<?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[subject results for "Mexican American women — Biography."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "Mexican American women — Biography."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/wccls/rss/search?query=%22Mexican%20American%20women%20%E2%80%94%20Biography.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:21:23 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Primera generación]]></title><description><![CDATA["La fascinante historia de cómo una mujer latina, hija de inmigrantes, experimenta la movilidad social y reflexiona sobre los sacrificios que implican ser pionera en su familia. Alejandra Campoverdi vivió de la asistencia social de niña, trabajó como asesora en la Casa Blanca durante el mandato del presidente Obama, se graduó de Harvard, fue novia de un pandillero y candidata para el Congreso de los Estados Unidos. Una vida de extremos contradictorios es común cuando se es "primera y única". También se paga un precio. Con franqueza y a corazón abierto, Alejandrarememora su vida como mujer mexicoamericana criada por una madre soltera en Los Ángeles. Primera generación es un poderoso testimonio que cuestiona las ideas preconcebidas sobre lo que se necesita para alcanzar el sueño americano. En estas oportunas y reveladoras memorias, Alejandra Campoverdi se basa en sus propias experiencias para compartir los desafíos que enfrentan quienes son "primeros y únicos", iluminando un camino hacia la verdad, la sanación y el cambio. Mitad memorias, mitad manifiesto, esta es una historia de herencia generacional, aspiración y el verdadero significado de pertenecer, un viaje conmovedor para "reclamar esas partes de nosotros mismos que sacrificamos para poder sobrevivir"."--Amazon.com]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4594043</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4594043</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Campoverdi, Alejandra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4594043143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>la carga invisible de ser pionera</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9786073927925/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1524992409</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing Justice, Singing Peace]]></title><description><![CDATA[An illuminating picture book biography of renowned Mexican American folk musician Joan Baez, whose songs of justice, peace, and activism have inspired listeners to create positive change across the world, from Christopher Award-winning author Monica Brown and Caldecott Honoree Molly Mendoza. From a young age, Joan Baez knew she wanted to make the world a better place. The daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Scotland, she learned values of compassion and advocacy from her parents. As Joan learned about people in need around the world, she sang to make herself feel better--and her beautiful voice made others feel better, too. Joan sang songs about workers' rights, civil rights, and the struggle for justice. She started in coffee shops and clubs, worked her way to singing at folk festivals and on New York stages, and eventually she sang next to Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington, alongside Cesar Chavez, and for the President of the United States. Joan realized music could move people's hearts, minds, and feet toward a path of justice and peace. And she used the gift of her beautiful voice to do just that.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4641837</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4641837</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brown, Monica]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4641837143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Story of Joan Baez</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781665926607/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1523196374</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funeral for Flaca]]></title><description><![CDATA["FUNERAL FOR FLACA is an exploration of things lost and found--love, identity, family--and the traumas that transcend bodies, borders, cultures, and generations. Emilly Prado retraces her experience coming of age as a prep-turned-chola-turned-punk in this collection that is one-part memoir-in-essays, and one-part playlist, zigzagging across genres and decades, much like the rapidly changing and varied tastes of her youth." -- Amazon.com]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3960679</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3960679</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Prado, Emilly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3960679143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Essays</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781892061874/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1259401009</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Gen]]></title><description><![CDATA["From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate, Alejandra Campoverdi, comes a riveting and unflinching memoir on navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina, offering a broad examination of the unacknowledged emotional tolls of being a trailblazer. To be a First and Only in America is a delicate balancing act of surviving where you come from while acting like you belong where you're going. Alejandra Campoverdi has been a child on welfare, a White House aide to President Obama, a gang member's girlfriend, and a candidate for U.S. Congress. She's ridden on Air Force One and in G-rides. She's modeled on the pages of Maxim and had a double mastectomy. Living a life of contradictory extremes often comes with the territory when you're a "First and Only." It also comes at a price. With candor and heart, Alejandra retraces her trajectory as a Mexican American woman raised by an immigrant single mother in Los Angeles, foregoing the tidy bullet points of her resume and shining a light on the spaces between them instead. What emerges is a moving testimony of personal struggle and triumph that shatters the one-dimensional glossy narrative we are often sold of what it takes to achieve the American Dream. Alejandra uses her own experiences to illustrate the emotional tolls First and Onlys often face that are widespread yet rarely acknowledged, providing a road to truth and healing in the process. It is a timely and revealing reflection, as social class continues to be a key determinant of career success. Part memoir, part manifesto, FIRST GEN is a story of generational inheritance, aspiration, and belonging - a poignant journey to "reclaim the parts of ourselves we sacrificed in order to survive.""