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Cece Rios thought saving her sister would be the end of her adventures in the world of criaturas. But part of Juana’s soul is still trapped in Devil’s Alley. As Cece tries to find a way to get it back using her new curandera abilities, Juana takes her fate in her own hands and sets off alone, intent on restoring her soul and getting revenge on El Sombrerón.

He doesn’t have a plan for his future. But can he fulfill an ancient Mayan prophecy from centuries past?

 On a work trip overseas in Germany, Jesus Chan’s life turns upside down when he accidentally steals one of four ancient Mayan texts from a library. Back home in Mexico with the relic and afraid to lose his job at the museum, he unwittingly unleashes a shadow jaguar who tells him about his people’s lost abilities. In order to restore magic permanently, Jesus sets out to collect the three remaining texts from distant cities before the spring equinox just weeks away. But others ...

HOLA durante su mandato? Una catástrofe en el orden sanitario, económico, financiero, educativo, social.... Los muertos, los pobres, los desempleados y los enfermos, ¿le quitan el sueño? AMLO vive en una burbuja creada por el espejismo de las mentiras dichas en sus conferencias mañaneras y reforzadas por su aparato de comunicación en redes y medios. Quizá, entonces, no es conciente del México roto que va a entregar.

Just what is Latin America? How do you define it? Latin America comprises the Caribbean, South America, and Mexico. These regions are diverse in culture yet share a common bond of history that was forged when the Old World of Latin Europe met the New World of the Americas. This audiobook takes you through the history of this vast and complex region.

Gustavo Arellano has compiled the best questions about Mexican Americans from readers of his ¡Ask a Mexican!column in California's OC Weekly and uses them to explore the clichés of lowriders, busboys, and housekeepers; drunks and scoundrels; heroes and celebrities; and most important, millions upon millions of law-abiding, patriotic American citizens and their illegal-immigrant cousins who represent some $600 billion in economic power.

This hybrid collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border draws together literary theory and historical analysis to outline how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug trafficking - culminating in the misnamed “war on drugs” - has shaped Mexico. Working from and against this political context, Cristina Rivera Garza posits that collective grief is an act of resistance against state violence and that writing is a powerful mode of seeking social justice and embodying resilience.

She is the envy of every teenage girl in Mexico City. Her mother is a glamorous telenovela actress. Her father is the go-to voice-over talent for blockbuster films. Hers is a world of private planes, chauffeurs, paparazzi, and gossip columnists. Meet Camilla del Valle - Cammi to those who know her best. When Cammi's mom gets cast in an American television show and the family moves to LA, things change, and quickly.

A major work on the history of Mexicans in Texas and the relations between Mexicans and Anglos.

¡Prepárate para una emocionante travesía en "El orgullo de Morelos: Nacido narco"! Juan Tostado, un joven valiente, anhela con fervor formar parte de la poderosa banda delictiva a la que su padre pertenece, con el objetivo de aprender todos los secretos de la implacable Colonia Morelos. En la escuela, es admirado por sus compañeros, y desde temprana edad muestra un talento innato para los negocios. Sin embargo, su intrépido barrio se sume cada vez más en la desesperación, y la banda liderada por El Cráneo se vuelve cada día más sanguinaria y brutal. ¿Será capaz Juan Tostado de ...

The book reveals the universal and cosmic love of the Red Road. The Red Road is the philosophy/worldview/religion of the native Indian tribes/pueblos of North and South America. This worldview promotes integration with Mother Earth and the cosmos to achieve harmony within eternally evolving existence. Using the Chicano as an example, the book explores the human lifetime as a cosmic being with eternal cycles of reincarnation and integration. This cosmic journey is examined from the perspective of the Red Road.

As late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco to Mongolia. But how did this tasty hand-held food - and Mexican food more broadly - become so ubiquitous? In Planet Taco, Jeffrey Pilcher traces the historical origins and evolution of Mexico's national cuisine, explores its incarnation as a Mexican American fast-food, shows how surfers became global pioneers of Mexican food, and how Corona beer conquered the world.

¡Prepárate para sumergirte en una vorágine de acción y venganza en "El orgullo de Morelos 3: La capital del cartel"! En la mente de Juan Tostado solo caben dos obsesiones: rescatar a su querida hermanita de catorce años, secuestrada por los Alfas y sometida en un oscuro prostíbulo, y ajusticiar a quienes arrebataron la vida de su familia. Pero la espiral de violencia que asola la colonia de Morelos alcanza nuevas cotas de brutalidad cuando los Alfas forjan una alianza letal con una de las pandillas más sanguinarias de Latinoamérica: la Mara Salvatrucha. Con tan solo dieciocho años,...

¡Prepárate para sumergirte en una vorágine de intriga y supervivencia en "El orgullo de Morelos 4: El tropel de la cárcel"! La vida de Juan Tostado, el joven pandillero que escaló para convertirse en una pieza clave en el tablero de ajedrez de los cárteles, las pandillas y el corrupto y fracasado estado, ha llegado a un punto sin retorno. Su ingreso en la cárcel marca su descenso a los infiernos, una deshumanización total del pandillero de barrio. La lucha por sobrevivir en la prisión arranca los últimos vestigios de humanidad que le quedan. En la mente de Juan, las ideas se ...

In the court of the “King”, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that shake the Kingdom to its core. Part surreal fable and part narco-lit romance, this prize-winning novel from Yuri Herrera questions the price of keeping your integrity in a world ruled by patronage and power.

In this visionary novel framed as a hagiography, the ruminative, subjective memories of Gabriel’s witnesses - spiritual, familial, romantic, and political - converge to make sense of the man’s confounding works and message. As they do, a surprising portrait develops...not only of the deepening mystery of Gabriel Romero himself but also of a country in conflict and the faith it takes to fight the suspicion and fear that divide us.

In a series of 10 essays, spanning five centuries of history, beginning with the conquest of Mexico by Hermán Cortés and ending in 1992 San Francisco, Rodriguez explores the conflicts of race, religion, and cultural identity for Mexican-Americans across the landscape of his beloved California.

Claudia Garcia crossed the border because her toddler, Natalia, could not hear. Leaving behind everything she knew in Mexico, Claudia recounts the terror of migrating alone with her toddler and the incredible challenges she faced advocating for her daughter’s health in the United States. When she arrived in Texas, Claudia discovered that being undocumented would mean more than just an immigration status—it would be a way of living, of mothering, and of being discarded by even those institutions we count on to care.

Speak more fluent Spanish in just one month! Here's how:

From Mexico to Chile to Colombia to the Dominican Republic, people across Latin America don't speak the kind of Spanish you learn from a textbook or hear in most classrooms. ¡Ay, caramba! They speak real Latin American Spanish, loading their conversations with lively idioms and colorful expressions. Now you too can use these expressions. And understand native speakers when they use them!

In Code Work, Hector Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work. Beltrán shows how these hackers apply concepts from the code worlds to their lived experiences, deploying batches, loose coupling, iterative processing (looping), hacking, prototyping, and full-stack development in their daily social interactions-at home, in the workplace, on the dating scene, and in their understanding of the economy, culture, and geopolitics.

El libro revela el Amor Universal y Cósmico del Sendero Rojo. El Sendero Rojo es la filosofía/cosmovisión/religión de las tribus/pueblos indígenas nativos de América del Norte y del Sur. Esta cosmovisión promueve la integración con la Madre Tierra y el cosmos para lograr la armonía dentro de la Existencia en eterna evolución.