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A Spoiled Breakfast

A Spoiled Breakfast

An excerpt from Champagne Cowboys, the new thriller from Tucson author Leo W. Banks

By Leo W. Banks Mar 12, 2020

Beaten and Busted

Beaten and Busted

Rodriguez, also known as Dr. Cintli, is a professor at the University of Arizona’s Mexican American Studies department. He is an award-winning journalist, columnist and author. In 2014, he released Our Sacred Maiz Is Our Mother: Indigeneity and Belonging in the Americas, a book where he reports on the long history of corn and its relationship to Indigenous communities. That is where he first discovered the real meaning of Yolqui.

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Borderlands Boogeyman

Borderlands Boogeyman

While Christopher Rodarte’s students at Sam Hughes Elementary know him as Mr. Rodarte, on paper he is simply “Rodarte,” a man with a love of spookiness who grew up with the story of La Llorona. Rodarte’s new collection of ghostly folktales, La Llorona: Ghost Stories of the Southwest, published earlier this year.

By Ambur Wilkerson Oct 17, 2019

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  • Re: A Spoiled Breakfast

    • I loved the first book by Leo Banks. This one sounds even better. I’m already…

    • Posted by Robert Schwebel
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  • A Spoiled Breakfast

    An excerpt from Champagne Cowboys, the new thriller from Tucson author Leo W. Banks
    • by Leo W. Banks
    • Mar 12, 2020
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