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Always Running

La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

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The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: "Fierce, and fearless" ( The New York Times).Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious cliques in Southern California. He grew up knowing only a life of violence—one that revolved around drugs, ... Read more

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The award-winning memoir of life in an LA street gang from the acclaimed Chicano author and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate: "Fierce, and fearless" ( The New York Times).Luis J. Rodríguez joined his first gang at age eleven. As a teenager, he witnessed the rise of some of the most notorious cliques in Southern California. He grew up knowing only a life of violence—one that revolved around drugs,
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Always Running

La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

by Luis J. Rodriguez ...

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By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation. ... Read more

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By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as that culture claimed friends and family members. Before long, Rodriguez saw a way out of the barrio through education and successfully broke free from years of violence and desperation.
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Sana, Sana

Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice

Edited by David Luis Glisch-Sánchez, Nic Rodriguez-Villafañe ...

A bridge that interrupts a legacy of pain with the honest sharing of stories.Sana, Sana is a witness to the multiple wounds etched into the landscape of Latinx experience and a testimonial to community efforts to heal them. A multi-genre anthology rooted in the deep desire to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the ... Read more

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A bridge that interrupts a legacy of pain with the honest sharing of stories.Sana, Sana is a witness to the multiple wounds etched into the landscape of Latinx experience and a testimonial to community efforts to heal them. A multi-genre anthology rooted in the deep desire to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the
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It Calls You Back

An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing

by Luis J. Rodriguez ...

Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature.Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodriguez through his fearless classic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the ... Read more

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Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature.Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodriguez through his fearless classic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the
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The Concrete River

Poems

by Luis J. Rodríguez ...

A mesmerizing collection of poems of urban pain and immigrant alienation, humming with a current of genuine beauty and the pulse of lifeThe Concrete River's poems are dispatches from city corners that CNN viewers never see, that few dare visit, and that fewer still manage to escape. Rodríguez sings corridos of barrios and busted Chicanos trying to make it in L.A. and Chicago, from ballads of Watts ... Read more

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A mesmerizing collection of poems of urban pain and immigrant alienation, humming with a current of genuine beauty and the pulse of lifeThe Concrete River's poems are dispatches from city corners that CNN viewers never see, that few dare visit, and that fewer still manage to escape. Rodríguez sings corridos of barrios and busted Chicanos trying to make it in L.A. and Chicago, from ballads of Watts
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Hearts and Hands

Creating Community in Violent Times

by Luis Rodriguez ...

Hearts and Hands deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in Luis Rodríguez’s memoir of gang life, Always Running, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth ... Read more

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Hearts and Hands deals with many of the difficult issues addressed in Luis Rodríguez’s memoir of gang life, Always Running, but with a focus on healing through community building. Empowered by his experiences as a peacemaker with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth
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Daddy has a new Job

by Luis Rodriguez ...

It is a story about the challenges, the personal triumphs, and strength through faith of a laid off father told from the perspective of his young son. The father gains wisdom, is nurtured, and finds new strength in timeless wisdom and new innocence. ... Read more

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It is a story about the challenges, the personal triumphs, and strength through faith of a laid off father told from the perspective of his young son. The father gains wisdom, is nurtured, and finds new strength in timeless wisdom and new innocence.
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From Our Land to Our Land

Essays, Journeys, and Imaginings from a Native Xicanx Writer

by Luis J. Rodriguez ...

Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he writes in the preface, “Like millions of Americans, I’m demanding a new vision, a qualitatively different direction, for ... Read more

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Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he writes in the preface, “Like millions of Americans, I’m demanding a new vision, a qualitatively different direction, for
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Las Crónicas Misteriosas

La Reunión Misteriosa

by Luis A. Rodríguez ...

Mientras Dante caminaba en medio de aquellos pasillos rodeado de toda clase de libros; su mente se concentr tanto en esas incgnitas que realmente andaba buscando y que no lograba encontrar. Estaba tan concentrado que por un momento dej de sentir el lugar y sinti que su mente se alejaba de su cuerpo. Se encontr una vez ms en el mundo de los sueos; esos sueos que lo perseguan con ms frecuencia ... Read more

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Mientras Dante caminaba en medio de aquellos pasillos rodeado de toda clase de libros; su mente se concentr tanto en esas incgnitas que realmente andaba buscando y que no lograba encontrar. Estaba tan concentrado que por un momento dej de sentir el lugar y sinti que su mente se alejaba de su cuerpo. Se encontr una vez ms en el mundo de los sueos; esos sueos que lo perseguan con ms frecuencia
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Hearts and Hands, Second Edition

Creating Community in Violent Times

by Luis J. Rodriguez ...

Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by thirty years of experience with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today, and redirects kids into productive and satisfying lives. And he warns that we sacrifice community values for material ... Read more

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Hearts and Hands focuses on healing through community building. Empowered by thirty years of experience with gangs in Los Angeles and Chicago, Rodríguez offers a unique book of change. He makes concrete suggestions, shows how we can create nonviolent opportunities for youth today, and redirects kids into productive and satisfying lives. And he warns that we sacrifice community values for material
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My Nature Is Hunger

New and Selected Poems: 1989–2004

by Luis J. Rodríguez ...

The collected poems of one of America's foremost balladeers of urban struggle and immigrant dreamsOver his three-decade career as a poet, novelist, and memoirist, Luis J. Rodríguez has earned acclaim for his remarkable ear for the voices of the city. My Nature Is Hunger represents the best of his lyrical work during his most prolific period as a poet, a time when he carefully documented the rarely ... Read more

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The collected poems of one of America's foremost balladeers of urban struggle and immigrant dreamsOver his three-decade career as a poet, novelist, and memoirist, Luis J. Rodríguez has earned acclaim for his remarkable ear for the voices of the city. My Nature Is Hunger represents the best of his lyrical work during his most prolific period as a poet, a time when he carefully documented the rarely
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Words That make You Think

by Luis M. Rodriguez ...

Sometimes we have a tendency to go through the motions while living our lives. This prevents us from fulfilling our potential and living our dreams. Occasionally we come across a few choice words that strike a chord and points us in a direction that helps us live our best lives. The words in this book are some of those words. ... Read more

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Sometimes we have a tendency to go through the motions while living our lives. This prevents us from fulfilling our potential and living our dreams. Occasionally we come across a few choice words that strike a chord and points us in a direction that helps us live our best lives. The words in this book are some of those words.
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