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English
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Description
Kali Fajardo-Anstine's magnetic story collection breathes life into her Latina characters of indigenous ancestry and the land they inhabit in the American West. Against the remarkable backdrop of Denver, Colorado--a place that is as fierce as it is exquisite--these women navigate the land the way they navigate their lives: with caution, grace, and quiet force.
Author
Publisher
Xlibris
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
Account of Latino displacement throughout the world; decentralization manifested in movement, transference and substitution. The principal characters circulate and circumnavigate within multiple geographic, political, historical and social spheres pertaining to the ever-changing Hispanic reality.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Newly single after her Anglo, gay, husband Zach leaves, interior designer Christy takes the dating challenge offered by her cousing Maggie: have three dates with three Hispanic men who just happen to be named after the Three Kings--Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Desperate to complete his memoirs before his death so his family has financial security and he some salvation, Ulysses S. Grant, riddled with cancer, journeys back in time to the crucial moments of his life as a general and twice-elected president as he reckons with his complicated legacy.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning Home Killings, Marcos M. Villatoros first Romilia Chacón novel, won dazzling acclaim for its fusion of character, suspense, and a gripping police procedural swirling around a fiery Latina detective. Now, in a new novel filled with the same remarkable precision and power, Romilia Chacón turns back to the reason she became a cop in the first place: to hunt for the sadist who took her sisters lifeand has kept...
Author
Language
English
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Carmen and Grace have been inseparable since they were little girls--more like sisters than cousins, survivors of a childhood marked by neglect and addiction and a system that never valued them. For too long, all they had was each other. That is, until Doña Durka swept into their lives and changed everything, taking Grace into her home, providing stability and support, and playing an outsize role in Carmen's upbringing too. Durka is more than a beneficent...
Author
Publisher
Forest Avenue Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An unnamed paralegal, brought back to life through a controversial process, maneuvers through a near-future world that both needs and resents him. As the United States president spouts anti-reanimation rhetoric and giant pharmaceutical companies rake in profits, the man falls in love with lawyer Faustina Godínez. His world expands as he meets her network of family and friends, setting him on a course to discover his first-life history, which the...
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