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Don´t Count Me Out

by Rafael Alvarez

Washington Independent Review of Books covers “Don’t Count Me Out.”

“From the first time I met Rafael on The Wire, we’ve always had in depth conversations. Whether about our families or work, it always left me smiling. Like his anthology Hometown Boy, where Alvarez recounts stories of those who call Baltimore home, Don’t Count Me Out, is filled with affliction and triumph. The Bruce White Story takes you along the road to redemption.”

Domenick LombardozziThe Wire, The Irishman

“For those struggling with addiction – and for their loved ones – the story of Bruce White should bring terror, because it shows just how far a person can fall, and hope, because he came back. Rafael Alvarez gives us a relentlessly honest look at the disease that is ravaging so many American communities.”

Scott ShaneFormer New York Times Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and author of Dismantling Utopia and Objective Troy

“No writer knows this territory better than Rafael Alvarez, and he tells Bruce White’s harrowing story with a fresh, urgent candor; a deep exploration of a wayward soul who somehow found his way to redemption.”

Dan FespermanAuthor of Winter Work and The Cover Wife

Orlo and Leini

By Rafael Alvarez

“I brought Orlo and Leini on vacation but found I needed to be in Baltimore. Their stories are like a spell to me, exotic yet familiar … Efharisto!”

— The young woman who works the desk at Athena Motors, Ponca and Hudson street in the Holy Land

$22.00

SHORT STORIES OF THE LIFE OF BASILIO BEARING ARTISTIC WITNESS TO LIFE IN THE HOLY LAND OF BALTIMORE

Basilio Boullosa Stars in the Fountain of Highlandtown

By Rafael Alvarez

$30.00

Hometown Boy

By Rafael Alvarez

$12.00

Baltimore Love Project

By Rafael Alvarez

Rafael Alvarez composed a narrative to put the Baltimore Love Project into context. Hear stories from a spectrum of perspectives, see the project in a new light through Sean Scheidts photos and spread Love using your own stencil insert from the book. Let the conversations about love continue. A poster will be include with every book purchase.

$25.00

Tales from the Holy Land

by Rafael Alvarez

$20.00

Storyteller

By Rafael Alvarez

$15.00

ESSAYS AND MEMOIR ABOUT LIFE IN THE JEWEL OF THE PATAPSCO RIVER

Crabtown, USA

By Rafael Alvarez

$20.00