Latino Literature

FICTION

Allende, Isabel. The House Of The Spirits
	An epic of the Trueba family -- their loves, ambitions, spiritual quests, relations with one another and participation in the history of their times.		368 pgs.	FIC ALL

Alvarez, Julia. How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
	Uprooted from their family home, the 4 Garcia sisters arrive in N.Y. city in 1960 to find a far different life.						290 pgs.	FIC ALV

_____________.  In the Time of the Butterflies
	Growing up in a country shadowed by dictatorship and despair,  the four Mirabal sisters sacrifice their lives in the name of freedom. (Dominican Republic) 325 pgs.    FIC ALV
 
Anaya, Rudolfo. Bless Me, Ultima
	Ultima cures with herbs and magic.  She helps Tony to discover himself in the magical secrets of the pagan past.					262 pgs	FIC ANA

Benitez, Sandra.  A Place where the Sea Remembers.  
Chayo and her husband Candelario, living in the small village of Santiago, Mexico, finally may be blessed with the child they thought they would never have. 	163 pgs. FIC BEN

Castillo, Ana.  So Far From God
	Relates two crowded decades in the life of a Chicano family in central New Mexico.  Castillo weaves the mundane and the miraculous, the modern and the archaic, and the tragic and the humorous into one rich fabric.				252 pgs.	FIC CAS
	
Cisneros, Sandra. The House On Mango Street
	Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, tries to rise above the hopelessness of her surroundings and creates a rich life for herself.  110 pgs.  FIC CIS

Gonzales, Rodolfo. I Am Joaquin (Epic Poem)
	An epic poem with a chronology of people and events in Mexican and Mexican American history.								122 pgs.	811 GON

Garcia Marquez,Gabriel. Love In The Time Of Cholera
	A love story that ranges from the late 19th century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates.		348 pgs.	FIC GAR

______________________. One Hundred Years Of Solitude
	The rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.						422 pgs.	FIC GAR.

______________________. The Autumn Of The Patriarch.		269 pgs.	FIC MAR

Hijuelos, Oscar.  Our House in the Last World.
An unforgettable portrait of a young man’s coming of age from rural Cuba to New York City in the 1940's.  His struggle toward manhood is inseparable from his struggle to understand his cultural identity.				235 pgs.	FIC HIJ

Lachtman, Ofelia Dumas.  The Girl from Playa Blanca.  
When Elena and her little brother, Carlos, leave their Mexican seaside village to search for their immigrant father in Los Angeles, they encounter intrigue, crime, mystery, friendship, and love. 							 259 pgs.	FIC LAC

Mohr, Nicholasa. In Nueva York
	Eight interrelated short stories concerned with the people of the Puerto Rican community of New York City.						192 pgs.	FIC MOH

_______________. Nilda 
	A young girl growing up in Spanish Harlem in the 1940's watches the world of her childhood years slowly erode away. 				247  pgs.	FIC MORH

Trevino, Elizabeth. I, Juan de Pareja
	A slave and his master developed a relationship of friendship and equality. 
									189 pgs.	FIC TRE

Santiago, Danny. Famous All Over Town
	Chato is out to beat the odds in his Los Angeles Chicano Barrio. 284 pgs.	FIC SAN

Villarreal, Jose. Pocho
	Richard struggles to find himself and to reconcile the life and values of his Mexican parents with those of the land of his birth.				187 pgs.	FIC VIL

Villasenor, Edmund. Macho
	Roberto Garcia is a 17-year-old Mexican Indian of fierce pride and animal courage.  He is on a desperate quest in a world of violence and anger. 	245 pgs.	FIC VIL


STORY COLLECTIONS/POETRY

Allende, Isabel. Eva Luna/Stories of Eva Luna
	When her lover asks her to tell him a story, Eva Luna complies with this collection of tales.
								330pgs. 		SC ALL

Cisneros, Sandra. Woman Hollering Creek: And Other Stories
	A collection of short stories giving voice to the vigorous and varied life on both sides of U.S.-Mexican border.							165 pgs.	SC CIS

Griego, Jose. Cuentos, Tales From The Hispanic Southwest
	An English and Spanish rewriting of selections from J.B. Rael's Cuentos espanoles de Colorado y Nuevo Mexico. 					174 pgs.	398.2 GRI

Howes, Barbara (ed.)  Eye of the Heart
	A collection of short stories from Latin America. 		567 pgs.	863 BYE

Mohr, Nicholasa. El Bronx Remembered
	A collection of stories, including: A Very Special Pet, A New Window Display, Tell The Truth, Shoes For Hector, Once Upon A Time, Mr. Mendelsohn, The Wrong Lunch Line...
									179 pgs.	SC MOH

Neruda, Pablo. Art Of Birds
	Poems and impressionistic sketches by the poet celebrate the beauty of the birds of Chile.
						879 pgs.	861 NER

_____________. Fully Empowered 
	A varied collection of thirty-six poems in bilingual format and regarded by the poet as his particular favorites.						135 pgs.	861 NER
 
_____________.  Song Of Protest 
	43 political poems with events in Cuba, Chile, Venezuela, Bolivia and Guatemala.
					118 pgs.	861 NER

Soto, Gary. Baseball In April And Other Stories 
	Eleven short stories focusing on the everyday adventures of Hispanic young people growing up in Calif. 							111 pgs.	SC  SOT


BIOGRAPHIES

Allende, Isabel.  Paula	
	The author's story of her family written to her unconscious daughter.  A soul-baring memoir that reads like a suspense novel. 				330 pgs.	863 ALL

Galarza, Ernesto. Barrio Boy
	The autobiography of a young boy who lived through and survived the acculturation process and the struggle for self-identify in a strange culture, while resisting complete "Americanization." 						272 pgs.	921 GAL

Mohr, Nicholasa. In My Own Words
	Tells of the realities of growing up Puerto Rican, poor and female.
			921 pgs.	MOH

Soto, Gary. Living Up The Street 
	The author describes his experiences growing up as a Mexican American in Fresno, California. 								167 pgs.	SOTO

Valladares, Armando.  Against All Hope:  The prison Memoirs of Armando Valladares (Cuba)
								380 pgs.	921 VAL

Villasenor, Victor. Rain Of Gold
	Traces the lives of three generations of the author's family and recounts the circumstances that led them to emigrate from Mexico to the United States. 	551 pgs.	921 VIL


NON-FICTION

Menchu, Rigoberta.  I, Rigoberta Menchu.
Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life:  her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military.   Her remarkable story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today.
								247 pgs. 	972.81 MEN

Paz, Octavio.  The Labyrinth of Solitude.
	A collection of powerful essays on Mexico and its people, character and culture.  
								397 pgs.	306 PAZ