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Tonina lives an idyllic life on a small island in the Caribbean hundreds of years before Europeans discovered it. But she has always been an outsider among her people. Unlike them, Tonina is tall and lean and light skinned, and her origins remain a mystery. Her adoptive parents had found her floating in a basket in the sea -- a sacrifice? A shipwreck? No one knows. When Tonina turns nineteen, her parents know she must return to the sea so that the...
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La taza de chocolate es un sorbo de historia servida en el cuenco de la literatura. El historiador y narrador Héctor Palacios vierte la nota roja de antaño en breves relatos para demostrar que la vida disipada del clero, los crímenes pasionales y las "leyendas urbanas" han sido habituales en todas las épocas.
El molinillo de la ficción es usado por Palacios para batir las conciencias que pregonan la perfección del pasado. El autor confiesa...
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Sergio Ramírez, writer and former civilian leader in the Sandinista revolutionary government from 1985-1990, has now won the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award in the Hispanic world. He wrote his great panoramic novel from exile, and this was the first Nicaraguan novel ever translated into English. The long years of dictatorship in Nicaragua are dramatically recreated as cabaret singers, activists, policemen, prostitutes, beauty queens and...
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This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
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This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect of the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura La casa de los espíritus, la primera novela de Isabel Allende, que la consagró como escritora de grandes ventas y cosechó un gran éxito traducido en múltiples adaptaciones. Con una habilidosa mezcla de hechos históricos y situaciones inverosímiles y fantasiosas, cuenta la historia de las cuatro generaciones de la familia Trueba-Del Valle y, a través de esta, la historia política,...
7) Havana red
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A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
8) Havana Black
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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.
9) Havana Gold
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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.
10) Havana Fever
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Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.
11) Havana Blue
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A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.
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Young Chico Canta discovers the advantages of being bilingual when the cat Gato-Gatito threatens his mouse family's production of "The Three Little Pigs."
Joven Chico Canta descubre las ventajas de ser bilingüe cuando el gato Gato-Gatito amenaza la producción de su familia de ratones "Los tres cerditos."
15) Ruined
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A rain forest bar and brothel in the brutally war-torn Congo is the setting for Lynn Nottage's extraordinary new play. The establishment's shrewd matriarch, Mama Nadi, keeps peace between customers from both sides of the civil war, as government soldiers and rebel forces alike choose from her inventory of women, many already "ruined" by rape and torture when they were pressed into prostitution. Inspired by interviews she conducted in Africa with Congo...
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A memoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. The first half details a brief history of the river from its discovery by Hernando de Soto in 1541 and describes Twain's career as a Mississippi steamboat pilot, the fulfillment of a childhood dream. The second half of Life on the Mississippi tells of Twain's return, many years after, to travel the river from St. Louis to New Orleans. By then the competition from...
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It is 1989, and Jim Keating has hit absolute rock bottom. He's lost his wife to cancer, his house to bankruptcy, and his job as a college basketball coach to what many outsiders believed to be a racially insensitive career-ending decision. He has also just about lost his mind, having slipped into a bout of serious depression. Attempting to pick up the pieces and start life over, Jim returns home to Worcester and rents a small apartment.
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Read 33 chilling ghost stories about reportedly true encounters with the supernatural in Minnesota.
The ghost of a murder victim repeatedly attacking a woman in her sleep, a jealous spirit pushing people down the stairs, a helpful phantom guiding a loved one to a vital missing document-Minnesota is one of the most haunted states in America. This collection of ghost stories presents the freakiest, most surprising tales in the Land of 10,000 Lakes!
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Read 14 chilling ghost stories about reportedly true encounters with the supernatural in Mississippi.
A graveyard where the dead do anything but rest peacefully, a haunted bridge that was the site of unspeakable violence, the ghost of an ancient witch who roams the dark woods-Mississippi has long been regarded as one of the most haunted states in America. This collection of ghost stories presents the freakiest, most surprising tales of the Magnolia...
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