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  Return to Sender

  by Julia Alvarez

  After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected to her American life. Her family lives in constant... (more)
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  Crossing the Wire

  by Will Hobbs

  When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north in an attempt to "cross the wire" from Mexico into the United States so he can find work and send money home. But with no coyote money to pay the smugglers who sneak illegal workers across the border, Victor must struggle to survive as he jumps trains, stows away on trucks, and hikes grueling miles through the... (more)
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  Death Comes for the Archbishop

  by Willa Cather

  Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
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  The Secret Story of Sonia Rodriquez (Unabridged)

  by Alan Lawrence Sitomer

  Sonia Rodriguez was born in the United States, but her parents are Mexican immigrants who came to California before she was born. Her father has three Social Security numbers, her mother is pregnant (again), and neither of them speaks English. Sonia's mother spends most of her time in bed, watching soap operas, and letting Sonia clean up after her brothers. Sonia's father works dutifully to support his family, but... (more)
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  Lupita Manana: With Connections

  by Patricia Beatty

  Crossing over the border is a dangerous business... ...But Lupita must cross from Mexico to America. After her father dies in a fishing boat accident in the seas near their small Mexican village, Lupita's family is left in poverty. Lupita and her big brother, Salvador, must smuggle themselves into the United States to earn money to support their mother and young siblings. America is not the land of opportunity... (more)
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  Tortilla Curtain

  by T. Boyle; Coraghessan

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  Frida's Bed

  by Slavenka Drakulić

  A beautifully imagined story of the last days of Frida Kahlo’s life A few days before Frida Kahlo’s death in 1954, she wrote in her diary, “I hope the exit is joyful—and I hope never to return.” Diagnosed with polio at the age of six and plagued by illness and injury throughout her life, Kahlo’s chronic pain was a recurrent theme in her extraordinary art. In Frida’s Bed , Slavenka Drakulic´ explores the inner... (more)
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  Crossers

  by Philip Caputo

  From the acclaimed author of Acts of Faith (“A miracle . . . You can hardly conceive of a more affecting reading experience”— Houston Chronicle ), a blistering new novel about the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border and about the unyielding power of the past to shape our lives. Taking us from the turn of the twentieth century to our present day, from the impoverished streets of rural Mexico... (more)
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  Sparrow Hawk Red   [SPARROW HAWK RED] [Paperback]

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  The Silent War

  by Wayne Patrick

  Charlie McShane's world has just collapsed. His parents, John and Mary, are killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. Worse, the driver is an illegal alien from Mexico. To keep himself from destitution, Charlie moves back into his parents' home in Arizona. And it is then that the silent war begins. Already suffering from mental illness, Charlie is pushed to the brink his parents' death. His passive racism... (more)
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  The Tortilla Curtain

  by T. Coraghessan Boyle

  When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife, leaving Delaney to return to his privileged life in California. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants who he thinks are turning... (more)
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  Coyotes

  A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens

  by Ted Conover

  This first title in the Vintage Departures series ("devoted to exploring the vastness of the world, of one's life, or even of one's own backyard") focuses on the world of illegal aliens. Conover, author of Rolling Nowhere, posed as an immigrant, crossing the border twice and learning first-hand about "coyotes"those who sneak Mexicans and other Latin Americans across the border, often under murderous conditions.... (more)
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  Frida Kahlo: Brush of Anguish

  by Martha Zamora

  For the countless admirers of Frida Kahlo's bold and passionate art, here are 75 full-color paintings, numerous historical photographs, and authoritative text detailing significant episodes in the artist's life. Now available in an affordable, beautifully produced paperback edition.
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  Frida Kahlo: Portrait of a Mexican Painter (Hispanic Biographies)

  by Ba?rbara Cruz

  A biography of the Mexican woman painter discussing her work and its international reputation, her political ties, and her relationship with the muralist Diego Rivera.
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  I Remember the Alamo

  by D. Anne Love

  Jessie’s not surprised when her father says they’ll be moving from their Kentucky home to a better life in Texas. But there’s no work for her father in their new small town and Jessie doesn’t know how they’ll go on when tragedy strikes their family. Jessie’s only comfort is her new friend, a Mexican girl named Angelina. Their friendship must stay secret because Jessie’s father is joining other soldiers who are... (more)
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  A Painted House

  by John Grisham

  The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." Thus begins the... (more)
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  The House on Mango Street

  by Sandra Cisneros

  Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered the canon of... (more)