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101 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Coatlicue Girl is the long-anticipated bilingual collection from one of Xicana literature's most subversive voices. Griselda L. Muñoz navigates her own inner cosmology to bring forth stories and poems that speak of passion, survival, and perseverance of cultural identity.
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When trading post owner Texana Jones and her veterinarian husband Clay take refuge at the Paisano Hotel in Marfa, they again cross paths with danger. Texana is begged by a rancher to help a possible killer escape arrest. In this fourth in the borderland series, murder and its resolution play out amid the mixed Anglo and Hispanic culture of the trading post and the river. As usual the most convincing married pair in mystery are aided by a charming...
6) Communion
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91 pages ; 22 cm
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A third collection of poetry showing an international perspective in considering the art of poetry itself, male/female relationships, separation from children, homeland and tradition.
10) Santitos
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220 pages ; 22 cm
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Por mandato de san Judas Tadeo, una joven viuda, Esperanza Díaz, viaja en busca de su hija desaparecida desde un pueblito tropical en México hasta los centros de sexo de Estados Unidos, pasando por los prostíbulos de Tijuana.
12) Give it to me
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"Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. Her sexual obsession with him flares as she checks out her other options, but their family secrets bring them together in unexpected ways. In this wildly entertaining and sexy novel, Castillo creates a memorable character with a flare for fashion, a longing for family, and a penchant...
13) See me
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Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he's determined to walk a straight line. To Colin, that means applying himself single-mindedly toward his teaching degree and avoiding everything that proved destructive in his earlier life. Reminding himself daily of his hard-earned lessons, the last thing he is looking for is a serious...
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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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xii, 165 pages ; 22 cm
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A tour-de-force second collection (after The House on Mango Street, 1989) by a Chicana poet who writes of life in Southwest border towns. Cisneros's tactile prose brings to vibrant being the sights, smells, joys, and heartaches of growing up female in a culture where women are both strong and victimized, men are unfaithful, and poverty is mitigated only by family, community, and religious ties. Despite hardship, the spirit remains vital, whether as...
19) Wrecked
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306 pages ; 22 cm.
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When her longtime boyfriend, Dillon, is accused of murdering his secretary, police officer Josie Gray struggles with precinct disputes and memories of the last time she saw Dillon only to discover that she was the actual target in a multimillion-dollar con game.
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viii, 387 pages ; 24 cm
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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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