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1) On the line
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. If it weren't for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
6) Aphasia
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
vi, 195 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Antonio works making spreadsheets for Bank of America, but not-so-secretly wants to be a great writer-- or indeed to do anything that will help him avoid thinking about his sister, a paranoid schizophrenic on the run from the police. Antonio's attempts to write a novel become an ekphrastic performance of avoidance and evasion, darting between the past and the present to consider relationships erotic and familial, the worlds of architecture and literature,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Part memoir and part cultural critique, Rap Dad is a timely reflection on fatherhood in America, explored through the lens of race and hip-hop culture. Just as his music career was taking off, Juan Vidal received life-changing news: he'd soon be a father. Throughout his life, neglectful men were the rule-- his own dad struggled with drug addiction and infidelity-- a cycle that, inevitably, wrought Vidal with insecurity. At age twenty-six, with but...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unapged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Ava Gabriela is excited to celebrate the New Year with her extended family in Colombia, but being around her loud relatives in an unfamiliar place makes her shy and quiet. Includes author's note and glossary of Spanish words.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 185 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1980. Ronald Reagan has been elected president, John Lennon has been shot, and a little girl in New Jersey has been hauled off to English classes. Her teachers and parents and tias are expecting her to become white--like the Italians. This is the opening to A cup of water under my bed, the memoir of one Colombian-Cuban daughter's rebellions and negotiations with the women who raised her and the world that wanted to fit her into a cubbyhole....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Magical Realism for Non-Believers is set against the backdrops of Colombia and the United States (particularly Minneapolis) of the mid-1990s, and flashes back to the unsettled freedoms of the 1970s. It's the story of a half-Colombian, half-Minnesotan exploring her past and discovering her future, taking readers on a journey from the US to Fajardo's birthplace in Colombia and the discovery of a half-brother she never knew existed, to the creation...
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