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THE MAN. THE MUSIC. THE BAND. THE HITS. THE RIOTS. THE CONTROVERSY. THE STRUGGLE. THE DOWNFALL. THE LOST YEARS. THE LEGEND. THE STORY OF THE MAN BEHIND THE HITS: "Dance to the Music, " "Stand, " "I Want to Take You Higher, " "Everyday People, " "Sing a Simple Song, " "You Can Make It If You Try, " "Hot Fun in the Summertime, " "Everybody is a Star, " "Thank You(Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), " "Family Affair, " and "If You Want Me to Stay.

Forget your Yinglish. Put aside your Franglais. It's time to brush up your Spanglishthe Latino Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of languages that's sweeping the nation! In Pardon My Spanglish stand-up comic Bill Santiago chronicles the quintessentially American joys of his mother tongue: the quirky often hilarious fusion of Latino Spanish and American English spoken everywhere from the barrio to the local mall. Readers will learn: The psuedo-syntax o...

Literacy is freedom and everyone has something significant to say." -Jimmy Santiago Baca Fusing Jimmy Santiago Baca's talents as a writer of memoir with ReLeah Cossett Lent's expertise in building and empowering classroom communities, Adolescents on the Edge offers a completely new approach to reaching at-risk adolescents. Centered around conflicts and life-altering choices, Baca's gripping personal narratives-delivered through short stories a...

Description: U.S. audiences know Latin American liberation theologies largely through translations of Latin American Catholics from the 1970s and beyond. Most of the few known Protestant authors were students of Richard Shaull, whose critical thinking on social change, prophetic Christianity, and dialogue with Marxism and Christian use of Marxist analysis precedes the emergence of the formal schools of liberation theology by two decades. His ...

World Voice: Inspiring a Conscious Signature is a snap shot in time that brings together people from around the globe to become part of the historical record of the times. Contributors share their lives, passions, poetry, stories, and their humanity by inviting the reader to step into another's shoes and be part of their life by association. The World Voice series has the goal of fostering communication and commonality of all people across cul...

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

A girl named Sarah was going to the library to get a book, but before she went to the library she had a goal of what she wanted to do it was to be a missionary. She went to the library and found a book that looked interesting, but the library didn't want her to get that book, because something bad was going to happen. But Sarah wanted to know what it will be, so she took the book. She went home and opened the book, she then was in a mystery wo...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

The Age of Anxiety has never been better depicted in comics form than in "In My Darkest Hour, a modernist, mainstream graphic novel that explores the inner life of its protagonist, Omar Guerrero, a 28 year-old Latin American transient, who confronts his pervasive feelings of inadequacy, anger, guilt, and escalating alienation. Guerrero's tumultuous sexual liaisons with younger women, an attempt to deny his fading youth, force him to question h...

Santiago, a two-time winner of the Brazilian national book award, sets his sensational story of sexual scandal and political intrigue in the Brazilian exile community in New York City in the late 1960s. Stella Manhattan is an electrifying adventure story about a young gay Brazilian man trying to make a go of it in New York.

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SPANISH EDITION. Throughout these pages, the Rev. Edwin Santiago travels with the reader along the road toward a new spiritual dimension where the only limitation is your own faith.

A marvelous new anthology from the editors of Las Christmas in which our most admired Latino authors share memories of their mothers.The women lovingly portrayed in Las Mamis represent a cross section of Latino life and culture. They come from rich families in the big cities of Latin America, from rural immigrant families, and from the worlds in between-and they share an extraordinary inner strength, often maintained against incredible odds. P...

Una maravillosa antología nueva--las escritoras y los escritores latinos más admirados comparten recuerdos de sus madres.Las mujeres amorosamente retratadas en las Las Mamis representan la diversidad de la vida y cultura latinas. Provienen de las familias ricas de las grandes ciudades de Latinoamérica, de familias campesinas emigrantes y también de la variedad de mundos intermedios. Además, comparten todas una extraordinaria fuerza interior, f...

A Mexican-American boy has a rough time on the Los Angeles streets, but is determined to make a better life for himself.

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