Category: non-fiction
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Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
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By Rosita Arvigo with Nadine Epstein and Marilyn Yaquinto Place: Publisher & Year: San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994 Genres: Non-fiction, ethnobotany, anthropology, autobiography, biography, traditional medicine ISBN: 9780062502551 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 190 Setting: San Ignacio, Belize Time period: 1980’s (1981- 1993, most of the book’s story is 1981-1987) Plot summary: When Rosita moves…
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Cancer Vixen: A True Story
By Marisa Acocella Marchetto Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 Genres: Non-fiction, autobiography Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 9780676978247 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 212 Setting: NYC- lower Manhattan Time period: 2001- 2005 Plot summary: “What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get married big-city girl cartoonist with…
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Che : a graphic biography
By Spain Rodriguez ; edited by Paul Buhle Place: Publisher,Year: New York : Verso, 2008 Genres: Non-fiction, biography, history Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 1844671682 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 106 Setting: Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Congo, and Bolivia Time period: 1928 – 1967 and beyond Plot summary: The story of Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s life…
Ra's Spiral Path 