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Language
English
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Fleeing abusive relatives and extreme poverty in Mexico, young Santiago endures being detained by ICE while crossing the border into the United States.
The bed creaks under Santiagos shivering body. They say a persons life flashes by before dying. But its not his whole life. Just the events that led to this. The important ones, and the ones Santiago would rather forget. The coins in Santiagos hand are meant for the bus fare back to his abusive abuelas...
4) Desert cut
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Scouting locations for a film documentary, private detective Lena Jones and director Warren Quinn stumble upon the mutilated body of a young girl, a killing tied to the secretive town of Los Perdidos and a series of brutal crimes against immigrant women.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
10 books (386 pages ; 25 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
231 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Somebody is killing immigration lawyer Carla Baca's clients. She hires Brinker to investigate, setting up his most dangerous case ever. From Tucson to Mexico to parts of Los Angeles that tourists seldom see, Brinker follows leads in seemingly unrelated murders before stumbling into mass killings in the southwestern desert.
7) Home: Vol. 1
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
157 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"After being separated from his mother at the US border, a young Guatemalan immigrant must lean to harness his emerging super-human abilities while being hunted by the federal government. Julio Anta and Anna Wieszczyk debut with a deeply grounded and heartfelt graphic novel that explores the real-world implications of a migrant with extraordinary powers."--Page 4 of cover.