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Public Entity” for the City’s decade-long technical, organizational, and financial assistance. The watershed <br />council’s mission is to enhance water quality along the Long Tom Watershed, of which Amazon Creek is a part. <br />For more information, contact Natural Resources Manager Eric Wold at 682-4842 or eric.n.wold@ci.eugene.or.us. <br /> <br />Luis Alberto Urrea: Best-Selling Author to Speak at Eugene Public Library <br />Acclaimed author Luis Alberto Urrea will give a free talk at the Downtown Eugene <br />Public Library on Friday, October 2, at 6:00 p.m. Signed books for purchase will be <br />available courtesy of the University of Oregon Duck Store/Bookstore. <br /> <br />Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, Urrea (pronounced "oo- <br />ray-ah") is a prolific writer whose work is informed by his bicultural life. Among many <br />honors, he has been named to the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. His memoir <br />“Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life” won an American Book Award. <br /> <br />“The Devil’s Highway,” his nonfiction account of a group of Mexican immigrants lost <br />in the Arizona desert, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a best-seller. Urrea’s historical <br />novel, “The Hummingbird's Daughter,” was also a best-seller, as well as a favorite of <br />critics and book groups nationwide. Urrea is an award-winning poet and essayist, <br />and a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. <br /> <br />His new novel, “Into the Beautiful North,” is “a lush, rollicking novel of quests, self-discovery, and romance” <br />featuring a “21st-century female Don Quixote” (BookList). Both serious and hilarious, it tells the story of 19-year- <br />old, Nayeli, and her determination to save her beloved Mexican village. Nearly all the local men have left to find <br />work in El Norte, and drug lords are threatening to take over. When Nayeli sees the old movie The Magnificent <br />Seven, inspiration strikes. She rounds up a posse of friends for a dangerous mission: to cross the U.S. border and <br />bring the men back. <br /> <br />The Seattle Times called the book “a wondrous yarn in the hands of a terrific storyteller.” According to The Miami <br />Herald, “ Urrea has turned a usually disturbing subject into a book that keeps a smile on your face is a tribute to his <br />storytelling." <br /> <br />For more information, contact the Eugene Public Library at 682-5450 or www.eugene-or.gov/library. <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 3 <br />September 24, 2009 <br />