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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction
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Santa Margarita Library - Adult Fiction
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"For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A captivating, searing, and ultimately redemptive debut novel about coming of age on Florida's drug-riddled Gulf Coast and the enigmatic connection between memory and self"--
"David has a mind that never stops running. He reads Dante and Moby Dick, he sinks into Hemingway and battles with Milton. But on Florida's Gulf Coast, one can slip into deep water unconsciously; at the age of fourteen, David runs...
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Luna Sisters volume 1
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Pleasingly subversive."—New York Times Book Review
One of Library Journal's Best Romances of 2023!
A BookList Editor's Pick of 2023!
A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season.
Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna family. So when...
One of Library Journal's Best Romances of 2023!
A BookList Editor's Pick of 2023!
A forbidden love between a Mexican heiress and a shrewd British politician makes for a tantalizing Victorian season.
Ana María Luna Valdés has strived to be the perfect daughter, the perfect niece, and the perfect representative of the powerful Luna family. So when...
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Petra Luna volume 1
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San Luis Obispo Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
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J FIC
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Arroyo Grande Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
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J FIC
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Cambria Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
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J FIC
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It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna's mama has died while the Revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papa is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to him that she will care for the family she has left—her abuelita, little sister Amelia, and baby brother Luisito—until they can be reunited. They flee north through the unforgiving desert as their town burns, searching for safe harbor in a world that offers none. Each night when Petra closes...
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Cambria Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
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TEEN
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Los Osos Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
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TEEN
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Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education.
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California is the most multicultural state in the nation. As John Mack Faragher argues in this concise and lively history, that is nothing new. California's natural variety has always supported diversity, including Native peoples speaking dozens of distinct languages, Spanish and Mexican colonists, gold seekers from all corners of the globe, and successive migrant waves from the eastern states, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and the Pacific Islands....
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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Atascadero Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Fiction
FIC
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FIC
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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...
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Atascadero Library - Adult Spanish Nonfiction
641.874 PBK
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641.874 PBK
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"A través de un profundo análisis de la bebida en América Latina, este magnífico libro ofrece un rico contexto cultural e histórico para aprender sobre los cócteles latinos. Ivy Mix lleva años viajando a la región, conociendo la cultura latina a través de sus bebidas locales. Lo que ella demuestra en este libro es el descubrimiento de que los cócteles latinos representan y emulan el paladar latino y la vida latina, donde se enfatiza el picante,...
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Una historia arrolladora, cuidadosamente revisada y actualizada, de la experiencia latina en Estados Unidos. Es la primera reedición en diez años de este importante estudio sobre los latinos en la historia de Estados Unidos. La cosecha del imperio cubre un periodo de cinco siglos, desde las primeras colonias en el Nuevo Mundo, hasta la primera década del nuevo milenio. Hoy en dia, los latinos representan el grupo minoritario más grande en Estados...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Children's Fiction - Picture Book
PICTURE BOOK
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PICTURE BOOK
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Arroyo Grande Library - Children's Fiction - Picture Book
PICTURE BOOK
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PICTURE BOOK
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Atascadero Library - Children's Fiction - Picture Book
PICTURE BOOK
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PICTURE BOOK
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Ramaon is worried about his first day at a new school, but it helps to remind El Cucuy, the monster who lives in his cactus pot, of how brave and strong they both are.
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-- An American MarriageThe first person in her traditional Mexican American family to graduate from high school, Katia is entering adulthood at a time of turbulent change. Across the nation young people are fighting for civil and women’s rights and protesting the Vietnam War and brutal dictatorships in South America. Like so many of her generation, Katia wants to make the world a better place, and is determined to follow her own path. As she considers...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Children's Nonfiction
811.54
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811.54
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Arroyo Grande Library - Children's Nonfiction
811.54
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811.54
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"A middle grade verse history of Latinos in the United States, told through the voices of many and varied individuals ranging from Juan Ponce de León to modern-day sixth graders"--
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"This stunningly original collection of stories illuminates a spectrum of Latinx, Chicanx, and immigrant women's voices. In confrontations with fraught matrilineal lines, absent or abusive fathers, and the effects of historical violence, these women and girls navigate a male-dominated world where they rely on a resilient mujer network to get them through sometimes supernatural obstacles. In visceral, embodied prose, Fragoza's imperfect characters...
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Book on CD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
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Fiction
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A collection of ten haunting short stories linked by themes of migration, sacrifice, and moral compromise bring to life the liminality of regret, the vibrancy of community, and the epic deeds and quiet moments of love.
14) Fiebre tropical
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"In this novel told in Spanglish, fifteen-year-old Francisca is uprooted from her life in Bogotá, Colombia, and moves with her family to Miami, Florida, where she is ushered into an evangelical church and falls in love with the pastor's daughter"--Provided by publisher.
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction
641.59727
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641.59727
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"In The Food of Oaxaca, chef Alejandro Ruiz introduces home cooks to the vibrant foods of his home state--"the culinary capital of Mexico" (CNN)--with more than 50 recipes both ancestral and original. Divided into three parts, the book covers the traditional dishes of the region, where Ruiz grew up; the cuisine of the Oaxacan coast, where he spent many years; and the food he serves today at his acclaimed restaurant, Casa Oaxaca. Here are rustic recipes...
16) Furia
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San Luis Obispo Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
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TEEN
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Arroyo Grande Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
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TEEN
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Atascadero Library - Teen Fiction
TEEN
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Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.
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Atascadero Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
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J FIC
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Los Osos Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
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J FIC
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Nipomo Library - Children's Fiction - Middle Grade Fiction
J FIC
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J FIC
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Rafa goes to work on a Rancho Espanto as punishment for a prank gone wrong, where he discovers a mystery as inexplicable as it is familiar and ultimately leads to Rafa learning hard truths about himself.
Ages 8-12.
18) Gordo: stories
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"His first-ever collection of stories, Jaime Cortez's Gordo is set in a migrant workers camp near Watsonville, California, in the 1970s. A young boy named Gordo fights back tears underneath a wrestler's mask as he is forced to fight other boys and grow into his father's expectations of manhood. As he comes of age, Gordo learns about sex, poverty, and discovers the wrenching divides between documented and undocumented immigrants. Fat Cookie, high schooler...
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Fiction
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FIC
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Cambria Library - Adult Fiction
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Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo ?rbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that ?rbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the...
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La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia. A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de...