"Antonio Marez is six years old when Ultima comes to stay with his family in New Mexico. Ultima is a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic. Under her wise wing, Tony will probe the family ties that bind and rend him as he discovers himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past-a mythic legacy as palpable as the Catholicism of Latin America. And at each life turn, there is Ultima, who delivered Tony into the world . . . and will nurture...

"Meet Freddie Freak Trujillo -- A Man of the 1970s Chicano Movement Days in Boulder, Colorado. He is a self-made man who pulled himself out of a pit of addiction to alcohol and prescribed barbiturates to participate in many of the historic moments of the times. His book, told in his own colloquial voice, describes his family, the choices he made, the learning he pursued in media and the way he was able to collect print, audio, and video materials...