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In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend.
"All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death."
In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La...
"All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death."
In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La...
3) See me
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"Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line - getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle...
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Julia no es la perfecta hija mexicana. Ese era el papel de su hermana Olga, quien no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar de sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere el camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de Chicago, resulta en la muerte de Olga, dejando atrás a Julia...
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Jade Hernández
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2023.
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"Damián 'Junior' Águila-Gutierrez shouldn't think about his sister's mysterious best friend. She's off limits, unattainable, and more importantly, uninterested in him. Besides, he has other things to worry about. Like taking over his papá's rancho, Los Corazones. Inheriting his familia's empire is all that's expected of him, but Junior has other plans and desires, and he knows if they ever discovered the truth, it would hurt the people he cares...
8) Queerceañera
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Joaquin Zoido is out and proud of it. And while he knew his dad and sister, Carmen, would be super supportive, he wasn't quite ready for them to surprise him with a queerceañera, a coming out party to celebrate him. Between all the talks of tastings and venues, and the chirping of his family's RSVP texts, the question of who will be his chambelán is on everyone's minds. What Joaquin is decidedly trying to not think about is whether his mom is going...
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Vintage Espana
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2022.
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Español
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"Con ingenio y humor, Maria Amparo Escandon sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, enganos y traiciones, y con la decision mas dificil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. esta seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, esta obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo lo demas....
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Vintage Espanol
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[2018]
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"Julia no es la perfecta hija mexicana. Ese era el papel de su hermana Olga, quien no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar de sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere el camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de Chicago, resulta en la muerte de Olga, dejando atrás a Julia...
16) Bless me, Ultima
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Ultima, a curandera, one who cures with herbs and magic, comes to Antonio Marez's New Mexico family when he is six years old, and she helps him discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past.
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While Freddy Vega struggles to save his luchador father's gym, his son Julian seeks professional and romantic fulfillment as a Mexican American gay man refusing to be defined by stereotypes, in this intimate portrait of a family wading against time and legacy, yet always choosing the fight.
18) Out of darkness
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It's 1937. Naomi Vargas is Mexican American. Wash Fuller is Black. These teens know the town's divisive racism-- and the potential consequences of defying "the rules"--Better than anyone. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. Can their love survive both prejudice and tragedy? Race, romance, family-- and the real-life New London school explosion-- converge in this riveting...
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One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels
The beloved feminist classic of Chicano literature that "could be the offspring of a union between One Hundred Years of Solitude and General Hospital: a sassy, magical, melodramatic love child who won't sit down—and the reader can hope—will never shut up...As readable as a teen-aged sister's secret diary—and as impossible to resist" (Barbara Kingsolver, Los Angeles Times
20) Malas
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2024.
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"A novel with alternating timelines in which the consequences of one old woman's questionable curse reverberate through the generations of a Tejano family"--
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