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  • The Men from Fort Defiance: The Navajo Marines and Their Secret War in the Pacific

    by Daniel R. Chacon ...
    Before dawn in a hogan below the Chuska Mountains, a grandmother tells a small boy what he has heard since before he could talk: that the Diné came up out of the world below and walked to this country between four sacred mountains, where they were meant to be. The story has no date. It lives in the language, a language of ceremony and medicine in which one word can be a direction and a prayer at ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • and the shadows took him

    A Novel

    by Daniel Chacon ...
    Daniel Chacón follows his critically praised debut collection of short stories, Chicano Chicanery, with this brilliant debut novel, destined to become a classic in Chicano-American literature.Joey Molina had never been in a fight. The very thought of violence upset him. He only wanted to be an actor, and so he read plays and learned new words with his mother.When he's cast in the lead role in the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Kafka in a Skirt

    Stories from the Wall

    by Daniel Chacón ...
    Series series Camino del Sol
    This is not your ordinary short story collection. In his newest work, Daniel Chacón subverts expectation and bends the rules of reality to create stories that are intriguing, hilarious, and deeply rooted in Chicano culture. These stories explore the concept of a wall that reaches beyond our immediate thoughts of a towering physical structure. While Chacón aims to address the partition along the U ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes

    Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga

    by José Antonio Burciaga ...
    Series series Camino del Sol
    Widely considered one of the most important voices in the Chicano literary canon, José Antonio Burciaga was a pioneer who exposed inequities and cultural difficulties through humor, art, and deceptively simple prose. In this anthology and tribute, Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón bring together dozens of remarkable examples of Burciaga’s work. His work never demonstrates machismo or sexism, as ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Ploughshares Spring 2019 Guest-Edited by Rigoberto González

    by Rigoberto González, Zeina Hashem Beck, Sherwin Bitsui, Joy Castro, Emily Raboteau, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Serkan Gorkemli, Brock Clarke, Daniel Chacón, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Paul Tran, Alice Elliott Dark, Serkan GÖrkemli, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Edgar Gomez, Marcos Gonsalez, Jonathan Winston Jones, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, Sara Borjas, Sarah Burke, Andrés Cerpa, Victoria Chang, Tiana Clark, Geffrey Davis, Paul Guest, Kimiko Hahn, James Allen Hall, Safia Jama, Ilya Kaminsky, Jennifer L. Knox, Rachel McKibbens, Rajiv Mohabir, Nkosi Nkululeko, Julian Randall, Jayme Ringleb, Viplav Saini, Callie Siskel, Jake Skeets, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Marcus Wicker, Lisa Mullenneaux ...
    Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”As guest-editor ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

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    Tooth and Claw

    by Michael Hollinger ...
    Narrated by Jaime Alvarez, Stephanie Beatriz, Daniel Chacón, Richard Gallegos, Daniel Guzman, Justin Huen, Jay Montalvo, W. Morgan Sheppard, Jos Viramontes, Cynthia Watros ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 58 min

    In an emotional ecosystem as complex as that of our planet, is life nothing more than survival of the fittest? Michael Hollinger based his probing work on the real-life giant tortoise named ‘Lonesome George’, and the efforts to preserve his species that threatened the livelihood of the native fishermen on the Galàpagos Islands.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Jaime Alvarez as ... Read more

    $9.55 CAD

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    The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII

    by Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila ...
    The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII.His name wasn’t Chester Nez. That was the English name he was assigned in kindergarten. And in boarding school at Fort Defiance, he was punished for speaking his native language, as the teachers sought to rid him of his culture and traditions. But discrimination didn’t stop Chester from answering the call to defend his ... Read more

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  • No Kissing Allowed

    by Melissa West ...
    Series Book 1 - No Kissing Allowed
    Armed with her besties, an embarrassing number of shots, and her list of 10 Wild Things To Do Before Adulthood, recent grad Cameron Lawson is partying it up before she starts her dream job at New York's biggest ad agency. Her last task? Hook up with a random guy. And while it's so not her style, the super-sexy guy sitting next to her is definitely game. No names. No details.At least, that was the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • Learn Spanish - Flash Cards for Beginners

    by Matthew Driver ...
    Learn Spanish-Flash Cards for Beginners has been designed to introduce a range of Spanish vocabulary across a wide variety of everyday topics, in an interactive way.The flash cards can be used to gradually build a basic knowledge of Spanish words. Work through the various sections in your own time.Each new word is first introduced in Spanish and then followed by a flash card with the English ... Read more

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  • Code Talker

    A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two

    by Joseph Bruchac ...
    **ONE OF TIME’S BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOKS OF ALL TIME • This deeply affecting novel follows a too-young-to-enlist teenager as he becomes a Navajo Code Talker—one of the best kept secret weapons in WWII.“Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find.”—Booklist, starred review**The United States is ... Read more

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  • Trading with the Enemy

    A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba

    by Tom Miller ...
    Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, this lively travelogue presents us with rare insight into one of the world's only Communist countries."Havana knew me by my shoes," begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Its ... Read more

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  • The Conquering Tide

    War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944

    by Ian W. Toll ...
    Series Book 2 - The Pacific War Trilogy
    **A New York Times Bestseller"A beautiful blend of history and prose and proves again Mr. Toll’s mastery of the naval-war narrative." —Wall Street Journal**This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War—the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944—when parallel Allied counteroffensives north and south of the equator washed over Japan's far-flung island empire like a "conquering tide," ... Read more

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