 | 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...
 |  | 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. ...
|  | 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 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....
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Werewolf Smackdown: A Novel
Release Date: March 9, 2010Felix Gomez, Latino vampire detective extraordinaire, tackles a dangerous werewolf cabal in the fifth installment in Mario Acevedo's satirical supernatural seriesA sure-to-be-bloody civil war is brewing between rival werewolf factions, and P.I . Felix Gomez will do anything he can to make sure it doesn't explode into a vicious battle that engulfs all creatures, living and dead. Between that, the sudden reappearance of an ex-girlfriend, and a gang of other vampires trying to take off his head, this is one rumble even a fanged detective extraordinaire may not...
|  | 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 ...
|  | Beautiful Se
Publication Date: January 1, 1991This anthology contains Beautiful Señoritas, Coser y Cantar, Savings, Pantallas, and Botánica. ...
|  | 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...
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