"Jaquira Díaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"-- "In this searing memoir, Jaquira Díaz writes fiercely and eloquently of her challenging...

Revised and updated with a new introduction by the author-and available in English for the first time-the moving story of a man who always wanted to be a father and the long emotional road to making his dream come true. Born in Cuba and raised in the USA, Armando Lucas Correa epitomized the American dream. He had everything he wanted: an incredible job as the editor of People magazine, meeting and interviewing glamorous celebrities; a steady partner;...

Ruby J. Gonzales moved forward while she cared for the multiple-colored irises, wide bright sunflower plants, and other colorful bright splashes of nature's infinite beauty. My dear wonderful Mom was a warm and caring woman, a gentle soul with intense faith and overwhelming love-a woman whose integrity was her trademark, whose only habit was to mix love and truth with honesty, and offered her consejos throughout my life that, now as an adult, I refer...

Esta es la historia real de una familia española como muchas, es la historia de mi familia, gente de campo con muchos sueños, que no se conformaron con su destino, sino que decidieron cambiarlo, lucharon por alcanzar sus metas con muchos esfuerzos y sacrificios, no es un texto de historia, aún cuando la novela se ambienta en los principios del siglo XX, he tratado de llevar un hilo lógico de los acontecimientos, con el desarrollo de la historia,...

The Motorcycle Diaries is Che Guevara's diary of his journey to discover the continent of Latin America, while still a medical student, setting out in 1952 on a vintage Norton motorcycle together with his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist. It captures, arguably as much as any book ever written, the exuberance and joy of one person's youthful belief in the possibilities of humankind tending towards justice, peace and happiness. After the release...

Hip-hop artist, documentary producer, and president of the largest independent record label in the country, J. Diggs brings America the tale of two conspiracies. Survivor of eight different federal penitentiaries in ten years, a man who was convicted for conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, BET's youngest American Gangsta, Diggs gives you the raw and uncut tales of hustling in the '80s, vivid accounts of bank robberies, prison stories, and the...

A journey of a child born into a world of turmoil and violence who must assume adult responsibilities, deprived of his youth and innocence in the midst of a political battle for control of the village that is his home, hiding in cellars and moving from place to place, eventually forcing the family to abandon the village in order to survive. He travels and escapes to cities where he receives his first formal education, struggles with illiteracy, learns...

This memoir by Johnny Santiago, who is referred to as John-John by his endearing siblings, is just one sibling in a string of sixteen children by his parents. He has survived impoverishment, physical and mental abuse, racism, the suicide death of his three siblings to also having experienced his young son survive cancer, a thirty-eight-year marriage, and depression. It has given him the wisdom in life to write about it, and despite it all, he overcame...

En Mi Pasaporte Azul Americano, Ziad Makarem narra la impactante y emotiva travesía de una familia venezolana luchando por la libertad y la supervivencia. En medio de la crisis política y social bajo el régimen de Chávez, el protagonista, un destacado médico, se ve obligado a abandonar su país, su familia y su carrera. La novela relata su lucha por empezar de cero en Estados Unidos, explorando temas de exilio, identidad y resistencia. Con una...

The purpose of my book, The Tip of the Arrow, A Study in Leadership, is to share with young people of today and tomorrow the story of young people like me at age sixteen as the blueprint of the Selma Student Nonviolent Civil Rights movement, a significant impacting factor in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the dominating influence leading to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. On February 24, 2016, during a ceremony awarding the...