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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
by Hayden Herrera
An ambitious biography of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, a extraordinary artist who lived a short, remarkable life. |
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Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez
by Richard Rodriguez
The controversial memoir of a Mexican American who, in successful pursuit of higher education, unwittingly lost a critical connection with his past. |
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Going Back to Bisbee
by Richard Shelton
Winner of AHC’s Arizona Literary Treasure Award.
This heartfelt memoir from poet and teacher Shelton interweaves his personal experiences with the natural and social history of his beloved slice of the Southwest. |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
The first of five volumes of autobiographical narrative, this work recounts the author’s childhood in the 1930s with her grandmother in Arkansas. |
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Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border
by Ken Ellingwood
The southwestern border is one of the most fascinating places in America, but it has also become one of the deadliest as illegal immigration shifted into some of the harshest territory on the continent, reshaping life on both sides of the border. |
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: an Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Rigoberta Menchu
This story, by 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Rigoberta Menchu, recounts her extraordinary life and struggles as a young Guatemalan woman and the atrocities committed against the indigenous population by the country’s National Guard. |
