wyszukanych pozycji: 38
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In the Time of the Butterflies
ISBN: 9781565129764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found 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 deaths 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 Mariposas--"The Butterflies." In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and the survivor,...
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of t...
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83,12 |
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
ISBN: 9781643753843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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116,42 |
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Something to Declare: Essays
ISBN: 9781616205584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, bags full of literary wisdom." --Los Angeles Times
From the internationally acclaimed author of the bestselling novels In the Time of the Butterflies and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes a rich and revealing work of nonfiction capturing the life and mind of an artist as she knits together the dual themes of coming to America and becoming a writer. The twenty-four confessional,... "Julia Alvarez has suitcases full of history (public and private), trunks full of insights into what it means to be a Latina in the United States, ...
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Yo!
ISBN: 9780452281400 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Yolanda Garciasu apodo es Yoha demostrado que es una escritora con una muy exitosa primera novela cuyos "personajes" son su familia, sus amigos y sus amantes. Mientras Yo goza de su celebridad, sus seres queridos se encuentran "desnudos" y reconocibles ante el mundo en su nueva vida publica. Cual es el resultado? Aquellos que fueron "victimizados por la ficcion" quieren contar su lado de la historia. Y asi mismo lo hacen en esta. La nueva novela de Julia Alvarez, alegre, conmovedora y bien concebida, Yo se trata del conflicto entre el arte y la realidad, el intelecto y las emociones, y el...
Yolanda Garciasu apodo es Yoha demostrado que es una escritora con una muy exitosa primera novela cuyos "personajes" son su familia, sus amigos y sus ...
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
ISBN: 9781565129757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Simply wonderful." --Los Angeles Times
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's brilliant and buoyant and beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters recounting their adventures growing up in two cultures. Selected as a Notable Book by both the New York Times and the American Library Association, it won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for books with a multicultural perspective and was chosen by New York librarians as one of twenty-one classics for the twenty-first century. Ms. Alvarez was recently honored with the 2013 National Medal of Arts for her... "Simply wonderful." --Los Angeles Times
Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez's brilliant and buoyant and beloved first novel give... |
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
ISBN: 9781643756073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,96 |
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de Como Tia Lola Vino (de Visita) a Quedarse (How Aunt Lola Came to (Visit) Stay Spanish Edition)
ISBN: 9780307930408 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Julia Alvarez's heartwarming novel--now in Spanish. De como tia Lola vino de visita a quedarse, una novela juvenil de Julia Alvarez, cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso magica tia Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, panuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor par alas fiestas, cafe, hierbabuena, oregano, anis, hojas de guanabana, ajies..., su alegria invade la casa y--poco a poco--a todo el pueblo. Un relato rico, calido y...
Julia Alvarez's heartwarming novel--now in Spanish. De como tia Lola vino de visita a quedarse, una novela juvenil de Julia Alvarez, cuenta...
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Before We Were Free
ISBN: 9780399555497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A new paperback edition of Julia Alvarez's beloved Pura Belpre winner about life in Trujillo's Dominican Republic. "Diary entries written by a child while in hiding will remind readers of Anne Frank's story." --SLJ
Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her twelfth birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have immigrated to the United States, her Tio Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government's secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition to Trujillo's iron-fisted... A new paperback edition of Julia Alvarez's beloved Pura Belpre winner about life in Trujillo's Dominican Republic. "Diary entries written by a chil...
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49,85 |
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Yo!
ISBN: 9781616209490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,43 |
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Más Allá / Afterlife
ISBN: 9780593082584 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
ISBN: 9780747572657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A novel of Latin American life.
A novel of Latin American life.
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
ISBN: 9781913867829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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68,15 |
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories
ISBN: 9798885798648 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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204,61 |
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Afterlife
ISBN: 9781643751368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,48 |
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Habia Una Vez Una Quinceanera: de Niña a Mujer En Ee.Uu.
ISBN: 9780452289390 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 2008 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Autora del bestseller De como las muchachas Garcia perdieron el acento
Una finalista del Circulo Nacional de Criticos Literarios "Una exploracion de un ritual exuberante y decisivo en la vida moderna de los latinos... Como autora de esta travesia, Julia Alvarez es una guia extraordinaria."--The Seattle Times La fiesta de quince anos de las muchachas latinas o "la quinceanera" como se le conoce en los Estados Unidos, se ha convertido en una tendencia singularmente americana. Esta esplendida fiesta de vestidos largos y elegantes, pasteles de... Autora del bestseller De como las muchachas Garcia perdieron el acento
Una finalista del Circulo Nacional de Criticos Literarios<... |
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Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA
ISBN: 9780452288300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a phenomenal, indispensable (USA Today) exploration of the Latina sweet fifteen celebration, by the bestselling author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of Butterflies
The quinceanera, a celebration of a Latina girl s fifteenth birthday, has become a uniquely American trend. This lavish party with ball gowns, multi-tiered cakes, limousines, and extravagant meals is often as costly as a prom or a wedding. But many Latina girls feel entitled to this rite of passage, marking a girl s... Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, a phenomenal, indispensable (USA Today) exploration of the Latina sweet fifteen celebration, b...
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Visitations: Poems
ISBN: 9780593805039 / Angielski / Twarda / 2026 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Homecoming: New and Collected Poems
ISBN: 9780452275676 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Long before her award winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez was writing poetry that gave a distinctive voice to the Latina woman-and helped give to American letters a vibrant new literary form. Homecoming, was Alvarez's first published collection of poetry, a work of great subtlety and power in which the young poet returned to her old-world childhood in the Dominican Republic.Now this revised and expanded edition adds thirteen new poems. These more recent writings are still deeply...
Long before her award winning novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez ...
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The Woman I Kept to Myself
ISBN: 9781616200725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The works of Julia Alvarez are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life. In these 75 autobiographical poems, Alvarez's clear voice sings out in every line.
The works of Julia Alvarez are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her y...
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The Other Side/El Otro Lado
ISBN: 9780452273412 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. La revision de libro de los tiempos de Nueva York ha elogiado la ficcion de Alvarez's mientras que "powerful... captura maravillosamente la experiencia del umbral del nuevo inmigrante donde no esta todavia una memoria el pasado y el futuro sigue siendo un dream." ansioso; Estas mismas calidades caracterizan su poesia - del "Making encima del Past" poemas, que exploran una vida del exilio segun lo vivido por una muchacha joven, a los poemas de Joe del "The, " una serie maravillosamente de poemas sensual y divertidos del amor que celebran un romance de mediana edad. La coleccion culmina en el...
La revision de libro de los tiempos de Nueva York ha elogiado la ficcion de Alvarez's mientras que "powerful... captura maravillosamente la experienci...
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