Author : Meg Medina
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805082301
In stunning prose, Medina creates a fantastical world in which a young girl uncovers the true meaning of family, the significance of identity, and the power of a mother's love.
Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 146685961X
The Milagro Beanfield War is the first book in John Nichols's New Mexico trilogy (“Gentle, funny, transcendent.” —The New York Times Book Review), later adapted to film by Robert Redford. Joe Mondragon, a feisty hustler with a talent for trouble, slammed his battered pickup to a stop, tugged on his gumboots, and marched into the arid patch of ground. Carefully (and also illegally), he tapped into the main irrigation channel. And so began-though few knew it at the time-the Milagro beanfield war. But like everything else in the dirt-poor town of Milagro, it would be a patchwork war, fought more by tactical retreats than by battlefield victories. Gradually, the small farmers and sheepmen begin to rally to Joe's beanfield as the symbol of their lost rights and their lost lands. And downstate in the capital, the Anglo water barons and power brokers huddle in urgent conference, intent on destroying that symbol before it destroys their multimillion-dollar land-development schemes. The tale of Milagro's rising is wildly comic and lovingly tender, a vivid portrayal of a town that, half-stumbling and partly prodded, gropes its way toward its own stubborn salvation.
Author : Angelina M. Lopez
Publisher : Carina Press
Page : pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0369719158
"A sexy, emotional, and pitch-perfect romance." —NPR on Lush Money Opposites attract in this rivals-to-lovers romance from Lush Money author Angelina M. Lopez Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The “poor handsome man.” Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra “Alex” Torres turning Loretta’s, her grandmother’s bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family’s admiration; she won’t let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too. Alex blowing into town has rocked Jeremiah to his mild-mannered core, but the large, boisterous Torres clan is everything he never had. He doesn’t believe Alex has the best interest of her family, their community, or the bar’s legacy in mind. To protect all three, he’ll stand up to the tough and tattooed bartender with whom he now shares a bedroom wall—and resist the insta-lust they both feel. But when an old enemy threatens Loretta’s and the surrounding neighborhood, Alex and Jeremiah must combine forces. It will take her might and his mind to save the home they both desperately need. "Sparks fly and tempers flare in this passionate, un-put-downable rivals-to-lovers romance that launches a sizzling new series...Lopez seamlessly blends high-heat romance with discussions of Alex’s heritage and the fascinating history of 19th-century Mexican immigrants to the Kansas plains. This is a treasure." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Author : Simon Finchley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,9 MB
Release : 2021-06-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781737388210
A pirate struggling to make a change. A ghosthand with something to prove. And an ancient magic that binds their fates.Juliana wants to do the right thing for her rusty mechanical crew, but her past keeps dragging her back to piracy. When she discovers the merfolk have a powerful magical weapon, she makes a plan to shift the balance of power on the sea forever. Meanwhile, Otte wants to find a place in their sleepy farming town, but despite their magical skills, they don't belong. When a vampire attack reveals a hidden secret, Otte seizes the chance to make their mark.Both in search of an ancient magical artifact, these two paths cross, and they are both faced with a choice: trust each other, or lose everything. But does the artifact hold the solution to their problems? Or is it more dangerous than anyone could imagine?The Doomed World of Milagro is the first book in the science fantasy series Saga Milagro. If you're looking for swashbuckling adventure, a world full of mystery, and compelling female and non-binary main characters, you'll find it all in this brand-new novel by Simon Finchley.
Author : John Treadwell Nichols
Publisher :
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Violence erupts in the poor town of Milagro when one dirt farmer impulsively taps the main irrigation channel.
Author : John Perkins
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1523089873
“This eloquent book inspires us to create a new reality of what it means to be humans on this magnificent planet.” —Deepak Chopra This all happened while Perkins was a Peace Corps volunteer. Then he became an "economic hit man" (EHM), convincing developing countries to build huge projects that put them perpetually in debt to the World Bank and other US-controlled institutions. Although he'd learned in business school that this was the best model for economic development, he came to understand it as a new form of colonialism. When he later returned to the Amazon, he saw the destructive impact of his work. But a much more profound experience emerged: Perkins was inspired by a previously uncontacted Amazon tribe that “touched its jaguar” by uniting with age-old enemies to defend its territory against invading oil and mining companies. For the first time, Perkins details how shamanism converted him from an EHM to a crusader for transforming a failing Death Economy (exploiting resources that are declining at accelerating rates) into a Life Economy (cleaning up pollution, recycling, and developing green technologies). He discusses the power our perceptions have for molding reality. And he provides a strategy for each of us to change our lives and defend our territory—the earth—against current destructive policies and systems.
Author : Yakov Malkiel
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902728315X
The period of 1965 to 1978 was an extremely productive time for U.S. (Russian born) Romance etymologist and philologist Yakov Malkiel whose specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. Malkiel will be known as the great champion of etymology in linguistics as evidenced by several of the selected essays in From Particular to General Lingusitics. But here Malkiel also moves in several other subfields of linguistics and proves that whatever the subject of discussion is, it is characterized by a tenaciously comprehensive use of evidence.
Author : John Nichols
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826363792
I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer is the memoir of Nichols' extraordinary life, as seen through the lens of his writing. Everything that went into making him a writer and eventually found an outlet in his work--his education, family, wives, children, friends, enemies, politics, and place--is told from the point of view of his daily practice of writing. Beginning with his first novel, The Sterile Cuckoo, published in 1965 when he was just twenty-four, Nichols shares his highs and lows: his ambivalent relationship with money; his growing disenchantment with the hypocrisy of capitalism; and his love-hate relationship with Hollywood--including the years-long struggle of working with director Robert Redford on the film version of The Milagro Beanfield War, which was filmed around Truchas and featured many of Nichols' northern New Mexico neighbors. Throughout I Got Mine Nichols spins a shining thread connecting his lifelong engagement with progressive political causes, his passionate interest in and identification with ordinary people, and his deep connection to the land.
Author : Frank Javier Garcia Berumen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 27,55 MB
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1476614113
Latinos have been part of the Hollywood film industry for more than 100 years, yet beyond the remarkable success of a few, their visibility and clout have generally not reflected their significance in American society. Worse, the Latino image has suffered from widespread stereotyping in film, and performers face unjustified constraints in the kinds of roles available to them. Decade by decade from 1960 onward, this book analyzes important films made by or about Latinos, details the careers of Latino performers and filmmakers of the time, and analyzes how film portrayals of Latino characters and subjects connect with political and social trends of each decade. It discusses the role of gender, social class, and ethnicity in film portrayals and provides an overview of the diverse and dynamic Latino community in the United States, while celebrating a substantial and enduring contribution to Hollywood film history.
Author : Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786456779
Kate O'Brien's work is now widely considered canonical in the English language, and the author herself an icon for Ireland seeking to reinvent itself. O'Brien's novel Mary Lavelle, banned upon publication in 1936, is a key work of the twentieth century that has suffered from critical neglect despite its wider popularity with readers. This book reexamines Mary Lavelle, exploring its role in the modernist canon and its importance to political and queer activism. The novel's biographical and autobiographical experimentation is of particular note. Through the lens of this crucial novel, the oeuvre of Kate O'Brien is recontextualized and reassessed.
