Welcome to One Book Yuma!

What is One Book Yuma?

A literacy and humanities program to engage our community in dialog about pertinent, topical and timely issues important to our region and the world beyond.

Join us for discussions with
the author of the 2012 pick:

Women Who Live in Coffee Shops

and Other Stories

by Stella Pope Duarte

 Women Who Live in Coffee Shops brings to life a kaleidoscope of characters who live hide, work, dream, get lost, risk their lives, laugh at themselves, and punch holes in the sky to find out who they really are.

 The stories are set in Phoenix, Arizona, on city streets flanked by tire shops, bars, seedy motels, railroad tracks, and salsa dance halls.  Here, women, men and children share their lives while balancing on the edge of the world.

 Mincing their way through the city’s lethal streets, the characters of Women Who Live in Coffee Shops, are invisible phantoms, flashy divas, addicts, mafiosos, mystics, hookers, bag ladies, criminals, transvestites, witches, priests-gone-wrong, illegals, and children who know too much---too soon.

 They are heart-broken, heart-breakers who are unafraid to laugh at life’s tragic mishaps, smirk at the face of death, and open their lives to the humorous, ironic, dizzying life of the city’s down-and-outers.

 They make up a never-to-be-forgotten world of big-hearted people who point the way to the under-belly of city-life where the sleaze of the city rises to the top like the froth on a cup of cappuccino.

EVENTS SCHEDULE (All events free to the public)

2012 Discussion Dates:

Wednesday, April 11^th

AWC-NAU Main Campus
2020 E 8^th Avenue Yuma, AZ

Frances Morris Board Room

09:30-10:45 a.m. (Presentation)

10:45-11:15 a.m. (Book Signing)

San Luis Learning Center
1340 N 8th Avenue San Luis, AZ

6:30-7:45 p.m. (Presentation)

7:45-8:15 p.m. (Book Signing)

Thursday, April 12^th

Yuma Main Library
2951 S 21^st Drive, Yuma AZ

10:00-11:30 a.m. (Presentation)

11:30-12:00 p.m. (Book Signing)

AWC-NAU Main Campus
2020 E 8^th Avenue Yuma, AZ

Schoening Conference Center

5:00-6:15 p.m. (Presentation)

6:15-6:45 p.m. (Book Signing)

Previous Years Titles

• 2010 - Working in the Shadows
• 2009 - Nickel and Dimed
• 2008 - Enrique's Journey
• 2007 - They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky
• 2006 - The Devil's Highway
• 2003 - Bless Me, Ultima

For more information, call Adrianne Wagner at
(928)539-6805 or email awagner@yumasun.com 

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