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The Last Tortilla & Other Stories
An anthology of stories on Mexican-Americans. One deals with the gulf between Anglo and Latin cultures, another is a romance between an older woman and a younger man, a third is on a boy's satisfaction with a job well done.
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology
"This set of books represents a detailed compendium of authoritative, research-based entries that define the contemporary state of knowledge on technology"--Provided by publisher.
So Far From God
"A delightful novel...impossible to resist." —Barbara Kingsolver, Los Angeles Times Book Review Sofia and her fated daughters, Fe, Esperanza, Caridad, and la Loca, endure hardship and enjoy love in the sleepy New Mexico hamlet of Tome, a town teeming with marvels where the comic and the horrific, the real and the supernatural, reside.
+ 100 Preguntas esenciales Magicas, Misticas, Esotericas, Religiosas
En este libro encontrarás respuestas a las preguntas básicas de tipo mágicas, místicas, esotéricas y religiosas; se buscaron más de 100 preguntas comunes en diferentes grupos sociales y personas. Nacemos con una gran capacidad y desconocemos cómo usarla, podemos sentir infinidad de cosas, algunas nos pueden dar miedo por no entenderlas. Los que han sido dotados con una sensibilidad especial y tienen la facultad de traspasar ciertas fronteras energéticas, entienden el mundo de una forma diferente, aún así tienen que aprender a dominar sus cualidades y temas básicos. A través de estas páginas podrás encontrar respuestas a tus dudas de crecimiento espiritual, consejos valiosos, puntos de vista diferentes qué ayudarán a entender temas y conceptos poco comunes. Date la oportunidad de descubrir nuevos caminos para tu crecimiento espiritual.
The Infatuations
The Infatuations is a metaphysical murder mystery and a stunningly original literary achievement by Javier Marías, the internationally acclaimed author of A Heart So White and Your Face Tomorrow. Every day, María Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren't there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only later, when she comes across a newspaper photograph of the man, lying stabbed in the street, his shirt half off, that she discovers who the couple are. Some time afterwards, when the woman returns to the café with her children, who are then collected by a different man, and Maria app...
Nepantla Familias
"A deeply meaningful collection that navigates important nuances of identity."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review 2021 Texas Book Festival Featured Book Nepantla Familias brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between different worlds—how the authors or their characters create, or fail to create, a cohesive identity amid the contradictions in their lives. Nepantla—or living in the in-between space of the borderland—is the focus of this anthology. The essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life—the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between ...
The Time In Between
In search of love, absolution, or forgiveness, Charles Boatman leaves the Fraser Valley of British Columbia and returns mysteriously to Vietnam, the country where he fought twenty-nine years earlier as a young, reluctant soldier. But his new encounters seem irreconcilable with his memories. When he disappears, his daughter Ada, and her brother, Jon, travel to Vietnam, to the streets of Danang and beyond, to search for him. Their quest takes them into the heart of a country that is at once incomprehensible, impassive, and beautiful. Chasing her father’s shadow for weeks, following slim leads, Ada feels increasingly hopeless. Yet while Jon slips into the urban nightlife to avoid what he most...
Nobody's Pilgrims
A coming-of-age novel of literary fiction with a thriller twist, from preeminent Mexican American author Sergio Troncoso.
Chicano SPA
Este libro, que fue un bestseller la primera vez que fue publicado hace 35 años, cuenta la historia de la familia Sandoval, una familia que huye a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor vida. Héctor, el patriarca de los Sandoval trabaja en el campo y lucha por alimentar a su familia mientras se enfrenta a la discriminación y la injusticia que encuentra esta nueva sociedad. De sus hijos, sólo Pete logra alcanzar una existencia un tanto más cómoda, o por lo menos por un tiempo. Pero cuando Mariana, la hija de Pete se enamora de un estudiante americano llamado David, el choque cultural es inminente. Por temor a lo que digan sus amigos y su familia, David se rehúsa a casarse con Mariana...
From This Wicked Patch of Dust
In the border shantytown of Ysleta, Mexican immigrants Pilar and Cuauhtémoc Martínez strive to teach their four children to forsake the drugs and gangs of their neighborhood. The family’s hardscrabble origins are just the beginning of this sweeping new novel from Sergio Troncoso. Spanning four decades, this is a story of a family’s struggle to become American and yet not be pulled apart by a maelstrom of cultural forces. As a young adult, daughter Julieta is disenchanted with Catholicism and converts to Islam. Youngest son Ismael, always the bookworm, is accepted to Harvard but feels out of place in the Northeast where he meets and marries a Jewish woman. The other boys—Marcos and Fr...
