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

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Books are... photos from Local Author Day 2013

La Casa Azul Bookstore hosted its second annual "Local Author Day!" with 27 authors in attendance on December 1, 2013.

Local Author Day, 12/1/2013
Local Author Day, 12/1/2013


Local Author Day, 12/1/2013

Local Author Day, 12/1/2013

 
Local Author Day, 12/1/2013


Local Author Day, 12/1/2013

Local Author Day, 12/1/2013

Local Author Day, 12/1/2013


Local Author Day, 12/1/2013

Local Author Day, 12/1/2013

Local Author Day, 12/1/2013

Local Author Day, 12/1/2013

Local Author Day, 12/1/2013