Product Description: Winner, Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, 2015Given Guatemala’s record of human rights abuses, its legal system has often been portrayed as illegitimate and anemic. I Ask for Justice challenges that perception by demonstrating that even though the legal system was not always just, rural Guatemalans considered it a legitimate arbiter of their grievances and an important tool for advancing their agendas...read more

Product Description: Sugar, coffee, corn, and chocolate have long dominated the study of Central American commerce, and researchers tend to overlook one other equally significant commodity: alcohol. Often illicitly produced and consumed, aguardiente (distilled sugar cane spirits or rum) was central to Guatemalan daily life, though scholars have often neglected its fundamental role in the country’s development...read more

Product Description: Working within the elementary school system inspired Kathleen Carey to write her first book geared towards children—particularly the young reader. She hopes her story of the adventures of Jack Kat will encourage the love of reading and books to become a lifetime joy for all children...read more

Product Description: Latinos those born in the United States as well as those who immigrated later in life are not only transforming the country and cities, they are also transforming themselves in a difficult process of community making. This book tells the story of how a diverse group of immigrants have adapted to dramatic changes in the largely Anglo setting of Portland, Maine, building bridges instead of walls...read more

Product Description: Caleb’s Sojourn completes the trilogy of the books that capture Caleb Carney’s life story. The first book, The Town Barn Isn’t There Anymore, constitutes the tales of his early life. Caleb, Caleb, Caleb, the second book, enumerates his struggles accepting the responsibilities of adulthood...read more

Product Description: The Town Barn Isn't There Anymore is about young Caleb Carney as he wrestles with the joys and qualms of life in a small town in New England during the 1930s and 1940s. It is a story of how a large family lived during the Depression years of that time; the joy and burdens when Caleb joined the work force at a young age; the way his confusion and fear of approaching puberty affected him more than puberty itself; how he became obsessed with the fears and shame of sexual desires and encounters; the way his writing talent was uncovered and nurtured by one of his grade school teachers; the overcoming of the uncertainties caused by World War II and the loss it gave his family; and how the melding of this life and a surprise from the past led him full circle back to where it all began...read more

Product Description: for SATB unaccompanied