Chave's memories = Los recuerdos de Chave
Este libro ilustrado bilingüe recorre una encantadora infancia y representa la belleza de la vida en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. Este puente bicultural abre los ojos de los niños a las alegrías de vivir entre dos estilos de vida contrastantes, dos conjuntos de tradiciones y costumbres.
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The desert is my mother = El desierto es mi madre
The Desert Is My Mother/El desierto es mi madre is a bilingual book written by Pat Mora and illustrated by Daniel Lechón. It is a beautiful poetic and artistic rendition of the relationship between nature and Hispanics and Native American peoples. Rather than being an expanse empty of life and value, the desert is lovingly presented as the provider of comfort, food, spirit and life. The book, the first picture book published by Arte Público Press Piñata Books, introduces the partnership of an award-winning poet and a prize-winning painter.
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Juan and the Chupacabras = Juan y el Chupacabras
El abuelo les cuenta a sus nietos sobre el Chupacabras, una bestia con piel verde oscura y ojos rojos brillantes. Los jóvenes Juan y Luz disfrutan de sus historias y su valiente enfrentamiento con el Chupacabras. Luz decide desentrañar la verdad detrás del cuento y se aventura con Juan en busca del monstruo armados con canicas y una resortera.
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La flor de oro : un mito taíno de Puerto Rico
"Nina Jaffes acclaimed retelling of an indigenous creation myth about the birth of Puerto Rico, The Golden Flower, is available for the first time in Spanish. Her account of the Taínos legend draws the reader to the island before the Spaniards arrived. The Taínos called their beloved island, Boriquén. This is their story of how Boriquén came to be. In the beginning, there is only a giant mountain above a dry plain without water or plants. A child walking over the flat land below the mountain finds seeds dancing in the wind. When he plants the seeds on the top of the mountain, a forest grows on the...
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The poet upstairs
Juliana is too sick to go to school one cold, winter day. So she stays at home in bed and looks out her bedroom window. She watches as a tall lady in a red coat and hat carries her boxes of books and papers upstairs. Her mother has heard that the mysterious woman is a poet writing a book. Juliana loves books and cant wait to meet the poet upstairs. Juliana listens to the poets typewriter clicking and clacking all day long, while outside the snow falls and people rush by bundled up in their coats. She dreams of a tiny tropical island sitting on the ocean like a green button on a blue dress, the...
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En busca de Bernabé
Graciela Limón humanizes the political turmoil of contemporary Central America by focusing on one woman's anguish when she is separated from her son in the chaos that follows the assassination of Archbishop Romero in El Salvador in this Spanish-language edition of her absorbing first novel, In Search of Bernabé. Against incredible odds, Luz Delcano is determined to find her son, Bernabé. Her unshakeable conviction that her son has fled to the north as so many other Salvadorans were doing leads her on an odyssey through Mexico and into the Estados Unidos. Meanwhile, Bernabé finds himself almost...
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Dear Rafe = Mi querido Rafa
Welcome to Klail City, in Belken County, along the Mexico border in Texas Rio Grande Valley. In the weeks leading up to the Democratic primary, Jehu Malacara chronicles the political rabble-rousing of Klail Citys wealthiest citizens in letters to his cousin Rafe Buenrostro. Led by Arnold Noddy Perkins, the whos who of Belken County create a complex web of relationships. Wrangling bank loans, club memberships, and local politics, Perkins dominates the political and economic landscape of the community. When Malacara turns up missing, and the writer, P. Galindo, begins interviewing the citizens,...
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Los recuerdos de Ana Calderón
They said that no boy could live where I had lived. I knew my father resented me for what I had done to my mothers insides. After her birth, Ana Calderóns mother isnt able to carry a male child to full term, losing three baby boys. And when her mother dies, she becomes fully responsible for her seven younger siblings, ending her days of carefree romping on the beaches of southern Mexico. But even worse, she will carry forever her fathers resentment. Ana is a young girl when her father decides to move his large, motherless brood to the Estados Unidos. She just knows that her life will change...
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A life crossing borders : memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate : las memorias de un mexicoamericano en la Confederación
"In his memoir that he began in 1908, Santiago Tafolla recalls finding himselfalong with his fellow Mexican Confederate soldiersterrorized by white Confederates. When the "americanos" take up arms and threaten to eliminate all the "greasers, " Tafolla is forced to desert to Mexico in order to survive. This fascinating autoBiografías recounts the life of a man born in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1837, long before Mexico lost control of the region following the Mexican-American War in 1848 and the state achieved U. S. statehood in 1912. The preservation and publication of this memoir is almost as...
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Absolute equality : an early feminist perspective = Influencias de las ideas modernas
En la obra de tres actos escrita por Luisa Capetillo en 1907, 'Influencias de las Ideas Modernas', Angelina, la hija de un rico empresario y terrateniente puertorriqueño, se educa a sí misma leyendo las obras de escritores, filósofos y anarquistas europeos. Después de leer 'La Esclavitud de Nuestros Tiempos' de Tolstoy, queda convencida de que 'la esclavitud de nuestros tiempos es la inflexible ley salarial'. A medida que los trabajadores van a la huelga en su ciudad natal de Arecibo, Angelina intenta convencer a su padre de que entregue su propiedad, incluyendo su hogar, fábricas y tierras, a la clase trabajadora.
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Absolute equality : an early feminist perspective = Influencias de las ideas modernas