Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: stories, serafina
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-11-30
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0826335691
ISBN-13: 9780826335692

New Mexico’s master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth-century Santa Fe. In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspiring to incite a revolution against the colonial government. When the prisoners are brought before the Governor, one of them is revealed as a young woman. Educated by the friars in her pueblo’s mission church, Serafina speaks beautiful Spanish and surprises the Governor with her fearlessness and intelligence. The two strike a bargain. She will entertain the Governor by telling him a story. I

Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: chupacabra, curse
Number of Pages: 174
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826341144
ISBN-13: 9780826341143

Is the ChupaCabra mythical or real? Stories of the creature abound in Latino communities. The illusive creature is said to suck the blood of goats. Thus, its name, goatsucker. Whenever a backyard goat or chicken is mysteriously killed, the story spreads in the barrio that the ChupaCabra struck.When Professor Rosa Medina began to research the folklore of the ChupaCabra, she never expected to tangle face-to-face with the monster. Rosa journeys to Mexico to examine a ChupaCabra incident. The creature has killed a campesino in the jungle. And the drug traffickers who have captured the ChupaCabra a

Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: novel, tortuga
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 2004-08-30
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0826336248
ISBN-13: 9780826336248

Rudolfo Anaya’s personal journey to Tortuga began one desert-hot day when, as an adolescent, he and some friends were swimming in irrigation ditches. He dove in, sustaining an injury that put him in the hospital for an arduous period of time. Tortuga is set in a hospital for crippled children and is based on Anaya’s swimming accident. He explores the significance of pain and suffering in a young boy’s life and the importance of spiritual recovery as well as medical. Tortuga, or Turtle, is the name of the oddly shaped mountain near the hospital, but "Tortuga" also points toward the rig

Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: ultima, bless
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0446675369
ISBN-13: 9780446675369

When a curandera comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past.

Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: ufo, roswell, chupacabra
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2008-10-16
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826344690
ISBN-13: 9780826344694

In this second ChupaCabra mystery, Professor Rosa Medina has just arrived in Santa Fe where she meets Nadine, a mysterious sixteen-year-old who insists that the two of them travel to Roswell, New Mexico. Nadine is convinced that C-Force, a secret government agency, has decoded the DNA of ChupaCabra and an extraterrestrial. If the two genomes are combined, a new and horrific life form will be created.In this fast-paced mystery, Anaya expands the ChupaCabra folklore into a metaphor that deals with the new powers inherent in science. Is ChupaCabra a beast in Latino folktales, used to frighten chi

Author: Rudolfo Anaya
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: mysteries, baca, sonny, spring, jemez
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-03-30
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0826336841
ISBN-13: 9780826336842

When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the Bath House at Jemez Springs, Albuquerque private eye Sonny Baca is called in to investigate. As he soon learns, murder is only the beginning of the evil that Sonny must sort out. Someone has planted a bomb in the Valles Caldera, not far from the Los Alamos National Laboratories, and it is set to detonate in just a few hours. Is this the work of terrorists or is Sonny’s old nemesis, Raven, mixed up in the plot? In a race against the clock Sonny encounters ghosts and sorcerers, beautiful women and environmental activists, and deve

Author: Rudolfo F. Acuña
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: issues, ethnic, american, contemporary, latino
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-10-30
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0313322112
ISBN-13: 9780313322112

Does the term Latino--a construct of the U.S. government--successfully encompass the wide variety of Spanish-speaking people in this country? This introductory topic begins an overview of 10 major controversies that have embroiled U.S. Latinos, including Puerto Ricans, in recent years.