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Sandra Guzman

“Full of heart and wisdom, Daughters of Latin America sheds a brilliant light on Latine and Caribbean women writers across time, space, languages, and genres.”—World Literature TodaySpanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling literary anthology of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world—from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo ...

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Sandra Guzman

The One Who Stayed is a powerful, emotionally raw novel about a woman caught between who she is and who she's expected to be. Set against the backdrop of love, heartbreak, and generational pressure, this story follows a Latina mother of three as she unravels the quiet chaos of her life-marriage on the rocks, an unexpected love, and the whispers of her own unmet dreams.Told with honesty, warmth, and a touch of humor, this is for every woman who's ever felt like she had to h...

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Sandra Guzmán

For nearly a decade, The Latina's Bible has been the go-to guide for Latinas everywhere. In this updated and expanded edition, author Sandra Guzman continues to use her trademark warmth, humor, and wisdom to explore a wide range of topics, from dating and sexuality to family and career. The New Latina's Bible charts new territory, adding chapters that cover important issues such as sexual abuse, domestic and dating violence, interracial love, and gender identity. Guzman o...

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Sandra Guzman

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Almarie Guerra, Maria Victoria Martinez

Spanning 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 Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña—gathered in one magnificent volume.Daughters of Latin America collects the intergenerational voices of Latine women across time and space, capturing the power, strength, and cr...

"My experience teaching the lessons to students helped me understand the importance of self-reflection. The students were able to reflect on their own abilities in learning. Defining who you are as a learner is informative and empowering."—Robert Grubb, TeacherLos Angeles City Unified School District, CA"Teaching students how to be ′lifelong learners′ can be realized by helping them develop a sense of responsibility for their learning. These lessons provi...

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Kim Guerra

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Kim Guerra

From the creator of Brown Badass Bonita comes a guide to revolutionary self-love that can help transform not only your life but the lives of everyone in your community.Almost every Latina has heard the phrase calladita te ves más bonita—you look most beautiful when you are silent. It's a message rooted in machismo passed from generation to generation, and one that poet and Latine therapist, Kim Guerra, grew up on.In Badass Bonita

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Sara Ahmed

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Sara Ahmed

A renowned feminist thinker makes an argument for interrupting happiness—our own and other people’s—to build a more just world."Simultaneously inspiring and practical—a wonderful guide for becoming a more powerful and thoughtful social justice activist in everyday situations.” -Julia Serano, author of Whipping GirlDo you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing ou...

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Brandy Colbert

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Brandy Colbert, Kristyl Dawn Tift

A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall...

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Mark Adams

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING TRAVEL MEMOIRWhat happens when an unadventurous adventure writer tries to re-create the original expedition to Machu Picchu?**In 1911, Hiram Bingham III climbed into the Andes Mountains of Peru and “discovered” Machu Picchu. While history has recast Bingham as a villain who stole both priceless artifacts and credit for finding the great archeological site, Mark Adams set out to retrace the explorer’s perilous path in search of the t...

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Juan Villoro

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Alfred MacAdam

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly w...

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Catherine J. Allen

This second edition of Catherine J. Allen's distinctive ethnography of the Quechua-speaking people of the Andes brings their story into the present. She has added an extensive afterword based on her visits to Sonqo in 1995 and 2000 and has updated and revised parts of the original text. The book focuses on the very real problem of cultural continuity in a changing world, and Allen finds that the hold life has in 2002 is not the same as it was in 1985.

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Santiago Gamboa

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Howard Curtis

Two Colombian siblings struggle to reunite as the clock ticks down in this emotional thriller from an author praised for his "masterful suspense" ( Publishers Weekly).As a boy, Manuel was a dreamer, a lover of literature, and a tagger. His sister, Juana, made a promise to do everything in her power to protect him from the drug- and violence-infested streets of Bogotá. She decided to take him as far from Colombia as possible, and in order to raise the money...