Anything with directions or ideas for creating/fixing/changing things with my hands, particularly if I can eat it, sew it, grow it, give it to a friend, or contribute to positive social change.
$16.99
ISBN-13: 9781582463537
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Published: Tricycle Press, 7/2011
What a lovely book! My daughter (5 ys.) and I are already partial to books about librarians, books about children named Ana and books with bilingual elements, but this is an especially imaginative and beautifully illustrated little story that just happens to be about a librarian, Ana and burros who bring libros.
$16.00
ISBN-13: 9780312572938
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Published: Picador, 5/2011
Really enjoyed this novel. A fresh & engaging storyline. Miguel Syjuco touches on so many of the Filipino-American identity issues that resonate for me, as well as others about writing inter-cultural identity. He paints a surreal & complex Manila without making it a tacky stereotype.
$30.00
ISBN-13: 9781580089944
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Published: Ten Speed Press, 9/2010
¡Qué nostálgia! Fany Gerson’s cookbook My Sweet Mexico is the most
complete, mouthwatering collection of recipes for everything that I ate
and craved for a year (occasionally there were vegetables and tlacoyos,
but keeping our priorities straight, this book is desserts only). The
many, many recipes are accompanied by cultural and travel notes and come
from all over the country. The beautiful photographs bring back some
wonderful food memories – jostling for late-night seating for hot
chocolate at Churrería el Moro; watching bees swarm the sugar-petrified
fruit displays at Dulceria Celaya; daily strolls for nieves, helados and
aguas (ice cream and sweet, cold beverages) with my two-year-old;
wondrous panadería (bakery) windows stacked high with every
imaginable sweet bread; cotton candy vendors floating wisps onto the
breeze for delighted children to catch; buying one cocada in each shop
in Puebla (research, obviously); sensory overload on the plaza – the
steam coming up from vats of ponche and stacks of bunuelos; wondering if
merengue-filled shells were maybe not such a good idea on a
particularly warm Thursday; lunchtime experiments with zapote negro (we
invented a trifle) with our favorite neighbor . . . So yummy.
$13.00
ISBN-13: 9781933368764
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Published: Soft Skull Press, 4/2007
This is a beautiful and intense meditation on memory, oblivion and the tugging and fading shades of forgetting/remembering in between. My Happy Life is the fictional memoir of a woman abandoned in a closed mental hospital. Despite suffering many kinds of abuse, she has a miraculous capacity for forgiveness and love. She clings to affection in all forms like precious mementos from her life, and while she seems to respond naively to the abuses of others, this nameless woman’s ability to find joy in hopelessness is both heartbreaking and wonderful.
$12.95
ISBN-13: 9781580087575
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Published: Ten Speed Press, 9/2006
While it might not be realistic for all people to get rid of their cars entirely, this book still offers great practical advice for people looking to cut down on their car use for the many, many important economic, health and environmental reasons.
My husband and I managed to live car-free in Tucson for 6 years while going to school and working, so it can be done!