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4266398</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4266398</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Campoverdi, Alejandra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4266398143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538757185/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1377501958</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Distance Between Us]]></title><description><![CDATA[When Reyna Grande's father leaves his wife and three children behind in a village in Mexico to make the dangerous trek across the border to the United States, he promises he will soon return from "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) with enough money to build them a dream house where they can all live together. His promises become harder to believe as months turn into years. When he summons his wife to join him, Reyna and her siblings are deposited in the already overburdened household of their stern, unsmiling grandmother. The three siblings are forced to look out for themselves; in childish games they find a way to forget the pain of abandonment and learn to solve very adult problems. When their mother at last returns, the reunion sets the stage for a dramatic new chapter in Reyna's young life: her own journey to "El Otro Lado" to live with the man who has haunted her imagination for years, her long-absent father. -- Jacket, p. [2]]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C1853132</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C1853132</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grande, Reyna]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1853132143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781451661774/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=ocn759913639</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Distance Between Us]]></title><description><![CDATA["At the age of 8, Reyna Grande made the dangerous and illegal trek across the border from Mexico to the United States, and discovered that the American Dream is much more complicated than it seemed."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2797547</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2797547</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grande, Reyna]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2797547143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781481463713/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=951018008</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of Selena]]></title><description><![CDATA["This special edition of The Life of / La vida de Selena celebrates the life of the "Queen of Tejano Music", Selena Quintanilla. Introduce your little ones to the most recognizable Latina music artist of our time. Born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas, Selena Quintanilla was destined to be a star. Her career started at a young age when she became the lead singer in her family's band, Selena Y Los Dinos. As her popularity soared, so did her gift for fashion, and she soon began to design and manufacture her own line of clothing. To this day, her music and fashion continue to bloom in our hearts."--Publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4377273</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4377273</guid><category><![CDATA[BOARD_BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rodríguez, Patty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4377273143</comments><format>BOARD_BK</format><subtitle>La vida de Selena : a bilingual picture book biography</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781948066969/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1402020532</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of Selena]]></title><description><![CDATA[Born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas, Selena Quintanilla was destined to be a star. Her career started at a young age when she became the lead singer in her family's band, Selena Y Los Dinos.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3262972</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3262972</guid><category><![CDATA[BOARD_BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rodríguez, Patty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3262972143</comments><format>BOARD_BK</format><subtitle>La vida de Selena</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780986109997/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1011461858</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hurdles in the Dark]]></title><description><![CDATA["A YA memoir about survival and strength by Elvira Gonzalez, a Mexican-American track star who found freedom from poverty and violence by training to become one of the top athletes in the U.S."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4448384</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4448384</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gonzalez, Elvira K.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4448384143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250847850/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1384412428</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Native Country of the Heart]]></title><description><![CDATA["As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power, sex, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother's journey--from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to, later on, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer's--she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother's memory fails, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora, its indigenous origins, and an American story of cultural loss."--Amazon.com.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3556903</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3556903</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Moraga, Cherríe]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3556903143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374219666/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1060181013</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mi Little Golden Book sobre Selena]]></title><description><![CDATA[Este pequeno Little Golden Book sobre Selena Quintanilla, una cantante Americana mexicana que era muy famosa por su impacto en la cultura y la musica tejana, es una historia inspiradora para ninos pequenos, asi como para sus padres y abuelos que la admiran. -- Publisher marketing.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4541234</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4541234</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Correa, Maria]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4541234143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593810439/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1499139832</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between A Whore and A Working Woman]]></title><description><![CDATA["At eighteen, Yvonne Martinez flees brutal domestic violence and is taken in by her dying grandmother . . . who used to be a sex worker. Before she dies, her grandmother reveals family secrets and shares her uncommon wisdom. "Someday, Mija," she tells Yvonne, "you'll learn the difference between a whore and a working woman." She also shares disturbing facts about their family's history--eventually leading Yvonne to discover that her grandmother was trafficked as a child in Depression-era Utah by her own mother, Yvonne's great-grandmother, and that she was blamed for her own rape. In the years that follow her grandmother's passing, Yvonne gets an education and starts a family. As she heals from her own abuse by her mother and stepfather, she becomes an advocate/labor activist. Grounded in her grandmother's dictum not to whore herself out, she learns to fight for herself and teaches others to do the same--exposing sexual harassment in the labor unions where she works and fighting corruption. Intense but ultimately uplifting, Someday Mija, You'll Learn the Difference Between a Whore and a Working Woman is a compelling memoir in essays of transforming transgenerational trauma into resilience and post-traumatic growth."