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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
155 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Best-selling novelist and award-winning poet Alvarez shares 75 new poems that trace her life and her work from her childhood in the Dominican Republic to her adulthood as a celebrated Latina writer.
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English
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"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Latina novelist Alma Huebner begs off joining her husband on a humanitarian mission to the Dominican Republic to work on her next book, and finds herself becoming obsessed with the life of her subject--a woman who hand-picked a group of orphan boys to serve as live carriers of the small pox virus in order to provide Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis a ready supply of vaccine with which to inoculate the populations of Spain's American colonies in 1803....
4) Yo!
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
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Yolanda Garcia finds success with her first novel in which she made characters out of her family members and friends, but her "fictionally victimized" relatives exact revenge by telling all they know about the author, Yo.
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2010, c1991
Edition
1st Algonquin pbk. [ed.].
Physical Desc
311 pages : geneal. table ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice. But Mami and Papi are more traditional, and they have far more difficulty adjusting to their new country. Making matters worse, the girls--frequently embarrassed by their parents--find ways to rebel against them.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xv, 300 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
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Bajo la presión de asimilarse a una nueva cultura, las muchachas García se alisan el pelo, abandonan la lengua española y se encuentran con muchachos sin una chaperona. Pero por más que intentan distanciarse de su isla natal, las hermanas no logran desprender el mundo antiguo del nuevo.Lo que las hermanas han perdido para siempre --y lo que logran encontrar-- se revela en esta novela magistral de una de las novelistas más celebradas de nuestros...
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