Nonfiction
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Texas Devils | Michael L. Collins
​​Michael L. Collins in his book, Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861, moves away from the Texas Ranger in “popular fiction” and provides the reader with a more balanced perception of this controversial character. Continue reading... 8/19/18

Valeria Luiselli | Tell Me How It Ends
​An inspiring and necessary book by the renown Mexican author Valeria Luiselli. Tell Me How It Ends speaks boldly about the painful reality undocumented, and many times unaccompanied, children face in the U.S. immigration system as well as their Continue reading... 3/18/18

Paco Ignacio Taibo II | El Álamo: Una historia no apta para Hollywood
​After finding out about the immense and disproportionate amount of material there is about the Alamo in the United States as opposed to Mexico, Mexican author, Paco Ignacio  Taibo II gives us a breath of Continue reading... 7/5/2017

Cecilia García Akers | The Inspiring Life of Texan Héctor P. García
Doctor Hector P. García was a Mexican immigrant who changed the lives of millions of Americans and whose positive contributions will continue to be enjoyed generation after generation Continue reading... 3/7/17
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Zaragosa Vargas | Crucible of Struggle
Crucible of Struggle: A History of Mexican Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Era, by Zaragosa Vargas, provides the reader a detailed chronological account of the Mexican American historical experience and how it takes its place in American History. Continue reading... 2/17/17
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Ray Suarez | Latino Americans
George Santayana once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Latino Americans by Suárez is an inspiring read, thoroughly documented, that enlightens the reader regarding our Latin American heritage and legacy Continue reading... 7/31/16

Shuly Xóchitl Cawood | The Going and Goodbye
The first thing that stands out in Shuly Xóchitl Cawood’s absorbing The Going and Goodbye: A Memoir is how easily an everyday act can be mined for meaning. Cawood is an unsatisfied wanderer in the grip of Sehnsucht who travels relentlessly from place Continue reading... 10/21/17
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​Sandra Cisneros | A House of My Own: Stories of My Life
​A profoundly intimate memoir by one of America's greatest writers. A House of My Own by Sandra Cisneros contains a compilation of never-before-published work, nonfiction writings, as well as family memories that explore and document her life from Continue reading... 3/16/17
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Arnoldo De Leon | They Called Them Greasers
They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821 – 1900, by Arnoldo De Leon, is a must read book that seeks to analyze the racial attitudes by white Americans towards people of Mexican descent  in the nineteenth century, how those Continue reading... 2/23/17
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Álvaro Huerta | Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate
Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate serves two major purposes: first, to save us from ourselves and secondly, to save us from the anti-Latino crusade we have witnessed this past decade. In order to save us from ourselves we first need to acknowledge who Continue reading... 9/25/16
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Luis Alberto Ambroggio | Estados Unidos Hispano
Five hundred years of Hispanic/Latino presence in the United States is proudly celebrated in Luis Alberto Ambroggio's book Estados Unidos Hispano. This work is a homage to our heritage, language and literature which demonstrates, through Continue reading... 9/11/16
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