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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
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Juan Gonzalez
Spanning 500 years of Hispanic history, from the first New World colonies to the 19th century westward expansion in America, this narrative features family portraits of real-life immigrants along with sketches of the political events and social conditions that compelled them to leave their homeland.
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Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child
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Francisco Jimenez
A collection of 12 short stories presented from the perspective of a young boy, in which the author narrates his childhood experiences growing up in a family of Mexican migrant farm workers.
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Breaking Through
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Francisco Jimenez
Fourteen-year-old Francisco Jimenez and his family leave Mexico and arrive at the U.S. and Mexican border in Nogales, Arizona. In the months and years that follow, Francisco, his mother and father, and his seven brothers and sisters not only struggle to keep their family together, but also face crushing poverty, long hours of labor, and blatant ...
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Day's Work
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Eve Bunting, Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
In this story set in California a boy named Francisco tries to help his grandfather, newly arrived from Mexico, find some day work. Knowing that the family needs money, and knowing his grandfather can't understand him when he speaks English, Francisco assures a man looking for a gardener that he and his grandfather are experts. However, Francisco ...
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El amor en los tiempos del cólera
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Gabriel García Márquez
A novel about love, time, and an unusual triangular love affair. For 53 years, Florentino Ariza waits patiently for Fermina Daza, the woman who once loved him. While he waits, he becomes astonishingly successful with other women (he has 622 liaisons). She marries another man and lives a life of intense respectability. Finally, she is widowed, and ...
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Once a King, Always a King: The Unmaking of a Latin King
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Reymundo Sanchez
"Once a King, Always a King" is the sequel to his memoir, "My Bloody Life," and recounts the former gang member's struggle to create a normal life.
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Enrique's Journey
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Sonia Nazario
A "Los Angeles Times" journalist offers her 2003 Pulitzer Prize-winning story in book form--a timely account of a young Honduran boy's perilous quest to reunite with his mother in the United States. Includes 16-page color photo insert. Young Adult.
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Del amor y otros demonios
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A richly detailed, bittersweet story of two doomed lovers, whose chaste love affair leads to their destruction--set in the lush, coastal tropics of 18th-century Columbia.
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Cuba 15
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Nancy Osa
The 2001 winner of the Delacorte Press Prize for a First Young Adult Novel tells the story of a girl who while preparing for her 15th year celebration--her "quince"--probes into her Cuban roots and unwittingly unleashes a hotbed of conflicted feelings about Cuba within her family. Young Adult.
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Circuit
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Francisco Jimenez
This autobiographical novel explores the life of a family of migrant workers living in California.
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Saving the World
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Julia Alvarez
ALVAREZ' S resplendent new novel takes us into the worlds of two women swept up in campaigns against the scourges of their day. Alma Huebner, a Latin American novelist transplanted to the United States, is writing another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to health and prosperity in ...
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Going Home
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Eve Bunting
Carlos and his sisters are uneasy when their parents announce they will be celebrating Christmas "back home" in Mexico. Despite the fact that they were born in Mexico, Carlos and his sisters consider California their real home and are unsure about what it will be like to travel back across the boarder. During their holiday visit the siblings ...
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The Dirty Girls Social Club
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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
Six Latina women who all went to the same college have a once-a-year reunion. Now it's their tenth, and, taking turns, each one tells her story--and each story is amazingly different. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
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Twenty Love Poems & a Song of Despair
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Pablo Neruda
One of Neruda's most popular and enduring works--love poems of rare daring and intense sensuality. The poems describe a love affair, and the poet's mixed feelings of attraction and repulsion toward the beloved.
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The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival
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Alicia Partnoy, Raquel Partnoy (Illustrator), Lois Athey (Translator)
One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured, and where most of the other prisoners were killed. Smuggled out and published anonymously, THE LITTLE SCHOOL is Partnoy's memoir of her disappearance and imprisonment.
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Playing with Boys
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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
The second novel by the author of THE DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB stars three 20-something Latina friends in L.A.--an actress desperate to move beyond minor, racially stereotypical roles; a music publicist/band manager in love with a Cuban rap star; and a troubled suburban mother/aspiring screenwriter--dedicated to realizing their dreams, both ...
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Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope
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Jenna Bush (Read by)
Jenna Bush, daughter of President and Mrs. Bush, shares the poignant story of a 17-year-old single mother living with HIV in Panama - an inspiring story of strength and survival. "Ana's Story: A Journey of Hope" is a work of narrative nonfiction based on Bush's experiences while interning for UNICEF and the life stories of children and teens she ...
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Haters
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Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
When Paski's cartoonist father returns to Taos from a business trip, she knows her life is taking a turn for the worse. Paski and her father move to Southern California, where his comic strip has been optioned for a movie. At her new high school, haters rule--especially beautiful and cruel Jessica Nguyen.
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Yo, Naomi Leon
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Pam Munoz Ryan
Naomi Soledad Leon Outlaw has had a lot to contend with in her young life, her name for a start. Then, there are her clothes (sewn in polyester by Gram), her difficulty speaking up, and her status at school as "nobody special." But according to Gram, most problems can be overcome with positive thinking. And with Gram and her little brother, Owen, ...
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The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, a Mexican Mob Killer
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Chris Blatchford
For two decades, Rene Enriquez, aka 'Boxer', was a mob enforcer among the upper echelons of the Mafia. But he didn't work for the Italians. Or the Russians. He worked for the La Familia Mexicana, also knowns as La Eme, a powerful and fearsome mob organization that used a base army of approximately 60,000 heavily armed, loyal Latino gang members - ...
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His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.
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Geraldo Rivera
With unbiased analysis, Rivera exposes the hypocrisy, racism, and ignorance behind anti-immigration sentiments, from both extremists and otherwise ordinary Americans.
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Latinos: Remaking America
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Marcelo M Suarez-Orozco (Editor), Mariela M Paez (Editor)
Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by the mid-21st century. The process of Latinization, the result of globalization and the biggest migration flow in the history of the Americas, is indeed reshaping the character of the US. This book brings together some of the ...
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Cuando Era Puertorriquena: When I Was Puerto Rican
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Esmeralda Santiago
Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success.
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Happy Hour at Casa Dracula
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Marta Acosta
Acosta delivers a hilarious and sexy paranormal novel about a wisecracking, down-on-her-luck writer who becomes romantically involved with a sophisticated vampire. A fun and snappy read for romantic fantasy fans.--"Booklist."
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Conversando En Ingles
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Jaime Garza Bores, Jaime Garza Bores, Garza
!Aprenda comunicar en ingles con facilidad a partir de la primera leccion! No es possible dominar un idioma si uno no puede expresar sus propias ideas. Conversando en ingles facilita la comunicacion porque permite participar activamente en una serie de patrones basicos de construccion grammatical, vocabulario coherente y practico y dialogos y ...
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