Download or read book Hola Papi written by John Paul Brammer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer presents a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation.
Download or read book Hola Papi written by John Paul Brammer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer presents a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation.
Download or read book Returning to You written by Gwen Tolios and published by NineStar Press. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monica’s relationship with her father is falling apart, made more obvious when her return to Madison after years aboard results in him throwing her out of the house. Lisa Carson, her BFF and old college roommate, takes her in. Turns out Lisa has her own issues with her parents – they’re pushing her to date despite her lack of desire. So when Monica joins a Carson family dinner, she lies and says it’s starting a relationship with Lisa that brought her back to America. Lisa goes along with the rouse – it gets her parents off her back and it’s only until Monica repairs her relation-ship with her father and moves out. What Monica failed to take into account however is that crush she had on Lisa in college? Yeah, that didn’t go away.
Download or read book City Girls written by Loretta Lopez and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Lucky Broken Girl, Hurricane Child, and The House on Mango Street, will love this debut middle grade novel about finding sanctuary with friends who understand the enormous changes life can throw at you when you're 11. What Elisa, Lucia, and Alice see–and judge–of each other from the outside is drastically different from how each girl feels inside. They attend the same classes in the same New York City middle school, but no one knows that Elisa is trying to navigate the bewildering asylum process having just arrived from El Salvador; or that Lucia, who also speaks Spanish and brims with self-confidence, is caught in the middle of her parents’ heartbreaking divorce; or that Alice, who appears to be a rebel in combat boots, carries the burden of her mother’s progressing cancer. Narrated by each girl in alternating chapters, City Girls captures the vulnerability of being a middle schooler and the relief and joy of finding friendship where you least expect it.
Download or read book Bagged written by M.E. Purfield and published by trash books. This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miranda Crowe works for Bernie’s detective agency in the heart of Jersey City. An assistant learning the ropes, the young Latina not only impresses with her computer skills but also her keen eye. One day, she will work her way up from background work and into lead detective. One day she will earn enough to help out her disabled father more. Whether she trails husbands to dead bodies, dodges bullets in the street, or rescues little girls in the middle of the night, Miranda will risk her life and the law to help someone out. Collected her are three tense urban short crime stories of a woman trying to make her way in a violent world from the author of the Radicci Sisters Mysteries and Blunt Force Kharma.
Download or read book Blazewrath Games written by Amparo Ortiz and published by Page Street YA. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dragons and their riders compete in an international sports tournament in this alternate contemporary world fantasy Lana Torres has always preferred dragons to people. In a few weeks, sixteen countries will compete in the Blazewrath World Cup, a tournament where dragons and their riders fight for glory in a dangerous relay. Lana longs to represent her native Puerto Rico in their first ever World Cup appearance, and when Puerto Rico’s Runner—the only player without a dragon steed—is kicked off the team, she’s given the chance. But when she discovers that a former Blazewrath superstar has teamed up with the Sire—a legendary dragon who’s cursed into human form—the safety of the Cup is jeopardized. The pair are burning down dragon sanctuaries around the world and refuse to stop unless the Cup gets cancelled. All Lana wanted was to represent her country. Now, to do that, she’ll have to navigate an international conspiracy that’s deadlier than her beloved sport.
Download or read book Write It Right written by Mary Deal and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written and compiled by award-winning novelist Mary Deal, Write it Right - Tips for Authors is a major source of information for breathing life into your prose. Learn how to polish your writing with tips and examples, and make your prose leap off the page. Writing your opus, you may have encountered myriad questions about imperfect areas that you stumble across in the composition. The thoroughly explained tips offered in Write it Right - Tips for Authors clarify these worrisome issues, instead of simply taking a chance they’ll be acceptable. These thorough and often humorous tips were written in response to author queries for articles that explain various problematic aspects, including: - Grammar and punctuation - Narration - Character development and dialogue - Preparing your manuscript for submission - Your public image If your writing hasn't been perfectly smooth, you’ll find answers to your questions in Write it Right - Tips for Authors.
Download or read book The Legendary Daddy written by Alejandro Magallanes and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fathers journey is legendary. The life he lives after the birth of his child casts a light, or shadow, onto his progeny. This is the story of a father who realizes that his legend is as glorious as it is heartbreaking. His life-changing adventure serves as a guide for new parents, sending imperfect adults onto a life of heroic self-sacrifice.
