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Rain of Gold

By Victor VillaseÂ¤or

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Paperback:

9781558858091 | Arte Publico Pr, March 31, 2015, cover price $22.95

9780395889831, titled "American Constitutional Law: Power and Politics" | Houghton Mifflin College Div, December 1, 2000, cover price $101.95 | also contains American Constitutional Law: Power and Politics

A Clamor for Equality: Emergence and Exile of Californio Activist Francisco P. Ramirez

By Gordon Morris Bakken (foreword by)

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Hardcover:

9780896727632 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, October 15, 2012, cover price $39.95

Beyond Rain of Gold

Product Description: Beyond Rain of Gold is the incredible story of acclaimed author Victor Villaseñor's initiation into the spiritual realm.Decades ago, after penning the nonfiction epic Rain of Gold, the writer embarked on a life-changing journey. In the process of ensuring that his family's saga would be published as the authentic, true account it was, Villaseñor forged a sacred bond with his father and his indigenous ancestors, who were guiding him from the Other Side...read more

By Victor E. Villasenor

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9781401931230 | Hay House Inc, April 2, 2012, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Beyond Rain of Gold is the incredible story of acclaimed author Victor Villaseñor's initiation into the spiritual realm.

Crazy Loco Love

Product Description: From one of America's most beloved writers comes this compelling memoir of his adolescent search for meaning and identity. When Victor VillaseÃ±or turned sixteen, his father's gift of a brand-new, turquoise pick-up truck was accompanied by another gift: words of wisdom that would guide him on his path to manhood...read more

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Hardcover:

9781558853157 | Arte Publico Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $26.95 | also contains Crazy Loco Love | About this edition: From one of America's most beloved writers comes this compelling memoir of his adolescent search for meaning and identity.

Crazy Loco Love: A Memoir

The fourth volume in the acclaimed author's family memoir recalls his personal path to 'manhood' from his budding adolescent masculinity and teenage obsession with the opposite sex to his love affair in Mexico with an older American woman, offering a revealing glimpse of the difficult trials of discovering what it means to become a man and find a purpose in life. 50,000 first printing.

By Victor Villasenor

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9780060844936 | Rayo, January 8, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The fourth volume in the author's family memoir recalls his path to manhood, from his budding adolescent masculinity to his love affair with an older woman, offering a glimpse of what it means to become a man and find a purpose in life.

Crazy Loco Love

By Victor Villasenor

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Paperback:

9780060844943 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2008, cover price $13.95

Pio Pico: The Last Governor of Mexican California

Product Description: Two-time governor of Alta, California and prominent businessman after the U.S. annexation, PÃo de Jesus Pico was a politically savvy Californio who thrived in both the Mexican and the American periods. This is the first biography of Pico, whose life vibrantly illustrates the opportunities and risks faced by Mexican Americans in those transitional years...read more

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9780806140902 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, May 14, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Two-time governor of Alta, California and prominent businessman after the U.

Burro Genius: A Memoir

The author of Thirteen Senses describes his struggles with cultural discrimination and an untreated learning disability, recounting his victimization as a non-English-speaking Latino in an American school system and his eventual rise to an award-winning writer. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

By Victor Villasenor

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Hardcover:

9780060526122 | 1 edition (Rayo, July 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author describes his struggles with cultural discrimination and an untreated learning disability, recounting his victimization as a non-English-speaking Latino in an American school system and his eventual rise to an award-winning writer.

9789990074703 | Rayo, July 1, 2004, cover price $0.02

Paperback:

9780060526139 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 2005), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The author of Thirteen Senses describes his struggles with cultural discrimination and an untreated learning disability, recounting his victimization as a non-English-speaking Latino in an American school system and his eventual rise to an award-winning writer.

The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California

Product Description: "People who live in California deny the past," asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where "what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo," no one has "the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alejandro Murguia

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Hardcover:

9780292752658 | 1 edition (Univ of Texas Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: "People who live in California deny the past," asserts Alejandro Murguía.

Paperback:

9780292752672 | 1 edition (Univ of Texas Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "People who live in California deny the past," asserts Alejandro Murguía.

Thirteen Senses: A Memoir

The author continues the story of his family, in a memoir that draws on hundreds of interviews with family members and keeps alive the folk traditions of his Latino heritage.

By Victor Villasenor

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Hardcover:

9780066210773 | Rayo, September 1, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The author continues the story of his family, in a memoir that draws on hundreds of interviews with family members and keeps alive the folk traditions of his Latino heritage.

Paperback:

9780060935672 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 2002), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The author continues the story of his family, in a memoir that draws on hundreds of interviews with family members and keeps alive the folk traditions of his Latino heritage.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780694526611 | Abridged edition (Harperaudio, September 1, 2001), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The author continues the story of his family, in a memoir that draws on hundreds of interviews with family members and keeps alive the folk traditions of his Latino heritage.

