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After you finish reading "Enrique's Journey," here are some great suggestions for your next book.
Juvenile Fiction
Title: The Cuckoo's Child
Author: Freeman, Suzanne T.
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 0688142907
Call Number: J FIC/FREEMAN
Notes: First-time novelist Freeman conveys the essence of estrangement in a unique coming-of-age story, at once profound and darkly humorous.
Title: Lupe & Me
Author: Spurr, Elizabeth
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Co.
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 0152005226
Call Number: J FIC/SPURR
Notes: Seven-year-old Susan forms a special friendship with her family's young housekeeper, Lupe, who introduces her to Mexican customs and the Spanish language.
Title: Grab Hands and Run
Author: Temple, Frances
Publisher: Orchard Books
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 0531054802
Call Number: J FIC/TEMPLE
Notes: Paints a strong picture of what the family's life was like before, during and after their journey, as well as in a U.S. Detention center.
General Fiction
Title: Harbor
Author: Adams, Lorraine
Publisher: Knopf
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 140004233X
Call Number: FIC/ADAMS
Notes: The uncertain lives of illegal Algerian immigrants are the subject of this compelling, topical debut novel.
Title: The Tortilla Curtain
Author: Boyle, T. Coraghessan
Publisher: Viking
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 0670856045
Call Number: FIC/BOYLE
Notes: Go tell it in the valley: Boyle's newest novel is, according to the publicist, "a timely, provocative account" of immigration in central California.
Title: The Stowaway
Author: Hough, Robert
Publisher: Arcade
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 1559707453
Call Number: FIC/HOUGH
Notes: Relates how two stowaways are discovered on a container ship bound for North America. The stowaways, who speak only Romanian, are set adrift and soon drown.
Title: Crossing
Author: Martinez, Manuel Luis
Publisher: Bilingual Press
Price: $11.00
ISBN: 0927534800
Call Number: FIC/MARTINEZ
Notes: Tells the story of Luis, a boy who leaves his small town in Mexico to seek his fortune in the United States.
Title: Digging to America: A Novel
Author: Tyler, Anne
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0307263940
Call Number: FIC/TYLER
Notes: A story about what it is to be an American, and about Maryam Yazdan, who after thirty-five years in this country must finally come to terms with her "outsiderness."
Title: The Devil's Hawk
Author: Sipherd, Ray
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 0312244282
Call Number: [MYST] FIC/SIPHERD
Notes: A handsome birder, who's doing fieldwork in Arizona, uncovers a tale of ornithological superstition and human smuggling.
Title: Macho!
Author: Villasenor, Victor
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 1558850279
Call Number: FIC/VILLASENOR
Notes: Roberto Garcia was only seventeen, but with ambition to burn and a passion to prove his manhood, Roberto took the dangerous journey north, crossing the Mexican border to pick fruit in the golden fields of California.
Title: The Hummingbird's Daughter
Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
Publisher: Little Brown & Co.
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0316745464
Call Number: FIC/URREA
Notes: The story of a girl coming to terms with her destiny, with the miraculous, and with the power of faith.
Non Fiction
Title: The Issues of Immigration: Melting Pot or Boiling Point?
Author: Cull, Nicholas (editor)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 0826333761
Call Number: 791.4372/ALAMBRISTA
Notes: Book includes the critically acclaimed 110-minute film "Alambrista (1977) which depicts the harsh realities of Mexican life on both sides of the border.
Title: The Devil's Highway: A True Story
Author: Urrea, Luis Alberto
Publisher: Little, Brown
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0316746711
Call Number: 304.873/URREA
Notes: In May 2001, 26 Mexican men scrambled across the border and into an area of the Arizona desert known as the Devil's Highway. Only 12 made it safely across. Writer and poet Urrea ,who was born in Tijuana and now lives outside Chicago, tracks the paths those men took from their home state of Veracruz all the way norte.
Title: Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Author: Martinez, Ruben
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 0805049088
Call Number: 306.85089/MARTINEZ
Notes: Both an award-winning journalist and a poet, Martinez tracks a migrant family from Mexico to the U.S., and shows how migrant culture is changing America.
Title: Americans No More
Author: Geyer, Georgie Anne
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Price: $23.00
ISBN: 0871136503
Call Number: 323.60973/GEYER
Notes: Geyer shows us a nation in turmoil over illegal immigration, non-citizen voting, and bilingualism - and in so doing, she shows us a nation that has become more concerned with individual rights and individual identity than with the common good.
