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6) Hot sur
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
555 pages ; 23 cm.
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"María Paz es una joven latina que, como tantas otras, ha llegado a Estados Unidos persiguiendo la utopía. Pero el sueño americano se convierte en pesadilla cuando es acusada del asesinato de su marido, un policía blanco, y condenada a prisión. Sin embargo, la vida de María Paz dará un giro vertiginoso cuando descubra que el verdadero horror, el que pondrá a prueba todo su temple, está esperándola fuera de las rejas. Laura Restrepo nos atrapa...
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"Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty?and Jende is eager to please. Clark?s wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at...
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"In this novel told in Spanglish, fifteen-year-old Francisca is uprooted from her life in Bogotá, Colombia, and moves with her family to Miami, Florida, where she is ushered into an evangelical church and falls in love with the pastor's daughter"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm.
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While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
225 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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An intimate work of autobiographical fiction traces the experiences of a writer who in the wake of a life-threatening heart attack reevaluates his past as a member of a Bosnian war refugee family.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 24 cm
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"A literary thriller about the complex underbelly of the immigrant American dream and the dangerous ripple effect one person's damages can have on the lives of others--told unexpectedly by a house that has held unspeakable horrors." -- p. 4 of Cover.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xx, 345 pages ; 25 cm
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A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home.
14) Las biuty queens
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
126 pages ; 25 cm.
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Con una mirada descarada y honesta, Iván Monalisa Ojeda se sumerge en el universo travesti de las calles neoyorquinas. Los cuentos de este libro narran su vida y la de sus compañeras, transexuales latinoamericanas que hacen la calle, fuman crystal meth, participan en concursos de belleza, buscan clientes sobre altísimos tacones y son víctimas de las nuevas políticas de inmigración de Trump. Un mundo donde se entreveran la risa, la supervivencia,...
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When we first meet Maria Lagana, she's rewriting scripts at Mercury Pictures, a failing Hollywood studio known for its schlock. Maria's job is to re-craft dialogue and action to circumvent the censors, a skill she's mysteriously adept at. Born in Italy,as a teenager Maria witnessed Mussolini's censors arrest her father, an event that will destroy her family and burden Maria with questions of guilt and responsibility she will carry with her throughout...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own 'Siete Magníficos'--to repopulate her hometown and protect...
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Publisher
Astra House, a division of Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 22 cm
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"Drawing from his/her own experience as a trans performer, sex worker, and undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa Ojeda chronicles the lives of Latinx queer and trans immigrants in New York City. Whether she is struggling with addiction, clashing with law enforcement, or is being subjected to personal violence, each character choses her own path of defiance, often responding to her fate with with irreverent dark humor. What emerges is the portrait...
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"For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children-- Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, six-- in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain is challenging for Letty, especially as Luna desperately...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm.
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When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. Already celebrated for his flight across the Atlantic, his father, Charles, Sr., is the country's golden boy, with his wealthy, lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by his side. But there's someone else in their household--Betty Gow, a formerly obscure young woman, now known around the world...
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
707 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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"En 1844, Henry Lehman, hijo de un comerciante judío de ganado, deja su Bavaria natal y llega a Nueva York en busca de una vida mejor. Dotado de buen olfato para las oportunidades se establece en Alabama, donde fundará un negocio textil. Más tarde, sus hermanos Emanuel y Mayer invertirán en cualquier cosa que genere beneficio: algodón, carbón, ferrocarriles... El negocio familiar comenzará así su andadura hacia el terreno cada vez más abstracto...
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