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Lord of the Dawn: The Legend of Quetzalcóatl
ISBN: 9780826351753 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The legend of Quetzalc atl is the enduring epic myth of Mesoamerica. The gods create the universe, but man must carefully tend to the harmony of the world. Without spiritual attention to harmony, chaos may reign, destroying the universe and civilization.The ancient Mexicans, like other peoples throughout the world, wrestled with ideas and metaphors by which to know the Godhead and developed their own concepts about their relationship to the universe. Quetzalc atl came to the Toltecs to teach them art, agriculture, peace, and knowledge. He was a redeemer god, and his story inspires, instructs,...
The legend of Quetzalc atl is the enduring epic myth of Mesoamerica. The gods create the universe, but man must carefully tend to the harmony of the w...
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86,72 zł |
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The Sorrows of Young Alfonso, 15
ISBN: 9780806152264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "The world is full of sorrow," Agapita whispered to Alfonso. Did she stamp those words into his destiny? The story of Alfonso, a Nuevo Mexicano, begins with his birth, when the curandera Agapita delivers these haunting words into his infant ear. What then unfolds is an elegiac song to the llanos of New Mexico where Alfonso comes of age. As this exquisite novel charts Alfonso's life journey from childhood through his education and evolution as a writer, renowned Chicano author Rudolfo Anaya invites readers to reflect on the truths and mysteries... "The world is full of sorrow," Agapita whispered to Alfonso. Did she stamp those words into his destiny? Th... |
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130,19 zł |
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Randy Lopez Goes Home, 9
ISBN: 9780806144573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of success in the Anglo world--and even written a book called Life Among the Gringos. But something has been missing. Now he returns to Agua Bendita to reconnect with his past and to find the wisdom the Anglo world has not provided. In this allegorical account of Randy's final journey, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya tackles life's big questions with a light touch.
Randy's entry into the haunted canyon that leads to his ancestral... When he was a young man, Randy Lopez left his village in northern New Mexico to seek his fortune. Since then, he has learned some of the secrets of su...
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86,72 zł |
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The Essays, 7
ISBN: 9780806140230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "The storyteller's gift is my inheritance," writes Rudolfo Anaya in his essay "Shaman of Words." Although he is best known for Bless Me, Ultima and other novels, his writing also takes the form of nonfiction, and in these 52 essays he draws on both his heritage as a Mexican American and his gift for storytelling. Besides tackling issues such as censorship, racism, education, and sexual politics, Anaya explores the tragedies and triumphs of his own life.
Collected here are Anaya's published essays. Despite his wide acclaim as the founder of Chicano literature, no previous volume has... "The storyteller's gift is my inheritance," writes Rudolfo Anaya in his essay "Shaman of Words." Although he is best known for Bless Me, Ultima...
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188,57 zł |
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Chupacabra Meets Billy the Kid, 21
ISBN: 9780806160726 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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108,45 zł |
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La Llorona: The Crying Woman
ISBN: 9780826344601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The legend as retold by Anaya, a man as integral to southwest tradition as La Llorona herself, is storytelling anchored in a very human experience. His book helps parents explain to children the reality of death and the loss of loved ones."
The legend as retold by Anaya, a man as integral to southwest tradition as La Llorona herself, is storytelling anchored in a very human experience. Hi...
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86,72 zł |
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The Sorrows of Young Alfonso: Volume 15
ISBN: 9780806168890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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95,41 zł |
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Curse of the ChupaCabra
ISBN: 9780826341150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Is the ChupaCabra mythical or real? Stories of the creature abound in Latino communities. The illusive creature is said to suck the blood of goats. Thus, its name, goatsucker. Whenever a backyard goat or chicken is mysteriously killed, the story spreads in the barrio that the ChupaCabra struck. When Professor Rosa Medina began to research the folklore of the ChupaCabra, she never expected to tangle face-to-face with the monster. Rosa journeys to Mexico to examine a ChupaCabra incident. The creature has killed a campesino in the jungle. And the drug traffickers who have captured the... Is the ChupaCabra mythical or real? Stories of the creature abound in Latino communities. The illusive creature is said to suck the blood of goats.... |
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86,72 zł |
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Billy the Kid and Other Plays, 10
ISBN: 9780806142258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his native New Mexico and throughout the world. Billy the Kid and Other Plays collects seven of these works and offers them together for the first time. Like his novels, many of Anaya's plays are built from the folklore of the Southwest. This volume opens with The Season of La Llorona, in which Anaya fuses the Mexican legend of the dreaded "crying woman" with that of La Malinche, mistress and adviser to Hernan Cortes. Southwestern lore...
While award-winning author Rudolfo Anaya is known primarily as a novelist, his genius is also evident in dramatic works performed regularly in his nat...
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158,14 zł |
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Chupacabra and the Roswell UFO
ISBN: 9780826344694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this mystery, 16-year-old Nadine is convinced that C-Force, a secret government agency, has decoded the DNA of ChupaCabra and an extraterrestrial. If the two genomes are combined, a new, horrific life form with be created. Professor Rosa Medina's life hangs in the balance as she and Nadine try to find a way to stop C-Force.
