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2) Sofrito
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In this entertaining debut novel, Frank Delgado tries to save his failing restaurant by returning to Cuba, his dead father's homeland, to get ahold of a top-secret chicken recipe. But there is more than delicious chicken at stake here. Food is the road home geographically, emotionally, metaphorically. Peppered with cooking advice from chefs, ordinary folks, and celebrities including Fidel Castro himself (an advocate of pork), Phillipe Diederich......
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this vibrant memoir, Obama-inaugural poet Richard Blanco tenderly, exhilaratingly chronicles his Miami childhood amid a colorful, if suffocating, family of Cuban exiles, as well as his quest to find his artistic voice and the courage to accept himself as a gay man." - O, The Oprah Magazine
A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Tig has caught the attention of the town's local armchair detective group, the Murder of Crows. They're obsessed with Hollow Falls' dark past and fixated on a dangerous search for the missing body of the town's founder. There are rumors about what's buried with the body that could be life-changing for whoever finds it, and with a mission like that underway, it's not long before a member of the Murder of Crows turns up dead. Tig, along with her friends...
6) Before you
Author
Publisher
KTeen, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
An unlikely romance between popular dance captain Faith and haunted Cuban immigrant Diego is challenged by their respective ambitions to pursue freedom and Diego's dangerous past.
Author
Language
English
Description
A timely memoir by a Cuban American writer, exploring issues of identity, biculturalism, and life exiled from a beloved homeland--
A memoir by a Cuban American writer, exploring issues of identity, biculturalism, and life exiled from a beloved homeland. The author spent much of her childhood (1960-75) in Minnesota--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Latinx Zoey navigates the tricky waters of friendship and family while searching for a way to save her grandfather's bowling alley from closing"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From FSG Classics, a special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prize winning novel It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the grand stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers by day, become stars of the dance halls by night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their...
11) Island affair
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Sought-after social media influencer Sara Vance, in recovery from an eating disorder, is coming into her own, with a potential career expansion on the horizon. Despite the good news, her successful siblings (and their perfect spouses) have a way of making her feel like the odd one out. So, when her unreliable boyfriend is a no-show for a Florida family vacation, Sara recruits Luis Navarro - a firefighter paramedic and dive captain willing to play...
14) Sherlock Dom
Author
Series
Definitely Dominguita volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dom is excited to join her friend, Steph, for a mini vacation. They are going to visit Steph's grandmother....As soon as they arrive, they find that Gran's neighbors have lost their goat! There are some mysterious footprints near the goat pen that lead to the marsh. Dom decides to use the methods of her favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes ;observing the basics, using all her senses, and talking it through with her trusty friend ;to try and bring...
15) Ballad & dagger
Author
Series
An Outlaw saints novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
Author
Series
Definitely Dominguita volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
129 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Knight of the Cape finds Dominguita discovering what she believes to be a treasure map inside an old library book, before teaming up with Pancho and Steph to uncover community surprises.
18) Finding my elf
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While home for winter break, Cameron takes a job as a Christmas elf and finally finds his "people" and possibly "the one" in the fakest consumerist nightmare place on Earth where he least expected it.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Russo knows nothing about her mother's family or Cuban culture. Every time she's asked about it, her mother has shut down. But when the Cuban grandmother she's never met sends her right-hand man, Luis, to offer Jessica the chance to come to Miami and meet her estranged family, she can't help but say yes, even as she knows it will pain her mother. The woman that Jessica meets is nothing like what she expected. Her grandmother is successful,...
20) All for one
Author
Series
Definitely Dominguita volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dom, Pancho, Steph, and their noble steed, Rocco, are ready for their next adventure! When their beloved El Señor Fuentes asks Dom to run a very important errand--to put the order in at the local butcher shop for his daughter, Leni's, upcoming quinceañera--Dom is happy to help. But when Señor Fuentes discovers the order was never put in--and the food for the party has been sold to someone else--Dom takes a cue from The Three Musketeers to try...
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