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Everybody Reads 2025: Solito, by Javier Zamora, from Multcolib

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From January through March 2025, we'll be reading Solito and exploring themes of migration, El Salvador, coming-of-age, families and found families and culture. Read the book and then join us at an event or discussion, beginning January 2025. Literary Arts hosts Javier Zamora on March 11, 2025.

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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here

The United States, Central America, and the Making of A Crisis

by Blitzer, Jonathan

Book - 2024

Examines the political factors in Central American countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have led to the humanitarian crises at American's southern border as told through the stories of these migrants. Examines the political factors in Central American countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have led to the humanitarian crises at American's southern border as told through the stories of these migrants. Show less

Examines the political factors in Central American countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have led to the humanitarian crises at American's southern border as told through the stories of these migrants. Examines the political factors in Central American countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras that have led to the humanitarian crises at American's southern border as told through the stories of these migrants. Show less

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Central America's Forgotten History

Central America's Forgotten History

Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration

by Chomsky, Aviva

Book - 2021

Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath. Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath. Show less

Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath. Places Central American migration to the United States in the context of the region's history of conquest, colonialism, revolution, and neoliberalism, looking especially at the revolutionary experiments of the 1980s and their aftermath. Show less

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The SalviSoul Cookbook

The SalviSoul Cookbook

Salvadoran Recipes & the Women Who Preserve Them

by Vasquez, Karla Tatiana

Book - 2024

Enjoy the food and culture of El Salvador with delicious photos, recipes and stories. Enjoy the food and culture of El Salvador with delicious photos, recipes and stories. Show less

Enjoy the food and culture of El Salvador with delicious photos, recipes and stories. Enjoy the food and culture of El Salvador with delicious photos, recipes and stories. Show less

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Latinoland

Latinoland

A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

by Arana, Marie (Writer)

Book - 2024

Based on research and hundreds of interviews, this is a wide-ranging overview of the diverse Latino experience examines the fastest-growing minority in America. Based on research and hundreds of interviews, this is a wide-ranging overview of the diverse Latino experience examines the fastest-growing minority in America. Show less

Based on research and hundreds of interviews, this is a wide-ranging overview of the diverse Latino experience examines the fastest-growing minority in America. Based on research and hundreds of interviews, this is a wide-ranging overview of the diverse Latino experience examines the fastest-growing minority in America. Show less

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What Strange Paradise

What Strange Paradise

by El Akkad, Omar

Book - 2021

Omar El Akkad speaks on Tue. Jan. 28, as part of Everybody Reads. When a dilapidated ship carrying refugees sinks, the only survivor is a boy named Amir. ...Show more Omar El Akkad speaks on Tue. Jan. 28, as part of Everybody Reads. When a dilapidated ship carrying refugees sinks, the only survivor is a boy named Amir. Government officials, tourists and residents of the island where he lands are more concerned with the political and economic impacts than with the boy's well-being. That's when a teen named Vänna, decides that she will be Amir's protector. El Akkad draws from his experience as a journalist to craft a devastating and hopeful story of the people caught up in the global migrant crisis. Show less

Omar El Akkad speaks on Tue. Jan. 28, as part of Everybody Reads. When a dilapidated ship carrying refugees sinks, the only survivor is a boy named Amir. ...Show more Omar El Akkad speaks on Tue. Jan. 28, as part of Everybody Reads. When a dilapidated ship carrying refugees sinks, the only survivor is a boy named Amir. Government officials, tourists and residents of the island where he lands are more concerned with the political and economic impacts than with the boy's well-being. That's when a teen named Vänna, decides that she will be Amir's protector. El Akkad draws from his experience as a journalist to craft a devastating and hopeful story of the people caught up in the global migrant crisis. Show less

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Unforgetting

Unforgetting

A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

by Lovato, Roberto

Book - 2020

A journalistic memoir detailing firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life and guerilla warfare. Explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family. A journalistic memoir detailing firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life and guerilla warfare. Explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family. Show less

A journalistic memoir detailing firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life and guerilla warfare. Explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family. A journalistic memoir detailing firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life and guerilla warfare. Explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family. Show less

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Coffeeland

Coffeeland

One Man's Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug

by Sedgewick, Augustine

Book - 2020

This history of how coffee came to be produced by the world's poorest people and consumed by its richest asks us what it means to be connected to far-away people and places through the familiar things that make up our everyday lives. This history of how coffee came to be produced by the world's poorest people and consumed by its richest asks us what it means to be connected to far-away people and places through the familiar things that make up our everyday lives. Show less

This history of how coffee came to be produced by the world's poorest people and consumed by its richest asks us what it means to be connected to far-away people and places through the familiar things that make up our everyday lives. This history of how coffee came to be produced by the world's poorest people and consumed by its richest asks us what it means to be connected to far-away people and places through the familiar things that make up our everyday lives. Show less

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Tell Mother I'm in Paradise

Tell Mother I'm in Paradise

Memoirs of A Political Prisoner in El Salvador

by Gasteazoro, Ana Margarita

Book - 2022

The extraordinary life story of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro (1950–1993), a Salvadoran opposition activist and renowned Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. The extraordinary life story of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro (1950–1993), a Salvadoran opposition activist and renowned Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. Show less

