Luis Alberto Urrea

• Apr-1994
• / General Fiction
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Written in language that pops off the page, peopled with appealing characters, chock-full of humor, and packed with adventure, this stunning first novel by the author of the acclaimed non-fiction work Across the Wire is alive with the unique racial m...

• Feb-2002
• / General Fiction
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"Home isn't just a place, it is also a language."

Born in Tijuana, the son of an Anglo woman and a Mexican father, Urrea says that "Home isn't just a place, it is also a language." In these six stories--each wandering beneath different kinds of sky...

• May-2005
• / General Fiction
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From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The House of Broken Angels and Good Night, Irene, discover the epic historical novel following the journey of a young saint fighting for her survival. This historical novel is based on Urrea's real great-a...

• May-2009
• / General Fiction
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Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in t...

• Jun-2010
• / General Fiction
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Mr. Mendoza, Mexico’s self-described king of graffiti, blesses the small town of Rosario with his sardonic wit. �"Deflate your pomp or float away!” he paints on the body of an unexpectedly exhumed monk. �"No intelligent life for 100 kilometers,�...

• Nov-2011
• / Historical
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At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, QUEEN OF AMERICA tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummin...

• Apr-2015
• / Literary
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From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a new story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called "wickedly good" (Kansas City Star), "cinematic and charged" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), and "stud...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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The definitive Mexican-American immigrant story, at once intimate and epic, from an acclaimed storyteller. In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan fo...

• Jun-2023
• / Historical
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This New York Times bestselling novel tells an exhilarating World War II epic that chronicles an extraordinary young woman’s heroic frontline service in the Red Cross. “Urrea’s touch is sure, his exuberance carries you through . . . He is a ge...