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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
lucky wreck	Ada Limón	Poetry by Ada Limón. The winner of the 2005 Autumn House Poetry Prize, selected by Jean Valentine. "Ada’s new book has a smart clip of anger to some of the poems, edgy parameters of disappointment…	OL13673168W
Latinos in Lotusland	Daniel A. Olivas	Latinos in Lotusland brings to life Latino denizens of the Los Angeles area resulting in a complex and diverse group of characters: young and old, gay and straight, rich and poor, the newly arrived a…	OL13848899W
Friday night chicas	Berta Platas Fuller,Mary Castillo,Berta Platas,Sofia Quintero,Caridad Pineiro	Whether they're flirting en espanol, gossiping over mojitos, or dancing with their latest papi chulos, these characters prove that there is nothing quite like a night out with your chicas. Set in New…	OL15842901W
The Poetry of Healing	Rafael Campo	A stunning prose debut combining the intimate lyricism of a Richard Rodriguez, the compassionate expertise of an Abraham Verghese. The healing powers of speech, of touch, of empathy and the erotic, o…	OL16478929W
The Glimmering Room	Cynthia Cruz	Cynthia Cruz’s second collection, <em>The Glimmering Room</em>, beckons readers down into the young speakers’ dark underworld, and because we are seduced by Cruz’s startling imagery and language rich…	OL16499163W
Cool salsa	Lori M. Carlson	Here are the sights, sounds & smells of Latino culture in America in thirty-six vibrant, moving, angry, beautiful & varied voices, including Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Luis…	OL18526167W
City of a Hundred Fires	Richard Blanco	"Richard Blanco, a Cuban raised in the United States, records his threefold burdens: learning and adapting to American culture, translating for family and friends, and maintaining his own roots. . . …	OL1908545W
Aplauso! Hispanic Children's Theater (English and Spanish Edition)	Joe Rosenberg	A collection of plays for children, written in English by Hispanic American authors.	OL19636852W
Red Beans	Victor Hernández Cruz	Selected as one of the best books of 1991 by Publishers Weekly. A blend of cultures and races, with inspirations ranging from Caribbean musical rhythms to Castillan and Moorish influences.	OL2160423W
Growing up Gonzales	Felix Rojas	"GROWING UP GONZALES. A comedy with drama in two acts. When Cisco Gonzales dies, his older brother, Johnny takes on the cleaning of his brother's apartment. In the process, he finds a shoebox filled …	OL26197761W
Snapping Lines	Jack López,Jack López	"What does it mean to be male in a world in which old borders no longer exist? How can a man have a relationship if he doesn't even know who he is - and what better way to find out than by committing…	OL2746801W
Conflicts of interest	María Amparo Ruiz de Burton	"Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered California nineteenth-century novelist, struggled against the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Latinos in the southwester…	OL3753285W
Prietita and the Ghost Woman / Prietita y la Llorona	Maya Christina Gonzalez,Gloria E. Anzaldúa	Prietita, a young Mexican-American girl, becomes lost in her search for an herb to cure her mother and is aided by the legendary ghost woman. <small>from Google Books</small>	OL61324W
Borderlands/La Frontera	Gloria E. Anzaldúa	"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume challenge how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps …	OL61326W
Mirrors Beneath the Earth	Ray González,Ray Gonzalez	<em>Mirrors Beneath the Earth</em> is an historic and unique collection of contemporary Chicano fiction: 31 stories depicting the richly varied experiences of Mexican-Americans in the U.S. Some, like…	OL7990291W
Under the Pomegranate Tree	Ray González,Ray Gonzalez	Sensual, diverse, and electrifying, the first major collection of Latino erotica redefines our perceptions of Latin American and U.S. Latino writers. By turns suggestive and explicit, <em>Under the P…	OL7990295W
After Aztlan	Ray Gonzalez	<em>After Aztlan: Latino Poetry of the Nineties</em> is the first comprehensive poetry anthology of Latin poets who write primarily in English. In this volume, they write of their heritage, their dri…	OL7990297W
Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del Otro Lado	Gloria E. Anzaldúa	Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del Otro Lado is a bilingual Latino children's book written by Mexican American/Chicana scholar Gloria E. Anzaldúa and illustrated by Consuelo Méndez Castillo. …	OL8104312W
Interviews/Entrevistas	Gloria E. Anzaldúa,AnaLouise Keating	Gloria E. Anzaldua, best known for her books Borderlands/La Frontera and This Bridge Called My Back, is often considered as one of the foremost modern feminist thinkers and activists. As one of t…	OL8104313W
Arbitrary Tales	Daniel Borzutzky	In the tradition of Ben Marcus, Matthew Derby, and David Ohle, Daniel Borzutzky's fictions mine the fables that comprise our understanding of ourselves: the tales that are woven up so intricately wit…	OL9764895W