Download or read book Beantown Cubans written by Johnny Diaz and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Miami Manhunt and Boston Boys Club, comes a witty, new, warmhearted novel of friendship, familia, and finding a place to call home--even in a city where it's almost impossible to get an authentic Cuban sandwich. . . Carlos Martin is twenty-seven years old and ready for a change. Cuban-born and Miami-raised, the cute but slightly awkward high school teacher figures that Boston is about as far from the crazy South Beach social scene as he could get--and a way to escape the bittersweet reminders of his recently departed mother. Life in "Beantown" is quite a culture shock--until Carlos meets Tommy Perez, another Miami transplant who quickly shows him the ropes. Now, in the course of one wildly unpredictable year, Carlos is going to learn to embrace his newfound independence, as well as his individuality. . . Praise for Johnny Diaz and Miami Manhunt "The excellent Johnny Diaz has produced another hilarious arresting novel about that most impossible of all quests: finding love, true love, in Miami." --Juno Diaz, New York Times bestselling author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Download or read book Try to Remember written by Iris Gomez and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning poet and expert in US immigration and asylum law delivers a powerful novel about a daughter's attempt to sustain her family as her father struggles with his mental health. "Lyrical, poignant, and smart, as compassionate and hopeful as it is heartbreaking...a novel you will never forget." -- Jenna Blum, New York Times bestselling author of Those Who Save Us If she tries, Gabriela can almost remember when her father went off to work . . . when her mother wasn't struggling to undo the damage he caused . . . when a short temper didn't lead to physical violence. But Gabi cannot live in the past, not when one more outburst could jeopardize her family's future. So she trades the life of a normal Miami teenager for a career of carefully managing her father's delusions and guarding her mother's secrets. As Gabi navigates her family's twisting path of lies and revelations, relationships and loss, she finds moments of happiness in unexpected places. Ultimately Gabi must discover the strength she needs to choose what's right for her: serving her parents or a future of her own.
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing written by Maria Joaquina Villaseñor and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing provides an in‐depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study of a variety of key Latinx life writers, genres, and thematic concerns. This volume includes chapters on fundamental genres of Latinx life writing including memoir, autobiography, oral history, testimonio, comics and graphic texts, poetry of protest, and theatre to more fully depict the breadth, dynamism, and vibrancy of Latinx life writing. Latinx people continuously engaged in the empowering act of telling their stories and narrating their lives, producing writing that at various times and in various ways expressed their joy, expressed their rage and anguish, and ultimately, asserted their subjectivity all the while indelibly contributing to the American literary landscape.
Download or read book Coping Skills written by Jerica MacMillan and published by Marycliff Press. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s changed so much ... Elena isn’t the same girl Daniel fell for before they went their separate ways for summer break. A sad, solemn young woman now replaces the happy, carefree girl he knew burdened by grief from her father’s accident. When she turns to him for comfort, he’s determined to help her in any way she’ll let him. But when he pushes her, will she acknowledge that their relationship is deeper than just physical?
Download or read book Y Porque Yo written by Antonio Zurita and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mi nombre es Antonio Anteliz Zurita, nací un 5 de Agosto de 1947 en la ciudad Puebla. Cursé mi primaria en la Escuela Motolinia, mi secundaria en el Seminario Salesiano de Don Bosco en Puebla y San Pedro Tlaquepaque Jalisco, mi preparatoria en el Colegio San Sebastián de Aparicio. Estuve 3 años en la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, cursando la carrera de Ciencias Económicas Administrativas. En 1968 me vine a la ciudad de Chicago. En 1970 comencé a escribir sobre deportes en el semanario más prestigioso de la "Ciudad de Los Vientos", LA RAZA. Posteriormente escribí en los diferentes periódicos y revistas de Chicago, como EL NORTE, EL HERALDO, CHICAGO DEPORTIVO, EL EXTRA, EL TELEGUIA, ETC. Estuve tres años trabajando en la radio LA TREMENDA, en un programa titulado "Hablando de Deportes". Fundé con Jorge Alvarez el primer grupo Teatral de Chicago. Coproduje un cine video de la película titulada "El chorizo del carnicero" y escribí dicho libreto. Hice televisión en Chicago en el programa de Alva Molina en el canal 26. He salido en UNIVISION en el programa de República Deportiva, Despierta América. En TELEMUNDO en Sálvese Quien Pueda. Incursioné en el cine mexicano actuando en 8 cine videos al lado de Mario Almada, Alfonso Zayas, Flaco Guzmán, El Flaco Ibáñez, Edgardo Gazcón, Armando Araiza, César Bono, etc. Tengo un personaje cómico de un monaguillo bien irreverente llamado "Agapito Melorcas" y conjuntamente a mi compañero el sacerdote "El cura melcacho", les hemos abierto a varios comediantes su Show. Tengo alrededor de ocho libros listos para la imprenta. Espero que cuando sepa que ya hay otro libro mío en el mercado, lo compre porque va a ser interesante y diferente.
