Local Bestsellers

Local bestsellers are based on sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect a variety of reading interests. This week’s list comes from Resistencia, 1801-A S. First, 416-8885.

1) Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa (Aunt Lute Books, second edition, $13.95, paper)

2) Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History by Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten (UT Press, $22.95, paper)

3) It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: A Barrio Story/No Tiene Que Ser Así: Una Historia del Barrio by Luis J. Rodríguez (Children’s Book Press, $7.95, paper)

4) Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation by Francisco X. Alarcón (Chronicle Books, $10.95, paper)

5) All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke (South End Press, $16, paper)

6) East of the Freeway: Reflections de mi Pueblo by raúlrsalinas (Red Salmon Press, $6.95)

7) Para que las Paredes no se Aburran by Maneja Beto (Lengua Marron, $12, CD)

8) The Gangster of Love by Jessica Hagedorn (Penguin, $14, paper)

9) Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance by Leonard Peltier edited by Harvey Arden (St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.95, paper)

10) Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press, $22, paper)

This article appears in August 13 • 2004.

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