Stories dealing with an unusual garden, an enormous library, authorship, language, memory, philosophy, and the art of writing are accompanied by background information, excerpts from an interview with the author, and discussion questions.

Describes the Day of the Dead, or el Di?a de los Muertos, a holiday celebrated in Mexico from October 31 to November 2.

Ancient Egypt comes to life in this unprecedented dramatic miniseries, based on extraordinary real-life stories.

Desperate to avoid an unwanted arranged marriage, American heiress Amelia Belford escapes out of a church window and seeks refuge in the carriage of Jack Kent, but dark secrets and a vicious scheme could destroy their romance.

This book is about the Chicano experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures--the damnation and salvation, and the celebration of it all."In some ways a book Erma Bombeck might have written, that is, if she were from El Paso, dressed in Tony Lama boots, and full fledged member of raza."--Gary Soto"A passionately lyrical "leccion para todos" about the history of the Western and Southwestern people. Burciaga is deeply rooted...

A look back at radio from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, focusing on an extended Jewish family, all avid radio listeners, and on a young woman who eventually succeeds as a radio gossip columnist.