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This book is designed to develop competent proofreading and editing skills through self-paced instruction. Two new chapters have been added that reinforce editing for conciseness and clarity. Additional emphasis is given to proofreading for errors in keyboarding, spelling, word division, format, capitalization, punctuation, word usage, grammar and content.

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9780826356192, titled "Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood En La Frontera" | Updated edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, December 30, 2015), cover price $19.95
9780538703925, titled "Programmed Proofreading" | South-Western Pub, February 1, 1991, cover price $37.95 | also contains Programmed Proofreading | About this edition: This book is designed to develop competent proofreading and editing skills through self-paced instruction.

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9780547632308 | Houghton Mifflin, April 7, 2015, cover price $16.99
9780379212259, titled "Intellectual Property: Eastern Europe & Commonwealth of Independent States" | Lslf edition (Lexis Nexis, June 1, 1995), cover price $1375.00 | also contains Intellectual Property: Eastern Europe & Commonwealth of Independent States

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9780806144832, titled "The King and Queen of Comez¢n" | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 4, 2014, cover price $19.95

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9780816530045 | Univ of Arizona Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $17.95

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9780061285691 | Perennial, February 1, 2008, cover price $14.99

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Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given

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9780395979020, titled "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" | Houghton Mifflin, October 25, 1999, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given

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9780826317971, titled "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" | Univ of New Mexico Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given

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9781883332716, titled "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" | Unabridged edition (Audio Bookshelf, January 1, 2001), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781883332440, titled "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" | Unabridged edition (Audio Bookshelf, January 1, 2001), cover price $21.95

Prebinding:

9781439569696, titled "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 11, 2008), cover price $20.95
9780613068031 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $23.25 | About this edition: Offers a look at a migrant family, detailing their daily life and the struggles they endured to build an existence on the small opportunities they were given

Product Description: An explosive, fierce, and lyrical novel, set in the barrios of San Antonio and Los Angeles, from an electrifying new voice in American fictionAt sixteen, Robert Lomos has lost his family. His father, a Latin jazz musician, has left San Antonio for life on the road as a cool-hand playboy...read more

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9780312309954 | 1 edition (Picador USA, April 1, 2003), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Abandoned by his parents and living with his grandmother, sixteen-year-old Robert Lomos dreams of somehow keeping himself out of trouble, saving his money, and heading for California to put his family back together.

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9781439569733 | 1 reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 11, 2008), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: An explosive, fierce, and lyrical novel, set in the barrios of San Antonio and Los Angeles, from an electrifying new voice in American fictionAt sixteen, Robert Lomos has lost his family.
9781417629091 | Turtleback Books, April 1, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Abandoned by his parents and living with his grandmother, sixteen-year-old Robert Lomos dreams of somehow keeping himself out of trouble, saving his money, and heading for California to put his family back together.

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During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession.

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9788432296222 | Seix Barral, May 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession.
9780786251384 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $30.95
9781400041503 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 2003, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession.
9780679435549 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession.

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9788432216831 | Seix Barral, April 14, 2005, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession.
9780679742586 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, September 1, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of famous shawl makers, one of which has come into Lala's possession.
9781400030996 | Random House Spanish, September 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession.

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9780792727354 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, November 1, 2002), cover price $57.95 | About this edition: Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780792727088 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Sound Library, October 1, 2002), cover price $84.95 | About this edition: The celebrated author of The House on Mango Street gives us an extraordinary new novel, told in language of blazing originality: a multigenerational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy–the very stuff of life.
9780060515911 | Unabridged edition (Harperaudio, October 1, 2002), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of a renowned dynasty of shawl makers, whose magnificent striped shawl has come into Lala's possession.

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9781439558355 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, October 4, 2008), cover price $23.95
9781417718801 | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2003, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of famous shawl makers, one of which has come into Lala's possession.

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Product Description: Here Carla Trujillo, Lambda literary winner, achieves a prize for fiction emphasising human rights and intercultural understanding. Marci, the 11 year old narrator, is both confident and hopeful as she displays an irrepressible sense of humour alongside the rawness of Spanish dialogue in 60's California...read more

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9781880684948 | 1 edition (Curbstone Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 1960s northern California, Marci Cruz and her sister, Corin, attempt to show their mother the true womanizing and abusing behaviors of their father, as Marci begins to have feelings for other girls.

