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The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments "In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, a place called the Devil's Highway. Fathers and sons, brothers and strangers, entered a desert so harsh and... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Chalupa Rules by Mario Bosquez Publisher Comments New York Citys first Chicano news anchorman teaches you the tools to succeed using a game of Mexican bingo. Mario BósquezNew York City's first full-time Chicano television anchorgrew up in a cramped, three-room apartment where he and his family... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood by Judith Ortiz Cofer Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. Latino/Latina Studies. SILENT DANCING combines poetry and prose to form an innovative and deeply personal narrative that explores Judith Ortiz Cofer's memories of her childhood spent between Puerto Rico and New Jersey. Winner of the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis 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) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez Publisher Comments In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception — since the moment the African and the European met... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir by Esmeralda Santiago Publisher Comments Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - 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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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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Across the Wire : Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border (93 Edition) by Louis 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: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States by Hector Tobar Publisher Comments Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar takes us on the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States-a parallel nation, 35 million strong, that is changing the very notion of what it means to be an American in unprecedented and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ask a Mexican by Gustavo Arellano Publisher Comments DEAR MEXICAN: WHAT IS ¡ASK A MEXICAN? Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans. I explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Drink Cultura: Chicanismo by Jose Anton Burciaga Publisher Comments This book is about the Chicano experience of living within, between and sometimes outside of two cultures -- the damnation and salvation, and the celebration of it all.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta Publisher Comments The further adventures of "Dr. Gonzo" as he defends the "cucarachas" -- the Chicanos of East Los Angeles. Before his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood by Maria Arana Publisher Comments From her father's genteel Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet from her mother's American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken's neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Gringa Latina :a woman of two worlds by Gabriell De Ferrari Publisher Comments For the readers of Laura Esquivel and Isabelle Allende, this memoir of a girlhood in Peru is seen from the very different vantage point of an adulthood in the United States. Gabriella De Ferrari, the author of the acclaimed novel A Cloud on Sand, grew up... (read more) Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon by Glenn Anthony May Publisher Comments With Sonny Montes and Mexican American Activism in Oregon, Glenn Anthony May makes a major contribution to the literature on Oregon and Chicano history. On one level a biography of Oregon's leading Chicano activist, the book also tells the broader story... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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