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Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat. The factory is the final holdover from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco, the rest having folded to foreign corporations. Once one of the wealthiest people in town, María knows...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar...
Series
Language
Español
Description
Like any adult, children experience losses of many kinds, such as the death of a loved one, parental divorce, or serious illness. These losses translate into mourning that children must face, although many times adults do not know how to support them. For this reason, it is important to understand that children must live through their losses, but that they also need the help of an adult to be able to overcome them in a healthy way and, at the same...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"En San Lorenzo, un pueblo vinicultor al norte de México, la vida de sus habitantes se ve sometida a las reglas, las habladurías y las creencias de una burguesía en decadencia, aferrada a un pasado glorioso que fue borrado por la Revolución. En el seno de este entorno, la joven Cristina Velasco, hija de una de las familias oligarcas, se rebela contra el destino gris que tiene por delante y experimenta con libertad y plenitud su sexualidad, viviendo...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of San Fernando, near the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2024 Youth Media Awards
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Kids Books
Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
NPR 2023 "Books We Love" Kids Books
Formats
Description
"Jovita didn't want to cook and clean like her sisters, and she especially didn't want to wear the skirts her abuela gave her. She wanted to race her brothers and climb the tallest mesquite trees in Rancho Palos Blancos, ride horses, and wear pants! When her father and brothers joined the Cristeros War to fight for the right to practice religion, she wanted to help. She wasn't allowed to fight, but that didn't stop her from observing how her father...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters--her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood and leaves them for dead. Something that once attacked Nena nine years ago. Believing Nena dead, Néstor has been on the run from his grief ever since, moving from ranch to ranch working...
13) Gringo
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Harold Soyinka finds himself at the mercy of his back-stabbing business colleagues back home, local drug lords and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary. Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation.
15) As good as dead
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Bryant befriends a troubled teen and introduces him to martial arts. As Bryant's mysterious and dangerous past catches up to him, he is forced into a life and death struggle to clear his name, save the boy and get back all he left behind.
Author
Language
English
Description
Los Cabos is a colorful and beautiful area that can satiate your senses, enhance your intellect and simply leave you with a nourished soul. My experience while living in Los Cabos region has been a life changing experience. Every day is a new adventure. I found out that the Los Cabos people are a very happy, friendly, giving people. I feel that I know so much more about Los Cabos, the peoples of Los Cabos, and myself while living here over the years.
This...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Migration is frequently a multi-generational experience for families; not an individual choice or the particular economic decision of a single family, but rather a collective practice, repeated again and again by both individuals and communities. The Time of the Fireflies portrays this interconnected history through the narrative of Miguel and his family, questioning long-held misconceptions about immigration.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orange Mosquito
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
All kinds of couples, all kinds of relationships, just one focus: a shared talent. This series looks at the magic that can happen when two talents meet and work together to do inspiring things, in a more in-depth version of the bestselling series Little People Big Dreams. A beautiful and powerful message of kinship, friendship and togetherness to inspire the whole family. The perfect introductory biography picture book series for young readers. Written...
Author
Series
American crossroads volume 66
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Arise! uncovers a social history of global radicalism. Christina Heatherton considers how early twentieth-century radicals like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Mag�on, and Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai found inspiration, refuge, and solidarity in the actual and imagined spaces of Revolutionary Mexico. From farm worker strikes in California's Imperial Valley and internationalist art collectives...
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