Title: The Tarnished Door: The New Immigrants and the Transformation of America
Author: Crewdson, John
Publisher: Times Books
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 0812910427
Call Number: 323.631/CREWDSON
Notes: A controversial but an absolutely refreshing and different perspective on what has been called one of our country's most pressing issues.
Title: U.S. Immigration Policy and the Undocumented: Ambivalent Laws, Furtive Lives
Author: Crewdson, John
Publisher: Times Books
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 0812910427
Call Number: 323.631/CREWDSON
Notes: A controversial but an absolutely refreshing and different perspective on what has been called one of our country's most pressing issues.
Title: Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society
Author: Chavez, Leo
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers
Price: $10.00
ISBN: 0030310377
Call Number: 325.79498/CHAVEZ
Notes: Anthropologist Leo Chavez presents a very descriptive and detailed account that takes readers into the lives and experiences of illegal immigrants living and working in the farms and orchards of San Diego County.
Title: Coyotes: A Journey through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens
Author: Conover, Ted
Publisher: Vintage Books
Price: $6.95
ISBN: 0394755189
Call Number: 331.62/CONOVER
Notes: The compelling adventure of a young writer who poses as a Mexican wetback to discover the hardships, fear and camaraderie of illegal aliens crossing the border to work in the United States.
Title: The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez
Author: Breslin, Jimmy
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Price: $22.00
ISBN: 0609608274
Call Number: 331.6272/BRESLIN
Notes: Tells the unspeakably sad tale of a young undocumented Mexican immigrant who died working at a New York City construction site.
Title: Brutality Unchecked: Human Rights Abuses along the U.S. Border with Mexico
Author:
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Price: $7.00
ISBN: 1564320758
Call Number: 342.73083/BRUTALITY
Notes: This report examines human rights abuses committed by the INS and it's agents along the four states that border Mexico. It also looks at the policies of the Immigration agency that enable these abuses to occur.
Title: Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music, and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants
Author: Cull, Nicholas (editor)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Price: $36.95
ISBN: 0826333761
Call Number: 791.4372/ALAMBRISTA
Notes: Book includes the critically acclaimed 110-minute film "Alambrista (1977) which depicts the harsh realities of Mexican life on both sides of the border.
Title: Writing on the edge: A Borderlands Reader
Author: Miller, Tom (editor)
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 0816522413
Call Number: 810.80979/WRITING
Notes: This wide-ranging anthology -- gathering short stories and essays, song lyrics and poems -- offers readers a new appreciation of the border and its literature.
Title: Border Confluence: Borderland Narratives from the Mexican War to the Present
Author: King, Rosemary A
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 0816523355
Call Number: 813.009/KING
Notes: Examines writings from the Mexican War to the present, assessing works from such figures as Helen Hunt Jackson, Jovita Gonzalez, Ernesto Glarza, and others.
Title: Wetback Nation: The Case for Opening the Mexican-American Border
Author: Laufer, Peter
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 1566635926
Call Number: 972.1/LAUFER
Notes: Laufer argues that the border with Mexico should be completely open, with a free flow of people between the two countries. He offers a step-by-step blueprint for making it happen.
Title: Crossings: Photographs from the U.S.-Mexico Border
Author: Webb, Alex
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 1580930964
Call Number: 972.1083/WEBB
Notes: Included as one of the Village Voice Best Photo Books of 2003, Crossings is a powerful collection of color images depicting the borderland between the United States and Mexico.
Title: Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Author: Ellingwood, Ken
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 0375422439
Call Number: 972.1084/ELLINGWOOD
Notes: Ken Ellingwood, a correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, captures the heart of this complex land, through the dramatic stories of undocumented immigrants and the border agents who track them through the desert:
Title: Women and Other Aliens: Essays from the U.S.-Mexico Border
Author: Nathan, Debbie
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 0938317083
Call Number: 976.4/NATHAN
Notes: Lives of women servants in El Paso to the Immigration and Naturalization Service hearings of leftist writer Margaret Randall to the nationwide hysteria over the sexual abuse of children are discussed in this narrative.
Title: The Border: Life on the Line
Author: Hall, Douglas Kent
Publisher: Abbeville Press
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 0896596850
Call Number: 979/HALL
Notes: Covers the usual border subjects, but also accurately captures the complexity of the frontier through more unusual personalities such as a priest, a teacher, and an artist.
