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Books by Sarah Cortez
  | | Cold Blue Steel(1st Edition) (Paperback) by Ms. Sarah Cortez 82 Pages, Published 2013 by Texas Review Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-02-2, ISBN: 1-937875-02-4 "Fifty lyric poems set in the world of the urban street cop in Houston, Texas, the nation's fourth largest metropolis --" |
 | | Walking Home(1st Edition) Growing Up Hispanic in Houston by Ms. Sarah Cortez Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2012 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933896-83-0, ISBN: 1-933896-83-3 "This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil of Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers’ nets of the Gulf Coast, near Matagorda. Three generations of Hispanic families are viewed through the faith-filled lens of the miraculous and the poignancy of dreams never realized. The journey continues to mid-twentieth century Houston, where what is done is as powerful as that which never happened." |
 | | Vanishing Points Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials (Paperback) by Ms. Sarah Cortez Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2016 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-101-0, ISBN: 1-68003-101-5 "Along Texas roadways rest thousands of contemplative shrines, usually marked by small, white metal crosses. Anchored by the stunning photography of roadside memorials by Dan Streck, this landmark book allows four poets to respond to the visual summons of roadside memorials with lyric intensity and eloquent ekphrasis: Larry D. Thomas, Jack B. Bedell, Sarah Cortez, and Loueva Smith. Graphic designer Nancy J. Parsons brings her award-winni ..." |
 | | Tired, Hungry, and Standing in One Place for Twelve Hours Essential Cop Essays: Essential Cop Essays by Ms. Sarah Cortez Paperback, 220 Pages, Published 2017 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-143-0, ISBN: 1-68003-143-0 "Over twenty years ago, Sarah Cortez left a flourishing corporate career to strap on a gun, and police the streets. Transitioning from designer heels and a high-rise office to a low-bid, agency-owned Crown Vic wasn't easy, but it delivered exactly what she desired. In these highly-charged personal reflections, Cortez reveals the complicated machinery of a cop's heart, mind, and soul by dissecting the differences between cops and civilian ..." |
 | | Against Sky's Warm Belly(1st Edition) New and Selected Poems by Ms. Sarah Cortez Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2016 by Texas Review Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-109-6, ISBN: 1-68003-109-0 "The poems of Sarah Cortez flex lean muscles to build lyric intensity and a gripping edginess often backlit by an incandescent, controlled eroticism. Cortez reveals the hidden underworld of her fellow police officers, whose lives comprise the thin blue line and whose blood sometimes splashes and blackens on summer concrete. Aquarium And what of the water? A transparency we swim through, lithe white muscle, the glide of fins. We move an ..." |
 | | You Don't Have a Clue Latino Mystery Stories for Teens by Sarah Cortez Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Pinata Books ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-692-9, ISBN: 1-55885-692-7 "When two gun-toting hoodlums tell the fourteen-year-old narrator of Rene Saldana's story, "The Right Size," to kiss the floor, he doesn't think twice. And his dad and younger brother drop to the floor just as quickly. "This guy Jimmy probably thinks Dad is the greatest threat among the three of us, but he's dead wrong. Dad couldn't hurt a bug," the boy thinks. In the ensuing twenty minutes, he learns that his dad isn't as weak as he tho ..." |
 | | Indian Country Noir(Illustrated) (Akashic Noir) by Sarah Cortez, Liz Martínez, Liz MartãNez Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 2010 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-936070-05-3, ISBN: 1-936070-05-7 "Step into Indian Country. Enter the dark welter of troubled history throughout the Americas, where the heritage of violence meets the ferocity of intent.Features brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O'Neil De Noux, A.A. Hedge Coke, Gerard Houarner, Liz Martínez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, and Melissa Yi.Sarah Cortez, a law enforcement ..." |
 | | Hit List(1st Edition) The Best of Latino Mystery by Sarah Cortez, Liz Martinez Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2009 by Arte Publico Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-543-4, ISBN: 1-55885-543-2 "In Lucha Corpi's story, ''Hollow Point at the Synapses,'' her unique narrator a bullet describes the instant before killing a young Peruvian woman: ''I feel the pull of the hammer. The pressure mounts. I am now in place. The moment is upon me. Swiftly and efficiently, I will do what I must, what I was created for. In an instant, I am off, traveling at a speed reserved only for death.'' This groundbreaking anthology of short fiction by ..." |
 | | Windows into My World Latino Youth Write Their Lives by Sarah Cortez, Virgil Suarez, Conrado Espinoza, John Pluecker, Ethriam Cash Brammer Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Piñata Books ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-482-6, ISBN: 1-55885-482-7 ""They never thought I would leave. I remember tia Olivia calling the house to let me know that I was betraying my family by leaving to study. But unlike both of my parents, I wasn't leaving the country to let years pass before seeing my family again; and unlike my mother, I wasn't leaving to get married." In this short but powerful memoir, Marisol explains that she knew her departure for Yale would create conflict with her f ..." |