Download or read book Gateway to the Moon written by Mary Morris and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1492, two history-altering events occurred: the Jews and Muslims of Spain were expelled, and Columbus set sail for the New World. Many Spanish Jews chose not to flee and instead became Christian in name only, maintaining their religious traditions in secret. Among them was Luis de Torres, who accompanied Columbus as an interpreter. Over the centuries, de Torres’ descendants traveled across North America, finally settling in the hills of New Mexico. Now, some five hundred years later, it is in these same hills that Miguel Torres, a young amateur astronomer, finds himself trying to understand the mystery that surrounds him and the town he grew up in: Entrada de la Luna, or Gateway to the Moon. Poor health and poverty are the norm in Entrada, and luck is rare. So when Miguel sees an ad for a babysitting job in Santa Fe, he jumps at the opportunity. The family for whom he works, the Rothsteins, are Jewish, and Miguel is surprised to find many of their customs similar to those his own family kept but never understood. Braided throughout the present-day narrative are the powerful stories of the ancestors of Entrada’s residents, portraying both the horrors of the Inquisition and the resilience of families. Moving and unforgettable, Gateway to the Moon beautifully weaves the journeys of the converso Jews into the larger American story.
Download or read book Ca ar written by Judy Blankenship and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose roots reach back to the pre-Columbian past. Fascinated by this blending of old and new and eager to make a record of traditional customs and rituals before they disappear entirely, photographer-journalist Judy Blankenship spent several years in Cañar, Ecuador, photographing the local people in their daily lives and conducting photography workshops to enable them to preserve their own visions of their culture. In this engaging book, Blankenship combines her sensitively observed photographs with an inviting text to tell the story of the most recent year she and her husband Michael spent living and working among the people of Cañar. Very much a personal account of a community undergoing change, Cañar documents such activities as plantings and harvests, religious processions, a traditional wedding, healing ceremonies, a death and funeral, and a home birth with a native midwife. Along the way, Blankenship describes how she and Michael went from being outsiders only warily accepted in the community to becoming neighbors and even godparents to some of the local children. She also explains how outside forces, from Ecuador's failing economy to globalization, are disrupting the traditional lifeways of the Cañari as economic migration virtually empties highland communities of young people. Blankenship's words and photographs create a moving, intimate portrait of a people trying to balance the demands of the twenty-first century with the traditions that have formed their identity for centuries.
Download or read book Gringos Larguense written by Antonio Zurita and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mi nombre es Antonio Anteliz Zurita, nací un 5 de Agosto de 1947 en la ciudad de Puebla. Curse mi Primaria en la Escuela Motolinia, mi Secundaria en el Seminario Salesiano de Don Bosco en Puebla y en San Pedro Tlaquepaque Jalisco, mi Preparatoria en el Colegio San SEBASTIAN de Aparicio, estuve 3 años en la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, cursando la carrera de Ciencias Económicas Administrativas. En 1968 me vine a la Ciudad de Chicago, en 1970 comencé a escribir sobre deportes en el semanario más prestigioso de la "Ciudad de los Vientos", LA RAZA, posteriormente escribí en los diferentes periódicos y revistas de Chicago, como EL NORTE, EL HERALDO, CHICAGO DEPORTIVO, EL EXTRA, EL TELEGUIA, ETC.; estuve tres años trabajando en la radio LA TREMENDA, en un programa titulado "Hablando de Deportes". Fundé con Jorge Alvarez el primer grupo Teatral de Chicago. Coproduje un cine video de la película titulada "El chorizo del carnicero" y escribí dicho libreto. Hice televisión en Chicago en el programa de Alva Molina en el canal 26, he salido en UNIVISION en el programa de República Deportiva, Despierta América. En TELEMUNDO en Sálvese Quien Pueda. Incursioné en el cine mexicano actuando en 8 cines videos al lado de Mario Almada, Alfonso Zayas, Flaco Guzmán, El Flaco Ibáñez, Edgardo Gazcon, Armando Araiza, Cesar Bono, etc. Tengo un personaje cómico de un monaguillo bien irreverente llamado "Agapito Melocras" y conjuntamente a mi compañero el sacerdote "El cura melcacho", les hemos abierto a varios comediantes su Show. Tengo alrededor de ocho libros listos para la imprenta. Espero que cuando sepa que ya hay otro libro mío en el mercado lo compre porque va ser interesante y diferente.
Download or read book Money over Love Two written by Robin Chanel and published by Robin Chanel Publishing. This book was released on with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skyla thought she would be leaving her past behind once she moved away from her hometown and fled to Los Angeles. However, once a piece of Duane's past comes and hunts her, she is back reliving what she had left behind. All her skeleton's will come to surface, once again in this drama filled part two. Will Skyla get her way once again or will she be left suffering?
