Rodriguez: 730 books
It Calls You Back
An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Luis Rodriguez, author of the award-winning and bestselling classic memoir Always Running, chronicles his harrowing journey from a drugged-out gang member to one of the most revered figures in Chicano literature.
Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. Rodriguez through his fearless...
Kabul Beauty School
An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
Soon after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001, Deborah Rodriguez went to Afghanistan as part of a group offering humanitarian aid to this war-torn nation. Surrounded by men and women whose skills–as doctors, nurses, and therapists–seemed eminently more practical than her own, Rodriguez, a hairdresser...
by Mark Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2015
Have you ever fallen in love? What would happen if you fell in love with God and He loved you back? On May 30, 2014, seventeen-year-old Mark Rodriguez was gunned down in an apparent random act of violence while driving home from his school's graduation. The story made national headlines when it was discovered...
Diaries of Dissension
A Case Against the Irrational and Absurd
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Have you ever questioned the premise of your religious faith? Tommy Rodriguez certainly has. In fact, he is no stranger to questioning conventional wisdom. Having spent most of his adult life contemplating over such things, Rodriguez learned a thing or two about his religion that eventually sent him...
Darling
A Spiritual Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
An award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9/11
Hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing...
Esperanza School
A Grassroots Community School in Honduras
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
In Esperanza School: A Grassroots Community School in Honduras, Eloisa Rodriguez takes us into the daily lived experiences of members of a community school, Esperanza School, situated in a rural area in Honduras. Her work engages readers in a critical analysis of what Esperanza School represents for...
Hard Measures
How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
An explosive memoir about the creation and implementation of the controversial Enhanced Interrogation Techniques by the former Chief Operations Officer for the CIA's Counterterrorism Center.
While the American public is aware of the CIA’s use of highly controversial “enhanced interrogation...
From the Barrio to Washington
An Educator's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2007
What would be the odds of a poor Mexican boy who migrated with his family to southern California in the 1920s rising through the ranks of the American education system to become the first Hispanic principal of a junior and senior high school in San Diego, the second Hispanic to be a college president...
by Deborah Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
“[Deborah] Rodriguez paints a vivid picture of Afghan culture. . . . As if Maeve Binchy had written The Kite Runner.”—Kirkus Reviews
After hard luck and heartbreak, Sunny finally finds a place to call home—in the middle of an Afghanistan war zone. There, the thirty-eight-year-old serves...
Beyond Armageddon
A Journey to the End of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Is there hope for this planet and for the human race after Armageddon? Will there be anything left on the Earth after the destruction brought about by the great and terrible Day of the Lord?
By drawing on religious insight and using scriptures from the Old and New Testaments, author E. Daisy...
They Call Me Pudge
My Life Playing the Game I Love
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
With 14 All-Star appearances, 13 Gold Gloves, a Most Valuable Player Award, and, of course, a World Series ring, Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez has more than earned his spot in Cooperstown as one of the best Major League catchers of all time. In They Call Me Pudge, Rodriguez tells the story of his...
by Alicia Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
Manage Your Life Before Life Manages You represents the culmination of Alicia Rodriguez’s years of experience as a writer, entrepreneur, and executive coach working with individuals to manage the complexities of their lives. With equal parts wisdom, humor, and tough love, Rodriguez offers 365 days’...
The Tejano Diaspora
Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they...
The Great Ceviche Book, revised
A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
The Great Ceviche Book is the definitive, authentic guide to this fresh vibrant cuisine.
Ceviche—fresh seafood cured in citrus—boasts lively, bright flavors along with a low-fat, high-protein healthiness. In this revised edition of The Great Ceviche Book, award-winning chef Douglas Rodriguez...