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Product Description: Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J. Rodriguez’s first book, Poems Across the Pavement. As founder/editor of the Press, Rodriguez has since published more than fifty poetry collections of quality crosscultural U...read more

Paperback:

9780962428708 | Tia Chucha Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Tia Chucha Press started twenty-five years ago in Chicago with the publication of Luis J.

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Presents a collection of poems with such themes as homelessness, unemployment, and the struggle of the working class.

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9780915306428 | Curbstone Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poems with such themes as homelessness, unemployment, and the struggle of the working class.

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A former L.A. gang member describes his experiences in that world, recounting the sense of security and power found in a gang and the grim reality of violence and poverty. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

Hardcover:

9781880684061 | Curbstone Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Luis Rodrigues began to relate the futility of his life in Los Angeles as a gang member; now at 30 years of age, realizing his son is following the same way of life in Chicago, finishes his life story as a legacy to his son

Paperback:

9780671882310 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, February 1, 1994), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A former L.

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Recounts the author's life as a gang member and how he broke free.

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9780743281553 | Touchstone Books, September 6, 2005, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Recounts the author's life as a gang member and how he broke free.
9780684815510 | Fireside, November 1, 1995, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Recounts the author's life as a gang member and how he broke free

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781892603012 | Abridged edition (Audiolibros Del Mundo Inc, April 1, 2000), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: AUDIOLIBRO EN ESPANOL.

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Paperback:

9780714530130 | New edition (Marion Boyars, January 1, 1996), cover price $16.05

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A Mixteca Indian from Oaxaca, Amâerica Soliz, suffers from the poverty and hopelessness of her Chicago ghetto, made more endurable by a desire and determination to be a poet.

Hardcover:

9781880684412 | Curbstone Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A Mixteca Indian from Oaxaca, America Soliz, suffers from the poverty and hopelessness of her Chicago ghetto, made more endurable by a desire and determination to be a poet

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A Mixteca Indian from Oaxaca, Amâerica Soliz, suffers from the poverty and hopelessness of her Chicago ghetto, made more endurable by a desire and determination to be a poet.
By Luis J. Rodriguez and Carlos Vasquez (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9781880684405 | 1 edition (Curbstone Pr, April 1, 1998), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A Mixteca Indian from Oaxaca, America Soliz, suffers from the poverty and hopelessness of her Chicago ghetto, made more endurable by a desire and determination to be a poet

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Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life.
By Daniel Galvez (illustrator) and Luis J. Rodriguez

Paperback:

9780892392032 | Childrens Book Pr, July 1, 2004, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Reluctantly a boy becomes involved with a gang, until a tragedy to his cousin forces him to choose

School and Library:

9780892391615 | Childrens Book Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Reluctantly a boy becomes involved with a gang, until a tragedy to his cousin forces him to choose

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When Carlitos' mother and the other janitors go on strike for higher wages, Carlitos cannot think of a way to support his mother until he sees her on TV making a speech, and he then gets his class to help him make a sign to show his pride.

Hardcover:

9780938317661 | Bilingual edition (Cinco Puntos Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When Carlitos's mother and the other cleaners go on strike for higher wages, Carlitos cannot think of a way to support his mother until he sees her on television making a speech, and then he gets his class to help him make a sign to show his pride.

The author of Always Running captures of the heart and soul of East LA in a collection of powerful stories about the working-class people who inhabit this run-down, colorful section of America's second largest city. (Story Collections)

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9780060011628 | Rayo, March 1, 2003, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Captures the heart and soul of East Los Angeles in a collection of stories about the working-class people who inhabit this run-down, colorful section of the country's second-largest city.

Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life.

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9780606332149 | Demco Media, July 1, 2004, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: Reluctantly a boy becomes involved with a gang, until a tragedy to his cousin forces him to choose

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Reluctantly a young boy becomes more and more involved in the activities of a local gang, until a tragic event involving his cousin forces him to make a choice about the course of his life.

Prebinding:

9781417742936 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2004, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: Reluctantly a boy becomes involved with a gang, until a tragedy to his cousin forces him to choose

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When Carlitos's mother and the other cleaners go on strike for higher wages, Carlitos cannot think of a way to support his mother until he sees her on television making a speech, and then he gets his class to help him make a sign to show his pride.

