Dreamland

The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Sam Quinones

As an adult book, Sam Quinones's Dreamland took the world by storm, winning the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction and hitting at least a dozen Best Book of the Year lists. Now, adapted for the first time for a young adult audience, this compelling reporting explains the roots of the current opiate crisis. In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. Quinones explains how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin, a miraculous and extremely addictive painkiller pushed by pharmaceutical companies, paralleled the massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel. Introducing a memorable cast of characters--pharmaceutical pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, teens, and parents-- Dreamland is a revelatory account of the massive threat facing America and its heartland.

The Least of Us

True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

Sam Quinones

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The Perfect Tuba

Forging Fulfillment from the Bass Horn, Band, and Hard Work

Sam Quinones

From National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Sam Quinones, the story of a demanding instrument, the determined people who play it, and the hope they offer a fractured nation. The tuba's sound is mighty, emerging, it seems, from deep in the human body. Very little music has, up until recently, been written to play to its strengths. The best the tuba seems to promise is a seat at the back of the band. No stadium shows, no Internet adulation. And yet, this horn-the youngest of all brass instruments-has captured the hearts of an inspired group of musicians ever since its invention in 1835. In The Perfect Tuba, Sam Quinones embarks on a trek to get to know American tubists. He tells the astounding stories of two men who set out to replicate the “perfect tuba,” an instrument made by York & Sons in the 1930s and never since equaled; of Big Bill Bell, whose 1950s album rearranged the tuba landscape; and of Arnold Jacobs, a tuba guru at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, who studied the physiology of breathing and offered rune-like nuggets of wisdom to his legions of students. Quinones also takes us through the tuba scenes of New Orleans, Orlando, Knoxville, New York City, and, most importantly, Roma, Texas, a dusty town in the Rio Grande Valley where a visionary high school marching band director fashioned a program that now regularly wins state championships and sends its students off to college. After nearly a decade on the front lines of America's battle with drug addiction, Sam Quinones delivers another story of our nation, this time brought together by the transformative power of shared joy and humble achievement.

True Tales from Another Mexico

The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx

Sam Quinones

Keen observation and astute interviews lead journalist Sam Quinones on the quest to find the authentic modern Mexico--both in Mexico and East L.A., and other parts of the U.S.

Tierra de sueños

La verdadera historia de la epidemia de opiáceos en Estados Unidos

Sam Quinones, Noelia González Barrancos

Desde un pequeño pueblo en México hasta las salas de juntas de Big Pharma y las principales calles de todo el país, este es un relato impactante de adicción en el corazón de Estados Unidos, de una epidemia como ninguna otra que haya enfrentado el país, que ha devastado cientos de pequeños pueblos y suburbios. Con la habilidad de un reportero y la capacidad narrativa de un novelista, el aclamado periodista Sam Quinones teje dos historias sobre un capitalismo enloquecido cuya involuntaria colisión ha sido catastrófica. Por una parte, la prescripción ilimitada de medicamentos para el dolor durante la década de 1990, que alcanzó su clímax en la campaña para comercializar OxyContin, un analgésico milagroso, caro y extremadamente adictivo. Por otra, la afluencia masiva de una barata y potente heroína, que arrasó en pequeños pueblos y ciudades medianas, impulsada por un brillante sistema de comercialización y distribución. Ambos fenómenos continúan arrasando comunidades de costa a costa. Quinones presenta un elenco memorable de personajes, desde pioneros farmacéuticos a jóvenes empresarios mexicanos, investigadores, supervivientes y padres; ofreciendo un revelador retrato de esta corrosiva amenaza.

Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream

True Tales of Mexican Migration

Sam Quinones

"A collection of non-fiction ... stories that help illuminate all that Mexicans seek when they come north, how they change their new country, and are changed by it."--Publisher description.

Our Lady of the Angels

The Virgin of Guadalupe on the Walls of Los Angeles

Sam Quinoes

Thirty years of photographs of murals of the Virgin of Guadalupe on the walls of Los Angeles, a potent symbol of the city’s unique cultural heritage. On storefronts, alleyways, and street corners across the city, murals of the Virgin of Guadalupe grace the walls of Los Angeles in a tapestry of faith, identity, and culture. Our Lady of the Angels: The Virgin of Guadalupe on the Walls of Los Angeles captures the sacred and everyday presence of Guadalupe murals across the city, offering a poignant lens into the cultural heartbeat of LA neighborhoods. Each image is a testament to community, artistry, and devotion—a visual pilgrimage through urban altars where spirituality meets street art. Whether you're drawn to religious iconography, Latino culture, or the layered stories of LA itself, this collection invites you to see the city anew—through lens of its most beloved saint.

Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angeles

Sam Quinones

A collection of true stories from authors in journalist Sam Quinones' Tell Your True Tale writing workshop at East L.A. Library

Tell Your True Tale

Sunkist/La Puente

Jian Huang, Peggy Adams, Monique Quintero

the sixth volume of nonfiction stories from Tell Your True Tale, the writing workshop by journalist Sam Quinones.

Tell Your True Tale

East Los Angeles

Sam Quinones, Jose Nunez, Fabiola Manriquez, Susanna Whitmore, Louie Flores, Brian Rivera, Araceli Lerma, C. J. Salgado

Stories from new writers in East Los Angeles, through the Tell Your True Tale workshop given by journalist and author Sam Quinones

The Virgin of the American Dream

Sam Quinones

Photos of the Virgin of Guadalupe as protector of small immigrant-owned businesses from the predations of gangs and their grafitti.

Tell Your True Tale

Sam Quinones

The best stories from four years of the Tell Your True Tale workshops by journalist Sam Quinones.

Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angles

Sam Quinones, Sarah Alvarado, Alex Chi, Anika Malone, Olivia Segura, Susanna Whitmore, Brian Rivera, Yanndery Flow, Fabiola Manriquez, C. J. Salgado

The fourth volume of stories by writers in journalist Sam Quinones' workshop Tell Your True Tale

The Virgin of the American Dream

Guadalupe on the Walls of Los Angeles

Sam Quinones

Photos of the Virgin of Guadalupe as protector of small immigrant-owned businesses from the predations of gangs and their grafitti.

梦瘾

美国阿片类药物泛滥的真相

Sam Quinones

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Dreamland

Sam Quinones

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Tell Your True Tale: East Los Angeles

Sam Quinones, Jian Huang, Cj Salgado

Nonfiction stories from writers in Tell Your True Tale: East L.A., the writing workshop given by Sam Quinones at East LA Public LIbrary.

Historias verdaderas del otro México

crónicas insólitas sobre narcosantos y el cantante fronterizo Chalino Sánchez, mojados y paleteros de Michoacán, sectas, basquetbolistas oaxaqueños y linchamientos, muertas en Juárez

Sam Quinones

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