Summary: It's Franco's Madrid in the early 1960s and Ava Gardner has moved there to flee husband Frank Sinatra, Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and the paparazzi. Her household staff consists of a pair posing as husband and wife who are actually spies. They're also opposites: housekeeper Ana Mari is a conservative soul who teaches young ladies how to be good housewives and mothers, and chauffeur Manolo is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BURCastillo, Ana
Summary: For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry and prose. Now the original Xicanista is back to her first literary love, poetry, and to interrogating the social and political upheaval the world has seen over the last decade. Angry and sad, playful and wise, Castillo delves into the bitter side of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: High Road Books is an imprint of the University of New Mexico Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 811 CASCastillo, Ana.
Summary: Eking out a living as a teacher's aide in a small New Mexican border town, Tia Regina is also raising her teenage nephew, Gabo, a hardworking boy who has entered the country illegally and aspires to the priesthood. When Gabo's father, Rafa, disappears while crossing over form Mexico, Regina fears the worst. After several days of waiting and an ominous phone call from a woman who may be...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CASSummary: In the wake of season one's climatic wave, the residents of the town adjust to the new order of life and the repercussions of the horde's appearance. Season two picks up after six months have gone by since the returned left with Simon, Camille and her mother, and Julie, along with the mysterious boy Victor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019