2026 Mercy Denied: Ada’s Story • Roger Fidler
This book is not just about dying. It’s mostly a love story about Ada’s efforts to live a full, happy, and loving life despite her physical and psychiatric issues, as well as about the author’s efforts to mitigate her suffering and prolong her life. It’s also about his advocacy for compassionate changes to the American Medical Aid in Dying programs that denied Ada and continue to deny people with debilitating nonterminal conditions the mercy of dying peacefully when they want to end their suffering.
2024 Guajira, the Cuban Girl • Zita Arocha
On the eve of leaving Cuba for Florida, a four-year-old girl promises her dying grandfather to return to her birthplace. That night an intruder sexually assaults her. As she adapts to her new American reality, she suffers distressing physical and emotional symptoms. Convinced that her daughter is possessed, her mother takes her to a Santeria priest for a cure. Years later, she returns to her homeland as a journalist, becomes entrapped in the game of espionage between Cuba and the U.S., suffers a devastating betrayal, and learns family secrets.
2023 Josue: A Young Man’s Life Lost to Suicide • Eraldo Chiecchi
Josue Legarda was a seemingly happy young man. The 14-year-old was the life of the party and made everyone smile. Josue was the one to make sure everyone was doing well, cared about their concerns and assured all was well. He had plans to ultimately join the Marine Corps. He joined the Young Marines, an unaffiliated group in El Paso, Texas, to prepare for a military life. He excelled at all he did and showed leadership and made great friends. But one morning—while his mother was in the hospital for a difficult appendectomy—Josue’s body was found on an Interstate 10 frontage road not far from where he lived.
2022 Mindfogger • Michael Rogers
A Seventies adventure story—science, fantasy and pure entertainment, set in the long-haired hippie subculture of that decade. Back then, Niles Spindrift was a new kind of hero: a gentle electronics wizard. At twelve he was in college, at twenty-two he was about to perfect his “mindfogger,” a device all too capable of controlling the human brain.
2021 Havana Hallelujah • David Smith Soto
A complex and richly drawn portrait of the peoples and landscapes of the Americas, of the lies and machinations of politicians and spies, of the dangerous jobs journalists must face each day trying to separate facts from lies and propaganda.
2020 True Borders • Borderzine
This is an edition from the University of Texas/Borderzine in the Bias Busters cultural competence series. The guide is written for people who want authoritative answers about the U.S.-Mexico border region and get up to speed quickly on this important topic.
2019 Touching the Future • Roger Fidler
A compelling, personal account of how Knight-Ridder, one of America’s largest and most distinguished newspaper chains, helped to launch and lead the world-changing digital publishing revolution that ultimately contributed to its demise and the rapid decline of newspapers around the globe.
2019 Tungula’s Gift • Luis Abelardo Núñez
The last short story written by Abelardo, one of Latin America’s most revered composers and writers. It also is the first of his tales to be translated into English. In Tungula’s Gift, Abelardo blends his magical experiences as a boy in 1937 on a journey to the hacienda Batán Grande with the legends and mysteries of the Sicán people who constructed the enormous complexes of pyramids in northern Peru long before the Spanish conquest.
2019 El Regalo de Tungula • Luis Abelardo Núñez
Éste es el último cuento escrito por Abelardo, uno de los compositores y escritores más respetado de América Latina. En El Regalo de Tungula, él combina sus experiencias mágicas como un niño en 1937 viajando a la hacienda en Batán Grande con las leyendas y los misterios de los Sicanos que construyeron los enormes complejos de pirámides en el norte del Perú antes de la conquista Española.
Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media (Journalism and Communication for a New Century Ser)
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