A
Simple Plan
Chronicle
Books, paper, $14.00
"Soto returns to his childhood
territory of Fresno, California. The gem of this collection is 'The
Bean Plants,' which Soto asserts is his best poem to date."
The
Afterlife
$16.00, hardcover, Harcourt
$ 7.00, paper, Harcourt
A love story, this is the sequel
to Soto’s popular novel Buried Onions.
“[Soto] not only paints the
scenery brilliantly but also captures the pain that follows an early
death. [The novel] will stay in [your] memory.” Booklist, star review.
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 Buried
Onions
$17.00 hardbound, Harcourt
$7.00 paper, Harcourt
Eddie struggles to avoid gangs in avenging the murder of his cousin.
"A
valuable tale, it's one that makes no concessions." Kirkus Review
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 Jesse
$7.00
paper, Harcourt
A novel set during the Vietnam War and el movimiento of the early
1970s.
"[Jesse]
struggles to find himself and a meaningful life in spite of the
limits placed on him by poverty and prejudice. All in all, a highly
readable novel." Booklist
"Readers
looking for a finely written, contemplative narrative will appreciate
this work." School Library Journal, starred
"A
moving, engrossing novel that contains strands of both humor and
despair." The Horn Book |
 Living
Up the Street
$6.50 paper, Bantam Doubleday Dell
Twenty-one
recollections of growing up Chicano in Fresno, California. This
book has been an underground bestseller since 1985. Winner of
the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award.
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 Nerdlandia:
a Play
$6.00
paper, Penguin Putnam
Martin,
a brilliant Chicano nerd, is hopelessly in love with Ceci, the most
beautiful chola on campus. A great script for performance.
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 A
Summer Life
$6.50
paper, Bantam Doubleday Dell
More
recollections of growing up in Fresno. These small snapshot-like
stories appeal to high school and college students.
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 Novio
Boy, a Play
$6.00 paper, Harcourt
In
this humorous play, 9th-grade Rudy asks an 11th-grade "older" woman
for a date. A Chicano play through and through, it has been performed
in schools throughout the Southwest and California.
"...true
to its title, a sweetheart of a play." Booklist |
 Natural
Man
$14.00
paper, Chronicle Books, 1999
The
gritty landscape of these poems is peopled with big talkers, lazy
souls, wannabe mariachis, and teenage werewolves looking for their
first date. With a dizzying mixture of comedy and heartbreak, A
NATURAL MAN documents the poet's ongoing struggle to make sense
of a disorienting world. Adult and high school reading.
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 New
and Selected Poems
$15.00
paper, Chronicle Books
The
best of Gary's poetry dating from 1974 to 1994. Finalist for the National
Book Award and the Los Argeles Times Book Award.
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 Nickel
and Dime
$15.00 hardbound, $10.00 paper, University of New Mexico Press, 2000.
A
novel of the folly of three men in their later years: poet Silver
Mendez, retiring bankguard Gustavo Hernandez, and homeless Roberto
Silva and mix in Oakland California. Adult and high school reading.
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 The
Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy
Persea Books, 2000.
$13.00 paper
This
collection of popular essays includes the much-anthologized "Like
Mexicans" and "The Jacket." Adult and high school
reading.
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 Poetry
Lover
University of New Mexico Press, $18.00 hardcover only.
Silver
Mendez, our favorite fictional poet, rekindles a romance from the
1960s despite his hard-scrabble, hand-to-mouth existence.
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 Amnesia
in a Republican County
$18.00 hardbound, University of New Mexico Press.
Our fictional
Chicano poet, Silver Mendez, suffers amnesia. Hilarious new adult
novel
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