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The Devil's Highway
by Luis Alberto Urrea  
Powells.com 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...
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Enrique's Journey (06 Edition)
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...
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Devil's Highway : True Story (04 Edition)
by Luis Alberto Urrea Synopsis "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able...
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Always Running La Vida Loca Gang Days
by Luis 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...
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The World of Mexican Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place
by Judith Adle Hellman Publisher Comments By the acclaimed author of the bestselling Mexican Lives, a surprising, behind-the-headlines look at the lives of Mexican migrants, in the tradition of Oscar Lewis's classic Five Families "Either you work, or you work. Those are the two choices!"—...
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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...
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Hunger of Memory: An Autobiography
by Richard Rodriguez Publisher Comments Hunger Of Memory is the story of a 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...
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Because I Don't Have Wings: Stories of Mexican Immigrant Life
by Philip Garrison Synopsis For Mexican workers, the agricultural valleys of the inland Northwest are a long way from home. But there they have established communities, settlements recent enough that it feels like these newly arrived immigrant...
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My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King (Illinois)
by Reymundo Sanchez Publisher Comments Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in...
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His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.
by Geraldo Rivera Synopsis A rare, unflinching look at one of todayas most important issuesafrom one of todayas most well-known journalists. In this insightful, well-researched book, Peabody and EmmyA(R) Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera examines the growth of the Hispanic...
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Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa
by Jacques E. Levy Publisher Comments “[An] exceptionally interesting and intimate oral history . . . Against a background of motels and all-night cafés and strikes, the high relief in which the characters stand out is truly fascinating. Jacques Levy’s biography of Chavez...
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Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father
by Richard Rodriguez Synopsis Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and...
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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...
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Maria Speaks
by Sarah Amira De La Garza Publisher Comments De la Garza weaves a powerful examination of the complex processes that work together to constrain self-expression in a woman of Mexican ancestry. The book demonstrates the use of a variety of creative and reflexive methodologies, including poetry...
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Hispanic Condition : the Future Power of a People (Rev 01 Edition)
by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments “ A landmark study that explores with defiance and originality the convoluted Latino identity.”...
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There's No Jose Here (06 Edition)
by Thompson Publisher Comments Mexican immigration has become one of the most polarizing issues and will remain a central issue in the coming years. Once Mexicans had a sizable presence in a few select states like California, Texas, Arizona and New York; today the fastest growing...
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Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History
by Jorge Ramos Publisher Comments From Emmy award winning journalist and bestandndash;selling author, comes a gripping narrative account of the tragic deaths of 19 immigrants in Texas as they tried to make their way across the Mexicanandndash;American border, and the 25 year old female...
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Heading south, looking north :a bilingual journey
by Ariel Dorfman Publisher Comments Ariel Dorfman has been hailed as one of the "greatest living Latin American novelists" and "a storyteller of almost mythic intensity". In his brilliant memoir, Heading South, Looking North, Dorfman explores the many exiles of a life torn, from age two...
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Troublesome Border Rev Edition
by Oscar J Martinez Publisher Comments U.S. residents are largely unaware that Mexicans also view their northern border with concern, and at times even alarm. Border communities, such as Ciudad JuC!rez and Tijuana, have long been subjected to heavy criticism from Mexico City and other...
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Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border
by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments A compelling and unprecedented look at life on the other side of the border. Despite the numbers of people crossing over to the U.S., hundreds more remain behind in abject poverty. Urrea worked closely with them and provides a compassionate and candid...
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