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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people ... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance -- and Papi's secrets -- the two girls are forced to...
2) Afterlife
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"A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. She dreams of working as a chef after...
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A 2015 Pura Belpré Illustrator Honor Book and a 2015 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book
Almost 10 years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a "Whites only" school. Her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing
5) Nostromo
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"Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard" is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia. Costaguana has a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare, but has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera. Charles Gould is a native...
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"Natalie Caña turns up the heat, humor and heart in this debut rom-com about a Puerto Rican chef and an Irish American whiskey distiller forced into a fake engagement by their scheming octogenarian grandfathers. Kamilah Vega is desperate to convince her family to update their Puerto Rican restaurant and enter it into the Fall Foodie Tour. With the gentrification of their Chicago neighborhood, it's the only way to save the place. The fly in her mofongo--her...
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"Poignant . . . Powerful . . . Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." -The New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters-Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía-and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father's role in an attempt...
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En Una música futura, premio Mejores Obras Literarias 2019 en la categoría de cuento inédito, María José Navia vuelve a ahondar en relaciones íntimas mediadas y a veces infectadas por la tecnología. Familias pantalla y en pantalla, mujeres que se refugian en el exceso de información o intentan desconectarse completamente del mundo, personajes extranjeros que se enfrentan a escenarios de autoexigencia feroz o franca violencia.
Siete relatos...
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Long nights, empty stomachs, and impulsive cravings haunt the stories of I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat. A college grad reunites with a high school crush when invited to his bachelor party, a lonely cat-sitter wreaks havoc on his friends' apartment, happy hour French fries leave more than grease on lips and fingers, and, squeezed into a diner booth, one man eats past his limit for the sake of friendship. Exploring the lives of bisexual and gay Puerto...
11) Los siete locos
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Los siete locos es la primera de dos novelas del escritor argentino Roberto Arlt. Fue publicada en 1929. Seguida de una segunda parte titulada Los lanzallamas, también publicada por Linkgua ediciones. Nada mejor que las propias palabras del mismo autor explicando el argumento de Los siete locos a partir de una anécdota que mantuvo con un lector:
«Me escribe un lector:
Estimado señor: Me he enterado de que ha salido una novela suya llamada Los...
12) The dreamer
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world. Includes author's note about the poet.
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Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha-called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel-inaugurates Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Each Restless Classic is beautifully designed with original artwork, a new introduction for the trade audience, and a video teaching series and live online book...
14) The Araucaniad
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Now back in print! The first English translation of this epic masterpiece of Chilean poetry.
15) Tik-Tok of Oz
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Introduces Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, whom Tik-Tok, the clockwork man, assists in conquering the Nome King.
16) Heartland
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In a word-drunk romp through an alternate, pre-apocalyptic United States, Ana Simo's fiction debut, Heartland, is the uproarious story of a thwarted writer's elaborate revenge on the woman who stole her lover, blending elements of telenovela, pulp noir, and dystopian satire.
There's only one solution for a nasty case of writer's block, and that's murder. Specifically, that of one Mercy McCabe, a cunning SoHo art dealer who was once our Latina narrator's...
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Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with...
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Obras completas de Garcilaso de la Vega
ÍNDICE:
[Biografía Garcilaso de la Vega]
[CANCIONES]
Si a la región desierta, inhabitable
La soledad siguiendo
Con un manso ruido
El aspereza de mis males quiero
A flor de Gnido
[COPLAS]
Copla I: Habiéndose casado su dama
Copla II: Yo dejaré desde aquí
Copla III: A una partida
Copla IV: Traduciendo cuatro versos de ovidio
Copla V
Copla VI
Copla VII: A boscán, porque estando en alemania danzó en unas...
19) Drum Speaking
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Pulsating to the rhythms of life, this collection of short stories will entertain and enlighten you with a multitude of diverse tales, in the tradition of ther talking drum. From Science fiction to Political Thrillers, from romance stories to Action/Adventure tales, the literary beats within this collection will play for your enjoyment.
Included within this collection are continuing novellas from two of the author's previously published works; "The...
20) Dejando huella
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Todos los mundos se interrelacionan, nada gravita con independencia de lo demás.
En esta novela, un México campesino, se une sin voluntad a una familia aria que llega al país huyendo del desastre que ha dejado tras de sí la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y la división entre la mentalidad judaica y la occidental germánica, que fundamenta un aspecto elemental en la vida moderna, sobre la que se construyó el siglo XX europeo.
El personaje interior de...
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