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Enrique's Journey by Sonia Nazario Publisher Comments In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Day by Luis J Rodriguez Publisher Comments By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez Publisher Comments Within the next decade, Hispanics will become the largest minority group in the United States. The new immigrants have ignited a vibrant Latin explosion in popular culture and deeply affected American society. Spanning 500 years-from the first New World... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Hunger of Memory: An Autobiography by Richard Rodriguez Publisher Comments Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum.... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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The Riots Signed Edition by Danielle Cadena Deulen Publisher Comments Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships. Deulen’s artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago Publisher Comments Selling over 16,000 copies in hardcover, this triumphant coming-of-age memoir is now available in paperback editions in both English and Spanish. In the tradition of Black Ice, Santiago writes lyrically of her childhood on her native island and of her... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Down These Mean Streets (Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition) by Piri Thomas Publisher Comments Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America (Vintage) by Roberto Suro Publisher Comments Strangers Among Us is a lucid, informed, and cliché-shattering examination of Latino immigration to the United States--its history, the vast transformations it is fast producing in American society, and the challenges it will present for decades to... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border--a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea gives... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta Publisher Comments Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano layer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson's "Dr. Gonzo," a fat, pugnacious attorney with a gargantuan... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams Award This paperback edition of Mike Davis's investigation into the Latinization of America incorporates the extraordinary findings of the 2000 Census as well as new chapters on the militarization of the Border and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea Staff Pick In May 2001, in an area called the Devil's Highway, twenty-six illegal immigrants struggled across the desert border into the U.S. Most of them died in their effort. Using this tragedy to illustrate the fate of many immigrants, Urrea sheds light on the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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By the Lake of Sleeping Children : the Secret Life of the Mexican Border (96 Edition) by Luis Urrea Publisher Comments Luis Alberto Urrea's first book, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, was a haunting and unprecedented look at what life is like for those living on the Mexican side of the border, eking out only the barest of lives not far from... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero by Americo Paredes Publisher Comments Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mexican Americans, American Mexicans: From Conquistadors to Chicanos (American Century) by Matt S Meier Publisher Comments In the years since the first edition of this important study was published, the changes in the Mexican American community in the United States have been great indeed. This extensively revised edition—with a new title—includes expanded... (read more) List Price $22.75 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail by Ruben Martinez Publisher Comments The U.S.-Mexican border is one of the most permeable boundaries in the world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing the line and those who reach "the other side" are branded illegals, undocumented and unprotected. Crossing... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants by David G Gutierrez Publisher Comments Covering more than one hundred years of American history, Walls and Mirrors examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico transformed--and continues to shape--the political, social, and cultural life of the American Southwest. Taking a fresh... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border by Miriam Davidson Publisher Comments Straddling an international border, the twin cities of Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are in many ways one community. For years the border was less distinct, with Mexicans crossing one way to visit family and friends and tourists crossing the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis J. Rodriguez Publisher Comments Hundreds of thousands of readers came to know Luis J. RodrÍguez through his fearless classic, Always Running, which chronicled his early life as a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles. The long awaited... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Hardcover
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Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments The bestselling author of "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" explores the phenomenon of the Latina sweet 15 celebration. An enlightening and entertaining portrait of contemporary Latino culture, this title also takes a critical look at the social... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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