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2017
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“Fans of Roberto Bolaño will feel right at home in this globetrotting tale of misfit poets and ultraviolent drug lords . . . A page turner” (Miami Rail).
Manuela is a woman haunted by a troubled childhood that she tries to escape through books and poetry. Tertullian is an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope’s son, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society....
Manuela is a woman haunted by a troubled childhood that she tries to escape through books and poetry. Tertullian is an Argentine preacher who claims to be the Pope’s son, ready to resort to extreme methods to create a harmonious society....
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2021.
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"Our narrator, Francisco Goldberg, an American writer, has been living and working in Mexico City as a journalist for over a decade, but has recently returned to New York City in hopes of 'going home again.' It's been five years since the end of his last relationship and he is falling in love again with a new woman. Soon, though, he is beckoned back to Boston by his former high school girlfriend who was witness to his greatest youthful humiliations,...
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Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and the vanguard of the Post-Boom generation of Latin American literature.
How could we define a perfect day? Maybe it would be better to say: how could I narrate a perfect day?
Is that why I write a diary? To capture-or reread-one...
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Step into a tale of intertwined destinies over the millennia that crosses continents, captures the essence of hope, love, and resilience. In this evocative novel, If You Are Born to be a Tamale, author J.T. Dodds, paints a vivid portrait of two individuals whose paths converge across two borders, against the backdrop of a changing world.It begins in January 1992, when two adventurous snowbirds from Winnipeg find themselves drawn to a picturesque village...
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2014
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English
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First time in paperback, the story of a troubled child who opens the hearts of the people in a small town to their own capacity for love.
It begins when a vision appears in a carwash window in the tiny, dusty desert town of Infidelity, a blip on the map just outside of Joshua Tree, California. Seven-year-old Luz Reyes, whose family was killed by death squads in her native land and whose mother is gravely ill, is the first to see it. Then Walt Adair,...
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A bestseller when it was published in 1970 at the height of the Mexican-American civil rights movement, Chicano unfolds the fates and fortunes of the Sandoval family, who flee the chaos and poverty of the Mexican Revolution and begin life anew in the United States.
Patriarch Hector Sandoval works the fields and struggles to provide for his family even as he faces discrimination and injustice. Of his children, only Pete Sandoval is able to create...
7) Assassin
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Roberto's life is in danger. His role in the acquittal of Manolo has earned him the wrath of the mysterious Cesar. As the intrepid attorney goes about his mundane life, helping his clients and reconnecting with old friends, he must guard against attack. Will Roberto survive this cold blooded killer's vendetta? Join Roberto in this second installment of the Roberto Duran series. Discover his earlier exploits in Payback.
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Politics, religion, and a vanishing heritage collide in Rudolfo Anaya's incendiary novel of post-war New Mexico Today is the day Benjie Chávez and his family will leave the town of Guadalupe behind. Far from the land of the eagle and the nopal, they travel west to find a new home of opportunity. But adapting to the big, impersonal city of Albuquerque is no easy task. As both life and death come to the barrio, a blind seer named Crispin arrives...
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Jose se enamoro de Dana si saber que era su media hermana, creyendo en esa mentira inventada por lo padres de ambos, mentiras que son como dagas que no penetran tu piel, pero si tu corazon y tu alma, ellos sufrieron por muchos años por tanto amor que se tenian, pero el tiempo es un juez implacable, todo depende de el para ver quien es el vencedor.
10) How to Love Her
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Sylvester Chacon and his attorney Mike Granger rose from their seats. It had been six months since Deputy Mueller, from the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department had put a bullet hole through Sylvester's' left shoulder. He was lucky he had survived the incident. His best friend Gabriel's dog Bowser had saved his live by running a quick, short lap, otherwise known as a "Zoomie", around the deputy causing him to fall backwards and miss Sylvester's...
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It's August 3, 1837, and rebellion has broken out in northern New Mexico. By the end of the week, Governor Albino Pérez and key members of his administration will be dead, and a governor with indigenous ancestry will be installed in Santa Fe. Trouble's been brewing for over a year, fed by new laws restricting the right to vote, the threat of new taxes, and a governor who's quicker to borrow money than distribute it. On top of that, Pérez has jailed...
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"The world portrayed in Brown Scarf Blues by Mois Benarroch is one in which time is an elusive thing. Also, reality. Slipping from the mundane details of travel to the world of fantasy and memory and back again, the book takes us on a trip through loss, regret, and the way in which a misplaced item, even one that wasn't really yours to begin with, can drive one slightly mad. Written by a Moroccan poet and novelist who has lived a truly international...
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A one-of-a-kind novel that plunges readers into the secrets of Afro-Cuban Santeria-a world of fascinating beauty, pulsating rhythms, and great mystery.
Gabrielle Segovia, Ph.D., is struggling to build a career as a Latina scientist, cope with her third miscarriage, and resuscitate her marriage to fellow biology professor Benito Cruz. Becoming a santera is not in her plans.
But, everything changes when her best friend, the feisty Patricia Muñoz,...
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Literary legend Ana Castillo explores the secrets that are kept within households and the women they impact the most in this breakout collection that cements her place as a leading voice in feminist fiction.
The first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and women's rights and protesting the Vietnam...
16) Arribada
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Mariana Sánchez Celis has traveled the world as a pianist trained at the Juilliard School of Music. But when her mother has a stroke and her beloved uncle suddenly disappears, Mariana must put her life on hold to return to her home in Ayotlan, Mexico. She soon discovers her town is no longer the place she remembers. Ayotlan's beaches, sea turtle colonies, and historic center are decimated under decades of neglect and abuse. What part did her late...
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Fabian Hernandez: The man who stole my first kiss.My recently acquired brother in law.From the moment he came into my life, he turned everything upside down.There's a magnetism that keeps drawing us back together.But we can't.It isn't allowed.It would bring shame.It shouldn't have to be this hard, this complicated.Maybe if I were someone else.Someone without a controlling mother, a conservative culture.A family and culture that sees this man as immediate...
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North of the Mexican border, freedom has a price. Teresa sells souvenirs and helps care for her father's fighting roosters in Centro-the heart of Nogales. When Teresa's mother receives a letter from a friend assuring haven from her troubled marriage, she takes twelve-year-old Teresa and her sisters north, into the bone littered Sonoran Desert where the most dangerous predators drive cars, rob desperate travelers of hope, and sell the naïve to the...
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El sueño de Avery "Jesús está vivo" es una historia sobre una niña curiosa que quería conocer la historia de Jesús. Él vino a ella en un sueño, y tuvo lugar una conversación entre los dos. Él le habla de Su nacimiento, muerte y resurrección. Este libro es simple, fácil de leer y es un gran cuento antes de dormir para padres y abuelos para leer a sus hijos o nietos. Además, puede ser leído por un niño. Siempre he creído que es mejor...
20) The Rain God
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"The Rain God is a lost masterpiece that helped launch a legion of writers. Its return, in times like these, is a plot twist that perhaps only Arturo Islas himself could have conjured. May it win many new readers." - Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels and The Hummingbird's Daughter
"Rivers, rivulets, fountains and waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously they hasten on to the vast realms...
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