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1) My family
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the lives of three generations of Mexican Americans.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
Johnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A heartwarming comedy that's all about food, family and a certain kind of magic that only happens at the dinner table. Martin is the culinary genius behind a sucessful restaurant and the widowed father of three daughters whom he has a compulsion to try and steer in the right direction. Hungry for their independence, the girls find themselves at odds with their traditionalist father.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
Julia no es la perfecta hija mexicana. Ese era el papel de su hermana Olga, quien no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar de sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere el camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de Chicago, resulta en la muerte de Olga, dejando atrás a Julia...
11) Piñata
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español, [2023]
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Carmen Sánchez está de regreso en su país de origen, México, supervisando la renovación de una antigua catedral en un hotel boutique. Sus hijas adolescentes, Izel y Luna, están con ella durante el verano y se fueron a pasar las tardes sin supervisión en una ciudad extranjera. Los lugareños tratan a las mujeres Sánchez como forasteras, mientras que los contratistas de Carmen desafían y sabotean abiertamente su trabajo. Después de un accidente...
13) The Casagrandes
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
When Lincoln Loud's close friend Ronnie Anne and her brother Bobby Santiago moved away from Royal Oaks to the Big City, they had no idea that they were about to start an exciting new chapter in their lives, while living in an apartment above their abuelo's Mercado. Together with their mom, Maria, they are adapting from going to a family of three in Royal Oaks to living with their whole extended family, headed by the kids' abuelos, Hector and Rosa,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Description
"In this collection of essays, Ana Castillo examines what it means to be a single, brown, feminist parent in a world of mass incarceration, racial profiling, and police brutality. Castillo writes about intergenerational stories from Mexico City to Chicago, and she narrates some of America's social injustices through the lens of motherhood"--
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Series
Publisher
Vintage España
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Con ingenio y humor, María Amparo Escandón sigue a la familia Alvarado mientras esta lucha con evacuaciones inminentes, secretos, engaños y traiciones, y con la decisión más difícil que deben tomar hasta el momento: permanecer unidos o quemarlo todo. L.A. está seco como un desierto, Oscar, el patriarca de la familia Alvarado, está obsesionado con el clima y solo quiere un poco de lluvia. En realidad, alberga un secreto que lo distrae de todo...
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