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1 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Nonfiction
B CARRIL, D. SAEZ
1 available
B CARRIL, D. SAEZ
1 available
Description
Delia del Carril (1884-1989) grew up in the aristocratic world of the Buenos Aires élite, but she rebelled by becoming an artist, a communist, and a cultural force in Latin America and Europe. Known as "the Ant" for her tireless work ethic, beloved for her wit, and admired for her enormous paintings, Delia's passion for life was unmatched, except perhaps by her husband of over twenty years, Pablo Neruda. In THE ANT, Fernando Sáez explores the life...
Author
On Shelf
8 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Nonfiction
745.5 CANOMURI
1 available
745.5 CANOMURI
1 available
Description
"The Queen of Latina Style, Kathy Cano Murillo, is back with fantastic art and craft projects-including brand-new ideas and previous favorites-in The New Crafty Chica Collection"--
Author
Series
Love & tacos volume 1
On Shelf
22 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Fiction
ROMANCE QUINTANA
1 available
ROMANCE QUINTANA
1 available
Description
"When fate and tacos bring Ramón and Julieta together on the Day of the Dead, the star-crossed pair must make a choice: accept the bitter food rivalry that drives them apart or surrender to a love that consumes them. Ramón Montez always achieves his goals. Whether that means collecting Ivy League degrees or growing his father's fast-food empire, nothing sets Ramón off course. So when the sexy señorita who kissed him on the Day of the Dead runs...
Author
Series
Part of your world volume 1
Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
70 copies, 6 people are on the wait list.
Available from another library
3 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
26 copies, 257 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
33 copies, 341 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
33 copies, 341 people are on the wait list.
Description
"People expect big things from Alexis Montgomery. She's a thirty-seven-year-old doctor from a wealthy and prestigious family full of world-renowned surgeons. Only, Alexis is tired of living up to her family's dreams for her. Now she's about to take her bravest step yet: start living her life for herself. Daniel Grant is a twenty-eight-year-old small-town carpenter with a heart of gold and a legacy of his own. He may not have gone to college, but he's...
Author
On Shelf
16 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Nonfiction
B GOMEZ, E.
1 available
B GOMEZ, E.
1 available
Description
"A debut memoir about coming of age as a gay, Latinx man in a culture of machismo, Gomez's High-Risk Homosexual opens in the ultimate anti-gay space: his uncle's cockfighting ring in Nicaragua, where he was sent at twelve years old to become a man. The story then moves through the queer spaces where he learned the joy of being gay and Latinx, including Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, a drag queen convention in Los Angeles, and the doctor's office where...
Author
On Shelf
60 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Worcester Frances Perkins Branch Library - Fiction
FICTION CRUZ
1 available
FICTION CRUZ
1 available
Available Online
5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Available Online
5 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
On Shelf
10 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Large Type
LT FICTION CRUZ
1 available
LT FICTION CRUZ
1 available
On Shelf
3 copies.
Worcester Main Library - A/V Audio
DIGITAL PLAYER CRUZ
1 available
DIGITAL PLAYER CRUZ
1 available
Description
"From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market...
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On Shelf
40 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Worcester Main Library - Nonfiction
818.603 ROJASCON
1 available
818.603 ROJASCON
1 available
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...
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9 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Large Type
LT FICTION FAJARDOA
1 available
LT FICTION FAJARDOA
1 available
Worcester Frances Perkins Branch Library - Large Type
LT FICTION FAJARDOA
1 available
LT FICTION FAJARDOA
1 available
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,...
9) Trust
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On Shelf
136 copies, 5 people are on the wait list.
Worcester Main Library - Fiction
FICTION DIAZ
2 available
FICTION DIAZ
2 available
On Shelf
13 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Worcester Main Library - Large Type
LT FICTION DIAZ
1 available
LT FICTION DIAZ
1 available
Description
"An award-winning writer of absorbing, sophisticated fiction delivers a stylish and propulsive novel rooted in early 20th century New York, about wealth and talent, trust and intimacy, truth and perception. In glamorous 1920s New York City, two characters of sophisticated taste come together. One is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; the other, the brilliant daughter of penniless aristocrats. Steeped in affluence and grandeur, their marriage excites...
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On Shelf
42 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Worcester Main Library - Nonfiction
796.522092 VASQUEZL, S.
1 available
796.522092 VASQUEZL, S.
1 available
Checked Out
1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
Description
"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started climbing. Something about the brute force required for...
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42 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Nonfiction
305.868073 TOBAR
1 available
305.868073 TOBAR
1 available
Description
"A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity"--
"Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students...
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"A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel"--
Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. Nor can they see what Alejandra...
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On Shelf
11 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Nonfiction
B MORILLO, E.
1 available
B MORILLO, E.
1 available
Description
"Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in public education, Elio forged ahead on a journey as indebted...
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Series
On Shelf
5 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Nonfiction
811.6 HERNANDE
1 available
811.6 HERNANDE
1 available
Description
"Some of the Light: New & Selected gathers the first 25 years of Hernandez's award-winning poetry, offering a glimpse at the trajectory of a rising contemplative American author. At its core, Some of the Light contains collected poems of love, told through the lens of a single father raising two children alone in the borderlands. They are at times intimate and confessional, telescoping from personal relationships to spiritual inquiry, from human rights...
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12 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Fiction
FICTION COSSAQUI
1 available
FICTION COSSAQUI
1 available
On Shelf
1 copies.
Worcester Main Library - A/V Audio
CD COSSAQUI
1 available
CD COSSAQUI
1 available
Description
"Carmen and Grace have been inseparable since they were little girls--more like sisters than cousins, survivors of a childhood marked by neglect and addiction and a system that never valued them. For too long, all they had was each other. That is, until Doña Durka swept into their lives and changed everything, taking Grace into her home, providing stability and support, and playing an outsize role in Carmen's upbringing too. Durka is more than a...
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41 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
Worcester Frances Perkins Branch Library - New Book
FICTION PEREZ
1 available
FICTION PEREZ
1 available
On Shelf
4 copies.
Worcester Main Library - A/V Audio
CD PEREZ
1 available
CD PEREZ
1 available
Available Online
12 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
On Shelf
5 copies.
Worcester Main Library - New Book
LT FICTION PEREZ
1 available
LT FICTION PEREZ
1 available
Description
"Andrea Rodríguez is nine years old when her mother whisks her and her brother, Pablo, away from Woronoco, the tiny Massachusetts factory town that is the only home they've known. With no plan and no money, she leaves them with family in the mountainside villages of Puerto Rico and promises to return. Months later, when Andrea and Pablo are brought back to Massachusetts, they find their hometown significantly changed. As they navigate the rifts between...
Author
On Shelf
64 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Fiction
FICTION JIMENEZ
1 available
FICTION JIMENEZ
1 available
Available Online
3 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
On Shelf
7 copies.
Worcester Main Library - Large Type
LT FICTION JIMENEZ
1 available
LT FICTION JIMENEZ
1 available
Description
"The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left...