Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Best Sellers at La Casa Azul Bookstore, 2013





Children's books:
  • Gathering the Sun: An Alphabet in Spanish and English, by Alma Flor Ada illustrated by Simon Silva
  • Sweet Coco: Chocolate Maker’s Apprentice, by Jake Perez, illustrated by Sarah Watson
  • Puerto Rico de la A a la Z, Georgina Lazaro illustrated by Mrinali Alvarez
  • Zapato Power: Freddie Ramos Takes Off, Jaquelina Jules illustrated by Miguel Benitez
  • Tar Beach, by Faith Ringgold
  • Round Is A Tortilla: a book of shapes, by Roseanne Greenfield Thong illustrated by John Parra
  • Nino Wrestles the World, Yuyi Morales
  • Hairs/Pelitos, Sandra Cisneros, illustrated by Terry Ibañez
  • Sonia Sotomayor: A Judge Grows in the Bronx, Jonah Winter, illustrated by Edel Rodriguez
  • Juan Bobo Busca Trabajo, Marisa Montes illustrated by Joe Cepeda


Fiction
  • The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz
  • This Is How You Lose Her, Junot Diaz
  • Drown, Junot Diaz
  • Bodega Dreams, Ernesto Quiñones
  • Covering the Sun with My Hand, Theresa Varela
  • Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
  • Soledad, Angie Cruz
  • King of Cuba, Cristina Garcia
  • The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo, F.G. Haghenbeck
  • Conquistadora, Esmeralda Santiago



Memoir/Biography

  • My Beloved World, Justice Sonia Sotomayor
  • Rita Moreno: Memories, Rita Moreno
  • Down These Mean Streets, Piri Thomas
  • Memoir of a Visionary: Antonia Pantoja
  • A Wedding in Haiti, Julia Alvarez
  • Nuyorican Girl…Surviving my Spanglish Life, Julia Torres
  • When We Were Outlaws, Jean Cordoba
  • Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas
  • The Turkish Lover, Esmeralda Santiago
  • When I Was Puerto Rican, Esmeralda Santiago


Non-Fiction & Anthologies

  • Count on Me: Tales of Sisterhoods and Fierce Friendship, Las Comadres para Las Americas
  • Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora, ed. Marta Moreno Vega, Marinieves Alba, Yvette Modestin
  • Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings—An Anthology, ed. Roberto Santiago
  • Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua
  • Red-Inked Retablos, Rigoberto Gonzalez
  • Open Veins of Latin America, Eduardo Galeano
  • Reform without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State, Alfonso Gonzales
  • Harvest of Empire, Juan Gonzalez
  • The Devil’s Highway, Luis Albero Urrea
  • Kissing the Mango Tree: Puerto Rican Women Rewriting American Literature, Carmen S. Rivera

Young Adult

  • Secret Saturdays, Torrey Maldonado
  • Wonder, R.J. Palacio
  • Chulito, Charles Rice Gonzalez
  • Maximilian and the Mystery of the Guardian Angel, Xavier Garza
  • Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, Meg Medina
  • The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano, Sonia Manzano
  • The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, Meg Medina
  • Efrain’s Secret, Sofia Quintero
  • Return to Sender, Julia Alvarez
  • The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography in Poems of Juan Francisco Manzano, Margarita Engle

  

Poetry
  • The Poetician, Caridad de la Luz
  • City of One Hundred Fires, Richard Blanco
  • Looking for the Gulf Motel, Richard Blanco
  • Transitions of a Nuyorican Cinderella, Maria Aponte
  • Americano: Growing Up Gay and Latino in the USA, Emanuel Xavier
  • One Bedroom Solo, Sheila Maldonado
  • Twerk, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs

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