Plaza Requiem: Stories At The Edge Of Ordinary Lives

Mexican-Canadian Martha Batiz has crafted, in her first collection written in English, visceral stories with piercing and evocative qualities.

Red, Yellow, Green

In Montreal, Alfredo struggles with his memories of being ordered to commit an atrocity by the Bolivian army. Despising his nation as an oppressive sham, he falls for a woman who has no nation-a Kurdish freedom-fighter trying to blast an independent Kurdistan into existence. As the net of intrigue closes in on his lover, Alfredo must finally face his past. Refusing to be bound by style, genre, or language, Alejandro Saravia captures the tumultuous existence of the exile.

Caravan To The North: Misael's Long Walk

A novel in verse about a Salvadorian boy and his family as they join a caravan heading to the United States.

Retribution: a novel

A story that spans over seventy years in the life of the Martinez family, from their life in Chile before the 1973 military coup to the horror that ensued; their flight to Canada as political refugees, and back to Chile again as Sol joins the underground resistance movement and looks for the remains of her disappeared husband.

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Mexican Hooker #1

A stunning follow-up to Carmen Aguirre's bestselling and Canada Reads-winning first book, Something Fierce. Mexican Hooker #1 is a powerful, heartfelt and grippingly honest memoir of finding meaning in life and one's voice as an artist, and of developing the strength to confront and overcome a childhood trauma. 

Curiosity

The author tells about his personal life through the reading the books that has mapped his way.

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Lion and Mouse

For children. One day, the mouse marches into the lion s den without an invitation. Before the lion can eat him for breakfast, the mouse begs for mercy. If you let me go, I might be able to return the favor.

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Mexican Gothic

A New York Times best seller. An isolated mansion, a chillingly charismatic aristocrat, and a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . .

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And So It Goes

In this gentle meditation on the cycle of life, author and illustrator Paloma Valdivia gives us an opportunity to reflect on those who have gone, those who will come, and those of us who are here in this world -- for the time being.

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I Dreamt: A Book About Hope

For children. In many parts of the world, children live with violence and fear instead of having the full and free life they deserve. The art of Mexican illustrators is brought together in a book that gives children a way to talk about their fears and a reason for hope.

Cuerpo Amado = Beloved Body

Powerful poems about dealing wtih breast cancer.Text in Spanish with parallel English translations.

La Cafetería Van Hautten: Un Homenaje A Los Bares Perdidos : Novela

Spanish. The story of an immigrant who comes from Buenos Aires to Ottawa and does not find a real place to have a good coffee. The main character describes his perceptions of the coffee shops he visits, the people, the weather, the city and much more of this new environment in which he now lives.

Something Fierce: Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Daughter

A Canada Reads 2012: True Stories Contender and long-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. A gripping, darkly comic first-hand account of a young underground revolutionary during the Pinochet dictatorship in 1980s Chile.