The Cha Cha Files

The Cha Cha Files

Author: Maya Chinchilla

Publisher:

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 9780988967380

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The Cha Cha Files: A Chapina Poética by Maya Chinchilla is a timely debut that makes visible the Central American-Guatemalan diaspora and disentangles the myths from the mayhem of civil wars, urban wars, and the wars raging in young hearts. Part memory, part imaginary, The Cha Cha Files honors Central American feministas, Long Beach roqueras, families divided by war, lovers separated by borders, and celebrates the pleasure and heartbreak of femmes, machas, y mariconadas. These poems, stories, and snapshots traverse California coastlines and southern borderlines, cut across tense multi-culti high-school hallways, sing Solidarity Movement songs, mosh through tribal slam pits, and find home in the vibrant Bay Area where radical activists and lovers alike come of age. Chinchilla's hopeful and uniquely Chapina voice emerges as a significant contribution to U.S. Latina/o literary works.


Dictee

Dictee

Author: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780520231122

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This autobiographical work is the story of several women. Deploying a variety of texts, documents and imagery, these women are united by suffering and the transcendance of suffering.


Faults

Faults

Author: Terri de la Peña

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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As their volatile relationships hover on the verge of explosion, the Northridge earthquake rips through Los Angeles, and the women are forced to face one another with all defenses down."--BOOK JACKET.


Hazel and Cha Cha Save Christmas: Tales from the Umbrella Academy one-shot

Hazel and Cha Cha Save Christmas: Tales from the Umbrella Academy one-shot

Author: Gerard Way

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13:

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Hazel and Cha Cha—the bizarre assassins who first appear in Umbrella Academy: Dallas and blew audiences away in the Netflix series—track down a rogue time agent and cross paths with a plot to discredit Christmas! The first Umbrella Academy spinoff!


Your House Will Pay

Your House Will Pay

Author: Steph Cha

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0062868861

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WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE “[A] suspense-filled page-turner.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer "A touching portrait of two families bound together by a split-second decision.” —Attica Locke, Edgar-Award winning author of Bluebird, Bluebird A Best Book of the Year Wall Street Journal * Chicago Tribune * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel * Book Riot * LitHub A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in Los Angeles, following two families—one Korean-American, one African-American—grappling with the effects of a decades-old crime In the wake of the police shooting of a black teenager, Los Angeles is as tense as it’s been since the unrest of the early 1990s. But Grace Park and Shawn Matthews have their own problems. Grace is sheltered and largely oblivious, living in the Valley with her Korean-immigrant parents, working long hours at the family pharmacy. She’s distraught that her sister hasn’t spoken to their mother in two years, for reasons beyond Grace’s understanding. Shawn has already had enough of politics and protest after an act of violence shattered his family years ago. He just wants to be left alone to enjoy his quiet life in Palmdale. But when another shocking crime hits LA, both the Park and Matthews families are forced to face down their history while navigating the tumult of a city on the brink of more violence.


Spit and Passion

Spit and Passion

Author: Cristy Road

Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 2012-10-23

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1558618074

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A twelve-year-old Cubanita finds refuge in punk music in this illustrated tour de force.


The Gay Book of Lists

The Gay Book of Lists

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Publisher: Alyson Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9781555837402

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The third edition of Leigh Rutledge's hugely popular Gay Book of Lists (over 45,000 sold!) is loaded with pertinent new facts and figures to keep even the most resolute of trivia hounds happy as they sniff about in search of those obscure nuggets of information that illuminate gay culture's colourful past.


The Adventures of Cha Cha and Dave

The Adventures of Cha Cha and Dave

Author: Julie Hoover

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2013-08-14

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1434929760

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Cha Cha the spider and Dave the pigeon are the best of friends who love to travel together. In this exciting tale that inspires friendship and camaraderie in children of all ages, Cha Cha and Dave fly to the sunny state of Florida where they visit Walt Disney World, Cape Canaveral, and the Everglades. Join them on their adventure as they meet unexpected new friends, survive perilous dangers, and visit sights unlike any they¿ve seen before!


The Book of Tea

The Book of Tea

Author: Kakuzo Okakura

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 110

ISBN-13: 1425000533

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The Book of Tea is a brief but classic essay on tea drinking, its history, restorative powers, and rich connection to Japanese culture. Okakura felt that "Teaism" was at the very center of Japanese life and helped shape everything from art, aesthetics, and an appreciation for the ephemeral to architecture, design, gardens, and painting. In tea could be found one source of what Okakura felt was Japan's and, by extension, Asia's unique power to influence the world. Containing both a history of tea in Japan and lucid, wide-ranging comments on the schools of tea, Zen, Taoism, flower arranging, and the tea ceremony and its tea-masters, this book is deservedly a timeless classic and will be of interest to anyone interested in the Japanese arts and ways. Book jacket.


Exilee and Temps Morts

Exilee and Temps Morts

Author: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0520391594

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In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought “the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue.” Her first book, the highly original postmodern text Dictee, is now an internationally studied work of autobiography. This volume, spanning the period between 1976 and 1982, brings together Cha’s previously uncollected writings and text-based pieces with images. Exilee and Temps Morts are two related poem sequences that explore themes of language, memory, displacement, and alienation—issues that continue to resonate with artists today. Back in print with a new cover, this stunning selection of Cha’s works gives readers a fuller view of a major figure in late twentieth-century art. Copublished by Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive