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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First HarperVia hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Brisma and Kelly, two young Latinas growing up along Clement Moore Avenue in Queens, would do anything for each other. They keep each other's secrets, hide from their mothers' chancletas, and ward off creepy neighbors. At the beginning of high school, Brisma falls deeply in love with Brian, the local baseball legend. Always the wallflower to the vibrant and alluring Kelly, Brisma is secretly thrilled to be chosen by Brian, to finally have someone...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Latino homicide detective Jimmy Vega must investigate the ethnically charged murder of a Hispanic woman found fifty miles north of New York City, as well as locate the baby pictured in a photograph found on the dead woman.
Author
Series
York volume 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of New York the Old York Cipher -- a puzzle laid into the shining city they constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"Latino police detective Jimmy Vega must strike a precarious balance between the local immigrant community and his hometown's most powerful and privileged citizens during a dangerous murder investigation"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
1.a edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Orion Pagan lleva años esperando a que alguien le diga que va a morir. Ahora que se ha registrado en Muerte Súbita para saber si la grave enfermedad cardiovascular que padece acabará con él, está listo para empezar a vivir. Ese es el motivo por el que decide ir a un evento único e irrepetible: la víspera de Muerte Súbita en Times Square. Recibir su llamada de Último Día es algo que Valentino Prince jamás había imaginado, ya...
27) Through fences
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Collection of short comics about life near the US-Mexico border. Touches on issues of immigration, detainment, policing, sexuality, racism, and violence"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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BER- Native American Heritage Month
FLO - BookRiot's Best Summer Reads
FLO - Goodreads' Most Anticipated Books of Summer
HAR--Native American Heritage Month
FLO - BookRiot's Best Summer Reads
FLO - Goodreads' Most Anticipated Books of Summer
HAR--Native American Heritage Month
Formats
Description
"1890: When Desiderya Lopez, The Sleepy Prophet, finds an abandoned infant on the banks of an arroyo, she recognizes something in his spirit and brings him home. Pidre will go on to become a famous showman in the Anglo West whose main act, Simodecea, is Pidre's fearless, sharpshooting wife, who wrangles bears as part of his show. 1935: Luz "Little Light" Lopez and her brother Diego work the carnival circuit in downtown Denver. Luz, is a tea leaf reader,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"To make good use of the wedding venue after her upcoming nuptials are called off, 30-year-old Nadia Palacio decides to throw herself a second quinceañera, aka Sweet 15, until she runs into her college fling who looks even more delicious than a three-tiered cake"--
30) Abuela
Author
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
31) Class president
Author
Language
English
Description
Julio hides his own leadership ambitions to help another candidate win the nomination for class president.
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First Aladdin paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Romiette, an African-American girl, and Julio, a Hispanic boy, discover that they attend the same high school after falling in love on the Internet, but are harrassed by a gang whose members object to their interracial dating.
Author
Series
Zapato power volume 13
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On his first trip to the beach, Freddie uses his superpowered shoes to investigate giant monster tracks that are mysteriously appearing on the sand.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Two divorces have taught Mariela Estevez that she's better suited to being a mistress than a wife. Whose heart needs all that "forever after" trouble? Still, her affair with her married lover, Hector, has become problematic--especially because he's also a tenant in her apartment building in the heart of Miami's Calle Ocho in Little Havana"--Page 4 of cover.
36) Taking sides
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Lincoln Mendoza, an aspiring basketball player, must come to terms with his divided loyalties when he moves from the Hispanic inner city to a white suburban neighborhood"--Title page verso.
37) Perfect
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Lucas compares his home life with the supposedly perfect lives of the other students at the private school he attends.
Author
Series
Bea Garcia volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When budding artist Bea Garcia's best friend moves to Australia and a loud, rambunctious boy moves into her old house, Bea must learn to make new friends.
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