 | 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...
 |  | Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy
Publication Date: February 1, 1997First collection from the Latino/Chicano trio Culture Clash. ...
|  | Alburquerque: A Novel
Publication Date: February 16, 2006Alburquerque is a rich and tempestuous book, full of love and compassion, the complex and exciting skullduggery of politics, and the age-old quest for roots, identity, family. . . . There is a marvelous tapestry of interwoven myth and magic that guides Anaya's characters' sensibilities, and is equally important in defining their feel of place. Above all, in this novel is a deep caring for land and culture and for the spiritual well-being of people, environment, landscape.'--John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel'. . . Alburquerque portra...
|  | 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....
|  | Pilgrims in Aztlan (Chicano Classics)
Publication Date: January 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0927534231 | ISBN-13: 978-0927534239novel, US, tr David William Foster ...
|  | 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...
|  | The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates
Publication Date: May 28, 2008Urban youth gangs are typically viewed as no more than training grounds for thugs and felons. This breakthrough anthology presents a far different picture, revealing present and former gang members’ and street activists’ artistic impulses, emotional sensitivities, political beliefs, and capacities to assess the social conditions that created them. The Bandana Republic contains powerful writing: fiction and essays, poetry, and polemics written by adolescents from gangs like the Crips and Bloods and the Mexican Mafia. There's also creative work by ex-g...
|  | Still Water Saints: A Novel
Release Date: February 12, 2008“As perfect as the beads of a rosary.”–Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street“Fresh, magical, beautiful, evocative” says Lisa See, about this wonderful first novel by Alex Espinoza. Still Water Saints chronicles a momentous year in the life of Agua Mansa, a largely Latino town beyond the fringes of Los Angeles and home to the Botánica Oshún, where people come seeking charms, herbs, and candles. Above all, they seek the guidance of Perla Portillo, the shop’s owner. Perla has served the community f...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Pepita Talks Twice/Pepita Habla DOS Veces
Publication Date: June 30, 1995| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up This colorfully illustrated picture book charmingly explores the joys and benefits of bilingualism. Capturing the beauty and flavor of biculturalism, this story of a little girl at the crossroads of the English and Spanish-speaking worlds will delight children of all backgrounds who enjoy multicultural identities. ...
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