Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Hispanic & Latino

When the selection committee voted Alejandro "Alex" Pompez into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, some cried foul. A Negro-league owner during baseball's glory days, Pompez was known as an early and steadfast advocate for Latino players, helping bring baseball into the modern age. So why was his induction so controversial?

Like many in the era of segregated baseball, Pompez found that the game alone could never make all ends meet. To finance his beloved team, the New York Cubans, he delved headlong into a sin many baseball fans find unforgivable--gambling. He built one of the most...

Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years in this "compelling . . . unvarnished, resonant" (BookPage) story of a childhood spent torn between two parents and two countries. As her parents make the dangerous trek across the Mexican border to "El Otro Lado" (The Other Side) in pursuit of the...

El Primer Papa Latinoamericano. Un hombre que eligio como su primer acto una simple peticion: por favor oren por mi.

Francisco es la biografia completa de un hombre humilde que de la noche a la manana se ha convertido en uno de los hombres mas influyentes del planeta.

La reciente dimision del Papa Benedicto XVI tomo al mundo por sorpresa y por buenas razones. Mas de 600 anos han pasado desde que un Papa renuncio a su cargo.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, ahora Papa Francisco, es un hombre de oracion, un hombre de accion y un hombre humilde que...

This long-awaited biography provides a fascinating and comprehensive picture of Garcia Marquez's life up to the publication of his classic 100 Years of Solitude. Based on nearly a decade of research, this biographical study sheds new light on the life and works of the Nobel Laureate, father of magical realism, and bestselling author in the history of the Spanish language. As Garcia Marquez's impact endures on well into his ninth decade, Stavans's keen insights constitute the definitive re-appraisal of the literary giant's life and corpus. The later part of his life will be covered...

A New York Times Editors' Choice book

The haunting story of a daughter's struggle to confront her father's turbulent-and often violent-legacy

After a fourteen-year estrangement, Maria Venegas returns to Mexico from the United States to visit her father, who is living in the old hacienda where both he and she were born. While spending the following summers and holidays together, herding cattle and fixing barbed-wire fences, he begins sharing stories with her, tales of a dramatic life filled with both intense love and brutal violence-from the final...

A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities.

Richard Blanco's childhood and adolescence were experienced between two imaginary worlds: his parents' nostalgic world of 1950s Cuba and his imagined America, the country he saw on reruns of The Brady Bunch and Leave it to Beaver--an "exotic" life he yearned for as much as he yearned to...

La estrella de "Orange is the New Black" y de "Jane the Virgin" presenta su historia personal acerca de la grave situacion en que se encuentran los inmigrantes indocumentados en este pais.

Diane Guerrero, la actriz de television del popular programa "Orange is the New Black" y de "Jane the Virgin," contaba con solo catorce anos cuando un dia sus padres y su hermano fueron arrestados y deportados mientras ella estaba en la escuela. Como habia nacido en Estados Unidos, Guerrero pudo permanecer en el pais y seguir estudiando gracias a la bondad de amigos de la familia, quienes se hicieron...

Teresa Bravo-Cortines looks back at her harrowing life in her inspiring true story Bravo: A Memoir. She stands as a testament that when things look their bleakest, it is possible to overcome the odds.

In her own words:

My book talks about my father being killed when I was only five years old, the great adversity and poverty we lived in, and about my kidnapping at the age of thirteen to work in the fields with migrant workers.

It continues with my going back to college and becoming a successful insurance agent with State Farm, raising three...

In the darkness of the early hours of October 27, 1978, Harold Fernandez and his brother huddled in the bow of a small motorboat fighting against the ravages of the Atlantic Ocean. The darkness, the solitude of the night, and the ferocious movements of the boat were too much for them to handle. They thought that they would die. Harold prayed and begged the lord for another day so that he could see his parents.

Once a safe and humble community, Barrio Antioquia - a town in Medelin, Colombia - was now plagued by unemployment and overrun by gangs, drug mules, and hired assassins....

Teresa Bravo-Cortines cuenta la historia de su vida desgarradora en su libro Bravo: Una vida llena de eventos. Ella es un testimonio viviente de que, cuando las cosas se vean desoladoras, es posible superarse.

En sus propias palabras:

Mi libro habla del asesinato de mi padre cuando solo tenIa cinco aNos, la gran adversidad y la pobreza en la que vivimos y sobre mi secuestro a la edad de trece aNos para trabajar en el campo con trabajadores migrantes.

ContinUa con mi regreso a la universidad y cuenta que me convertI en un agente de seguros exitosa con State Farm,...