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Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 223
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The rise and fall, birth and death, of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family.
The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendia family, one sees all of humanity, just as in the history,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
457 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zarité, who is known as Tété, born to an African mother she has never known and a white sailor, survives a brutal childhood and grows up to find comfort in the music and culture of her fellow slaves, and when Toulouse Valmorain purchases young Tété for his bride, both of their lives become intertwined in surprising ways, particularly when they both end up in New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Maya, a young American on the run, is sent to Chilo,̌ in a remote part of Chile, her grandmother's homeland, where she records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic life, and other developments.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Wonderbooks edition.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using the building verse of "The House that Jack Built," a farm girl creates a pinata of papier mache with the help of a boy and the animals on the farm. Includes a glossary of Spanish words, and a step-by-step guide to building your own pinata.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezin ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Wonderbook edition
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A cumulative tale of a farm maiden who, aided by a group of animals, prepares "Arroz con Leche," or rice pudding. Includes recipe and glossary of the Spanish words that are woven throughout the text.
10) Gracias: Thanks
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book ([28] pages) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
Multiple
Description
"A young multiracial boy celebrates family, friendship, and fun by telling about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful."--
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