Alegría

Alegría
Author: Emi Wright
Publisher: Madville Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1948692414

Alegría’s family struggles to keep afloat amid secrets as she develops narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder that disrupts her nights and dulls her days. In a fantastical world where dead grandmothers come to visit and witch doctors prescribe waking concoctions, young Alegría discovers the secrets behind her namesake and the imperfections within her family. When the wind blows and the rains come, will she be able to keep her family together?

Yemaya's Belly

Yemaya's Belly
Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2007
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822221951

THE STORY: A Cuban boy is born into a humble farming family, but after his first taste of cold Coca-Cola, he dreams of a world beyond his family's meager acre. Naively yearning to meet the President of America, the play follows his epic journey i

Cosas

Cosas
Author: Linda Grant Niemann
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2018-02-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826358764

Love and friendship, art and craft, language and culture are the subjects of this look back at one woman’s experiences in Mexico over a period of twenty years. What first propels Linda Grant Niemann south are the migrants she encounters in her job as a railroad brakeman in the Southwest. She decides to learn Spanish, and in Mexico she soon meets some surprising kindred spirits. An admirer of craft and expertise, Niemann seeks out individual artists who make exquisite things—Otomi papermakers, the families who produce the famous ceramics of Mata Ortiz, the man in Michoacán who knows how to fashion full-size jaguar thrones in bent cane. Some of her searches lead her to tiny villages and to artists who seldom get to meet their own fans. Niemann wonders if she is experiencing an ordinary shopaholic’s obsession or if this is something more. The something more reveals itself as the connection of one artist to another.

Border Women

Border Women
Author: Debra A. Castillo
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2002
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780816639588

A transnational analysis with an emphasis on gender examines the work of women writers from both sides of the border writing in Spanish, English, or a mixture of the two languages whose work questions the accepted notions of border identities.

The Truth Beneath the Lies

The Truth Beneath the Lies
Author: Amanda Searcy
Publisher: Ember
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2018-09-18
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1524700924

“A smart, suspenseful, and unpredictable thriller that will keep readers turning pages until every last lie is revealed.”—Karen M. McManus, New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying For fans of The Darkest Corners and Pretty Little Liars, Amanda Searcy’s debut novel will have readers both disturbed and entranced by one girl’s present-day horrors and another’s haunting past. Flight. All Kayla Asher wants to do is run. Run from the government housing complex she calls home. Run from her unstable mother. Run from a desperate job at No Limits Food. Run to a better, cleaner, safer life. Every day is one day closer to leaving. Fight. All Betsy Hopewell wants to do is survive. Survive the burner phone hidden under her bed. Survive her new rules. Survive a new school with new classmates. Survive being watched. Every minute grants her another moment of life. When fate brings Kayla and Betsy together, only one girl will survive.

Finally ... Soup for the Chicken!

Finally ... Soup for the Chicken!
Author: David Membrila
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2021-03-24
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1456637231

A teacher's perspective of growing up as a good and bad example. "A compilation of anecdotes and heartbreaks, of love, life, and laughter, from a kid who grew up a product of the barrio and despite growing up and growing out; never really left."