 | 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...
 |  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy
Publication Date: February 1, 1997First collection from the Latino/Chicano trio Culture Clash. ...
|  | 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....
|  | 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...
|  | 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 ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
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