Title: Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Author: Gonzalez, Juan
Publisher: Viking
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 0670867209
Call Number: 973.0468/GONZALEZ
Notes: This book features family portraits of real-life immigrants along with sketches of the political events and social conditions that compelled them to leave their homeland.
Title: Everything You Need to Know About Latino History
Author: Novas, Himilce
Publisher: Plume
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 0452271002
Call Number: 973.0468/NOVAS
Notes: A comprehensive look at Latinos and their multifaceted, vibrant, and influential culture.
Title: Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History
Author: Ramos, Jorge
Publisher: Rayo
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 0060789441
Call Number: 364.13/RAMOS
Notes: Popular Univision anchor Ramos examines the grim incident near Houston in 2003 when some 80 undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans were left crammed into a sweltering trailer for nearly four hours without water or ventilation, killing 19 of them.
Title: Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Author: Rodriguez, Richard
Publisher: Penguin Books
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 0670030430
Call Number: 305.868/RODRIGUEZ
Notes: In his two previous works, "Hunger of Memory" and "Days of Obligation," Rodriguez wrote about the intersection of his private life with public issues of class and ethnicity. With "Brown," his consideration of race, Rodriguez completes his "trilogy on American public life."
Title: The Hispanic Condition: The Power of a People
Author: Stavans, Ilan
Publisher: Rayo
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 0060935863
Call Number: 305.868/STAVANS
Notes: Using art and literature as a mirror to the Hispanic population, Stavans suggests that Hispanics or Latinos are different from all other minorities because of their common cultural and historical past, regardless of country of origin.
Title: Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States
Author: Tobar, Hector
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 1573223050
Call Number: 305.86807/TOBAR
Notes: The son of Guatemalan immigrants, Hector Tobar draws on his own experiences of growing up in L.A. and reporting about the Hispanic community in this semi-autobiographical look at the expanding Spanish-speaking population and how it is changing the face of communities across the U.S.
Spanish Language Materials
Title: Cultura al Otro Lado de la Frontera: Inmigración Mexicana y Cultura Popular
Author: Garcia-Acevedo, Maria Rosa
Publisher: Siglo Veintiuno Editores
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9682322065
Call Number: SPA 305.868/CULTURA
Notes: The first and only book-length study to analyze a wide range of cultural manifestations of the immigration experience, including art, literature, cinema, corridos, and humor.
Title: Cruzando la Frontera: La Crónica Implacable de Una Familia Mexicana Que Emigra a Estados Unidos
Author: Martinez, Ruben
Publisher: Planeta
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9706905847
Call Number: SPA 306.85089/MARTINEZ
Notes: Follows the Chavez family as they leave southern Mexico to travel the underground railroad to the tomato farms of Missouri, the strawberry fields of California, and the slaughterhouses of Wisconsin.
Title: La Experiencia Migrante: Iconografía de la Migración México-Estados Unidos
Author: Durand, Jorge
Publisher: Altexto
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9688958832
Call Number: SPA 973.04687/DURAND
Notes: A collaborative project sponsored by many institutions on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, this book illustrates the history of the great migration that continues to this day.
Title: Morir en el Intento: La Peor Tragedia de Inmigrantes en la Historia de los Estados Unidos
Author: Ramos, Jorge
Publisher: Rayo/HarperCollins
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 0060789468
Call Number: SPA 304.873/RAMOS
Notes: Gripping narrative account of the tragic deaths of 19 immigrants in Texas as they tried to make their way across the Mexican-American border
Audio-visual
Title: Destination America: The People and Cultures that Created a Nation
Publisher: PBS Home Video
Price: $24.99
Call Number: DVD 305.90691/DESTINATION
Notes: A four part educational documentary series which explores the motivational forces and reasons for contemporary immigration.
Title: The Ties that Bind: Immigration in the United States
Publisher: Maryknoll World Productions
Price: $29.95
Call Number: VC 325.73/TIES
Notes: This program looks at the human drama behind current debate over U.S. immigration policy. Presents the story of people and immigrants on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border.
Title: La Ilegal
Publisher: Compañía Oxxo
Price: $20.99
Call Number: VC SPA 791.4372/ILEGAL
Notes: Alone, and without immigration papers, a young mother tries to build a life for herself in the United States.
Title: El Norte (subtitled)
Publisher: Frontera Films
Price: $19.00
Call Number: VC SPA 791.4372/NORTE
Notes: A drama about a Guatemalan brother and sister seeking better lives. They set out for the promised land, "El Norte."
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