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Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A stranger in a strange land, Bolivar De La Cruz has just crossed the border from Mexico in search of a better life. In contrast, restless, club-hopping second-generation immigrant Lola has the American Dream at her fingertips but feels like a stranger in her own life, forever caught between appeasing her old-world mother and following her heart. On the surface, despite their shared ethnic heritage, Bolivar and Lola have little in common. But when...
2) Spanglish
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family where the patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (291 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt what little stability high school guidance counselor Madison Clark and English teacher Travis Manawa have managed to assemble. The everyday pressure...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A woman inherits a beloved bookstore and sets forth on a journey of self-discovery in this poignant debut about family, forgiveness and a love of reading. Miranda Brooks grew up in the stacks of her eccentric uncle Billy's bookstore, solving the inventive scavenger hunts he created just for her. But on Miranda's twelfth birthday, Billy has a mysterious falling-out with her mother and suddenly disappears from Miranda's life. She doesn't hear about...
5) Spanglish
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
A housekeeper and daughter from Mexico are forced to live with a reknowned chef's eccentric family in L.A., with resulting culture clashes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
381 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Amazon.
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