-- Amazon.com.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4156556</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C4156556</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Martinez, Yvonne]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4156556143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781647421021/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1295242587</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introduces little ones to the life of legendary civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, in both English and Spanish! "Si, Se Puede! Yes, it can be done!" is the famous rallying cry of Dolores Huerta, a leading voice in the rights of migrant farmworkers. Inspire your little ones to believe in themselves and become leaders, just like Dolores!]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3879895</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3879895</guid><category><![CDATA[BOARD_BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rodríguez, Patty]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3879895143</comments><format>BOARD_BK</format><subtitle>La vida de : Dolores</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781947971585/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1220990547</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alguien como yo]]></title><description><![CDATA[La impresionante historia de la activista social y autora de éxito nacional Julissa Arce sobre su niñez en Texas y su lucha por alcanzar su Sueño Americano, aun siendo indocumentada. Nacida en Taxco, México, Julissa Arce se quedaba en su pintoresco pueblo durante meses con sus dos hermanas, una niñera y su abuela, mientras que sus padres viajaban incansablemente a Estados Unidos con la esperanza de construir una casa y buscar mejores oportunidades para sus niños. Un día, sus padres deciden traer a Julissa a Texas a vivir con ellos. A partir de ese entonces, Julissa vivió en secreto como una inmigrante indocumentada. Sin embargo, según con el pasar de los años, Julissa ganó una prestigiosa beca y obtuvo su grado universitario con honores, consiguiendo varios éxitos en su camino hasta convertirse en vicepresidenta del banco norteamericano Goldman Sachs. En esta adaptación para jóvenes lectores, la historia de Julissa es prueba de que todo es posible. Su inspiradora trayectoria ofrece una mirada profunda al mundo poco comprendido de una nueva generación de inmigrantes indocumentados en los Estados Unidos: niños que son tus vecinos, que se sientan a tu lado en clase o que incluso pueden ser uno de tus mejores amigos.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3763962</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3763962</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arce, Julissa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3763962143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>la lucha de una joven niña por alcanzar su sueño Americano</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593081532/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1125280607</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selena]]></title><description><![CDATA[Este libro analiza la increíble vida y la muerte prematura y trágica de Selena. El libro tiene fotografías de la impresionante carrera de Selena, texto simple, y una cronología.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3998971</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3998971</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hansen, Grace]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3998971143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>reconocida artista mexicano-americana</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781098204419/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1234887891</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Born in 1930]]></title><description><![CDATA["Born in 1930-learn how politician and activist Harvey Milk used his voice to overturn policies that targeted LGBT people and how labor reformer Dolores Huerta fought for working rights for Mexican/Latinx laborers. Aligned with curriculum standards, this book also highlights key 21st Century content: Global Awareness, Civic Literacy, and Economic Literacy. Thought-provoking content and a hands-on activity encourage critical thinking and civic engagement. Book includes table of contents, glossary of key words, index, author biography, sidebars, and timeline"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3974849</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3974849</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Knutson, Julie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3974849143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Harvey Milk, Dolores Huerta</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781534159204/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1110439021</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dolores Huerta]]></title><description><![CDATA["Relevant images match informative text in this introduction to Dolores Huerta. Intended for students in kindergarten through third grade"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3716739</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3716739</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Moening, Kate]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3716739143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Labor Activist</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781644870990/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1065546208</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone Like Me]]></title><description><![CDATA["Julissa Arce explores her days in Mexico separated from her parents and her daily fears while growing up undocumented in Texas"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3527442</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3527442</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arce, Julissa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3527442143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316481748/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1019617753</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dream Called Home]]></title><description><![CDATA[From bestselling author Reyna Grande whose remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us has become required reading in schools across the country comes an inspiring account of one woman's quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. When Reyna Grande was nine years old, she walked across the US-Mexico border in search of a home, desperate to be reunited with the parents who had left her behind years before for a better life in the City of Angels. What she found instead was an indifferent mother, an abusive, alcoholic father, and a school system that belittled her heritage. With so few resources at her disposal, Reyna finds refuge in words, and it is her love of reading and writing that propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Although her acceptance is a triumph, the actual experience of American college life is intimidating and unfamiliar for someone like Reyna, who is now once again estranged from her family and support system. Again, she finds solace in words, holding fast to her vision of becoming a writer, only to discover she knows nothing about what it takes to make a career out of a dream. Through it all, Reyna is determined to make the impossible possible, going from undocumented immigrant of little means to "a fierce, smart, shimmering light of a writer" (Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild ); a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "speak[ing] for millions of immigrants whose voices have gone unheard" (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street ); and a proud mother of two beautiful children who will never have to know the pain of poverty and neglect. Told in Reyna's exquisite, heartfelt prose, A Dream Called Home demonstrates how, by daring to pursue her dreams, Reyna was able to build the one thing she had always longed for: a home that would endure.