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"For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children-- Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six-- in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Eva Santos Moon is a burgeoning Chicana artist who practices the ancient, spiritual ways of brujería and curanderisma, but she's at one of her lowest points--suffering from disorienting blackouts, creative stagnation, and a feeling of disconnect from her magickal roots. When her husband, a beloved university professor and the glue that holds their family together, is taken into custody for the shocking murder of their friend, Eva doesn't know whom...
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"Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The 'poor handsome man.' Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra 'Alex' Torres turning Loretta's, her grandmother's bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family's admiration; she won't let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too. Alex...
5) River run
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2019.
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English
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"This waterfowl season, the hunters become the hunted... Newly promoted sheriff's deputy Delia Chavez has worked hard to get where she is. Without any family to speak of, law enforcement is all she has. But just a few days into her new job, Delia finds the body of a hunter washed up on the bank of the Willamette River missing his trigger finger. Soon, more bodies are found - all hunters without their trigger fingers. Waterfowl season often means clashes...
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HBO Video
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English
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Should she leave home, go to college and experience life? Or stay home, get married, and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem an easy decision, but for 18-year-old Ana, every choice she makes this summer will change her life
8) No way back
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When a chance encounter with a stranger in a hotel results in murder, Wendy Gould, framed for the crime and desperate to clear her name, forms an unlikely alliance with the only witness--a woman who knows a shocking secret that could get them both killed
9) Mean
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Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously. We act mean to defend ourselves from boredom and from those who would cut off our breasts. We act...
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Future Tense Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"FUNERAL FOR FLACA is an exploration of things lost and found--love, identity, family--and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and generations. Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and varied tastes of her youth." -- Amazon.com
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Atria Español
Pub. Date
2015.
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Español
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"Un retrato ?ntimo e investigativo del asesinato de la querida reina de la m?sica tejana, Selena Quintanilla P?rez, escrito por la galardonada periodista Mar?a Celeste Arrar?s. Ahora, con un nuevo introducci?n y ep?logo por la vig?sima edici?n de aniversario,"--Amazon.com.
An intimate and investigative portrait of the murder of the beloved queen of Tejano music, Selena Quintanilla Pérez.
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Aunt Lute Books
Pub. Date
©1999
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English
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"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume challenge how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps our understanding of what a "border" is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. This 20th anniversary edition features a new...
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into society, in our books, schools, and homes, as well as the systems that perpetuate them, from the acclaimed author of Mean, and one of our fiercest, foremost explorers of intersectional Latinx identity" --
Gurba's essay collection tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and toxicity that has wormed its way into...
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated than it seemed."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilariously funny"--
Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment--a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her...
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Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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"Blends creative nonfiction and ethnographic research to tell the stories of Eva Castellanoz, Mexican American curandera and community activist; explores Castellanoz's faith, indigenous identity, relationship to Catholicism, and use of traditional folk arts and healing, which she views as a way to overcome poverty, racism, disease, social inequality, and loss"--Provided by publisher
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Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
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English
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In the summer heat of a small Arizona border town, sparks fly for three generations of women. 17-year-old Blanca discovers romance for the first time with the new bad boy in town. Lolita, her mother, had hit a dry spell until the husband of one of her customers husband pays her a visit. Blanca's grandmother, Doña Genoveva enlists her gardener Don Pedro to give her driving lessons and learns about more than cars in the process
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