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xx, 199 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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A novel that explores the lives of those who shed their ethnic identity in pursuit of the American dream highlights a different character in each chapter, including Hector, a middle-aged day laborer who witnesses a murder, and his ex-wife Felicia, who survives a drive-by shooting.
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Canseco-Keck history volume no. 11
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xvi, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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xii, 165 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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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...
466) My tata's guitar
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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While sharing stories of their Mexican-American family's past, a father gives his young son the guitar he received from his own father.
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344 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge that Julia is broken,...
469) Cesar Chavez
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111 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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English
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Biography of the Mexican-American labor activist who organized and led the braceros, or migrant farm workers, in their struggle for better working conditions.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
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English
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A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
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xx, 266 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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English
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This book presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity. The author describes the provocative ideas and new movements created by the rapidly expanding US Latina/o community as it confronts intensified exploitation and racism. --Publisher's description.
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59 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 26 cm.
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English
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A brief fictional recounting of legendary epidemics that struck the American Southwest -- the smallpox epidemics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the influenza epidemic during World War I -- which ravaged many rural communities throughout the West. Includes author's notes about the characters.
475) Lines + lineage
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129 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 34 cm
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English
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With 'Lines and Lineage', Tomas van Houtryve takes aim at America's collective amnesia of history. The work addresses the missing photographic record of the period when Mexico ruled what we now know as the American West. To visualize the people and places from the remarkable yet unseen Mexican era, van Houtryve chose to photograph the region with glass plates and a 19th-century wooden camera. His portraits of direct descendants of early inhabitants...
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Complete Love and rockets volume 15
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276 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"This comics compilation includes never-before-collected work by Gilbert Hernandez from the original run of Love and Rockets Vol. II (2001-2004), short stories from New Tales of Old Palomar (2006-2007), and surreal one off-shorts from Love and Rockets Vol. III: New Stories (2008-2013)"--
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299 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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"For Jaime, returning to the Vermont town of Saint Juniper means returning to a past he's spent eight years trying to forget. After shuttling between foster homes, he hopes to make something out of this fresh start. But every gossip in town already knows his business, and with reminders of his past everywhere, he seeks out solitude into the nearby woods -- Saint Juniper's Folly -- and does not return. For Theo, Saint Juniper means being stuck. He...
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269 pages : map ; 23 cm
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English
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Nationally bestselling author, syndicated columnist, and the spiciest voice of the Mexican-American community, Gustavo Arellano delivers the hilarious and poignant follow-up to Ask a Mexican, his critically acclaimed debut. Orange County not only weaves Gustavo's family story with the history of Orange County and the modern Mexican-immigrant experience but also offers sharp, caliente insights into a wide range of political, cultural, and social issues....
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