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Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
1. edición Rayo.
Language
Español
Description
After exploring the Latin American immigrant experience in "The Other Face of America," Ramos now explores his own immigrant experience via the passion that brought him to the United States: journalism. In the end, Ramos is able to show his adirers that going home is not a place, but a state of mind built through one's own extraordinary life experiene. 16-page photo insert.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression. Esperanza Ortega has a wonderful life in Mexico until tragedy shatters her dream and forces her and her mother to flee to California and settle in a Mexican farm labor camp.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
After María Luisa O'Neill-Morales moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago, she violates her school's dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurns the school's most popular girl to start a band with like-minded friends.
La primera regla del punk es una conmovedora exploracion de la amistad, la busqueda de uno mismo, y el aprender a "rockear" como si nadie te esta mirando. No hay atajos para navegar el primer día de clases en una...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
Moving to a volatile Texas border town after his mother's death, a Mexican-American boy discovers a young illegal immigrant taking shelter in his godmother's home before their shared desire for independence puts them both at risk.
Una deslumbrante novela sobre una familia mexicano-americana en Brownsville, Texas, que, por un acto de compasión, acaba involucrada en el tráfico de inmigrantes mexicanos a los Estados Unidos. A distancia, muchas ciudades...
9) Soñadores
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
Español
Description
"En 1994, Yuyi Morales dejó su hogar en Xalapa, México, para emigrar a Estados Unidos con su hijo pequeño. Aunque dejó atrás casi todas sus pertenencias, no llegó con las manos vacías. Trajo consigo su fortaleza, su trabajo, su pasión, sus esperanzas y sueños... y sus historias. El nuevo y magnífico libro de Yuyi Morales, Soñadores, se centra en la búsqueda por encontrar un hogar en un nuevo lugar. El trayecto de Yuyi y su...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Cómo salir con un Mexicano volador : Relatos nuevos y escogidos by Daniel A. Olivas was originally published in English in 2022 as How to date a flying Mexican : new and collected stories by the University of Nevada Press. The English text has been reproduced in Spanish and the front matter has been modified to reflect the new translation"--
Author
Series
Language
Español
Description
Recounts the stories of dozens of immigrants who decided to change their lives and risk everything in order to pursue a better, freer, opportunity-filled future as citizens of the United States, and discusses how immigrants have helped the United States become the most prosperous and visionary country in the world.
12) Bless me, Ultima
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In New Mexico in the time of WWII, a young man goes to an aged medicine woman and forms a relationship which helps him challenge the fight amid the good and the evil that storms through his village.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
Decades ago, after penning the nonfiction epic Rain of Gold, the writer embarked on a life-changing journey. In the process of ensuring that his family's saga would be published as the authentic, true account it was, Villaseñor forged a sacred bond with his father and his indigenous ancestors, who were guiding him from the Other Side. The book eventually became a national bestseller and an enduring favorite of millions of readers. Yet the story...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
"Jenni se convirtió en la más aclamada cantante en español en Estados Unidos y vendió más de 15 millones de discos por todo el mundo. Era una madre soltera con cinco hijos y abuela de dos nietas, además de ser también actriz, productora de televisión, estrella de su propio programa de telerrealidad y empresaria. En Inquebrantable, Jenni, con la honestidad que la caracterizaba, relata los momentos cruciales en su pasado y revela sus...
15) Tumbos
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Before she decides whether to accept her stepfather's proposal of adoption, twelve-year-old Adela Ramírez reaches out to her estranged biological father--who is in the midst of a career comeback as a luchador--and the eccentric extended family of wrestlers she has never met, bringing Adela closer to understanding the expansive definition of family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Trade paperback ; Primera edición en español.
Language
Español
Description
La leyenda literaria Ana Castillo explora los secretos ocultos de los hogares y las mujeres a quienes más impactan en esta colección que cimienta su lugar como una voz destacada de la ficción feminista.
"Living literary legend Ana Castillo's groundbreaking collection explores the secrets that are kept within households, the behaviors borne of patriarchal privilege, and the women they impact the most"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Español
Description
Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
Venido de México a California hace diez años, Francisco todavía trabaja en los campos, pero a la edad de catorce ya está luchando para mejorar su vida y para terminar su educación.
19) Lluvia de oro
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Lluvia de oro es una saga de amor, familia, y destino que recorre con intensa vitalidad las montañas de un México devastado por la revolución de Pancho Villa durante los años de la Prohibición en California.
20) Sweet memories
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
While enjoying an icy fruit popsicle called a paleta, Abuelo tells his grandchild the story of the first paleta. Includes historical note.
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