 | | Our Lost Border Essays on Life amid the Narco-Violence by Sergio Troncoso, Sarah Cortez, Rolando Hinojosa Paperback, 280 Pages, Published 2013 by Arte Publico Pr ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-752-0, ISBN: 1-55885-752-4 " Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library AssociationInternational Latino Book Award for Best Latino-focused Nonfiction Book (Bilingual)Finalist for ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Awards for Adult Nonfiction AnthologiesIn his essay lamenting the loss of the Tijuana of his youth, Richard Mora remembers festive nights on Avenida Revolucion, where tourists mingled with locals at bars. Now, the tourists are ..." |
 | | Lone Star Noir(1st Edition) (Akashic Noir) by Luis Alberto Urrea, Joe R. Lansdale, Milton T. Burton, Sarah Cortez, Jessica Crumley Powers, James Crumley, Bobby Byrd, Johnny Byrd, John William Byrd Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2010 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-936070-64-0, ISBN: 1-936070-64-2 ""Sure to be of regional interest and to appeal to fans of noir or 'dark' fiction, this spicy black brew of sinister thrills is not for the squeamish or the easily offended."--Library Journal"Unsettling and shivery."--Kirkus Reviews"Crime, like politics, is local. The folks at Akashic Books understand this . . . "Lone Star Noir" is a solid collection. Heck, it better be -- the state's red clay looks like dried blood. Noir grows out of th ..." |
 | | Trinidad Noir (Akashic Noir) by Lisa Allen-Agostini, Jeanne Mason, Liz Martinez, Sarah Cortez Paperback, 340 Pages, Published 2008 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-933354-55-2, ISBN: 1-933354-55-0 "DOUGLA. BY REENA ANDREA MANICKCHAND Caroni Swamp ... me—another dougla gone bad. Damn it, I even saw it in Vish's eyes. I couldn't join the army. After all, it was for the Afro boys. And I didn't want to work in the garage with my older brother. I just couldn't stand them Indo boys riding along with their souped- up vehicles and gloating 'bout their drag races. I know she didn't want me to do anything illegal, but what's a dougla li ..." |
 | | The Carlucci Betrayal by Sarah Cortez Softcover, Published by White Bird Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-63363-531-9, ISBN: 1-63363-531-7 |
 | | Cold Blue Steel by Sarah Cortez 80 Pages, Published 2013 by Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-937875-15-2, ISBN: 1-937875-15-6 "Cold Blue Steel contains fifty lyric poems set in the world of the urban street cop in Houston, the nation’s fourth largest metropolis." |
 | | The Sharp Edges of Water by Angelique Jamail, Sarah Cortez Paperback, 106 Pages, Published 2018 by Odeon Press ISBN-13: 978-1-73286-292-0, ISBN: 1-73286-292-3 "This is a book of stories as much as a collection of poems. In it, the characters swerve between the rain-drenched, tree-lined, concrete plains of Houston and the voluptuous, dynamic terrain of Los Angeles. They face multiple realities, and though they’re earnestly grounded, they sometimes swim in the waters of magic realism. Their story is both relatable and a little bit surreal. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE SHARP EDGES OF WATER: “For Jamail ..." |
 | | Tired, Hungry, and Standing in One Place for Twelve Hours Essential Cop Essays by Sarah Cortez 114 Pages, Published 2020 by Texas A&M University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-144-7, ISBN: 1-68003-144-9 "... supervisors: Assistant Chief Kenneth Key, Lt. Darrell Butler, Sgt. Jeff Lee, Deputies Gary Chambers, Donna Douglass, ... Story, Image, Poem & Song, edited by Donna Walker-Nixon, Cassy Burleson, Rachel Crawford, Ashley Palmer (2015)." |
 | | Houston Noir (Akashic Noir) by Gwendolyn Zepeda, Tom Abrahams, Robert Boswell, Sarah Cortez, Anton Disclafani, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Wanjikũ Wa Ngũgĩ, Adrienne Perry, Pia Pico, Reyes Ramirez, Icess Fernandez Rojas, Sehba Sarwar, Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Larry Watts Hardcover, 222 Pages, Published 2019 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-61775-804-1, ISBN: 1-61775-804-3 ""Brooklyn Noir came first in 2004, and now, 15 years later, Houston Noir--14 stories of intrigue, betrayal and death set from Tanglewood to Third Ward penned by current or former Houston authors--goes on sale."--Houston Chronicle"Akashic Books's long-running Noir Series tasks writers with imagining the dark sides of their communities, spinning gritty, shocking tales atop the local landscape. Recently the publisher tapped writer and form ..." |
 | | Indian Country Noir by Sarah Cortez, Liz Martínez 300 Pages, Published 2010 by Akashic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-936070-82-4, ISBN: 1-936070-82-0 "Sarah Cortez, Liz Martínez. “She doesn't know me, doesn't even like me. You've got a long wait coming.” “No.” The thing became its stubborn resolve, standing by the rusting iron gate to a shadowy set of stairs, arms by its sides, blond hair and ... The brooding muscle man became a mountain of broken stone, an avalanche of pebbles that might have been the calcified souls of the dead, on which floated a thatch of pale wood that, if a ..." |
 | | Windows into My World(Reprint) Latino Youth Write Their Lives by Sarah Cortez, Virgil Suarez Library, 210 Pages, Published 2009 by Paw Prints ISBN-13: 978-1-4352-8511-8, ISBN: 1-4352-8511-5 |
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