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2015 Tejas Star Reading List
The Tejas Star Reading List Task Force annually selects a recommended reading list of bilingual English/Spanish books or books written in Spanish from books published in the three years prior to the...
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Better Late than Never: Eleven Ebooks for Bilingual Press
Melinda PalacioPhoto by Nell CampbellLast month, I received news that my 2011 novel, Ocotillo Dreams, was now available as an ebook. I pestered Bilingual Press to make my title available at the time of...
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Still-Foreign Correspondent
By Daniel A. Olivas “Thank you,” she said as I signed the book. “You’re very welcome,” I responded without looking up. “No, really,” she said....
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Valentine On-line Floricanto
1970s, artist & L.A. location unknownTen for the FourteenthSharon Elliott, Odilia Galván, Jolaoso Pretty Thunder, Edward Vidaurre, Meg Withers, Ana Chig, Gabriela Sweningsen, Armando Guzmán, Paul...
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Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia's strange ways
When I first learned that the Chicana spec lit author Silvia Moreno-Garcia lived and published in Canada, I wondered how Mexican she still was. I don't know much about the culture there, other than...
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_The Tijuana Book of the Dead_: Interview with Luis Alberto Urrea
What a pleasure to have writer, Luis Alberto Urrea in the La Bloga house today! Urrea is the author of 13 books of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. He has been a Pulitzer Prize Finalist...
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The La Bloga interview with Luis J. Rodriguez, the new Poet Laureate of Los...
Luis J. RodriguezBy Daniel A. OlivasLuis J. Rodriguez was born in El Paso, Texas in 1954, though his family lived in Ciudad Juarez. At the age two, Rodriguez’s family moved to Los Angeles where he grew...
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Stanford Book Club Reads Corpi's Confessions. Gluten-free Chicano Cooks.
Michael SedanoDierdre, Lucha, Concepción / Michael, Carlos, Roberto, ManuelMembers of the southland’s Stanford Latina Latino Alumni Book Club had the immense pleasure of meeting Lucha Corpi in the...
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Workshops at CABE 2015 (California Association For Bilingual Education)
Many children's book writers will be presenting at CABE. This is a partial list of author's workshops in English and Español. If you are at CABE, please come and meet them. ■Two Languages on My...
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Chicanonautica: Revolt on Black and Brown Planets
by Ernest HoganAbout five years ago, I was moping around, yearning for another New Wave in science fiction/speculative fiction/whatever they're calling it this week. If writers of imaginative fiction...
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Guest Reviews From Sheryl Luna. New Books. Calls and Events.
Guest Reviews by Sheryl Luna I Have Always Been HereChristopher CarmonaOtras Voces - 2013In the Prelude of I Have Always Been Here Christopher Carmona announces, “My Chican@ story is your Native story....
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Chilean Miners Untold Story Told. Chavez Ravine Revival.
Review: Héctor Tobar. Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2014.Michael SedanoSometime during their...
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Mujeres de Maiz: 18 Years of Women, Art, and Activism
Olga García EcheverríaIt's that time of the year again, March. Mes de La Mujer. The moving forward of the clock. The coming of spring. Here in the Eastside of LA, the month is teeming with corn. Corn...
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CON TINTA AWP MINNEAPOLIS 2015: LA PACHANGA & AWARD CEREMONY
Xánath Caraza Con Tinta For the 2015 Pachanga & Award Ceremony in Minneapolis, MN, who will be honored? When and where will our event take place? How can you help? The Advisory Circle of Con...
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Line Up For Dead Sea Scrolls. Floricanto for Fukushima 3/11
Michael SedanoAs the day developed, waiting in line observing children riding the aerial bike was the best part of the snaking line that is the essence of Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition, in Los...
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2015 Tejas Star Reading List
The Tejas Star Reading List Task Force annually selects a recommended reading list of bilingual English/Spanish books or books written in Spanish from books published in the three years prior to the...
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Better Late than Never: Eleven Ebooks for Bilingual Press
Melinda PalacioPhoto by Nell CampbellLast month, I received news that my 2011 novel, Ocotillo Dreams, was now available as an ebook. I pestered Bilingual Press to make my title available at the time of...
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Author Silvia Moreno-Garcia's strange ways
When I first learned that the Chicana spec lit author Silvia Moreno-Garcia lived and published in Canada, I wondered how Mexican she still was. I don't know much about the culture there, other than...
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl's Courage Changed Music
Written by Margarita Engle Illustrated by Rafael López Age Range: 4 - 8 years Grade Level: Preschool - 3 Hardcover: 48 pages Publisher: HMH Books for Young...
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