epub |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Ray Suarez

• • • IN 1957, PLAYWRIGHT Arthur Laurents and composer Leonard Bernstein dusted off the old love-across-ethnic-barriers idea for a new Broadway musical. This one would not have a “we’re ...

mobi |eng | 2009-10-05 | Author:De La Hoya, Oscar & Springer, Steve [Springer, Steve]

Photographic Insert Mother Cecilia, age seventeen, as a bridesmaid in a friend’s wedding. (Photo courtesy of the author) The 1968 wedding of Oscar’s parents, Joel and Cecilia. Mother Cecilia poses ...

mobi |eng | 2000-08-01 | Author:John Phillip Santos

At the founding of many American cities lurk unsavory tales of invasion and mayhem, usually whitewashed or forgotten. Whether it’s the hoary presence of old buildings or a nebula of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Richard Blanco [Blanco, Richard]

WHEN I WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING, CACO AND my primas were already gone. Hurt, I realized they must have snuck out of the room early while I was still ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Gabriel García Márquez [Márquez, Gabriel García]

I was a dead man I don’t remember the dawn of the next day. I have a vague idea that during the entire morning I lay prostrate, between life and ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-01 | Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky [Jodorowsky, Alejandro]

The climate of cowardice engenders tyrannies. If everyone says ‘let’s give in,’ they become accomplices in the raising of the machete, in thought control. This infamous attempt to castrate the ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-26 | Author:Luis J. Rodriguez [Rodríguez, Luis J.]

Chapter Six “There are choices you have to make not just once, but every time they come up.” —Chente IT STARTS WITH A dream. This dream creeps beyond others of ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-29 | Author:Miriam Pawel

Chapter 24 The Seeds Are Sown We have demonstrated to the whole world our capacity for sacrifice. We have demonstrated for many years our willingness, our commitment, and our discipline ...

epub |eng | 2008-09-22 | Author:Chris Blatchford [Blatchford, Chris]

epub |eng | 2008-09-22 | Author:Chris Blatchford [Blatchford, Chris]

Photographic Insert Rene “Boxer” Enriquez at Wasco State Prison in 1997 (in transit from Pelican Bay to the Mafia RICO trial in Los Angeles) with the Black Hand tattoo prominently ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Marco Rubio

CHAPTER 21 Drop Like a Rock JEB BUSH WOULD HAVE BORROWED A TERM FROM JIM Collins and called it a B-HAG, a big, hairy, audacious goal. Eliminating property taxes on ...

mobi |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:Marie Arana

THE EARTH WAS always moving in those days. Pachamama was temperamental, moody, shifting her weight heavily beneath us, tossing from side to side. My mother and father were pricked with ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Rita Moreno

MEETING MARLON I am wearing a scent, Vent Vert by Balmain, as I write these words. It is a scent that Marlon Brando often wore. It’s a woman’s perfume, but ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-05-03 | Author:Esmeralda Santiago

Mami talked to Doña Andrea. She smiled and nodded her head and smiled again. When Doña Andrea handed her a pot full of chickpeas with pig’s feet, Mami didn’t want ...

mobi |eng | 2011-06-02 | Author:Oscar Hijuelos

Tucked back into that period, some months after I had turned eighteen, I had ended up in yet another smoke-filled room, this one situated in the draft board offices downtown ...