Lost in Oaxaca

Lost in Oaxaca
Author: Jessica Winters Mireles
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2020-04-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1631528815

Once a promising young concert pianist, Camille Childs retreated to her mother’s Santa Barbara estate after an injury to her hand destroyed her hopes for a musical career. She now leads a solitary life teaching piano, and she has a star student: Graciela, the daughter of her mother’s Mexican housekeeper. Camille has been grooming the young Graciela for the career that she herself lost out on, and now Graciela, newly turned eighteen, has just won the grand prize in a piano competition, which means she gets to perform with the LA Philharmonic. Camille is ecstatic; if she can’t play herself, at least as Graciela’s teacher, she will finally get the recognition she deserves. But there are only two weeks left before the concert, and Graciela has disappeared—gone back to her family’s village in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Desperate to bring Graciela back in time for the concert, Camille goes after her, but on the way there, a bus accident leaves her without any of her possessions. Alone and unable to speak the language, Camille is befriended by Alejandro, a Zapotec man who lives in LA but is from the same village as Graciela. Despite a contentious first meeting, Alejandro helps Camille navigate the rugged terrain and unfamiliar culture of Oaxaca, allowing her the opportunity to view the world in a different light—and perhaps find love in the process.

Oaxaca Stories in Cloth

Oaxaca Stories in Cloth
Author: Eric Sebastian Mindling
Publisher: Schiffer + ORM
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1507302460

Winner: 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Gold, Multicultural 2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, Silver, Art & Photography Oaxaca Stories in Cloth includes more than 175 sensitive, intimate, full-color portraits of traditional people of the Oaxacan hinterlands who continue to wrap themselves in the clothing that expresses their ancient, living culture. Eric Mindling captures this vanishing world with artistry and respect, and just in the nick of time. This book offers a window into a vanishing culture where few people have the opportunity to go.

Oaxaca

Oaxaca
Author: Judith Cooper Haden
Publisher: Artisan Publishers
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2002-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN:

Explores the culture and customs of the Mexican region of Oaxaca.

Oaxaca Journal

Oaxaca Journal
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2012-07-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1447209680

Oliver Sacks, the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, is most famous for his studies of the human mind: insightful and beautifully characterized portraits of those experiencing complex neurological conditions. However, he has another scientific passion: the fern . . . Since childhood Oliver has been fascinated by the ability of these primitive plants to survive and adapt in many climates. Oaxaca Journal is the enthralling account of his trip, alongside a group of fellow fern enthusiasts, to the beautiful province of Oaxaca, Mexico. Bringing together Oliver’s endless curiosity about natural history and the richness of human culture with his sharp eye for detail, this book is a captivating evocation of a place, its plants, its people, and its myriad wonders. ‘Light and fast-moving, unburdened by library research but filled with erudition’ – New Yorker

Visions of the Emerald City

Visions of the Emerald City
Author: Mark Overmyer-Velazquez
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2006-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822337904

DIVExplores how elites and commoners in Oaxaca constructed and experienced the process of modernity during President Porfirio Diaz's government./div

Missing Witches

Missing Witches
Author: Risa Dickens
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1623175739

A guide to invocations, rituals, and histories at the intersection of magic and feminism, as informed by history's witches--and the sociopolitical culture that gave rise to them. When you start looking for witches, you find them everywhere. As seekers and practitioners reclaim and restore magic to its rightful place among powerful forces for social, personal, and political transformation, more people than ever are claiming the identity of "Witch." But our knowledge of witchcraft and magic has been marred by erasure, sensationalism, and sterilization, the true stories of history's witches left untold. Through meditations, stories, and practices, authors Risa Dickens and Amy Torok offer an intersectional, contemporary lens for uncovering and reconnecting with feminist witch history. Sharing traditions from all over the world--from Harlem to Haiti, Oaxaca to Mesopotamia--Missing Witches introduces readers to figures like Monica Sjoo, HP Blavatsky, Maria Sabina, and Enheduanna, shedding light on their work and the cultural and sociopolitical contexts that shaped it. Structured around the 8 sabbats of the Wheel of the Year, each chapter includes illustrations by Amy Torok, as well as invocations, rituals, and offerings that incorporate the authors' own wisdom, histories, and journeys of trauma, loss, and empowerment. Missing Witches offers an inside look at the vital stories of women who have practiced--and lived--magic.

The Stones of Summer

The Stones of Summer
Author: Dow Mossman
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780760748848

Episodic coming of age saga.

Becoming Naomi Leon (Scholastic Gold)

Becoming Naomi Leon (Scholastic Gold)
Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545532329

A reissue of Pam Munoz Ryan's bestselling backlist with a distinctive author treatment and new cover art by Raul Colon.Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for one. Then there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram), her difficulty speaking up, and her status at school as "nobody special." But according to Gram, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking. And with Gram and her little brother, Owen, Naomi's life at Avocado Acres Trailer Rancho in California is happy and peaceful...until their mother reappears after seven years of being gone, stirring up all sorts of questions and challenging Naomi to discover and proclaim who she really is.

Miss Nelson is Missing!

Miss Nelson is Missing!
Author: Harry Allard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 1977
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395401460

Suggests activities to be used at home to accompany the reading of Miss Nelson is missing by Harry Allard in the classroom.

On the Plain of Snakes

On the Plain of Snakes
Author: Paul Theroux
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0544866479

Legendary travel writer Theroux drives the entire length of the U.S.-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines.