Elena Diaz

Water from the Moon

What was it like to be a Mexican American youth growing up in a small copper mining town in Arizona? This collection of short stories written in the voices of those young people answers that question. It will not only captivate readers who are young adults but also those adults who are young at hear...

Suffer Smoke

Suffer Smoke, a bittersweet collection of short stories, is centered on the copper mining town of Morenci Arizona. A company town, Morenci was home to generations of Mexican Americans. In the late sixties, the corporation that owned everything in sight but its employees souls saw fit to raze the tow...

The Virgin, the King, and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780 (Cultural Sitings)

This book tells the extraordinary story of a village of peasants and miners in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Cuba who were slaves belonging to the king of Spain and whose local patroness was a miraculous image of the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre. In reconstructing this history, the book ...

You're My Reason

The daily struggle and frequent violent abuse had stolen Emma's youth already, she wouldn't let it ruin anymore. Her journey to freedom was an extremely violent path, and the legal system failed her time and time again. Meeting Luke changed her life, but the danger was extraordinary. Her high morali...

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