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Catching the Light by Joy Harjo 9780300274066
RRP: $15.50Booksplease Price: $14.84National Humanities Medalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "Her enduring message-that writing can be... -
The Border Is Burning by Ito Romo 9780826365668
Booksplease Price: $25.562013 Southwest Books of the YearLoners, families, fathers, wives--anyone who lives on the border between Mexico and the United States also lives on a border of violence and complexity. Here a master... -
Latinitas: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menendez
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.62Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today! In this collection of short biographies from all over Latin America and across the United States, Juliet Menendez explores the... -
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez 9780747572657
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $17.75Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. Previously privileged... -
NEW LATINA NARRATIVE by The University of Arizona Press 9780816519415
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.09During the last two decades of the twentieth century, U.S. Latina writers have made a profound impact on American letters with fiction in both mainstream and regional venues. Following on the heels... -
The Woman in Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading by Minrose C. Gwin 9780252027321
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $53.43Minrose Gwin's lyrical meditation on material, textual, and cultural space in women's literature covers a varied terrain, encompassing how space is configured and experienced in narrative and how... -
Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America by Long Le-Khac
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Crossing distinct literatures, histories, and politics, Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America reveals the intertwined story of contemporary Asian Americans and Latinxs through a shared literary... -
The New Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R. Shapiro
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $63.90A revised, enlarged, and updated edition of this authoritative and entertaining reference book-named the #2 essential home library reference book by the Wall Street Journal "Shapiro does original... -
Unruly Catholic Feminists: Prose, Poetry, and the Future of the Faith by Jeana DelRosso 9781438485010
RRP: $141.38Booksplease Price: $135.86Third- and fourth-wave feminists write about their experiences with Catholicism and their visions for the future of women in the Church.A collection of creative pieces, Unruly Catholic Feminists... -
Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender by Jerilyn Fisher 9780313313462
Booksplease Price: $150.75With the literary canon consisting mostly of works created by and about men, the central perspective is decidedly male. This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional... -
An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-class Roots by Lorraine M. Lopez 9780472050789
Booksplease Price: $51.27An Angle of Vision is a compelling anthology that collects personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of gifted authors united by their poor or working-class roots in America. The contributors... -
An Angle of Vision: Women Writers on Their Poor and Working-class Roots by Lorraine M. Lopez 9780472070787
Booksplease Price: $145.10An Angle of Vision is a compelling anthology that collects personal essays and memoir by a diverse group of gifted authors united by their poor or working-class roots in America. The contributors... -
American Bastard by Jan Beatty
Booksplease Price: $23.81American Bastard is a lyrical inquiry into the experience of being a bastard in America. This memoir travels across literal continents-and continents of desire as Beatty finds her birthfather, a... -
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo 9780393345438
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.43In this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo... -
How Winter Began: Stories by Joy Castro 9780803276604
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.56Irene gives the wealthy businessmen what they want, diving headfirst into the filthy river, thinking only of providing for her baby daughter, Marisa, as the men salivate over her soaked body emerging... -
Garden Stories by Diana Secker-Tesdell
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $22.29Spectacular gardens are viewed from the perspective of a snail in Virginia Woolf's 'Kew Gardens' and from that of a sheltered teenage girl in Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party'. The family of... -
From the Hilltop by Toni Jensen 9780803226340
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen's stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries set for American... -
International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: This World is My Place by Catherine Leen
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $57.51This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. For this reason, the volume includes... -
Confessions of a Berlitz-tape Chicana by D. Martinez 9780806137223
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.33We're everywhere, and it's time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish in Ten Minutes a Day while You Nap. . . . We grew up... -
The Lover of a Subversive is Also a Subversive: Essays and Commentaries by Martin Espada 9780472051472
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $47.07Prior praise for Martin Espada:"Political poetry at its finest...with his soaring lyrics, Espada broadens our appreciation not only of poetry but of resistance itself."---The Progressive "(Espada)... -
