Product Description: Beloved bestselling Latino authors, including Esmeralda Santiago, Carolina De Robertis, and Luis Alberto Urrea share moving personal stories of the many ways that sisterly bonds have powerfully impacted their lives. Friendships can bring us peace, fill the emotional shortcomings in our romantic relationships, and help us remember what lies deep inside every one of us...read more

Provides profiles of 150 influential Latina women, including athletes, entertainers, activists, entrepreneurs, educators, writers, scientists, and politicians.

Product Description: In this collection of essays woven with poems and folklore, Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of how she became a poet and writer and explores her love of words, her discovery of the magic of language, and her struggle to carve out time to practice her art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)