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Santiago's Road Home - La travesía de Santiago
By Alexandra Diaz Publisher : Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books Language: : EnglishHardcover : 336 pagesISBN-10 : 1534446230ISBN-13 : 978-1534446236Reading age : 8 - 12 years A young boy gets...
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What a Way to Start a New Year
Stoner Park, the Japanese GardenYou know people love to tell...
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The Plague Cancels Carnival and New Years Resolutions
Melinda Palacio As if the thought of Covid-19 muscling its way into 2021 isn’t enough, there’s the shenanigans from Trump supporters looting and rioting and disrupting democracy. The week started off...
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“FBI Files on Mexicans and Chicanos, 1940–1980: The Eagle Is Watching” by...
A multi-chapter book that examines the FBI files on two well known persons of Mexican origin, Luisa Moreno and Ernesto Galarza; four Chicanos, Ambassador Raymond Telles and his wife Delfina Navarro,...
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Like Any Other Day, Except...
Memory, MemoriesDD-214 DetailMichael SedanoWednesday, January 15, 1969 finally got here. "Here" being an apartment in Isla Vista where Barbara would live, finish her degree and teaching credential. I...
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We Are Not from Here
By Jenny Torres Sanchez Publisher : Philomel Books Language: : EnglishHardcover : 368 pagesISBN-10 : 1984812262ISBN-13 : 978-1984812261 A poignant novel of desperation, escape, and survival across...
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Chicanonautica: Trumpocalypse Now
by Ernest Hogan I was expecting an ugly meltdown, but what happened was more than I let my super-charged, twisted Latinoid imagination conjur. It wasn’t “Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the...
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Remembering The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz
Three editions of The Ballad of Rocky RuizAngels in the Wind is the title of the next book I will publish. As I write this piece for La Bloga, the crew at Arte Público Press is working on cover art,...
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. y ¡Sí se puede! by Xánath Caraza
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. y ¡Sí se puede! by Xánath Caraza On a spring day during the civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a very eager audience in Kansas City, Missouri....
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2021 Resolution: Just Enough Poetry
Review: Edward Vidaurre. Pandemia & Other Poems.San Antonio: Aztlán Libre Press, 2020. Isbn 978–0 –9897782-5-1 (link in title)Michael SedanoI lack the stamina and skill that reviewing poetry...
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Cemetery Boys
By Aiden Thomas Publisher : Swoon Reads Language: : EnglishHardcover : 352 pagesISBN-10 : 1250250463ISBN-13 : 978-1250250469Reading age : 13 - 18 yearsGrade level : 7 – 9 A trans boy determined to...
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Covid Year Two, the Inaugural Edition 2021
Melinda PalacioHello 2021.For all of us who voted for Biden, the new year didn’t start until Wednesday when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in. I’m feeling all kinds of...
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The White Nationalist Barbarians Storm the Gate(s) of the U.S. Capitol
By Dr. Álvaro HuertaThe white nationalist barbarians, aided and abetted by their Führer—President Donald J. Trump—stormed and entered the gate(s) at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. The...
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Getting Ahead of the Con Game
Confession in Plague-time: The Article 15Michael SedanoNote Found On the Internet:In the last week I’ve received two emails from background check companies threatening to release reputation-damaging...
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American Library Association Award Winners 2021
For a complete list of ALA awards and winners visit,http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2021/01/ala-announces-2021-youth-media-awardsPura Belpré Awards honoring a Latinx writer and illustrator whose...
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Chicanonautica: Aztech: The Movie—Hecho en Mexico
by Ernest HoganFirst of all, it has nothing to do with my novel High Aztech. I’d seen things about Aztech: The Moviea while back, did some checking, but my novel doesn’t have any spaceships in it, so...
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New Books
New books from four distinguished authors -- just in time for International Women's Day.How To Order The UniverseMaría José FerradaTin House Books - February 16[from the publisher]For seven-year-old M,...
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Teaching Late-Twentieth-Century Mexicana and Chicana Writers
Xánath Caraza Teaching Late-Twentieth-Century Mexicana and Chicana WritersEdited by Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez (Modern Language Association of America, 2020) “What are the similarities and differences...
View Article"March in the Rain" January 31, 1971
Michael SedanoWhere were you on August 29, 1970, a day living infamously when police attacked an entire community, and got away with it?KCET broadcast the coroner's inquest into the killing of Ruben...
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