 | Let It Rain Coffee: A Novel
Release Date: April 25, 2006Angie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel García Márquez's by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colón family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future. Esperanza risked her life fleeing the Dominican Republic for the glittering dream she saw on television, but years later she is still stuck in a cramped tenement with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dal...
 |  | Randy Lopez Goes Home: A Novel (Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas Series)
Publication Date: June 10, 2011| Series: Chicana & Chicano Visions of the Americas (Book 9) A new novel by the master storyteller that explores what it means to go home When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo world and even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita to reconnect with his past and to find the wisdom the Anglo world has not provided. In this allegorical account of Randy s final journey...
|  | The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue
Publication Date: May 4, 2007Manuel Munoz's dazzling collection is set in a Mexican-American neighborhood in central California-a place where misunderstandings and secrets shape people's lives. From a set of triplets with three distinct fates to a father who places his hope-and life savings-in the hands of a faith healer, the characters in these stories cross paths in unexpected ways. As they do, they reveal a community that is both embracing and unforgiving, and they discover a truth about the nature of home: you always live with its history. Munoz is an explosive new talent who joins the r...
|  | La Hija de la Chuparrosa (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: September 28, 2006Los milagros y las pasiones abundan en esta novela fascinante que ha sido aclamada como obra maestra.Es la historia de una joven Mexicana cuyas facultades para curar a los aflijidos le prestan aura de santa.Ella llega a realizar su destino sorprendiente entre las llamas de una revolucion naciente...mientras el pueblo se levanta, gritando su nombre. ...
|  | When Living Was a Labor Camp (Camino del Sol)
Publication Date: July 1, 2000| Series: Camino del Sol "I write what I eat and smell," says Diana García, and her words are a bountiful harvest. Her poems color the page with the vibrancy and sweetness of figs, the freshness of tortillas, and the sensuality of language. In this, García's first collection of poems, she takes a bittersweet look back at the migrant labor camps of California and offers a tribute to the people who toiled there. Writing from the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, she catapults the reader into the lives of the campesinos with their daily joys and s...
|  | Director's Cut, The: A Novel (Backstage Pass)
Publication Date: June 1, 2012| Series: Backstage Pass (Book 3) Tia Morales is used to calling the shots. She's the director of the popular sitcom Stars Collide, and her life on set is calculated and orderly. Well, most of the time. But her life outside the studio is another matter. If only she could get her family to behave as well as her stars do! When she starts butting heads with handsome camera operator Jason Harris, it's enough to send a girl over the edge. Will she ever learn to let go and take life--and love--as it comes?Full of the humor and crazy family dynamics Janice Thompson fan...
|  | The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (Camino del Sol)
Publication Date: April 5, 2007| Series: Camino del Sol Join us across the nation with The Wind Shifts ON TOURThe Wind Shifts gathers, for the first time, works by emerging Latino and Latina poets in the twenty-first century. Here readers will discover 25 new and vital voices including Naomi Ayala, Richard Blanco, David Dominguez, Gina Franco, Sheryl Luna, and Urayoán Noel. All of the writers included in this volume have published poetry in well-regarded literary magazines. Some have published chapbooks or first collections, but none had published more than one book at the time of...
|  | La guaracha del Macho Camacho (COLECCION LETRAS HISPANICAS) (Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: January 1, 2006| Series: Letras Hispanicas / Hispanic Writings This world is ruled by publicitary language and by the insidiousellipsis that obstruct communication and hide reality. This is a parodyabout those polluted languages, a novel that's a mirror of Puerto Ricoand Latin America, the colonized. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | Beautiful Se
Publication Date: January 1, 1991This anthology contains Beautiful Señoritas, Coser y Cantar, Savings, Pantallas, and Botánica. ...
|  | Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction
Publication Date: February 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 0938317636 | ISBN-13: 978-0938317630| Edition: 1st "Home isn't just a place, it is also a language."Born in Tijuana, the son of an Anglo woman and a Mexican father, Urrea says that "Home isn't just a place, it is also a language." In these six stories—each wandering beneath different kinds of sky, from the thick Mazatlan starry night to the wide open spaces of the Sioux Nation in South Dakota—Urrea maps the spiritual geography of what he calls "home.""I always thought Luis Urrea was six skies rolled into one (I mean that in a good ...
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