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3404131</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3404131</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grande, Reyna]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3404131143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501171420/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1022702787</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[La búsqueda de un sueño]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reyna Grande tenía nueve años cuando cruzó la frontera de México y los Estados Unidos buscando un hogar y el reencuentro con sus padres, quienes la habían dejado en su tierra natal para migrar a Los Ángeles en busca de una mejor vida. Sin embargo, lo que encontró fue a una madre indiferente y a un padre alcohólico y violento, en un país cuyo sistema educativo menospreciaba sus raíces. Reyna se refugió en las palabras. Su amor por la lectura y la escritura fueron su inspiración para salir adelante y lograr lo que parecía imposible: ser la primera persona en su familia en asistir a la universidad. Pero la experiencia universitaria resultó intimidante, y muy pronto descubrió que desconocía lo que se requiere para forjar una carrera a partir de un sueño. Contra viento y marea, Reyna convirtió su condición de inmigrante indocumentada en la de "una escritora valiente, inteligente y brillante" (Cheryl Strayed, autora de Wild) que "habla por millones de inmigrantes cuyas voces no han sido escuchadas" (Sandra Cisneros, autora de La casa en Mango Street). Narrada con esa prosa conmovedora y sincera que la caracteriza, en La búsqueda de un sueño Reyna Grande nos relata cómo persiguió sus sueños para construir lo que siempre había anhelado: un hogar duradero.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3447877</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3447877</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Grande, Reyna]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3447877143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>una autobiografía</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501172076/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=1050457065</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Una casa propia]]></title><description><![CDATA["A book of essays spanning the author's career a[nd] reflecting upon the various homes she's lived in around the world"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2731380</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2731380</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cisneros, Sandra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2731380143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>historias de mi vida</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345807182/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=953232242</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[El secreto de Selena]]></title><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2310796</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2310796</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Arrarás, María Celeste]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2310796143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>la reveladora historia detrás de su trágica muerte</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781476775067/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=863194704</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A House of My Own]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the author of The House on Mango Street, a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography--an intimate album of a beloved literary legend. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, where she could truly take root, has eluded her. With this collection--spanning three decades, and including never-before-published work--Cisneros has come home at last. Ranging from the private (her parents' loving and tempestuous marriage) to the political (a rallying cry for one woman's liberty in Sarajevo) to the literary (a tribute to Marguerite Duras), and written with her trademark lyricism, these signature pieces recall transformative memories as well as reveal her defining artistic and intellectual influences. Poignant, honest, deeply moving, this is an exuberant celebration of a life in writing lived to the fullest.From the Hardcover edition.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2882057</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2882057</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cisneros, Sandra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2882057143</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Stories From My Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385351348/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A House of My Own]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, where she could truly take root, has eluded her. With this collection--spanning nearly three decades, and including never-before-published work--Cisneros has come home at last."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2419755</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C2419755</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cisneros, Sandra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2419755143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Stories From My Life</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385351331/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=907060041</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Para Selena, con amor]]></title><description><![CDATA["Ahora, por primera vez, Chris habla sobre su poderosa amistad, su relación prohibida y su floreciente matrimonio interrumpido por la imperdonable muerte de Selena."--Back cover.]]></description><link>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3173125</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S143C3173125</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Perez, Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3173125143</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle/><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780451414052/MC.GIF&amp;client=wccls&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=779454025</image_url></item></channel></rss>