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• Always Running

  La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.

  Rodriguez, Luis J., 1954-

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  A former L.A. gang member describes his experiences in that world, recounting the sense of security and power found in a gang and the grim reality of violence and poverty. By age twelve, the author was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

  Díaz, Junot, 1968-

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  Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award;…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Children of the Land

  Hernandez Castillo, Marcelo, 1988-

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  "With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his familys encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cool Salsa

  Bilingual Poems on Growing Up Latino in the United States

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  As hot as jalapenos and as cool as jazz, this collection serves up ``ingles con chile'' and Spanish that ``you feel in the blood of your soul.'' Lyrical, traditional poems share space with street-smart free verse, and works by the likes of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dreams From Many Rivers

  a Hispanic History of the United States Told in Poems

  Engle, Margarita,

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  "A middle grade verse history of Latinos in the United States, told through the voices of many and varied individuals ranging from Juan Ponce de León to modern-day sixth graders"--

• Her Body and Other Parties

  Stories

  Machado, Carmen Maria,

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  Contains short stories about the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. "In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Dream House

  a Memoir

  Machado, Carmen Maria,

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  The author's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Shadow of the Mountain

  a Memoir of Courage

  Vasquez-Lavado, Silvia,

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  "When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kid Quixotes

  a Group of Students, Their Teacher, and the One-room School Where Everything Is Possible

  Haff, Stephen, 1965-

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  Still Waters in a Storm is an after-school program held in a small room in Bushwick, Brooklyn; it is a place for kids to practice reading and writing in English, Spanish, and Latin. For the students, many living in constant fear of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  a Memoir

  Rojas Contreras, Ingrid,

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  "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Martita, I Remember You

  Martita, Te Recuerdo

  Cisneros, Sandra,

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  "An enchanting story about a writer remembering her short time in Paris and her reflections on friendships, relationships, and her younger self in a beautiful dual-language edition. Paris has long been romanticized as the city of light. A…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mexican Gothic

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Music of the Mill

  a Novel

  Rodriguez, Luis J., 1954-

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  In his first novel, Rodriguez traces three generations of a Mexican American family whose working lives center on the Nazareth Steel Mill in Los Angeles. Patriarch Procopio Salcido fights to break down the barriers that prohibit those of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Life on a Plate

  Recipes From Around the World

  Kelis, 1979-

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  "My Life on a Plate" tells Kelis' personal story through the food she creates. Her style has been molded by her culture, her travels, and all the people she met along the way. This book is a collection of her favorite recipes. It features…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The New Spanish

  Bites, Feasts, and Drinks

  Miller, Jonah,

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  Spanish fries take on a new flavor here. As do traditional Spanish pintxos, carne, postres, and bebidas, and other courses. Owners of the Manhattan restaurant Huertos, Miller and Adler share some of the secrets of their success and ease…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Peluda

  Poems

  Lozada-Oliva, Melissa,

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  A collection of poems that examines life as a woman and a non-white.

• Spain

  Recipes and Traditions From the Verdant Hills of the Basque Contry to the Coastal Waters of Andalucia

  Koehler, Jeff

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  Barcelona resident Jeff Koehler gathers the country's many time-honored dishes and age-old culinary customs, and distills the Spanish table down to its essence—food that is prepared simply but full of homemade flavors, and always meant to…Read moreRead more of this annotation