Shasta College Spanish instructor Ann Sittig gathered oral histories of Mayan women living in Nebraska and working in meatpacking plants. She published these stories in a book, The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains.
In her book, The Distance Between Us, author Reyna Grande describes the effect on her as a child left behind in Mexico when her parents migrated to The United States.
Chico author Nick Hanson tells a scary Halloween story in his novel, An Empty Swing.
And with the Butte County Library's 10th annual Trivia Bee a week away, event MC (and local writer) Eric Miller tells how you can have fun and support adult literacy.