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Yxta Maya Murray
Laura de Leon is a radar astronomer who studies Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHOs) such as threatening asteroids and comets at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California. A story about…
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"This book concerns women of color and queer of color artist-activists-"artivists"-whose work challenges discriminatory and oppressive US laws. Written by a law professor and art critic, the book examines how…
Sara Rosario Gonzales is a restorer of rare books and manuscripts at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. When Sara restores a sixteenth-century manuscript about an Aztec princess enslaved by…
One look at the centuries-old document she receives from a mysterious stranger is all it takes to plunge Lola Sanchez–a brilliant bibliophile and owner of the Red Lion bookshop–into the…
La Reina Jade—una piedra preciosa de gran belleza y que, se decia, otorgaba poder a quien la poseyera—era solo una leyenda maya que durante siglos habia cautivado a exploradores y…
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Una hechizante historia de tesoros perdidos y peligros ineludibles—el segundo libro en una Serie Red Lion sobresaliente
Sara Rosario Gonzales lleva una existencia relativamente tranquila, como restauradora de libros y manuscritos antiguos en el Getty Museum de Los Angeles. La Conquista es una novela unica que nos…
These stories magnify and make real the hidden dialogue of society. Readers are left to grapple with the implications and ramifications of the policies and attitudes pervasive in the United…
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Written as a series of web posts, Instagram essays, Snapchat freakouts, rejected Yelp reviews, Facebook screeds, and SmugMug streams-of-consciousness that merge volcanic confession with eagle-eyed art criticism, Art Is Everything…
An artful and gripping new novel that recounts the human and environmental damage caused by actual disasters in Simi Valley, California. In Yxta Maya Murray's novel, federal agent Reyna Rodriguez…
For centuries, explorers and scholars of the New World have been captivated by a legend involving the tragic life of a king, a witch, and a giant blue jade stone…
From the author of Locas comes an arresting novel of desire and ambition set among the gyms and street fights of East L.A.‘s boxing hopefuls. Eloquently (captures) the struggles of…
A rhythmic, terrifying plunge into East L.A. gang life, Locas is the story of two teenage girls whose gun trade is about to explode into the big business of drugs…
On September 27, 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings concerning Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her in the…
Facundo Bernal
A Stab in the Dark is the first work of Chicano literature, captivating poetic portrait of Mexican-American life at the beginning of the 20th century that has never before been…
Ming Smith’s poetic and experimental images are icons of twentieth-century African American life. One of the greatest artist-photographers working today, Smith moved to New York in the 1970s and began…
