Like Water

When her father is diagnosed with Huntington's disease, eighteen-year-old Vanni abandons her plan to flee her small New Mexico hometown after high school graduation and instead spends the summer keeping herself busy with part-time jobs and boys, but that changes after she meets Leigh, whose friendship dares Vanni to ask herself big questions and make new plans.

Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place

From Winn-Dixie to Tiendas : the remaking of the new South / Owen J. Furuseth and Heather A. Smith -- New neighbors in Dixie : the community impacts of Latino migration to Tennessee / Anita I. Drever -- The South's silent bargain : rural reconstructuring, Latino labor and the ambiguities of migrant experience / Rebecca Maria Torres, E. Jeffrey Popke, and Holly M. Hapke -- Migrants, markets, and the transformation of natural resources management : galax harvesting in western North Carolina / Marla R.

Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives: Cultural Competence in Action!

Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the everyday work in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections with Latino populations. The authors focus on their areas of expertise including academic, school, public libraries, health sciences, archives, and special collections to show the importance of understanding how cultural competence effects the day-to-day communication, relationship building, and information provision with Latinos.