Prebinding:

9781417630615 | Turtleback Books, September 3, 2002, cover price $26.90 | About this edition: The author continues the story of his family, in a memoir that draws on hundreds of interviews with family members and keeps alive the folk traditions of his Latino heritage.

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez : An Autobiography

The son of Mexican immigrants explores the educational process and rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors

By Richard Rodriguez

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Hardcover:

9780879234188, titled "The Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez : An Autobiography" | David R Godine Pub, March 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A personal account of what it has cost the author, nonmonetarily, to be educated beyond his origins as the son of Mexican immigrants rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors

Prebinding:

9780785776987 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $18.40 | About this edition: The son of Mexican immigrants explores the educational process and rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors

Juan Alvarado: Governor of California, 1836-1842

Product Description: Book by Miller, Robert Ryal

By Robert Ryal Miller

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Hardcover:

9780806130774, titled "Juan Alvarado Governor of California 1836-1842" | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by Miller, Robert R.

Paperback:

9780806131016 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book by Miller, Robert Ryal

Wild Steps of Heaven

The author of Rain of Gold recounts the story of his father's family against a backdrop of war and magic, beginning with the romance of matriarch Margarita and Don Juan Jesus on the eve of the Mexican revolution. Reprint.

By Victor Villasenor

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Hardcover:

9780385315661 | Delacorte Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Follows the story of the author's father, Juan, who as a child witnessed the devastating effects of persecution and poverty on his once-noble Mexican family

Paperback:

9780385315692 | Reprint edition (Delta, March 1, 1997), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Follows the story of the author's father, Juan, who as a child witnessed the devastating effects of persecution and poverty on his once-noble Mexican family

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781561002955 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 1996), cover price $73.25 | About this edition: Victor Villaseñor creates a powerful, moving protrait of his father's family - the Villaseñors - who in their courage and love of life represent the whole passionate history of Mexico.

9781561008667, titled "The Wild Steps of Heaven" | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, May 1, 1996), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Victor Villaseñor creates a powerful, moving protrait of his father's family - the Villaseñors - who in their courage and love of life represent the whole passionate history of Mexico.

9781561006700, titled "The Wild Steps of Heaven" | Mut edition (Bookcassette Sales, May 1, 1996), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Victor Villaseñor creates a powerful, moving protrait of his father's family - the Villaseñors - who in their courage and love of life represent the whole passionate history of Mexico.

Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father

Product Description: Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their impact on his soul...read more

By Richard Rodriguez

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Hardcover:

9780670813964 | Viking Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Spurred by the memory of an argument with his father, a controversial thinker relates his views on topics that range from the conquest of Mexico to the AIDS epidemic

Paperback:

9780140096224 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1993), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Essays written by the author of Hunger of Memory explore such subjects as Cortes's conquest of Mexico and the state of AIDS-ravaged San Francisco and gauge the spiritual and moral landscapes of the United States and Mexico.

Prebinding:

9781417702961 | Turtleback Books, November 1, 1993, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action.

Rain of Gold

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Focuses on three generations of Villasenor's kin, their spiritual and cultural roots back in Mexico, their immigration to California and their overcoming poverty, prejudice and economic exploitation.

By Victor Villasenor

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Hardcover:

9781558850309 | Arte Publico Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Traces the lives of three generations of the author's family, and recounts the circumstances that led them to emigrate from Mexico to the United States

Paperback:

9780385311779 | Reprint edition (Delta, October 1, 1992), cover price $18.00

9789990060119 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, October 1, 1992, cover price $0.02

Reinforced:

9780606218641 | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $26.80

Prebinding:

9780613590105 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $30.60 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez

The son of Mexican immigrants explores the educational process and rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors (view table of contents)

By Richard Rodriguez

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Paperback:

9780553272932 | Bantam Books, February 1, 1990, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: The son of Mexican immigrants explores the educational process and rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors

Hunger of Memory

In a critically acclaimed and controversial memoir, the son of Mexican immigrants explores the American educational process and criticizes affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors. Reprint.

By Richard Rodriguez

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Hardcover:

9780553231939 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, June 1, 1999, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: A personal account of what it has cost the author, nonmonetarily, to be educated beyond his origins as the son of Mexican immigrants rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors

Paperback:

9780553382518 | Reprint edition (Dial Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In a critically acclaimed and controversial memoir, the son of Mexican immigrants explores the American educational process and criticizes affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors.

Reinforced:

9780606241786 | Demco Media, December 1, 1983, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: The son of Mexican immigrants explores the educational process and rejects affirmative action and bilingualism as benign errors

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