Ethnic Orientation/Hispanic & Latino
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Carry Me Like Water
$15.99 Add to cart“Sentimental and ferocious, upsetting and tender, firmly magic-realist yet utterly modern. . . Sç–‡nz is a writer with greatness in him.” —San Diego Union Tribune
With Carry Me Like Water, Benjamin Al
- Author: Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0060831332
- Language: English
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Edgecliff
$18.00 Add to cartWritten in the three years following a divorce from a twenty-two year marriage, these poems are about a middle-aged Chicana who is facing life on her own for the first time. These poems respond to the
- Author: Sáenz, Angelina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1953447635
- Language: English
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Here Be Icebergs
$15.95 Read moreThe weird, fetid, familiar discomfort of family is front and centre in these short stories of all the ways we remain a mystery to each other.
The mysteries of kinship (families born into and families m
- Author: Adaui, Katya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1913867196
- Language: English
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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau
$18.99 Add to cart*Winner of the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction*
A Heartland Booksellers Award Nominee
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A BookPage Best Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Winter/Spring Debut of … [more below]
- Author: Zapata, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1335147357
- Language: English
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Nietzsche on His Balcony
$18.00 Add to cartOn a hot, insomniac night at the Hotel Metropol, the novelist Carlos Fuentes steps onto his balcony only to find another man on the balcony next door. The other man asks for news of the social strife … [more below]
- Series: Mexican Literature
- Author: Fuentes, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1628971584
- Language: English
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Las Alas de Sophie / Sophie’s Wings (a Novel)
$19.95 Read moreSolo el amor te har? volver a volar.
Una chica. Un adi?s y un comienzo. Dos historias de amor.
Cuando Sophie se enamor? de Simon, supo que juntos tejer?an una inolvidable historia llena de vivencias y- Author: Kellen, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 6070784138
- Language: Spanish
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Homo Novus
$16.95 Add to cartPiety, compassion, lust, love… Feelings all the more potent when you are a Catholic priest confined to your hospital bed by an AIDS diagnosis, being comforted by the seminarian you sexually abused a… [more below]
- Author: Cabrera, Gerard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1955826013
- Language: English
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This Modern Man is Beat: A Novel in Stories
$14.99 Add to cartThis Modern Man is Beat is a novel in stories chronicling the life and times of Habib bin Habib Al Fulan – born in El Salvador, of Palestinian stock, and eventually ending up in Miami. In each story,
- Author: Zablah, Fawzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1955585032
- Language: English
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A Falling Star
$21.95 Add to cartDaysy Maria del Pozo and Stella Maris Morales-Quinn both find themselves haunted by their families’ complicated and painful Cuban pasts.
- Series: Bakwin Award
- Author: Acevedo, Chantel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: August 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0932112951
- Language: English
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Battles in the Desert and Other Stories
$14.95 Add to cartPacheco, Battles in the Desert. Intense, despairing accounts of life in Mexico City.
- Author: Pacheco, Jose Emilio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0811210200
- Language: English
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Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life
$14.95 Add to cartWhen his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn’t quite two. His mother packed up his father’s belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The “man in a box” remained a my… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Fletcher, Harrison Candelaria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803238398
- Language: English
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Even the Darkest Night: A Terra Alta Novel
$30.00 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER – WINNER OF SPAIN’S BIGGEST LITERARY PRIZE – Barcelona detective Melchor Mar? is sent to the countryside to investigate a horrific double murder. Before long, it becomes clea… [more below]
- Author: Cercas, Javier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0593318803
- Language: English
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Shaky Town
$17.99 Add to cart-Engaging characters who live on the non-glamorous side of L.A. -Like Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place, and Pat Barker’s Union Street, Shaky Town tells … [more below]
- Author: Mathews, Lou
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1684428084
- Language: English
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Memory Mambo: Big Sur Pioneers
$22.95 Add to cartMemory Mambo describes the life of Juani Casas, a 25-year-old Cuban-born American lesbian who manages her family’s laundromat in Chicago while trying to cope with family, work, love, sex, and the weir… [more below]
- Author: Obejas, Achy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 1573440175
- Language: English
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Lucky Boy
$22.00 Add to cartA gripping tale of adventure and searing reality, Lucky Boy gives voice to two mothers bound together by their love for one lucky boy.
“Sekaran has written a page-turner that’s touching and all too re- Author: Sekaran, Shanthi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1101982268
- Language: English
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The House on Mango Street: Introduction by John Phillip Santos
$26.00 Add to cartA TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK
NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A 40th anniversary hardcover edition of Sandra Cisneros’s beloved coming-of-age novel about a young girl growing up in Chicago, with- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Cisneros, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1101908467
- Language: English
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Ink
$19.95 Read moreHer name is Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome. “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me.” America has lost its wa… [more below]
- Author: Vourvoulias, Sabrina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0998705993
- Language: English
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We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This?
$18.95 Add to cartAchy Obejas writes stories about uprooted people. Some, like herself, are Latino immigrants and lesbians; others are men (gay and straight), people with AIDS, addicts, people living marginally, just s… [more below]
- Author: Obejas, Achy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: August 16 1994
- ISBN10: 093941693X
- Language: English
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Mañana Means Heaven
$19.95 Add to cartIn this love story of impossible odds, award-winning writer Tim Z. Hernandez weaves a rich and visionary portrait of Bea Franco, the real woman behind famed American author Jack Kerouac’s “The Mexican… [more below]
- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Hernandez, Tim Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 0816533938
- Language: English
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Let It Rain Coffee
$20.95 Add to cartAngie Cruz has established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin American fiction, her writing compared to Gabriel Garc僘 Mç–µquez’s by The Boston Globe. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, s… [more below]
- Author: Cruz, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0743212045
- Language: English