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9781435297944 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Here Carla Trujillo, Lambda literary winner, achieves a prize for fiction emphasising human rights and intercultural understanding.

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Product Description: Having left her much-loved San Diego barrio, Yolanda Sahagún is now living in the university dorms when a series of events--her mother dies and her father sells their home--forces her to re-examine her life. Yolanda visits her parents' hometown of El Grullo, Mexico, struggling to understand the ghosts in her life--her mother, her father, and her seemingly idyllic childhood...read more

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9780826344090 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 31, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Having left her much-loved San Diego barrio, Yolanda Sahagún is now living in the university dorms when a series of events--her mother dies and her father sells their home--forces her to re-examine her life.

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Product Description: A Daughter's a Daughter follows three generations of women in a family, beginning with Liberata, the only daughter of the most prosperous farmer in Los Rafas. When she decides to marry a handsome opportunist, Liberata unquestioningly expects to live out a happy life along the traditional course set forth by her forebears, only to discover that her husband is abusive and unfaithful...read more

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9781931010443, titled "A Daughter's A Daughter" | Bilingual Pr, December 30, 2008, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: A Daughter's a Daughter follows three generations of women in a family, beginning with Liberata, the only daughter of the most prosperous farmer in Los Rafas.

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9781931010450, titled "A Daughter's a Daughter" | Bilingual Pr, December 30, 2008, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: A Daughter's a Daughter follows three generations of women in a family, beginning with Liberata, the only daughter of the most prosperous farmer in Los Rafas.

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Product Description: Mama Fela, a skilled seamstress, is the aging matriarch of the Romero clan in Santa Lucí­a, a small town in northeastern New Mexico at the height of the Great Depression. Her six-year-old granddaughter and constant companion, Cipriana, delights in the Shirley Temple movies that occasionally come to the town's theater...read more

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9780826340238 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, October 30, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Mama Fela, a skilled seamstress, is the aging matriarch of the Romero clan in Santa Lucí­a, a small town in northeastern New Mexico at the height of the Great Depression.

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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.

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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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Product Description: Born in 1908, two years before the start of the Mexican Revolution, Rafael lives in the village of San Cristóbal, in northern Sonora, Mexico, where his father, the village comisario, owns a bar, pool hall, and grocery store. This is a ranching town where vaqueros are heroes, and horses and bulls, as well as coyotes and rattlesnakes, provide thrills and teach lessons that Rafael and his brothers will never forget...read more

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9780826333667 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Born in 1908, two years before the start of the Mexican Revolution, Rafael lives in the village of San Cristóbal, in northern Sonora, Mexico, where his father, the village comisario, owns a bar, pool hall, and grocery store.

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In a revised edition of the author's first book, a collection of interrelated short stories follows the life of a young Chicana girl growing up in a small New Mexico town and includes 'The Last of the Menu Girls,' 'Willow Game,' 'Shooting Stars, 'Evening in Paris,' 'The Closet,' 'Space is a Solid,' and 'Compadre.' Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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9781400034314, titled "Last of the Menu Girls" | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, April 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of interrelated short stories that follows the life of a young Chicana girl growing up in a small town in New Mexico.
9780934770460 | Arte Publico Pr, January 1, 1986, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Stories include 'The Last of the Menu Girls, 'Willow Game,' 'Shooting Stars, 'Evening in Paris,' 'The Closet,' 'Space is a Solid,' and 'Compadre'

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Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Hardcover:

9780826324351 | Univ of New Mexico Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: The return of her brother Chuy from Vietnam in 1969 challenges fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagun to re-evaluate her world in this coming-of-age story.

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9780826324368 | Reprint edition (Univ of New Mexico Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The return of her brother Chuy from Vietnam in 1969 challenges fourteen-year-old Yolanda Sahagun to re-evaluate her world in this coming-of-age story.

