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• Once I Was You

  a Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

  Hinojosa, Maria, 1961-

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  Hinojosa relates the history of US immigration policy that has brought us to where we are today, as she shares her experience growing up Mexican American on the south side of Chicago. Also available as an eBook.

• Ordinary Girls

  a Memoir

  Díaz, Jaquira,

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  "Jaquira Diaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction." Also available in downloadable formats.

• Where We Come From

  a Novel

  Cásares, Oscar, 1964-

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  "From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States."

• La búsqueda de un sueño

  una autobiografía

  Grande, Reyna,

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  Reyna Grande tenía nueve años cuando cruzó la frontera de México y los Estados Unidos buscando un hogar y el reencuentro con sus padres, quienes la habían dejado en su tierra natal para migrar a Los Ángeles en busca de una mejor vida.

• Our America

  a Hispanic History of the United States

  Fernández-Armesto, Felipe

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  Maps the influence of America's Hispanic past, from the explorers and conquistadors who helped colonize Puerto Rico and Florida, to the missionaries and rancheros who settled in California and the 20th-century resurgence in major cities like Chicago…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unforgetting

  a Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas

  Lovato, Roberto,

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  A journalistic memoir detailing the author's firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life, and guerrilla warfare explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family to connect today's immigration crisis to the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding Latinx

  in Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity

  Ramos, Paola,

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  "Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways." Also available as a downloadable audiobook.

• Undocumented Lives

  the Untold Story of Mexican Migration

  Minian, Ana Raquel, 1983-

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  In the 1970s the Mexican government acted to alleviate rural unemployment by supporting the migration of able-bodied men. Millions crossed into the United States to find work that would help them survive as well as sustain their families in Mexico.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Distance Between Us

  a Memoir

  Grande, Reyna

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  At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated that it seemed.

• The Story of My Teeth

  Luiselli, Valeria, 1983-

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  Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer--the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.

• A Cup of Water Under My Bed

  a Memoir

  Hernández, Daisy,

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  A moving exploration of family, identity, and language, A Cup of Water Under My Bed is a daughter's story of finding herself and her community, and of creating a new, queer life.

• Cuando era puertorriqueña

  Santiago, Esmeralda

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  La historia de Esmeralda Santiago comienza en la parte rural de Puerto Rico, donde sus padres y siete hermanos, en continuas luchas los unos con los otros, vivIan una vida alborotada pero llena de amor y ternura.

• Bilingual Is Better

  Two Latina Moms on How the Bilingual Parenting Revolution Is Changing the Face of America

  Flores, Ana L.

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  For years immigrants were told that the only way for their children to embrace American culture was to leave behind their heritage language and speak only English. But what if this advice was based solely on political motives and not the wellbeing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Thoughts Without Cigarettes

  a Memoir

  Hijuelos, Oscar

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  In his first work of nonfiction, the author writes about the people and places that inspired his previous novels. Born in Manhattan's Morningside Heights to Cuban immigrants in 1951, he introduces readers to the colorful circumstances of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Becoming Dr. Q

  My Journey From Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon

  Quiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo

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  Chronicles the life of Dr. Q, former poor migrant worker who is now an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer.

• Mi mundo adorado

  Sotomayor, Sonia, 1954-

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  La primera latina y tan sólo la tercera mujer designada a la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor se ha convertido en un icono americano contemporáneo. Ahora, con un candor e intimidad nunca antes asumidos por un juez en activo,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

  y, Cien sonetos de amor

  Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973

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  Un gran éxito desde el mismo momento de su publicación en 1924 cuando el autor contaba con tan solo diecinueve años, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada causó un fuerte revuelo en la conservadora sociedad chilena debido a su franco…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hecho en México

  Made in Mexico

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  Elders and youth come together to speak about their craft, their homeland and what it means to be Mexican. From poets and singers to actors and cultural leaders, Hecho en Mexico takes you into the inner circle of an extraordinarily rich and diverse…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Quinceañera

  celebrando los quince

  King, Elizabeth, 1953-

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  Se enfoca en describir la celebración de este rito de iniciación en la vida de una niña mexicoamerican, al tiempo que presenta antecedentes históricos para la ocasión.

• El diario de Frida Kahlo

  un íntimo autorretrato

  Kahlo, Frida, 1910-1954

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  Un facsímil del diario del artista mexicano, acompañado de un comentario y más de trescientas ilustraciones.