Saltypie is the sweet taste of Choctaw tears in this powerful picture-book memoir. 
Bee stings on the backside! That was just the beginning. Tim was about to enter a world of the past, with bullying boys, sharp stones, and Indian spirits of long ago. But they were real spirits, real stones, very real memories.... 
In this deeply moving, beautifully illustrated family saga, Choctaw author and storyteller Tim Tingle describes his childhood and how he discovered his grandmother's painful history--from her orphan days at an Indian boarding school to hardships encountered in her new home on the Gulf Coast. But throughout these struggles, she kept her quiet, funny laugh and the love of family that held all the Tingles together. 
Tingle says, "Stories of modern Indian families rarely grace the printed page. Long before I began writing, I knew this story must be told." Seen through the innocent eyes of a young boy, Saltypie is the story of one family's efforts to honor the past while struggling to gain a foothold in modern America.

Saltypie: A Choctaw Journey from Darkness Into Light

Children's Books

Tingle, Tim

Biographies

Cinco Puntos Press

Backyard Poems

Joseph Somoza

A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.

La Llorona: The Weeping Woman: An Hispanic Legend Told in Spanish and English

Hayes, Joe

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Retells, in parallel English and Spanish text, the traditional Hispanic American tale of a proud and beautiful woman who, in a fit of jealousy, commits a terrible act and then cannot stop weeping for it, even after she is dead.

La Llorona: The Weeping Woman (Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Lion's Gate: Selected Poems, 1963-1986

WILSON, KEITH

Poetry

"Years ago, Pat Carr became attracted to the myths of the Mimbres peoples, so much so that she wrote Mimbres Pottery, a highly respected scholarly text. But Pat is a writer of fiction--soon she was working with the ancient tales anew, re-creating them in her own fictional language centered in the experience of women.

Sonahchi: A Collection of Myth Tales (Hell Yes! Texas Women Series)

Carr, Pat

United States

Firecracker Soup: Poems from the Reagan Years

GOODELL, LARRY

A collection of essays dealing with the desires and struggles of Mexicans to cross the border into the United States

Women And Other Aliens

History

Nathan, Debbie

Americas

Tierra: Contemporary Short Stories of New Mexico

Out of This World is an homage, a memoir, of the Spain Joe Somoza left behind as a child. It's a celebration of his new life in this country with his wife Jill and their three children. The book opens with some lines from an Asturian folk song, "the loves that you had / at the seashore, / the loves that you had / you can never forget," forming a motif for the deceptively simple poems about a man’s life time of loves. It’s his world we enter, seeing, hearing as if through an open window, carried away from our own world by his ironic, humorous voice.
"The poems here ring, they are full of guileless humor and honest wisdom, and they remind you that even the most mundane parts of our lives can be poetry. “In the simple things, he manages to challenge the complexities of life, calling upon his control of words to cull forth a moment of intense beauty." —Luis J. Rodriguez

Out of This World: Poems

Somoza, Joseph

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