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9781417624867 | Turtleback Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

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A series of interconnected stories chronicles the emergence of the Chicano community in California, following the lives and fortunes of inhabitants fo a small Mexican-American hamlet from its founding in 1900 by Mexican farmworkers to the present day. (view table of contents)

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9781578065219 | Univ Pr of Mississippi, April 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A series of interconnected stories chronicles the emergence of the Chicano community in California, following the lives and fortunes of inhabitants fo a small Mexican-American hamlet from its founding in 1900 by Mexican farmworkers to the present day.

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Product Description: A New York Times Bestseller This is a multi-generational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy -- the very stuff of life.

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9780786251247 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestseller This is a multi-generational story of a Mexican-American family whose voices create a dazzling weave of humor, passion, and poignancy -- the very stuff of life.

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Product Description: "The truth about Alicia was that she wasn’t that stable to begin with. So when she did what she did, no one was very surprised. Still it was shocking, the way she followed them from the hardware store to the woman's house, the way she broke the sliding glass door with the tire jack, the way she found them in bed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780816521616 | Univ of Arizona Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "The truth about Alicia was that she wasn’t that stable to begin with.

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9780816521630 | Univ of Arizona Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "The truth about Alicia was that she wasn’t that stable to begin with.

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Sofia and her daughters--Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca--endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780393326932 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Sofia and her daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside.

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9780606222082 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $23.50 | About this edition: From the American Book Award-winning author of The Mixquiahuala Letters comes the story of a remarkable woman and her four daughters living in New M exico--a novel shaped by influences as diverse as Mexican mythology, Catholicism, and today's headlines.

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9780613437646 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 1994, cover price $23.85 | About this edition: From the American Book Award-winning author of The Mixquiahuala Letters comes the story of a remarkable woman and her four daughters living in New M exico--a novel shaped by influences as diverse as Mexican mythology, Catholicism, and today's headlines.

Product Description: In this debut collection of coming-of-age stories, Canales intoduces the reader to the cultural traditions and activities of a border community: homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the celebration of the day of the Three Magi, a carousel of unique saints, and a flock of very special pink plastic flamingos...read more

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9780613852951 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $20.85 | About this edition: In this debut collection of coming-of-age stories, Canales intoduces the reader to the cultural traditions and activities of a border community: homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the celebration of the day of the Three Magi, a carousel of unique saints, and a flock of very special pink plastic flamingos.

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Product Description: In this debut collection of coming-of-age stories, Canales intoduces the reader to the cultural traditions and activities of a border community: homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the celebration of the day of the Three Magi, a carousel of unique saints, and a flock of very special pink plastic flamingos...read more

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9781558853324 | Pinata Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In this debut collection of coming-of-age stories, Canales intoduces the reader to the cultural traditions and activities of a border community: homage to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the celebration of the day of the Three Magi, a carousel of unique saints, and a flock of very special pink plastic flamingos.

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Product Description: In Bodies and Souls, Rechy paints a portrait of modern Los Angeles, "the most spiritual and physical of cities," where we meet characters like Amber, a porn superstar; Manny Gomez, a Chicano caught up in the punk-rock scene; and Dave Clinton, an aging male stripper...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780802138460 | Grove Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In Bodies and Souls, Rechy paints a portrait of modern Los Angeles, "the most spiritual and physical of cities," where we meet characters like Amber, a porn superstar; Manny Gomez, a Chicano caught up in the punk-rock scene; and Dave Clinton, an aging male stripper.

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Product Description: Book by Ricardo Pimentel

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9781931010009 | Bilingual Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Book by Ricardo Pimentel

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Recounts the lives of a nineteenth-century Opata Indian woman who flees the desert of New Mexico when Mexican soldiers attack her village, her daughter, and a Latina woman from present-day Los Angeles who becomes fascinated by her own ancestry. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780811819169 | Chronicle Books Llc, May 1, 1998, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Recounts the lives a of nineteenth-century Indian woman who flees the desert of New Mexico when Mexican soldiers attack her village, her daughter, and a Latina woman from present-day Los Angeles who becomes fascinated by her own ancestry

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9780156006347 | Mariner Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Recounts the lives of a nineteenth-century Indian woman who flees the desert of New Mexico when Mexican soldiers attack her village, her daughter, and a Latina woman from present-day Los Angeles who becomes fascinated by her own ancestry

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