The extraordinary life story of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro (1950–1993), a Salvadoran opposition activist and renowned Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. The extraordinary life story of Ana Margarita Gasteazoro (1950–1993), a Salvadoran opposition activist and renowned Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. Show less

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The Far Away Brothers

The Far Away Brothers

Two Young Migrants and the Making of An American Life

by Markham, Lauren

Book - 2017

Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America. Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America. Show less

Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America. Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America. Show less

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Enrique's Journey

Enrique's Journey

The True Story of A Boy Determined to Reunite With His Mother

by Nazario, Sonia

Book - 2013

Describes one Honduran boy's difficult and dangerous journey to find his mother, who had made the trek northward to the United States in search of a better life. Describes one Honduran boy's difficult and dangerous journey to find his mother, who had made the trek northward to the United States in search of a better life. Show less

Describes one Honduran boy's difficult and dangerous journey to find his mother, who had made the trek northward to the United States in search of a better life. Describes one Honduran boy's difficult and dangerous journey to find his mother, who had made the trek northward to the United States in search of a better life. Show less

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Illegal Cargo

Illegal Cargo

by Mora, Augusto

Graphic Novel - 2020

A Salvadoran father goes on the search for his adult daughter, who went missing on her journey to try to cross into the US via Mexico. Features the Central-American folklore figure of la Siguanaba. A Salvadoran father goes on the search for his adult daughter, who went missing on her journey to try to cross into the US via Mexico. Features the Central-American folklore figure of la Siguanaba. Show less

A Salvadoran father goes on the search for his adult daughter, who went missing on her journey to try to cross into the US via Mexico. Features the Central-American folklore figure of la Siguanaba. A Salvadoran father goes on the search for his adult daughter, who went missing on her journey to try to cross into the US via Mexico. Features the Central-American folklore figure of la Siguanaba. Show less

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My Side of the River

My Side of the River

A Memoir

by Gutierrez, Elizabeth Camarillo

Book - 2024

Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at age 15, her parents were forced b...Show more Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at age 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage victims affected by broken immigration laws. Show less

Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at age 15, her parents were forced b...Show more Exploring separation, generational trauma and the toll of the American dream, the author recounts what happened when, at age 15, her parents were forced back to Mexico, leaving her and her brother to fend for themselves as underage victims affected by broken immigration laws. Show less

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The Distance Between Us

The Distance Between Us

A Memoir

by Grande, Reyna

Book - 2012

"At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed." "At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed." Show less

"At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed." "At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed." Show less

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The Wind Knows My Name

The Wind Knows My Name

A Novel

by Allende, Isabel

Book - 2023

Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occup...Show more Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later from El Salvador to the U.S., where she's separated from her mother. Show less

Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occup...Show more Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938, and seven-year-old Anita, who boards another train eight decades later from El Salvador to the U.S., where she's separated from her mother. Show less

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Exit West

Exit West

A Novel

by Hamid, Mohsin

Book - 2017

This story, an Everybody Reads pick in 2018, uses magic realism to explore the idea that we are all 'migrants through time'. This story, an Everybody Reads pick in 2018, uses magic realism to explore the idea that we are all 'migrants through time'. Show less

This story, an Everybody Reads pick in 2018, uses magic realism to explore the idea that we are all 'migrants through time'. This story, an Everybody Reads pick in 2018, uses magic realism to explore the idea that we are all 'migrants through time'. Show less

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The Volcano Daughters

The Volcano Daughters

by Balibrera, Gina Maria

Book - 2024

The ghosts of four young Indigenous women who were victims of the real-life 1932 El Salvadoran ethnocide narrate the story of their childhood friends Grac...Show more The ghosts of four young Indigenous women who were victims of the real-life 1932 El Salvadoran ethnocide narrate the story of their childhood friends Graciela and Consuela, daughters of a tenant farmer who becomes a trusted adviser of a ruthless general (inspired by Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez). Show less

The ghosts of four young Indigenous women who were victims of the real-life 1932 El Salvadoran ethnocide narrate the story of their childhood friends Grac...Show more The ghosts of four young Indigenous women who were victims of the real-life 1932 El Salvadoran ethnocide narrate the story of their childhood friends Graciela and Consuela, daughters of a tenant farmer who becomes a trusted adviser of a ruthless general (inspired by Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez). Show less

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Solito, Solita

Solito, Solita

Crossing Borders With Youth Refugees From Central America

Book - 2019

Zamora's story is featured in this collection of stories from young migrants. Zamora's story is featured in this collection of stories from young migrants. Show less

Zamora's story is featured in this collection of stories from young migrants. Zamora's story is featured in this collection of stories from young migrants. Show less

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Solito

Solito

A Memoir

by Zamora, Javier

Book - 2022

A young poet reflects on his 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old, during which he was faced with perilous ...Show more A young poet reflects on his 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old, during which he was faced with perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions during two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who became an unexpected family. Show less

A young poet reflects on his 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old, during which he was faced with perilous ...Show more A young poet reflects on his 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old, during which he was faced with perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions during two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who became an unexpected family. Show less

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