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Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Professor Rosa Medina, a folklorist researching the ChupaCabra, goes to Mexico to track down recent sightings of the creature which kills its victims, particularly goats, by sucking their brains out.
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Language
English
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After burning out in her corporate marketing career, Michelle Amato has built a thriving freelance business as a graphic designer. So what if her love life is nonexistent? She's perfectly fine being the black sheep of her marriage-obsessed Puerto Rican-Italian family. Besides, the only guy who ever made her want happily-ever-after disappeared thirteen years ago.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other. According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school making cheesesteaks and slinging insults at each other across their shared Philadelphia street. But the truth? They're in love, and it's all just an act for the tourists. When the fake feud lands them a reality...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A blazing talent debuts with the tale of a status-driven wedding planner grappling with her social ambitions, absent mother, and Puerto Rican roots, all in the wake of Hurricane María. It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers....
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Series
Publisher
WordFire Press, an imprint of WordFire, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Felix Gomez embarks on his wildest adventure yet: back to an alternative past of steam-powered technology, telepathic magic, and deadly intrigue. On a mission to find the daughter of a notorious gangster, Felix follows clues through the reimagined southwest of Aztlan in his quest that takes him to the sex slaves of Isla Tiburon - Shark Island - the fortress home of a twisted evil genius. To solve this mystery, Felix must survive a gauntlet of murderous...
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English
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"Brisma and Kelly, two young Latinas growing up along Clement Moore Avenue in Queens, would do anything for each other. They keep each other's secrets, hide from their mothers' chancletas, and ward off creepy neighbors. At the beginning of high school, Brisma falls deeply in love with Brian, the local baseball legend. Always the wallflower to the vibrant and alluring Kelly, Brisma is secretly thrilled to be chosen by Brian, to finally have someone...
Author
Publisher
WPR Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this first book of a series on contemporary social justice activism, Katie, the youngest daughter of two Mexican-American lawyers, has lived a sheltered upbringing in a wealthy Paradise Valley neighborhood of Phoenix. Life there never prepared her for the upheaval and tragedy that was to surround her and many of her loved ones. Katie learns that changes affecting her life were instigated by forces and people far removed from her, and whose greed...
14) The Amado women
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Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Southern California is ground zero for upwardly mobile middle-class Latinas. Matriarchs like Mercy Amado--despite her drunken, philandering (now ex) husband--could raise three daughters and become a teacher. Now she watches helplessly as her daughters drift apart as adults. The Latino bonds of familia don't seem to hold. Celeste, the oldest daughter who won't speak to the youngest, is fiercely intelligent and proud. She has fled the uncertainty of...
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Series
Love and tacos volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When fate and tacos bring Ramón and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them. Ramón Montez always achieves his goals. Whether that means collecting Ivy League degrees or growing his father's fast-food empire, nothing sets Ramón off course. So when the sexy señorita who kissed him on the Day of the Dead runs...
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Series
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
c2008.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ex-infantryman Felix Gomez came back from Iraq decidedly undead. Back home in Denver, he embarked upon a new career where nighttime work is the norm: private investigator. Since then, he's managed to survive lustful extraterrestrials, manic nymphomaniacs, and x-rated bloodsuckers, while satisfying his own unorthodox hungers with blood-laced Mexican food.But some thirsts aren't as easily assuaged, and that's where "The Undead Kama Sutra" comes in—a...
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xv, 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of bilingual stories about the Río Puerco Valley, where Nasario García grew up, he shares the traditions, myths, and stories of his homeland"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This posthumously published bilingual novel by Jim Sagel re-enacts the traditional Christmas play, Los pastores, as the backdrop for a parallel story set in the fictional New Mexican village of San Buenaventura where a young woman has just given birth to a baby boy. The infant is Jesus (Jesus in Los pastores) and his biological mother is Marta (Mary). Sagel informs the reader in the first paragraph that the mother has only twenty-three days to live....
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