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9781558857100 | Arte Publico Pr, September 30, 2011, cover price $16.95
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9781558853157 | Arte Publico Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $26.95 | also contains Crazy Loco Love | About this edition: From one of America's most beloved writers comes this compelling memoir of his adolescent search for meaning and identity.
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9780060844936 | Rayo, January 8, 2008, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: The fourth volume in the author's family memoir recalls his path to manhood, from his budding adolescent masculinity to his love affair with an older woman, offering a glimpse of what it means to become a man and find a purpose in life.
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9781558853157 | Arte Publico Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $26.95 | also contains Crazy Loco Love | About this edition: From one of America's most beloved writers comes this compelling memoir of his adolescent search for meaning and identity.
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9780060844943 | Harpercollins, August 1, 2008, cover price $13.95
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9780313345180 | Praeger Pub Text, September 23, 2009, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Author of The House on Mango Street, which has sold more than two million copies in English alone, activist, MacArthur grant genius, figure of inspiration and controversy, Sandra Cisneros is unequivocally one of America's most important and much discussed contemporary literary figures.
Product Description: Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been his primary language. In this rich memoir, the linguistic chameleon outlines his remarkable cultural heritage from his birth in politically fragile Mexico, through his years as a student activist and young Zionist in Israel, to his present career as a noted and controversial academic and writer...read more
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9780670877638 | Viking Pr, August 1, 2001, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the author's life from his birth in the Jewish ghetto in Mexico City to Israel to the United States, discussing his days as a student activist, a theology student, and finally as a professor at Amherst College.
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9780142000946 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, August 1, 2002), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the author's life from his birth in the Jewish ghetto in Mexico City to Israel to the United States, discussing his days as a student activist, a theology student, and finally as a professor at Amherst College.
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9781435297135 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Yiddish, Spanish, Hebrew, and English-at various points in Ilan Stavans's life, each of these has been his primary language.
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9780791095294 | 1 edition (Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 2008), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Growing up poor in the barrios of Fresno, California, Gary Soto found it nearly impossible to imagine a better life for himself.
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9780822337768 | Duke Univ Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915â1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies.
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9780822337898 | Duke Univ Pr, April 30, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Poet, novelist, journalist, and ethnographer, Américo Paredes (1915–1999) was a pioneering figure in Mexican American border studies and a founder of Chicano studies.
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9780806137063 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: âWeâre everywhere, and itâs time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish in Ten Minutes a Day while You Nap.
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9780806137223 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, October 30, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: âWeâre everywhere, and itâs time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish in Ten Minutes a Day while You Nap.
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9780060526122 | 1 edition (Rayo, July 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The author describes his struggles with cultural discrimination and an untreated learning disability, recounting his victimization as a non-English-speaking Latino in an American school system and his eventual rise to an award-winning writer.
9789990074703 | Rayo, July 1, 2004, cover price $0.02
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9780060526139 | Reprint edition (Perennial, September 1, 2005), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The author of Thirteen Senses describes his struggles with cultural discrimination and an untreated learning disability, recounting his victimization as a non-English-speaking Latino in an American school system and his eventual rise to an award-winning writer.
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9780802141279 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, May 1, 2004), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays by the critically acclaimed author of Woodcuts of Women explores what it means to be a Mexican-American artist in the literary world at large in his own native Texas borderland, in such works as 'Mi Mommy' and 'Me Macho, You Jane,' as well as other works written for Harper's, NPR's 'Fresh Air,' and The New Yorker.
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9780292781795 | Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: When a ten-year-old boy befriends a mysterious hobo in his southern Colorado hometown in the early 1940s, he learns about evil in his community and takes his first steps toward manhood by attempting to protect his new friend from corrupt officials.
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9780292781801 | Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: When a ten-year-old boy befriends a mysterious hobo in his southern Colorado hometown in the early 1940s, he learns about evil in his community and takes his first steps toward manhood by attempting to protect his new friend from corrupt officials.
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9780802117427 | Grove Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Essays touch on the subjects of cockfighting, fatherhood, and Texas from this Mexican-American writers point of view.
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9780816520329 | Univ of Arizona Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Returning home after a long absence is not always easy.
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9780816520343 | Univ of Arizona Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Returning home after a long absence is not always easy.
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9780816518654 | Univ of Arizona Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Born in Tijuana, Mexico, to a Mexican father and a white mother, the author recounts growing up in San Diego in the barrio, where he struggled to realize his ethnic identity
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9780816522705 | Univ of Arizona Pr, August 1, 2002, cover price $17.95
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9781571685643 | 1 edition (Eakin Pr, June 1, 2001), cover price $14.95
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9780816520114 | Reprint edition (Univ of Arizona Pr, July 1, 1999), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: For poet Ray Gonzalez, growing up in El Paso during the 1960s was a time of loneliness and vulnerability.
9780913089491 | Broken Moon Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: personal essays
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9781558850996 | Arte Publico Pr, May 1, 1996, cover price $14.95
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9780916950897 | Bilingual Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $22.00
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