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Franklin Ave. Library - Memoirs - Adult
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From popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer John Paul Brammer, a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation.
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Hudes, Q.
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B Hudes, Q.
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East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Hudes, Q.
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East Side Library - Large Print Books - Adult
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Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken stories of the barrio -- even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea...
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"Horizontal Vertigo: the title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes, which led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flâneur, Villoro wanders through the city seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things, while brilliantly drawing connections among them, the better to reveal, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of Mexico...
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Central Library - Biographies - Display
B Agustin, R.
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B Agustin, R.
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Forest Ave. Library - Biographies - Adult
B Agustin, R.
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B Agustin, R.
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North Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Agustin, R.
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B Agustin, R.
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"What happens when the all-American high school student discovers he's undocumented? Rafa's parents didn't want him to grow up feeling different because, as his mom told him: "Dreams should not have borders." Rafa had no idea of his immigration status until he tried to get his driver's license during his junior year of high school. Suddenly, his perfectly curated and slightly racist (race-ish, if you will) American life came undone. While his parents...
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Forest Ave. Library - Social Science - Adult
305.868 R
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305.868 R
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.868 R
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305.868 R
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North Side Library - Social Science - Adult
305.868 R
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"Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many of them--Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns--are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been represented. No longer. In this empowering cross-country travelogue,...
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Central Library - Biographies - 2nd Floor
B Sanchez, E.
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B Sanchez, E.
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East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Sanchez, E.
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B Sanchez, E.
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B Sanchez, E.
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B Sanchez, E.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly original memoir-in-essays that is as deeply moving as it is hilariously funny"--
Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment--a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy, often laughing so hard with her...
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Forest Ave. Library - Social Science - Adult
305.48 M
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305.48 M
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.48 M
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South Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
305.48 M
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"For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts offers wisdom and a liberating...
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).
“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle
“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child,...
“The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle
“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. As a child,...
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East Side Library - Nonfiction - Adult
303.48 Ar
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303.48 Ar
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303.48 Ar
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Franklin Ave. Library - Nonfiction - Adult
303.48 Ar
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303.48 Ar
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"Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce interweaves her own story with cultural commentary in a powerful polemic against the myth that assimilation leads to happiness and belonging for immigrants in America. Instead, she calls for a celebration of our uniqueness, our origins, our heritage, and the beauty of the differences that make us Americans. "You sound like a white girl." These were the words spoken to Julissa by a high school crush as she...
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East Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Rojas Contreras, I.
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B Rojas Contreras, I.
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Franklin Ave. Library - New Biographies - New Books
B Rojas Contreras, I.
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South Side Library - Biographies - Adult
B Rojas Contreras, I.
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B Rojas Contreras, I.
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...