<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Urrea, Luis Alberto]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Urrea, Luis Alberto]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/opl/rss/search?query=Urrea%2C%20Luis%20Alberto&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:51:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The House of Broken Angels]]></title><description><![CDATA[In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader in a single weekend. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. The story of the de La Cruzes is the quintessential American story. This indelible portrait of a complex family reminds us of what it means to be the first generation and to live two lives across one border. It takes us into a world we have not known, while reflecting back the hopes and dreams of our own families.]]></description><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C345780</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C345780</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Urrea, Luis Alberto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/345780108</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316154888/MC.GIF&amp;client=oakvillepublibrarybc&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Night, Irene]]></title><description><![CDATA[What if a friendship forged on the front lines of war defines a life forever? In the tradition ofThe NightingaleandTranscription,   a searing epic based on the magnificent and true story of heroic Red Cross women. “ Urrea’ s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a generous writer, not just in his approach to his craft but in the broader sense of what he feels necessary to capture about life itself.” — Financial Times In 1943, Irene Woodward abandons an abusive fiancé in New York to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe. She makes fast friends in training with Dorothy Dunford, a towering Midwesterner with a ferocious wit. Together they are part of an elite group of women, nicknamed Donut Dollies, who command military vehicles called Clubmobiles at the front line, providing camaraderie and a taste of home that may be the only solace before troops head into battle.                       After D-Day, these two intrepid friends join the Allied soldiers streaming into France. Their time in Europe will see them embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald. Through her friendship with Dorothy, and a love affair with a courageous American fighter pilot named Hans, Irene learns to trust again. Her most fervent hope, which becomes more precarious by the day, is for all three of them to survive the war intact.   Taking as inspiration his mother’ s own Red Cross service, Luis Alberto Urrea has delivered an overlooked story of women’ s heroism in World War II. With its affecting and uplifting portrait of friendship and valor in harrowing circumstances, Good Night, Irene powerfully demonstrates yet again that Urrea’ s “ gifts as a storyteller are prodigious” (NPR).]]></description><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C536456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C536456</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Urrea, Luis Alberto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/536456108</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Night, Irene]]></title><description><![CDATA[Abandoning her abusive fiancé in New York in 1943 to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe, Irene Woodward befriends Dorothy Dunford as they join the Allied soldiers streaming into France after D-Day where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship.]]></description><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C525304</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C525304</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Urrea, Luis Alberto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/525304108</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316265850/MC.GIF&amp;client=oakvillepublibrarybc&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Night, Irene]]></title><description><![CDATA[Abandoning her abusive fiancé in New York in 1943 to enlist with the Red Cross and head to Europe, Irene Woodward befriends Dorothy Dunford as they join the Allied soldiers streaming into France after D-Day where they are embroiled in danger, from the Battle of the Bulge to the liberation of Buchenwald, and where Irene learns to trust again through their friendship.]]></description><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C536569</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C536569</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Urrea, Luis Alberto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/536569108</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Into the Beautiful North]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own "Siete Magníficos"--to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, INTO THE BEAUTIFUL NORTH is the story of an irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.]]></description><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C423890</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C423890</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Urrea, Luis Alberto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/423890108</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Devil's Highway]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a new 10th anniversary edition: "The single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.]]></description><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C423762</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C423762</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Urrea, Luis Alberto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/423762108</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A True Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hummingbird's Daughter]]></title><description><![CDATA[This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-aunt Teresita, who had healing powers and was acclaimed as a saint. Urrea has researched historical accounts and family records for years to get an accurate story.]]></description><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C423874</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C423874</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Urrea, Luis Alberto]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/423874108</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Red Caddy]]></title><link>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C379719</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://opl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S108C379719</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bowden, Charles]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://opl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/379719108</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Into the Unknown With Edward Abbey</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781477315798/MC.GIF&amp;client=oakvillepublibrarybc&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>