Efren Divided by Ernesto Cisneros
Booksplease Price: $14.18Winner of the Pura Belpre Award!"We need books to break open our hearts, so that we might feel more deeply, so that we might be more human in these unkind times. This is a book doing work of the... -
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space by Mary Pat Brady
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a... -
Alabanza: New and Selected Poems 1982-2002 by Martin Espada
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.26Alabanza is a twenty-year collection charting the emergence of Martin Espada as the preeminent Latino lyric voice of his generation. "Alabanza" means "praise" in Spanish, and Espada praises the... -
In the Spirit of a New People: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Movement by Randy J. Ontiveros 9780814738771
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Reexamining the Chicano civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, In the Spirit of a New People brings to light new insights about social activism in the twentieth-century and new lessons for... -
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women by Sandra Guzman 9780063052574
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.03Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist... -
Hot Boy Summer by Joe Jiménez 9781665932059
Booksplease Price: $28.06Four gay teens in Texas have the summer of their lives while discovering important truths about realness, belonging, and friendship in this "explosive prose debut for the gays and theys growing up... -
Chicana Sexuality and Gender: Cultural Refiguring in Literature, Oral History, and Art by Debra J. Blake 9780822343103
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Since the 1980s Chicana writers including Gloria AnzaldUa, CherrIe Moraga, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, and Alma Luz Villanueva have reworked iconic Mexican cultural symbols such as mother earth... -
Freeman's Family: The Best New Writing on Family by John Freeman
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Freeman's: Family is the second literary anthology in the series reviewers are calling 'illuminating' (National Public Radio) and 'sure to become a classic in years to come' (San Francisco Chronicle)... -
Notable Latino Americans: A Biographical Dictionary by Matt S. Meier 9780313291050
Booksplease Price: $159.45U.S. Latinos have made important contributions to American society, and this biographical dictionary is devoted to celebrating those contributions. All 127 men and women profiled in this work have... -
American Dirt: The heartstopping read that will live with you for ever by Jeanine Cummins
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.64'Heartstopping... doesn't let up... you will urge them on, fists clenched' The TimesAn extraordinary story of the lengths a mother will go to to save her son, AMERICAN DIRT has sold over 2 million... -
Extreme Domesticity: A View from the Margins by Susan Fraiman 9780231166348
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.66Domesticity gets a bad rap. We associate it with stasis, bourgeois accumulation, banality, and conservative family values. Yet in Extreme Domesticity, Susan Fraiman reminds us that keeping house is... -
A God of Incredible Surprises: Jesus of Galilee Virgilio Elizondo, University of Notre Dame 9780742533882
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.48Why was Jesus, Son of God, from an obscure village in Galilee? What does it mean to our spirituality that he chose not to seek favor from the powerful, but identified with the marginalized, the... -
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Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie Mendez-Negrete 9780822338963 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $5.54Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie... -
The Value of Herman Melville by Geoffrey Sanborn
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $32.21In The Value of Herman Melville, Geoffrey Sanborn presents Melville to us neither as a somber purveyor of dark truths nor as an ironist who has outthought us in advance but as a quasi-maternal... -
Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie Mendez-Negrete 9780822338963
Booksplease Price: $59.32Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie... -
Latino Literature: A Guide to Reading Interests by Sara E. Martinez 9781591582922
Booksplease Price: $131.41Latinos comprise the fastest-growing population in the U.S., and that means more Latino readers at the library. In addition, works written by Latinos, whether written in or translated into English,... -
The Value of Herman Melville by Geoffrey Sanborn 9781108471442
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $67.82In The Value of Herman Melville, Geoffrey Sanborn presents Melville to us neither as a somber purveyor of dark truths nor as an ironist who has outthought us in advance but as a quasi-maternal... -
Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed by Josie Mendez-Negrete 9780822338802
RRP: $175.50Booksplease Price: $141.78Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie... -
Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety: My Journey Through Depression, Bulimia, and Addiction by Yvonne Castaeda 9781595801401
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $34.61In Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety, Yvonne Castaneda shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba . . . and how she... -
Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety: My Journey Through Depression, Bulimia, and Addiction Yvonne Castaeda 9781595801081
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.37In Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety, Yvonne Castaneda shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba . . . and how she...