 | Around the Way Girls
Release Date: March 1, 2007| Series: Around the Way Girls (Book 1) There's a saying in Brooklyn that if you come from my part of town that you're from around the way. Around the Way Girls is a fast paced look at the life of some street smart women who think they know it al,l but are about to get the lessons of their lives. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
 |  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Sor Juana's Second Dream: A Novel
Publication Date: August 1, 1999This bold novel unravels the mystery and complexity of the woman Carlos Fuentes calls "the first great Latin American poet." Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695), poet, playwright, rhetorician, and musician, is often equated with Sappho, the lesbian poet whom Plato baptized the "Tenth Muse."The Mexican nun has fascinated readers around the world for centuries as scholars have attempted to understand her brilliance, her feminism, the affairs of her heart, her decision to enter a convent at the beginning of her luminous intellectual career. Juana Ramí...
|  | United States of Banana
Release Date: November 8, 2011Giannina Braschi explores the cultural and political journey of nearly 50 million Hispanic Americans living in the United States in this explosive new work of fiction, her first written in originally in English.United States of Banana takes place at the Statue of Liberty in post-9/11 New York City, where Hamlet, Zarathustra, and Giannina are on a quest to free the Puerto Rican prisoner Segismundo.Segismundo has been imprisoned for more than one hundred years, hidden away by his father, the king of the United States of Banana, for the crime of having been born.Bu...
|  | Sister Teresa
Release Date: March 22, 2007Spoiled with beauty, riches, and adoration, a young girl fromÀvila is sent to a convent by her parents to learn discipline, butdiscovers instead an unparalleled spiritual fervor-- one so powerful as tobe condemned as sinful by some. She is Saint Teresa--known as a mystic,reformer and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts thatintroduced her radical religious ideas and practices to a society sufferingthrough the repressive throes of the Spanish Inquisition. In BarbaraMujica’s masterful tale, her story--her days of youthful romance, hersensu...
|  | 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 New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century
Publication Date: January 1, 2001Poetry. Latin American Studies. THE NEW WORLD BORDER is a new collection of essays, poems, and performance text through which Gomez-Pena muses on matters of race, nationality, language, and identity. The book is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and geo-political ideology, a disorienting free-fall into the space between cultures, and a head-on collision with real and imagined borders. Gomez-Pena won international acclaim for his efforts to create a hybrid culture and articulate a borderless ethos, and has been called an intercultural interpreter, reverse an...
|  | 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. ...
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