Lost City Radio

Political. But in the aftermath of the decadelong bloody civil conflict, her own life is about to forever change—thanks to the arrival of a young boy from the jungle who provides a cryptic clue to the fate of Norma's vanished husband. As the host of lost city radio, she reads the names of those who have disappeared—those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed.

Through her efforts lovers are reunited and the lost are found. Daniel Alarcon. For ten years, norma has been the on-air voice of consolation and hope for the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios—a people broken by war's violence.

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Elements of Argument: A Text and Reader

Elements of argument combines a thorough argument text on critical thinking, reading, writing, and research with an extensive reader on both current and timeless controversial issues. Package this title with our 2016 mla supplement, documenting sources in mla style package ISBN-13: 9781319084639. With three-quarters of the readings new to this edition and with additional multimodal selections available online, reorganized research chapters, and a fresh design, expanded coverage of key rhetorical issues, Elements of Argument is a truly flexible classroom resource.

. Our newest set of online materials, LaunchPad Solo, provides all the key tools and course-specific content that you need to teach your class. Browse our catalog or contact your representative for a full listing of updated titles and packages, or to request a custom ISBN. Get the most recent updates on mla citation in a convenient, 8th Edition, 40-page resource based on The MLA Handbook, with plenty of models.

To package launchpad solo free with elements of Argument, Eleventh Edition, use 978-1-319-01079-9. It presents everything students need to analyze, research, and write arguments. An e-book is available at half the price of the print book. Get all our great course-specific materials in one fully customizable space online; then assign and mix our resources with yours.

Elements of argument covers toulmin, Aristotelian, and Rogerian models of argument and has been thoroughly updated with current selections students will want to read.


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That is, henry nuñez, a legendary play by nelson’s hero, until he lands a starring role in a touring revival of The Idiot President, leader of the storied guerrilla theater troupe Diciembre. His girlfriend is sleeping with another man; his brother has left their South American country, leaving Nelson to care for their widowed mother; and his acting career can’t seem to get off the ground.

Nelson’s fate is slowly revealed through the investigation of the narrator, a young man obsessed with Nelson’s story—and perhaps closer to it than he lets on. And that’s when the real trouble begins. In sharp, vivid, identity, alarcón delivers a compulsively readable narrative and a provocative meditation on fate, and beautiful prose, and the large consequences that can result from even our smallest choices.

Nelson’s life is not turning out the way he hoped. Riverhead Books. The breakout novel from a prizewinning young writer: a “surrealistic tour de force” O, The Oprah Magazine about one man’s obsessive search to find the truth of another man’s downfall.


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War by candlelight is an exquisite collection of stories that carry the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people -- a devastating portrait of a world in flux -- and Daniel Alarcón is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget.

Wars, across borders, in the streets of Lima, are being waged in jungles, both national and internal, in the intimacy of New York apartments. Riverhead Books. Something is happening.


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Gods Go Begging

Described as “john steinbeck crossed with gabriel garcía Márquez”, guilt and innocence, Véa weaves a powerful and cathartic story of war and peace, suffering and love - and of one man’s climb toward salvation. Riverhead Books. Luminous. Great book! Men who were his comrades and friends in a war that crossed racial divides.

Gods go begging is a new classic of latino literature, a literary detective novel that moves seamlessly between the jungles of Vietnam and the streets of modern day San Francisco. A beautiful book. Carolyn see for vietnam veteran jesse pasadoble, in the gang wars erupting on Potrero Hill, the battle still rages: in his memories, and in the recent slaying of two women: one black, now a defense attorney living in San Francisco, one Vietnamese.

While seeking justice for the young man accused of this brutal double murder, Jesse must walk with the ghosts of men who died on another hill.


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Across a Hundred Mountains: A Novel

Out of money and in need of someone to help her across the border, Juana meets Adelina Vasquez, a young woman who left her family in California to follow her lover to Mexico. Riverhead Books. Great book! Finding themselves—in a tijuana jail—in desperate circumstances, they offer each other much needed material and spiritual support and ultimately become linked forever in the most unexpected of ways.

Winner of the american book award, loss, who left his family to find work in America—a story of migration, Across a Hundred Mountains is a stunning and poignant novel about a young girl who leaves her small town in Mexico to find her father, and discovery. After a tragedy separates her from her mother, Juana García leaves in search of her father, who left them two years earlier.

In across a hundred mountains, reyna grande puts a human face on the controversial issue of immigration, helping readers to better understand those who risk life and limb every day in pursuit of a better life.


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City Lights Books. There was no one in this country as ferocious, as brilliant, or as necessary as Pedro Pietri. By turns angry, heartbreaking, and hopeful, his writings are imbued with a sense of pride and nationalism and were embraced by the generation of Latino poets that followed him. Great book! Pedro pietri: selected poetry gathers the most enduring and treasured work among his published books, Traffic Violations, Puerto Rican Obituary, and Out of Order, along with a generous selection of his previously unpublished works.

Pedro pietri 1944–2004 was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and raised in Manhattan. A towering poet, and iconoclast, explosively talented, and activist, absolutely peerless, a pioneer, to whom the entire spoken word movement owes a debt beyond calculation. Junot diaz"one of the great american poets of the twentieth century, a leader of the Nuyorican poetry movement that ignited at Miguel Algarín's Nuyorican Poet's Cafe.

In the early '70s he was a featured poet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Juan flores 1943-2014 was a professor and director of Latino Studies at New York University, and author of many books on Puerto Rican and Latino culture.


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A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the ans-wer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, the whole village becomes an accomplice to his sophisticated plot, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, which will forever mark their lives.

A novel of temptation by the internationally bestselling author Paulo Coelho,  The Devil and Miss Prymis a thought-provoking parable of a community dev-oured by greed, cowardice, and fear—as it struggles with the choice between good and evil. Great book! . City Lights Books. Riverhead Books. Harper Perennial.

Online access to textbook.


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Online access to textbook. City Lights Books. New book slight scuff from stacking Riverhead Books. Great book! Harper Perennial.


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Jesus and the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Encountering Jesus

City Lights Books. Great book! . Online access to textbook. Harper Perennial. Riverhead Books. As they engage with the content of this text, defined by her four characteristics--one, catholic, students will recognize Christ present and active in their lives through the visible and vibrant mission of Church, holy, and apostolic.

While jesus and the church places the foundations of the church in their historical and scriptural context, the textbook goes further by guiding students to recognize the sacred nature of the Church and engaging them to more actively participate in the living Body of Christ and serve as witnesses to the sacred Gospel in the world today.

Simply put, the goal of the book--as in the encountering Jesus series as a whole--is to change the lives of students by making real-life connections between what they are learning about the Church and how they encounter Jesus in the contemporary world. Developed in collaboration with experts in theology, catechesis, and pedagogy, Jesus and the Church includes a number of new features as part of an innovative design, including: Chapter Focus Questions: Each chapter's main idea is posed as a question to the student to provide a broader context in which new ideas can be integrated and understood.

Infographics: a wide variety of visual and interactive designs throughout the text help students understand theological concepts in ways they will remember. Currents events: each chapter opens with a story from the contemporary world that teens can relate to their own lives. Educational photos: images throughout the text have been carefully chosen not only to illustrate the chapter but for teachers and students to use as educational tools.

Note-taking graphic organizers: designed to help students organize, and sequence the text, summarize, various types of organizers were customized for every section of thebook.


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