Published by Floricanto Press. www.FloricantoPress.com www.LatinoBooks.Net #LatinoBooks Guatemala, Pueblo Nublado, 1931. Sofi is a rural teacher who arrives at Casa Montesanto, located at the foot of a volcano in the beautiful and mysterious Bosques Nebulosos, to be the assistant of the Vega sisters. Unsuspectingly, she finds herself at the service of a dark and greedy family, obsessed with power and wealth, that hides a sinister past. Cecilia, the youngest daughter, has been forced to create her own secret world to survive after a horrible trauma left her mute. By helping her, Sofi begins a journey full of love, determination, and courage that continues through Camila, her granddaughter. As Camila digs up the family mystery through Sofi's clues, she discovers both her purpose in life and her true love. Grandmother and granddaughter tell the story in two voices. Ixcanul Te, the nearby volcano, intimately aligned with Cecilia's soul, echoes the narrators as it witnesses the atrocities that happen in Montesanto. "The author inter-weaves three different timelines and three different voices, not allowing the reader to put down the book from beginning to end. This thought-provoking thriller, beautifully written, breaks through the barriers of a conventional Gothic novel. A true masterpiece!"-VIDA AMOR DE PAZ, Columnist, Writer, TV Personality and Environmentalist, Winner of the Presidential Award 2010 in Guatemala, and Woman of the Year 2018. "A journey into a volcano-an ambitious family, and the shy young women who, without much talk, shook a whole town. Magic and verb are the key ingredients of this great story, which challenges the reader from the first to the last paragraph." -ANDRES CORREA GUATARASMA / North American Academy of the Spanish Language Patricia Sorg is an award winning Guatemalan artist who has exhibited her work throughout the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Captivated by the colors and beauty of her native country, Patricia has been telling vivid stories through her paintings since she was very young. It was this same inspiration that compelled her to write her first fictional novel, MOUNTAINS THAT TOUCH THE SKY (Monta&#65533;as que tocan el cielo), in which the customs and traditions of her people come to life. Now an American citizen, Patricia lives in Sarasota, FL, where she is dedicated to her creative career, exhibits her work and leads painting workshops.

Mountains That Touch The Sky

Patricia

Sorg

Floricanto Press

Between Borders: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History (La Mujer Latina)

History

Americas

This book examines the lives of women, both royalty and commoner, foreign and native-born, whose unique experiences made a profound and vivid impression on the history of Mexico. It includes descriptions of the original costumes of each era, which, coupled with their compelling stories, entertain an enlightening the reader. Women of Mexico explores they mostly ignore the lives of these women. Their tenacity and grit constitute an exemplary display of courage and determination in the face of danger, disgrace, burning at the stake, and even the firing squad. In these pages, we are impressed by Cortes's valiant and much-maligned Indian mistress, who acting as translator, guide, diplomat at the Aztec court. She was instrumental in the downfall of the Aztec Empire. The reader will, in fact, empathize with the pride of the age Indian Queen, who stubbornly takes refuge in the temple of her ancestral gods to avoid baptism in the alien new faith of the conquistadores. We sorrow for the brilliant nun whose genius is often compared to that of Leonardo da Vinci for her versatility, and whose intellect and courage bring her great tragedy as well as fame. This is a seminal collective biography of women of Mexico.

Women of Mexico: The Consecrated and the Commoners (La Mujer Latina)

Biographies & Memoirs

Gugliotta, Bobette

Community & Culture

Fields of Poison recounts the odyssey of Antonio Velasco from a village in rural Mexico to a life of back-breaking labor as an eleven-year old migrant farm worker in America. With determination, foresight, and overwhelming intellect he rose to the heights of the scientific and medical professions. Major corporations fought Dr. Velasco's determination to investigate and prevent life-threatening pesticide poisoning. Against enormous odds he developed diagnostic protocols and treatment of toxic pesticides that have a long-term impact on public health. Dr. Velasco's story represents the American ideal that the nation benefits from generations of immigrants."...story of the extraordinary brilliance and tenacity of Dr. Antonio Velasco in overcoming systemic racism and injustice in America. His story reminds us it is possible to bend the arc of history towards justice." Harry Snyder, J.D. Advocacy Leader in Residence, University of California School of Public Health."...relates...the battles encountered by Dr. Antonio Velasco in seeking social and legal justice to protect workers from highly hazardous pesticides?. ." Graham Matthews, PhD., Emeritus Professor of Pest Management, Imperial College, London."[with] burning passion for justice?Antonio converted his anger into achievement." Sen. Bill Monning, California State Senate."...significant portrait of human courage and the potential that lies within us all to learn from personal suffering and to substantively contribute to the larger good." Daniel Rothenberg, Ph.D. Professor of Practice, School of Politics and Global Studies.Author, playwright, screen and television writer Michael Halperin served as Executive Story Consultant, 20th Century-Fox and Story Editor, Universal Television, and writer-producer for MCA Television. He authored Black Wheels, National Education Association choice for its African American 100 Best Book List. Best-selling Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story, Random House, written under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, was named ABA Best Book, Children's Book Council; Notable Children's Trade Book, Int'l. Reading Assn. Teacher's Choice. Writing Great Characters, Lone Eagle; Writing the Second Act, MWP; Writing the Killer Treatment, MWP are staple texts for universities.