In this mystery, 16-year-old Nadine is convinced that C-Force, a secret government agency, has decoded the DNA of ChupaCabra and an extraterrestrial. ...
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43,25 zł |
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The Santero's Miracle: A Bilingual Story
ISBN: 9780826328472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this bilingual story of faith, Don Jacobo has a dream that, in the end, is a reminder that miracles do happen. Jacobo is teaching his visiting grandson Andres how to become a santero. Christmas is coming, snow is falling in the village, and the two are working on a carving of San Isidro, the patron saint of farmers. The half-finished carving stands in the living room beside the two oxen and the angel that don Jacobo carved earlier in the month. The snow-covered mountains are beautiful, but the road to the village is impassable. Andres's parents will not be able to get to the... In this bilingual story of faith, Don Jacobo has a dream that, in the end, is a reminder that miracles do happen. Jacobo is teaching his visiting g... |
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86,72 zł |
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The Essays: Volume 7
ISBN: 9780806180694 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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120,23 zł |
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The Old Man's Love Story, 12
ISBN: 9780806146485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his wife." From that opening line, this tender novella is at once universal and deeply personal. The nameless narrator, a writer, shares his most intimate thoughts about his wife, their life together, and her death. But just as death is inseparable from life, his wife seems still to be with him. Her memory and words permeate his days. In The Old Man's Love Story, master storyteller Rudolfo Anaya crafts the tale of a lifelong love that ultimately transcends death. An elegy not just for the dead but for the... "There was an old man who dwelt in the land of New Mexico, and he lost his wife." From that opening line, this tender novella is at once universal ... |
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73,68 zł |
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The First Tortilla
ISBN: 9780826342157 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Jade is a young girl who lives in a village next to a towering volcano. On its peak lives a Mountain Spirit who makes his presence known by rumbling the earth, filling the sky with smoke, and pouring lava down the mountainside. Angered by those who forget to honor him for providing their harvest, the Mountain Spirit has stopped sending rain to Jade's village and the people are faced with the possibility of having to abandon their homes and land. As Jade collects water from the near-dry lake, a blue hummingbird--a messenger from the Mountain Spirit--tells Jade she must take a gift to the...
Jade is a young girl who lives in a village next to a towering volcano. On its peak lives a Mountain Spirit who makes his presence known by rumbling t...
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73,68 zł |
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The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories: Volume 5
ISBN: 9780806167534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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73,68 zł |
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Cuentos Chicanos: A Short Story Anthology (Revised)
ISBN: 9780826307729 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The twenty-one stories in this collection typify the phenomenal growth Chicano literature has undergone during the past two decades. The stories range from those complex narratives, from depictions of a childlike innocence to world-weary knowledge, from accounts of migrant life to middle-class anxieties, and from celebrations of the family to explorations of the supernatural. No central theme or point of view unites the stories; rather there emerges in each a personal aesthetic vision. Students of literature and creative writing as well as specialists in contemporary politics and social...
The twenty-one stories in this collection typify the phenomenal growth Chicano literature has undergone during the past two decades. The stories range...
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86,72 zł |
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Serafina's Stories
ISBN: 9780826335708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) New Mexico's master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth-century Santa Fe. In January 1680 a dozen Pueblo Indians are charged with conspiring to incite a revolution against the colonial government. When the prisoners are brought before the Governor, one of them is revealed as a young woman. Educated by the friars in her pueblo's mission church, Serafina speaks beautiful Spanish and surprises the Governor with her fearlessness and intelligence. The two strike a bargain. She will entertain the Governor by telling him a story. If... New Mexico's master storyteller creates a southwestern version of the Arabian Nights in this fable set in seventeenth-century Santa Fe. In January ... |
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86,72 zł |
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Heart of Aztlan
ISBN: 9780826310545 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Albuquerque barrio portrayed in this vivid novel of post-war New Mexico is a place where urban and rural, political and religious realities co-exist, collide and combine. The magic realism for which Naya is well known combines with an emphatic portrayal of the plight of workers dispossessed of their heritage and struggling to survive in an alien culture.
The Albuquerque barrio portrayed in this vivid novel of post-war New Mexico is a place where urban and rural, political and religious realities co-exi...
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86,72 zł |
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Jemez Spring
ISBN: 9780826337580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the Bath House at Jemez Springs, Albuquerque private eye Sonny Baca is called in to investigate. As he soon learns, murder is only the beginning of the evil that Sonny must sort out. Someone has planted a bomb in the Valles Caldera, not far from the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and it is set to detonate in just a few hours. Is this the work of terrorists or is SonnyAEs old nemesis, Raven, mixed up in the plot? In a race against the clock Sonny encounters ghosts and sorcerers, beautiful women and environmental activists, and developers and...
When the governor of New Mexico is found drowned in the Bath House at Jemez Springs, Albuquerque private eye Sonny Baca is called in to investigate. A...
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86,72 zł |
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Zia Summer
ISBN: 9780826344878 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Sonny Baca investigates the brutal murder of his cousin, whose husband is a candidate for mayor of Albuquerque.
Sonny Baca investigates the brutal murder of his cousin, whose husband is a candidate for mayor of Albuquerque.
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78,03 zł |
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