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Have You Seen Marie is "a lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for grown-ups about a woman's search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of her mother's death." *

"Drag" is Duriel E. Harris's first collection of poetry, structured loosely as a musical composition and focused on themes including the body, sexuality, race, and Chicago.

*Desde Chicago a México, los lugares en los que Sandra Cisneros ha vivido han servido de inspiración para sus trabajos ya clásicos de ficción y poesía. Sin embargo, una casa propia, un lugar en el que realmente pueda echar raíces, en ha eludido. En esta autobiografía al estilo rompecabezas, conformada de ensayos e imágenes a través de tres décadas (algunas nunca antes publicadas), Cisneros ha llegado por fin a casa." *

This new, completely revised and updated edition of a major unit of the famous American Guide Series provides a comprehensive survey of the great industrial, economic, and social changes that are sweeping the Land of Lincoln, a state that cherishes the memorials of its past and lives by the technology of the nuclear age. Here are recorded how a great railroad empire the largest air center of the Mid-continent; how a state that leads in the production of soybeans built the world's tallest skyscraper. In Illinois democratic energy finds its most typically American expression. [from flap copy]

"La casa en Mango Street is la extraordinaria historia de Esperanza Cordero. Contado a través de una serie viñetas - a veces desgarradoras, a veces profundamente alegres - es el relato de una niña latina que crece en un barrio de Chicago, inventando por sí misma en qué y en quién se convertirá." *

In her work entitled The Wine Dark Sea, Mertz argued that Odysseus sailed through the Straits of Gibraltar and into the North Atlantic. Moreover, Mertz believed that Odysseus faced Scylla and Charybdis when he arrived at the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Mertz also proposed that the Argonauts travelled across the Atlantic Ocean, down the east coast of South America, past the mouth of the Amazon and Rio de Janeiro to the Rio Plata of Argentina. From Rio Plata, Jason went to the altiplano of Bolivia and to Tihuanaco where the Golden Fleece was located. [from Amazon.com]

In "Old Family Movies," Robert Kirschten writes poems about his upbringing and early family life in Chicago. A video separated into eleven scenes for eleven selected poems accompanies the book.

The 72 poems in this collection explore what it means to be human. Using carefully-crafted language, Cherry writes with the clarity of a journalist and the sensitivity of a woman. [from Amazon.com description]

"The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero. Told in a series of vignettes - sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous - it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become." *

"Lessons of Water and Thirst" chronicles the spontaneous education of a troubadour. In the white mirror of Paris and black mirror of Venice, adyta of Lydia and belly of Ireland, Fammeree began to assume responsibility for his spiritual health -- and played the varnish off a guitar. (back matter)