Fields oF Poison Migrant Farmworker to Crusading Physician

Halperin, Michael

Professionals & Academics

In this collection of short stories, Irma Olmedo immerses her readers in the world of her childhood growing up in New York's El Barrio during the 1950s. Tinged with nostalgia for her years surrounded by family, celebratory meals, and togetherness while facing economic challenges as other working-class Puerto Rican families in la gran urbe, Olmedo's stories reclaim the humanity of displaced Puerto Rican families in New York through dialogues that are succinct yet truly human, exploding with a candidly felt, nurturing cariño. While the focus rests on her extended family, the stories reveal a larger social and historical moment in New York. Themes such as the mistranslations of migration through consumerism, the power of music and memory, the social alliances between Puerto Ricans and Italians, the limited access to resources, gender and sexual identities, and the diverse generational perspectives of identity and culture across time, all come together in these beautiful narratives of culture, family and communities. Olmedo's unique talent in assuming the voices of her family members throughout these stories, including her own as an adult, is evident throughout the collection. Bravo to a new voice that humanizes Puerto Ricans in the diaspora at a time when the State brutally dismisses our lives as unworthy of recognition. -Frances R. Aparicio, Professor Emerita, Northwestern UniversityBarrio tales is a warm-hearted collection of short stories on memory, love, and loss told with compassion, humor and wit. Moving from Puerto Rico to barrios across the US, each story is a gem that captures the sights, sounds, smells, spirit, and emotions of a community on the move from the island to the diaspora. Irma María Olmedo has a keen ear for dialogue and is an original and inventive storyteller. Anyone interested in the immigrant experience will love these stories.-Dr. Lourdes Torres, Editor, Latino Studies, Vincent de Paul Professor, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies, DePaul University

Tales from the Barrio and Beyond

Literature & Fiction

Olmedo, Irma María

United States

In 1943, four-year-old David and his nine-year-old brother Jacob were forcibly interned with their aunts and grandmother in the infamous Warsaw Ghetto. As news of wholesale execution of Jews became known, the women planned the children's escape into the arms of Alexander and Mela Roslan, Polish-Catholic merchants, who willingly made their choice at the risk of death.

My Name Is David Search for Identity: A True Post-Holocaust Odyssey

A true compelling story of a boy growing up in Watts, Compton, and Pico-Union in South Central Los Angeles amid violence, drug abuse, gangs, racism, and poverty. On the day his parents decide to get divorced his world became tortured. How can he get out of it? How can he make a career when he does not know how? The author takes you on a ride in his life!Whispers of a future draw this young boy onto a path that is confusing, frustrating, and long. At first, he is just trying to escape his daily surroundings and he begins to write down stories as small swatches of a few words written on paper napkins, newspapers, and on scratch paper. As time passed the author wrote at his desk, on the floor, in darkened rooms, and in the end he always felt better. The stories became the Latin Boy Shuffle, which was a dance when he was a young man and later became the story of his life. The book took his issues and helped him toward resolution to find forgiveness to those who had been in his life and to rectify what happened in his youth; it is was a way to tell youth about his life and offer hope and encourage them to face their life with promise and optimism.

Latin Boy ~Shuffle~ The Early Years

Valencia, Albert

Genesis: Seeds of Being in the Early Years of a Jersey Jewish American

Zimmerman, Marc

Regardless the times and territory, and even space, Latino rebels engage in disruption and direct action in the 23rd Century as they feel compelled to redress the social inequities that still persist from the past. Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita continue to imagine new spaces for thinking about resistance to state violence, subaltern histories, and futures to come. Just as their previous book, Lunar Braceros, 2125-2148, explored the extractive colonial tools of environmental disaster from the perspectives of moon workers and movements across the Americas, Keep Me Posted: Logins from Tomorrow delves deeper into the meaning of collective resistance-and how the subversive work of survival carries within it the memories of generations. As a political allegory for our moment, this urgent yet playful novel is indispensable for interpreting the unfolding continuities of struggle, and for striving toward a world we want. Christopher Perreira, American Studies, University of Kansas Keep me Posted, the sequel to Lunar Braceros, both written by Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, bring us Hispanic, Latino rebels who engage on disruption and direct action in the 23rd Century. The great grandchildren of Lydia Vallejo and Frank Ho, the original rebels, inheriting the Vallejo-Ho tech skills as well as the gene to furthering the protest and rebellion, and face their own set of struggles in a dystopic Cali-Texas. The novel looks back on the 22nd century rebellion that brought reforms but not systemic change; the powerful still call the shots.

Keep Me Posted: Logins from Tomorrow

Sánchez, Rosaura

Pita, Beatrice

Solo Cholo University: A Transformational Handbook

Flores, Enrique S.

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