Soledad's friends help her discover the many things she can do to entertain herself when she is alone in her apartment.

Soledad Sigh-Sighs / Soledad suspiros (English and Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Rigoberto González

Activities, Crafts & Games

Lee & Low Books

Antonio loves words, because words have the power to express feelings like love, pride, or hurt. Mother's Day is coming soon, and Antonio searches for the words to express his love for his mother and her partner, Leslie. But he's not sure what to do when his classmates make fun of Leslie, an artist, who towers over everyone and wears paint-splattered overalls. As Mother's Day approaches, Antonio must choose whether or how to express his connection to both of the special women in his life. Rigoberto González's bilingual story about a nontraditional family resonates with all children who have been faced with speaking up for themselves or for the people they love. Cecilia Concepción Álvarez's paintings bring the tale to life in tender, richly hued detail.

Antonio's Card / La tarjeta de Antonio (English and Spanish Edition)

Holidays & Celebrations

The third installment in Rigoberto Gonzalez's beloved series of young adult novels featuring a diverse band of southern California Latino friends finds thoughtful Maui Gutierrez is a freshman as university and struggling to navigate life away from the support of his loving, old friends and family. University life can be lonely. He has no idea that his education is going to include a course in relationships-there have been dates with boys before, but Maui finds himself falling for Diego And where there is new love there is drama and heartbreak, something that the Fierce Foursome of his high school days would have warned Maui about.

Mariposa U.

Teen & Young Adult

Literature & Fiction

Tincture

As they embark on their final year of high school, the Fierce Foursome—Maui, Trini, Isaac, and Liberace—decide to do something big, something that will memorialize their friendships for when they all go their separate ways and begin their new “adult” lives.
Already accustomed to the hardships that come with being openly gay in high school (not to mention in their homes), the boys can’t begin to imagine what they will be faced with when they set out to create Caliente Valley High School’s first GLBTQ club.
All four boys are remarkably different, and they have been brought together for the time being by their shared feelings of being on the periphery at school, at home, and in the community. But once the Mariposa Club is formed, they will not only have a place where they belong and that is all their own, but it will be a place for future students who feel as displaced as they do.
Little do they know that when the town is rocked by a tragic homophobic incident, the high school and entire community will turn to the Mariposa Club as a symbol of their grief and fear. Poet, author, and activist Rigoberto González has penned two poetry books; two bilingual children’s books; a novel, Crossing Vines; a story collection, Men without Bliss; and a memoir, Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. He is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey.

The Mariposa Club

Alyson Pubns

Other Fugitives and Other Strangers is a testimony of sexuality in times of violence. This journey into the intimate language of the male body is burdened with danger and desire and expressed through a dark eroticism reminiscent of García Lorca and Cavafy. These provocative and brutally honest poems give voice to both sides of abusive relationships, dismissing easy assumptions about victimhood and shattering the taboo of silence from within the political arena of love between men.   Rigoberto González is the author of So Often the Pitcher Goes to Water until It Breaks, a selection of the National Poetry Series. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and of numerous international artist residencies, González has also written two picture books, a novel, and two works of nonfiction, including the memoir Butterfly Boy.

Other Fugitives And Other Strangers

Poetry

William Ralph Pr

"While the tension that never leaves these poems is, on the surface, erotic, what lies beneath the sensual energy is an awareness that sex, as the articulation of love, is tainted by our notions of how pure love should be. It's Gonzalez's lyricism that joins the physical and the ideal, and demonstrates that the impulse to speak is a form of the impulse to touch. Gonzalez's honesty is itself a kind of poetry: there is an exacting focus here that speaks of hope without using the word. If we can look, we can change. These are poems of transformation." --Bob Hicok
"Follow Rigoberto Gonzalez into these poems and you'll come to a place where a kiss is a fig or a rock, where a fist is a rose, or a finger is a barb on a hook. Inside this dazzling kaleidoscope of words, Gonzalez whirls us through the delights and terrors of erotic love, and into the forbidden, hidden, dangerous body of desire. He was brave enough to write these unflinching, brilliant poems. Are you brave enough to read them?"--Minnie Bruce Pratt

OTHER FUGITIVES AND OTHER STRANGERS

Tupelo Press

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