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9780938317890 | Bilingual edition (Cinco Puntos Pr, January 31, 2005), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: When Carlitos's mother and the other cleaners go on strike for higher wages, Carlitos cannot think of a way to support his mother until he sees her on television making a speech, and then he gets his class to help him make a sign to show his pride.

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In a story of three generations of an American family who built their lives around a decaying, late-twentieth-century steel industry, thirty-year-old Azucena Salcido struggles with the cancer death of her father, the racial polarization of their community, and the corrupt power struggles among her neighbors, their employers, and their unions. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780060560768 | Rayo, May 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Thirty-year-old Azucena Salcido attends her father's deathbed while remembering how their family was entangled in the politics, racial polarization, and corrupt power struggles that marked late twentieth-century California.

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9780060560775 | Reprint edition (Perennial, March 1, 2006), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: 'As the World War II cultural and industrial boom birthed a new California, a mighty steel industry rose with the potential to make modest dreams real for the workers willing to risk their lives in the mill's ferocious heat.

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A selection of works from forty poets who have been published by Tia Chucha Press since 1989 includes the works of Terrance Hayes, Jean Howard, Nick Carbo, and Kyoko Mori.
By Quraysh Ali Lansana (editor), Toni Asante Lightfoot (editor) and Luis J. Rodriguez (foreword by)

Paperback:

9781882688302 | Tia Chucha Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A selection of works from forty poets who have been published by Tia Chucha Press since 1989 includes the works of Terrance Hayes, Jean Howard, Nick Carbo, and Kyoko Mori.

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9781931896245, titled "My Nature Is Hunger: New & Selected Poems, 1989 – 2004" | Curbstone Pr, September 1, 2005, cover price $16.95

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When Carlitos's mother and the other cleaners go on strike for higher wages, Carlitos cannot think of a way to support his mother until he sees her on television making a speech, and then he gets his class to help him make a sign to show his pride.

Reinforced:

9780606328746 | Demco Media, November 8, 2005, cover price $16.90 | About this edition: When Carlitos's mother and the other cleaners go on strike for higher wages, Carlitos cannot think of a way to support his mother until he sees her on television making a speech, and then he gets his class to help him make a sign to show his pride.

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Thirty-year-old Azucena Salcido attends her father's deathbed while remembering how their family was entangled in the politics, racial polarization, and corrupt power struggles that marked late twentieth-century California.

Paperback:

9780060842529 | Rayo, March 1, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Thirty-year-old Azucena Salcido attends her father's deathbed while remembering how their family was entangled in the politics, racial polarization, and corrupt power struggles that marked late twentieth-century California.

Captures the heart and soul of East L.A. in a collection of stories about the working-class people who inhabit this run-down, colorful section of America's second largest city.

Hardcover:

9780066212630 | Rayo, April 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Captures the heart and soul of East L.

Paperback:

9780060936860, titled "The Republic of East L.A.: Stories" | Reprint edition (Perennial, March 1, 2003), cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Captures the heart and soul of East L.

Prebinding:

9781435297883, titled "The Republic of East L.a.: Stories" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $21.95

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Expresses the turmoil of the barrio and explores recovery and personal growth, ways of knowledge, revolution, and the power of poetry

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9781880684504 | Curbstone Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Expresses the turmoil of the barrio and explores recovery and personal growth, ways of knowledge, revolution, and the power of poetry

Prebinding:

9781439502365 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $22.95

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A former L.A. gang member describes his experiences in that world, recounting the sense of security and power found in a gang and the grim reality of violence and poverty.

Paperback:

9780743276917 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, September 6, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A former L.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781611204162 | Unabridged edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, December 13, 2011), cover price $49.99
9781611204193 | Mp3 una edition (Dreamscape Media Llc, December 13, 2011), cover price $29.99

Prebinding:

9781439566282 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $24.00

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Hardcover:

9780253111807, titled "Cinema and Technology: Image, Sound, Colour" | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 1985, cover price $25.00 | also contains Cinema and Technology: Image, Sound, Colour, Rushing Waters, Rising Dreams: How the Arts Are Transforming a Community

Paperback:

9781882688432 | Tia Chucha Pr, April 30, 2012, cover price $24.95

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