could do so they braced themselves for the inevitable final attack, knowing they wouldn’t be the one delivering it. As the three young warriors took a step toward the fight, ready to join it, a burning tree fell in front of them, knocked over by the falling dragon. Now they were surrounded by flames that were only growing, their only way out being through the burning forest behind them. With all other options exhausted, they ran straight into the flames.
