Paperback -
This
play is the story of a Latino family with three siblings each
keeping a secret from the family only to have them revealed
under the stress of the deaths, on the same day, of their
father, Cesar, and their political mentor Cesar Chavez. Produced
by New Latino Visions 1996 at Brooklyn College with a second
road production that traveled through southern Michigan in the
spring of 2002.
Price: $12
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Who Will Dance With Pancho Villa
A Play
Paperback-
Who
Will Dance With Pancho Villa is a play about an urban Chicano
struggling to understand his self and his place in the family
history, a history of warriors, fighters, strugglers over oppression
and discrimination. He is gifted and educated but conflicted and
repressed. Afraid to show his emotions it takes his mother's near
death experience of a heart attack and the visitation of the spirits
of his long dead relatives to help him realize that he still can
dance, love and learn to forgive. Who Will Dance With Pancho Villa
was originally produced by the Castillo Theater Company, New York
City, in May of 1994 and produced a second time by the New Latino
Visions theater company in April of 1997 at Brooklyn College.
Price: $12
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Mill Rats
Paperback - A suspense novel
When the boys got in trouble she
always got them out. But smuggling refugees is a whole new game.
Mill Rats is an easy to read book with a good
storyline and interesting characters set against the backdrop of the steel
mills. There are very few books of any type about steel mills. And, not nearly
enough books by and about Latinos.
The big
steel mills around Chicago are built on Lake Michigan and they all have their
own docks. In 1978 five steel mill workers “mill rats” become involved with
smuggling a political refugee out of communist Russia.
The event
grows into a modern day underground railway for escapees from behind the iron
curtain until the mill rats discover they are in more trouble than they every
imagined possible. When they try to stop, their lives are threatened. They have
no choice but to find the toughest person they’d even known, Lena Ramirez. She’d
left The Region when she was sixteen after a knife fight found two girls
seriously injured. Unwillingly, Lena returns to The Region to help her old
friends attempt an escape from the Russian Mob, the police and enemies old and
new.
Mill Rats
Price: $12
Word Doc edition of Mill Rats
FREE
upon request
MOVIE SCRIPT AVAILABLE
Windsor the Birth of a City
Hardback - Non-fiction
Description of how a city moves for an unincorporated area into cityhood
in the state of California with a case study of the Town of
Windsor, in Windsor, Ca.
Price: $22.50
Sorry no digital version
Daddy I Need To Go Potty
Paperback - Non-fiction
This book is a
humorous look at parenthood. A collection of anecdotes of a
father providing childcare for his two young daughters, ages two
and six, as he watches his neat house turn messy, his wardrobe
go surplus, his car turn into a minivan which is really a giant
purse full of dirty diapers, scraps of food, toys, games, kids
clothes and unknown things he is afraid to touch. Answering the
door with food in his hair or wearing socks that don't match are
no big deal. Eventually he begins to accept the fact he may
never again feel rested, well dressed, attractive or even eat
his food while it is still hot. But the hardest adjustment is
constantly being surprised when at the least appropriate moment
he hears, "Daddy I need to go potty." Every parent will relate
to these true stories that in retrospect make one smile and
laugh but at the time...aspirin was invented for parents.
Price: $12
Daddy I Need to Go Potty Word document
FREE
upon request
I Remember Healdsburg
Paperback 8"x11"
Memories of local seniors from the Healdsburg, Ca. area.
Price: $12
FREE digital
PDF version
upon request
MOVIE SCRIPT
PANCHO VILLA AND THE STONE OF FAITH
A movie about a teenage Latina who gets transported back in
time to the Mexican revolution, of 1910, to discover her family
roots and gain some confidence in her self-worth along the way.
China 2016
Paperback 6" x 9"
In September of 2016 my wife, Karen, and I decided to go to China. We
did not go with a group tour. We speak no Chinese. We did get help from
local tour guides and drivers. It was an awesome experience that we
share with you. Read it and you will feel as if you were right there
with us.
We came home with more than 1200 photos, more than 100 are included in
this book.