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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 587.3 SACLevy, Janice.
Summary: Simple text and color illustrations present the historical background and contemporary celebration of the Cinco de Mayo holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 RODWasserspring, Lois.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738 WASHernández, Anabel
Summary: "Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido periodístico de Anabel Hernández en su incesante búsqeuda por entender el complejo imperio del crimen organizado y los cárteles de la droga en México, los cuales desde hace décadas tienen sumida a la nación en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los días son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grijalbo 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 HERSummary: Set in the future, a young man looks for a better life outside his small rural village in Mexico-- but finds himself facing a technological dystopia when he attempts to cross the border.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SLEDe Regil, Tania
Summary: En una primera visita sin sus papás a la casa de su abuela en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, una niña descubre lo que hace que la abuela tan especial.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH DETrilling, Susana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5972 TRIBowden, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 BOWSummary: Well into their 30s, Juan Nunez and Benjamin Wilson still can't seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents' homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo a suburb of Mexico City. On a fateful Christmas Eve, however, they decide it's finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MUSSummary: The beauty and strength of the women of the Juchitán have inspired legends and songs for centuries, as well as recent tabloid stories of male harems and free love. Separate fact from folklore and sensationalism from sociology.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006
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Summary: Explains the history behind the holiday and discusses how it is celebrated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.07 BULRaúl the Third
Summary: "Little Lobo and his friends are excited for the out-of-this-world book festival the Guadalupian Library hosts every year! Everyone has a special book they're looking for, but there's so much to see and do first. From cookbook demonstrations and comics workshops to mask making and language classes, this library has something for everyone. Can Little Lobo, Bernabé, Kooky Dooky, Coco Rocho, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RAUGrande, Reyna
Summary: From bestselling author Reyna Grandewhose 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GRANDE, REYNA GRAWeill, Cynthia
Summary: Invites emerging readers to identify the animals depicted in figures by Rubí Fuentes and Efraín Broa from the Mexican state of Oaxaca and act out their sounds in English and Spanish.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinco Puntos Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: BOARD SPANISH WEISummary: Joe Kidd, which concerns a land war in New Mexico at the turn of the century, marks Clint Eastwood at the top of his form as a western hero. Like a very classic western, it has gunfights, conflicts, and a slambang finale which has a locomotive being driven through a saloon where the bad guys are hiding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN JOEHoyt-Goldsmith, Diane.
Summary: A young Mexican American from California learns about her heritage and celebrates the holiday with her friends, family, and community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2008
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J394.262 HOYBarner, Bob.
Summary: With sugar skulls, sweet-smelling marigold petals and joyful songs, Hispanic families welcome back ancestors on this holiday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: SPANISH 468 BARGrove, Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GROElkins, Aaron J.
Summary: While on vacation in Mexico, skeleton detective Gideon Oliver is called in to determine the cause of death on two sets of suspiciously misidentified remains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELKSmith, Maximilian
Summary: The Cinco de Mayo (5th of May) is a Mexican holiday, also celebrated in the United States, that celebrates the victory of Mexican forces over the French on May 5, 1862 at the Battle of Puebla.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2016
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Summary: Simple text and photographs explain the history of Cinco de Mayo, and how this commemoration of the victory of the Mexican army over the French army on May 5, 1862, is celebrated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble Books 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.26972 SCHHurwitz, Gregg Andrew.
Summary: In Don't Look Back, Eve Hardaway, newly single mother of one, is on a trip she's long dreamed of--a rafting and hiking tour through the jungles and mountains of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. Eve wanders off the trail, to a house in the distance with a menacing man in the yard beyond it, throwing machetes at a human-shaped target. Disturbed by the sight, Eve moves quickly and quietly back to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014