Havana Real
One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today
Written by Yoani Sanchez
Translated by M. J. Porter

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: April 26, 2011
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-25-7 (1-935554-25-5)

She’s been kidnapped and beaten, lives under surveillance, and can only get online–in disguise–at tourist hotspots. She’s a blogger, she’s a Cuban, and she’s a worldwide sensation.

Yoani Sánchez is an unusual dissident: no street protests, no attacks on big politicos, no calls for revolution. Rather, she produces a simple diary about... Read more >

Finding Fernanda
Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
Written by Erin Siegal

Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0185-1 (0-8070-0185-6)

The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother

Over the last decade, nearly 200,000 children have been adopted into the United States, 25,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true story paired... Read more >

My Beloved World

Written by Sonia Sotomayor

Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 15, 2013
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-59488-4 (0-307-59488-2)

The first Hispanic and third woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor has become an instant American icon. Now, with a candor and intimacy never undertaken by a sitting Justice, she recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a journey that offers an... Read more >

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

Written by John Lloyd Stephens

Format: Trade Paperback, 286 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: March 17, 1996
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-56098-651-5 (1-56098-651-4)

A lively, eloquent guide to the Maya ruins of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, as entertaining today as when it was first published in 1843, Stephens’ guide recounts his two trips made to the region between 1839 and 1842. It includes extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways... Read more >

Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27283-6 (0-307-27283-4)

In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >

Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra
Escritos Selectos
Written by Subcomandante Marcos
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Edited by Juana Ponce De Leon
Foreword by Jose Saramago

Format: Trade Paperback, 536 pages
Publisher: Siete Cuentos
On Sale: December 5, 2000
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-58322-270-6 (1-58322-270-7)

En este libro fundamental, Seven Stories Press presenta una poderosa colección de escritos literarios, filosóficos y políticos del enigmático vocero de los zapatistas, SubComandante Marcos. Con la Introducción del ganador del Premio Nobel, José Saramago, e ilustrado con bellas fotos en blanco y negro, Nuestra Arma es Nuestra Palabra cristaliza, la... Read more >

Our Word is Our Weapon
Selected Writings
Written by Subcomandante Marcos
Afterword by Ana Carrigan
Edited by Juana Ponce De Leon
Foreword by Jose Saramago

Format: Trade Paperback, 522 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: May 7, 2002
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-472-4 (1-58322-472-6)

In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes “the passion of a rebel... Read more >

The Boys from Dolores
Fidel Castro's Schoolmates from Revolution to Exile
Written by Patrick Symmes

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 6, 2008
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7644-4 (1-4000-7644-7)

From the author of Chasing Che, here is the remarkable tale of a group of boys at the heart of Cuba's political and social history. Chosen in the 1940s from among the most affluent and ambitious families in eastern Cuba, they were groomed at the elite Colegio de Dolores for achievement... Read more >

68

Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith

Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-608-7 (1-58322-608-7)

On the night of October 2, 1968, there occurred a bloody showdown between student demonstrators and the Mexican government in Tlatelolco Square. At least two hundred students were shot dead and many more were detained. Then the bodies were trucked out, the cobblestones were washed clean. Detainees were held without recourse... Read more >

68

Written by Paco Ignacio Taibo II

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Siete Cuentos
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-600-1 (1-58322-600-1)

68 es una agarradora narración en primera persona hecha por uno de los más distinguidos y prolíficos escritores mexicanos de todos los tiempos, acerca de la masacre estudiantil de Tlatelolco llevada a cabo en Ciudad de México en 1968. El propósito de Paco Ignacio Taibo II es el de recuperar, a... Read more >

Cuba Diaries
An American Housewife in Havana
Written by Isadora Tattlin

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1484-0 (0-7679-1484-8)

Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband’s work. When he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990s, she resolved to keep a detailed diary of her time there, recording her daily experiences as a wife, mother, and foreigner in a land of contraband. The result is... Read more >

Cuba
La lucha por la libertad
Written by Hugh Thomas

Format: Trade Paperback, 1296 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-80424-2 (0-345-80424-4)

La isla de Cuba fue, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, un territorio clave para el control del tráfico marítimo de las rutas hacia el Nuevo Mundo. Su privilegiada situación geo­gráfica y la mezcla de culturas y tradiciones han hecho de esta pequeña isla un lugar esencial en el Caribe... Read more >

Rivers of Gold
The Rise of the Spanish Empire, from Columbus to Magellan
Written by Hugh Thomas

Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 31, 2005
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7055-5 (0-8129-7055-1)

From one of the greatest historians of the Spanish world, here is a fresh and fascinating account of Spain’s early conquests in the Americas. Hugh Thomas’s magisterial narrative of Spain in the New World has all the characteristics of great historical literature: amazing discoveries, ambition, greed, religious fanaticism, court intrigue, and... Read more >

By the Lake of Sleeping Children

Written by Luis Urrea

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1996
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-48419-0 (0-385-48419-4)

By the Lake of Sleeping Children delves into the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys of people trapped between the two worlds... Read more >

The Altar of My Soul
The Living Traditions of Santeria
Written by Marta Moreno Vega

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: August 28, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42155-5 (0-345-42155-8)

Long cloaked in protective secrecy, demonized by Western society, and distorted by Hollywood, Santería is at last emerging from the shadows with an estimated 75 million orisha followers worldwide. In The Altar of My Soul, Marta Moreno Vega recounts the compelling true story of her journey from ignorance and skepticism to... Read more >

Travels in a Thin Country
A Journey Through Chile
Written by Sara Wheeler

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: March 16, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-75365-7 (0-375-75365-6)

Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide—not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the... Read more >

From Columbus to Castro
The History of the Caribbean 1492-1969
Written by Eric Williams

Format: Trade Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 12, 1984
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-71502-5 (0-394-71502-0)

From Columbus to Castro is about 30 million people scattered across an arc of islands--Jamaica, Haiti, Barbados, Antigua, Martinique, Trinidad, among others--separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, but joined together, nevertheless, by a common heritage. For whether French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Danish, or--latterly--American, the nationality of their masters... Read more >

The Boys from Little Mexico
A Season Chasing the American Dream
Written by Steve Wilson

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0152-3 (0-8070-0152-X)

In the tradition of Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights, a sensitive and clear-eyed journalist takes us deep inside Oregon’s only all-Hispanic boys’ high school soccer team, a team whose players stand on the cusp of change.

The all-Hispanic boys’ soccer team from Woodburn High has made the playoffs for nineteen straight years--but... Read more >

Zapata and the Mexican Revolution

Written by John Womack

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1970
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-70853-9 (0-394-70853-9)

"A feat of historical writing...Womack has an uncanny feeling for the infinitely complex strains of Mexico as a civilization."--Carlos Fuentes, The New York Review of Books Read more >

Zapatista Encuentro
Documents from the 1996 Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism
Written by Zapatistas

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-548-6 (1-58322-548-X)

“Why is everyone so quiet? Is this the democracy you wanted?” So ask the Zapatistas, the group of indigenous Mexicans who, on January 1, 1994, mounted a rebellion against the implementation of NAFTA, political corruption, and the slow, unreported genocide of indigenous people worldwide. As the group expressed their demands and... Read more >

La Otra Historia de los Estados Unidos

Written by Howard Zinn
Translated by Toni Strubel

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: December 13, 2011
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-351-3 (1-60980-351-5)

Howard Zinn’s books have inspired students and activists of all ages, affirming the power of ordinary people to influence the course of history. In La Otra Historia of Los Estados Unidos, the definitive Spanish-language edition of Zinn’s classic A People’s History of the United States, Zinn takes on the standard narrative... Read more >