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A Glass of Water

A Glass of Water

Jimmy Santiago Baca

The first novel from award-winning memoirist, poet, and activist, Jimmy Santiago Baca, it is a passionate and galvanizing addition to Chicano literature.
The Face

The Face

Jimmy Santiago Baca

In this beautiful, boisterous account, by turns soul-searching and erotic, acclaimed Chicano and Native-American poet Jimmy Santiago Baca reveals the story of his life as told through his face.
Adolescents on the Edge: Stories and Lessons to Transform ...

Adolescents on the Edge: Stories and Lessons to Transform ...

Jimmy Santiago Baca

This book is organized into two parts: (1) Reaching and Teaching Adolescents on the Edge; and (2) Stories by Jimmy Santiago Baca and Suggestions for Teaching.
Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande

Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande

Jimmy Santiago Baca

In Spring Poems Along the Rio Grande, Jimmy Santiago Baca continues his daily pilgrimage through the meadows, riverbanks, and bosques of the Rio Grande where winter dies, spring explodes, and inextricable links between the human spirit and ...
Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande

Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande

Jimmy Santiago Baca

A romantic and a populist, Jimmy Santiago Baca celebrates nature and creativity: the power of "becoming more the river than myself" in Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande.
The Lucia Poems: Breaking Bread with the Darkness II

The Lucia Poems: Breaking Bread with the Darkness II

Jimmy Santiago Baca

In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents the complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
The Esai Poems: Breaking Bread with the Darkness I

The Esai Poems: Breaking Bread with the Darkness I

Jimmy Santiago Baca

In these collections of strikingly expressive verse, Baca celebrates parenthood and presents the complexities of adult life in the age of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
Rita and Julia

Rita and Julia

Jimmy Santiago Baca

An extraordinary collection of poetry that takes the reader from the depths of despair, through outrage, to transcendent joy. In these searingly intense poems, Baca inhabits the subjects of his poems and makes them sing.
Martín ; &, Meditations on the South Valley

Martín ; &, Meditations on the South Valley

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Two poems tell the stories of Martin, a detribalized Apache, and the narrator's efforts to survive in the barrio
Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems

Immigrants in Our Own Land & Selected Early Poems

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Most of the poems in this collection were written while the author was in prison, where he taught himself to read and write.
Stories from the Edge

Stories from the Edge

Jimmy Santiago Baca

"Accompanying grades 6-12 teacher's book, "Adolescents on the edge" and to be used in classrooms in conjunction with this volume for students."
Black Mesa Poems

Black Mesa Poems

Jimmy Santiago Baca

The individual poems of Black Mesa are embedded both in the family and in the community life of the barrio, detailing births and deaths, neighbors and seasons, injustices and victories.
A Place to Stand

A Place to Stand

Jimmy Santiago Baca

"A Place to Stand is a hell of a book, quite literally. You won't soon forget it." -- Luis Urrea, The San Diego Union-Tribune "This book will have a permanent place in American letters." -- Jim Harrison
Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century

Larger Than Life: New Mexico in the Twentieth Century

Ferenc Morton Szasz

Part One: People — Introduct1on 1. On Baca, see Larry D. Ball, Elfego Baca in Life and Legend (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1992); Howard Bryan, Incredible Elfego Baca: Good Man, Bad Man of the Old West (Santa Fe: Clear Light Books, ...
The Canadaland Guide to Canada

The Canadaland Guide to Canada

Jesse Brown

“Jimmy Pattison” That sounds madeup, right? That's because Jimmy Pattison is essentially a cartoon business person. Close your eyes and imagine a self-made billionaire person named “Jimmy Pattison.” That's pretty much Jimmy Pattison.
The Gate of Aesir Series – My Life is A Story and A Wager

The Gate of Aesir Series – My Life is A Story and A Wager

Joseph Santiago

Joseph Santiago. * o o | a .* C . . . * , s o.o.o. The Gote of Aesir Series “... My Life is A Story and A Wager Joseph Santiago o o - o o E. COPYRIGHT 2015, JOSEPH A SANTIAGO Publisher: Living Mythos Productions 91. Front Cover.
Church & Synagogue Libraries

Church & Synagogue Libraries

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Author of A New Life to Live: The Story of Jimmy Putman You are known for your success in tracing sensational stories to their sources. How did you come upon the story of Jimmy Putman? A Jimmy's mother came to me in 1946 with one of the  ...
Cifras Selectas de Guitarra:

Cifras Selectas de Guitarra:

Santiago de Murcia

This hypothesis was originally raised by Lowenfeld, "Santiago de Murcia's Thorough-bass Treatise," 5, and subsequently developed by Craig H. Russell, " Santiago de Murcia: Spanish Theorist and Guitarist of the Early Eighteenth Century" ...
Latina and Latino Voices in Literature for Children and ...

Latina and Latino Voices in Literature for Children and ...

Frances Ann Day

... Trinidad Sanchez, Jr. Virginia Sanchez Korrol Mois6s Sandoval Jorge Sanjines Francisco Santana Danny Santiago Esmeralda Santiago Carmen Santiago Nodar Yvonne Sapia Severo Sarduy James de Sauza Isabel Schon Manuel Scorza ...
Santiago's Love-Child

Santiago's Love-Child

Kim Lawrence

Santiago Morais is strong, proud and fiercely passionate—everything that Lily's treacherous husband wasn't.
A New Life to Live: Jimmy Putman's Story

A New Life to Live: Jimmy Putman's Story

Jimmy Putman

The rebirth of the illegitimate son of one of the most powerful men in American politics.
Meet Jimmy Strange

Meet Jimmy Strange

Ernest Dudley

Jimmy Strange is a mysterious young man who turns up when he is least expected.
Forsaking All Others: A Novel

Forsaking All Others: A Novel

Jimmy Breslin

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Table Money: A Novel

Table Money: A Novel

Jimmy Breslin

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Jimmy Moran, Regular

Jimmy Moran, Regular

Ken Catran

Jimmy is a regular soldier like his father, Robert.
World Without End, Amen: A Novel

World Without End, Amen: A Novel

Jimmy Breslin

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Sunny Jim: The Life of America's Most Beloved Horseman, ...

Sunny Jim: The Life of America's Most Beloved Horseman, ...

Jimmy Breslin

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Jimmy Breslin including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.
Are We There Yet?: Tales from the Never-Ending Travels of ...

Are We There Yet?: Tales from the Never-Ending Travels of ...

Robert Caprio

I play with Jimmy Korderas, the referee, and we're the best. Something happened to Jimmy and I through the summer of 2003, though. We hit a rough patch. Our play was off for a few rounds. It got so bad, we actually lost the championship for  ...

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