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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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"In Chingona, Mexican American activist, scholar, and podcast host Alma Zaragoza-Petty helps us claim our inner chingona, a Spanish term for "badass woman." For all the brown women the world has tried to conquer, badassery can be an asset, especially when we face personal and collective trauma. Working for change while preserving her spirit, a chingona repurposes her pain for the good of the world. She may even learn that she belongs to a long line...
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2018.
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English
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"When Reyna Grande was nine-years-old, she walked across the US-Mexico border in search of a home, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life in the City of Angels. What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that belittled her heritage."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
©2013
Edition
1a. ed. en cartoné de Atria Español.
Physical Desc
239 p., [16] pages of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 24 cm.
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Español
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Autobiografía único autorizado El amado mexicana de la cantante estadounidense publicada póstumamente después de su muerte en un trágico accidente aéreo en diciembre de 2012.
The beloved Mexican American singer's only authorized autobiography published posthumously after her death in a tragic plane crash in December 2012.
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2018.
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Español
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Reyna Grande tenía nueve años cuando cruzó la frontera de México y los Estados Unidos buscando un hogar y el reencuentro con sus padres, quienes la habían dejado en su tierra natal para migrar a Los Ángeles en busca de una mejor vida. Sin embargo, lo que encontró fue a una madre indiferente y a un padre alcohólico y violento, en un país cuyo sistema educativo menospreciaba sus raíces. Reyna se refugió en las palabras. Su amor por la lectura...
8) Selena
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English
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The nuts and bolts of the irresistibly danceable music called Tejano are pop, rock, polka, R&B, and Latin influences. To millions of fans, there's another vital ingredient: the dynamic singer Selena. This is the vibrant story of the Grammy winning singer whose life ended at its creative peak. Pulsating with Selena's voice on the soundtrack, the film is bracingly authentic.
12) Cantora: a novel
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University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
c1992
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306 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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English
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from 'El Otro Lado' (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 387 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Just Like Us" offers a powerful account of four young Mexican women coming of age in Denver--two of whom have legal documentation, two of whom who don't--and the challenges they face as they attempt to pursue the American dream.
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Vintage Espanol, a division of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2022]
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375 pages ; 21 cm.
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Español
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"There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz recollects her ancestors' origins, how her family flourished,...
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
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332 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"A creep can be a singular figure, a villain who makes things go bump in the night. Yet creep is also what the fog does—it lurks into place to do its dirty work, muffling screams, obscuring the truth, and providing cover for those prowling within it. Creep is Myriam Gurba’s informal sociology of creeps, a deep dive into the dark recesses of the toxic traditions that plague the United States and create the abusers who haunt our books, schools,...
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