Cinco de Mayo
Celebrating Mexico and Mexican Americans

Food:

Modern Mexican Flavors, Richard Sandoval 641.5972 SAN

Los Barrios Family Cookbook, Diana Barrios Treviño 641.5972 TRE

From My Mexican Kitchen, Diana Kennedy 641.5972 KEN

Seasons Of My Heart: A Culinary Journey Through Oaxaca, Mexico,
Susana Trilling 641.5972 TRI

Mexican Cooking, Jennifer Darling, ed. 641.5972 MEX

Cocina De La Familia: More Than 200 Authentic Recipes From Mexican-American Home Kitchens, Marilyn Tausend with Miguel Ravago 641.5972 TAU

Art:

Oaxacan Ceramics: Traditional Folk Art By Oaxacan Women,
Lois Wasserspring 738.097274 WAS

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, And Twentieth-Century Mexican Art, OVERSIZE 709.72 FRI

Mexican Art Masterpieces, Marcus B. Burke OVERSIZE 709.72 BUR

Great Masters Of Mexican Folk Art OVERSIZE 745.0972 GRE

Miracles On The Border: Retablos Of Mexican Migrants To The United States,
Jorge Durand 755.2 DUR

Music:

Es Para Ti, Intocable CD 781.6268 INT

Vivo, Luis Miguel CD 781.6268 MIG

Mexican Divas CD 781.6268 MEX

Fiesta Mexicana: Original Mariachi Music From Mexico CD 781.6214 FIE

The Rough Guide To Tex-Mex CD 781.626872 TEX

Movies:

Real Women Have Curves VIDEO REA and DVD REA

Frida VIDEO FRI and DVD FRI

Como Agua Para Chocolate DVD LIK

Missing Pieces VIDEO MIS

El Mariachi VIDEO MAR

All The Pretty Horses VIDEO ALL and DVD ALL

Once Upon A Time In Mexico DVD ONC

The Mask Of Zorro VIDEO MAS

Y Tu Mamá También DVD Y

The Mark Of Zorro VIDEO MAR

La Bamba VIDEO BAM

Poetry & Literature:

Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry 861.64 REV

Gritos: Essays, Dagoberto Gilb 814.54 GIL

Between Two Fires, Laura Esquivel 863.64 ESQ

I Ask The Impossible: Poems, Ana Castillo 811.54 CAS

Fantasmas: Supernatural Stories By Mexican American Writers,
Rob Johnson, ed. 813.08766 FAN

Culture:

Cinco De Mayo [Videorecording] 394.26972 CIN

Brown, Richard Rodriguez 305.868 ROD

The Short Sweet Dream Of Eduardo Gutiérrez, Jimmy Breslin 331.6372 BRE

Gabriel’s Fire, Luis Gabriel Aguilera, B AGUILERA

Food For The Ancestors [Videorecording] 394.264 FOO

Fiction:

Brownsville, Oscar Casares

El Paso Del Norte, Richard Yañez

Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros

Death Of The River Master, Allana Martin

The Nature Of Truth, Sergio Troncoso

Motorcycle Ride On The Sea Of Tranquility, Patricia Santana

Web Pages:

Mexico Online: Mexico History Directory

Artes e Historia México

Mexican Americans in Los Angeles preserving their heritage

St Charles Public Library’s National Hispanic Heritage Month Timely Link

PLEASE NOTE: many books are available online through NetLibrary ebooks, for more information, contact Adult Services at 630-584-0076, ext. 1

This list was updated by the St. Charles Public Library, April 2004, jhl.