\u201cRebel historian\u201d Kelly Lytle Hern\u00e1ndez reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.<\/em><\/p>\n Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Mag\u00f3n, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers\u2014and American dissidents\u2014to their cause. Determined to oust Mexico\u2019s dictator, Porfirio D\u00edaz, who encouraged the plunder of his country by U.S. imperialists such as Guggenheim and Rockefeller, the rebels had to outrun and outsmart the swarm of U. S. authorities vested in protecting the Diaz regime. The U.S. Departments of War, State, Treasury, and Justice as well as police, sheriffs, and spies, hunted the magonistas across the country. Capturing Ricardo Flores Mag\u00f3n was one of the FBI\u2019s first cases.<\/em><\/p>\n But the magonistas persevered. They lived in hiding, wrote in secret code, and launched armed raids into Mexico until they ignited the world\u2019s first social revolution of the twentieth century.<\/em><\/p>\n Taking readers to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hern\u00e1ndez puts the magonista revolt at the heart of U.S. history. Long ignored by textbooks, the magonistas threatened to undo the rise of Anglo-American power, on both sides of the border, and inspired a revolution that gave birth to the Mexican-American population, making the magonistas\u2019 story integral to modern American life.<\/em><\/p>\n ________________________________<\/p>\n True Crime pick<\/strong><\/p>\n A riveting, decades-in-the-writing memoir from the determined young prosecutor who, in two of America\u2019s most celebrated trials, managed to convict famed mob boss John Gotti\u2014and subsequently took down the Mafia altogether.<\/em><\/p>\n John Gotti was without a doubt the flashiest and most feared Mafioso in American history. He became the boss of the Gambino Crime Family in spectacular fashion\u2014with the brazen and very public murder of Paul Castellano in front of Sparks Steakhouse in midtown Manhattan in 1985. Not one to stay below law enforcement\u2019s radar, Gotti instead became the first celebrity crime boss. His penchant for eye-catching apparel earned him the nickname \u201cThe Dapper Don;\u201d his ability to beat criminal charges led to another: \u201cThe Teflon Don.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n This is the captivating story of Gotti\u2019s meteoric rise to power and his equally dramatic downfall. Every step of the way, Gotti\u2019s legal adversary\u2014John Gleeson, an Assistant US Attorney in Brooklyn\u2014was watching. When Gotti finally faced two federal racketeering prosecutions, Gleeson prosecuted both. As the junior lawyer in the first case\u2014a bitter seven-month battle that ended in Gotti\u2019s acquittal\u2014Gleeson found himself in Gotti\u2019s crosshairs, falsely accused of serious crimes by a defense witness Gotti intimidated into committing perjury.<\/em><\/p>\n Five years later, Gleeson was in charge of the second racketeering investigation and trial. Armed with the FBI\u2019s secret recordings of Gotti\u2019s conversations with his underboss and consigliere in the apartment above Gotti\u2019s Little Italy hangout, Gleeson indicted all three. He \u201cflipped\u201d underboss Sammy the Bull Gravano, killer of nineteen men, who became history\u2019s highest-ranking mob turncoat\u2014resulting in Gotti\u2019s murder conviction. Gleeson ended not just Gotti\u2019s reign, but eventually that of the entire mob.<\/em><\/p>\n An epic, page-turning courtroom drama, The Gotti Wars is a brilliantly told crime story that illuminates a time in our nation\u2019s history when lawyers and mobsters dominated the news, but it\u2019s also the story of a tenacious young man, in the glare of the media spotlight, who mastered the art of becoming a great attorney.<\/em><\/p>\n ________________________________<\/p>\n Biography pick<\/strong><\/p>\n The star of Marvel\u2019s first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural stereotypes and his own identity, becoming a TV star, and landing the role of a lifetime.<\/em><\/p>\n In this honest, inspiring and relatable memoir, newly-minted superhero Simu Liu chronicles his family’s journey from China to the bright lights of Hollywood with razor-sharp wit and humor.<\/em><\/p>\n Simu’s parents left him in the care of his grandparents, then brought him to Canada when he was four. Life as a Canuck, however, is not all that it was cracked up to be; Simu’s new guardians lack the gentle touch of his grandparents, resulting in harsh words and hurt feelings. His parents, on the other hand, find their new son emotionally distant and difficult to relate to – although they are related by blood, they are separated by culture, language, and values.<\/em><\/p>\n As Simu grows up, he plays the part of the pious child flawlessly – he gets straight A’s, crushes national math competitions and makes his parents proud. But as time passes, he grows increasingly disillusioned with the path that has been laid out for him. Less than a year out of college, at the tender age of 22, his life hits rock bottom when he is laid off from his first job as an accountant. Left to his own devices, and with nothing left to lose, Simu embarks on a journey that will take him far outside of his comfort zone into the world of show business.<\/em><\/p>\n Through a swath of rejection and comical mishaps, Simu’s determination to carve out a path for himself leads him to not only succeed as an actor, but also to open the door to reconciling with his parents.<\/em><\/p>\n We Were Dreamers is more than a celebrity memoir – it’s a story about growing up between cultures, finding your family, and becoming the master of your own extraordinary circumstance.<\/em><\/p>\n ________________________________<\/p>\n Cookbook Pick<\/strong><\/p>\n With bolder-than-ever flavors and spectacularly scientific techniques, cookies have truly never been more fabulous.<\/em><\/p>\n Chris Taylor and Paul Arguin bring fresh perspective and heaps of creativity to everything they bake. 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<\/a>Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Kelly Lytle Hern\u00e1ndez<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/the-gotti-wars.jpg?resize=264%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America’s Most Notorious Mobster<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by John Gleeson<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/we-were-dreamers.jpg?resize=264%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Simu Liu<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/fabulous-modern-cookies.jpg?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Fabulous Modern Cookies <\/a><\/strong><\/em>by Paul Arguin and Chris Taylor<\/p>\n