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The Life and Times of Mexico by Earl Shorris
Reading this entertaining book is akin to spending time with a close friend and master raconteur. Despite the daunting length, the book can be effectively savored in snippets or single chapters. Shorris ...
(June 2006)
Locas by Yxta Maya Murray
Readers are invited into the raw world of gang life in L.A. from the perspectives of two young women, Cecilia and Lucia. They'll give you a tour of Echo Park, the only ...
(April 2005)
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street is a collection of vignettes that involve an eleven-year-old girl, Esperanza, growing up in Chicago's Latino section. Readers are introduced to a young girl who is investigating ...
(October 2004)
Frida's Fiestas by Guadalupe Rivera Marin and Marie-Pierre Colle
Frida’s Fiestas is a sumptuous and sensual scrapbook style cookbook-memoir written by Frida Kahlo’s stepdaughter and Diego Rivera’s daughter, Guadalupe Marin Rivera. This book is a chronicle of the author’s personal experiences ...
(October 2003)
Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros' long-awaited novel (nine years in its creation) Caramelo, is the story of four generations of the Reyes family and their journeys from Chicago to Texas to Mexico City and back ...
(April 2003)
The Dark Bride
Set during the1940s in a dusty village within the oil rich jungles of Colombia, The Dark Bride is a narrative history of prostitutes and their patrons (the oil workers of the Tropical ...
(February 2003)
Breaking Through by Francisco Jiménez
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jiménez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night ...
(January 2003)
Crossing by Manuel Luis Martínez
Intrigued by an actual news story relating the tragedy of undocumented workers found in a railroad boxcar, Martínez envisions what prompted the deaths of desperate men in search of a better life. ...
(September 2002)
Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam by Charley Trujillo
California native and Vietnam veteran, Charley Trujillo, has given an oral account of the Vietnam war by Latino veterans who were sent to war in large and disproportionate numbers while faced with ...
(May 2002)
Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
Pam Muñoz Ryan has written a great story not only for kids or young adults but for adults too. Esperanza Rising portrays the story of Esperanza Ortega, a 13 years old girl, ...
(November 2001)
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