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...
An award-winning, moving, and timely story about the families of undocumented workers by renowned author Julia Alvarez. After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn't sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected to her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the...
An award-winning, moving, and timely story about the families of undocumented workers by renowned author Julia Alvarez. After ...
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...
This new Latino literary collection brings together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, "Daring to Write" s insightful works offer readers a wide array of topics."
This new Latino literary collection brings together twenty-four engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living i...
Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tia Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over. But Tia Lola and the children soon realize that running a B & B isn't as easy they had initially thought--especially when it appears that someone is out to sabotage them Will Tia Lola and the kids discover who's behind the plot to make their B & B fail? And will Tia Lola's family and friends be able to plan her a surprise birthday party in her own B & B without her finding out?...
Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tia Lola is opening the doors of Colone...
Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age.
This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very...
Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contem...
"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, ...
Anita de la Torre nunca cuestiono su libertad viviendo en la Republica Dominicana. Pero al cumplir doce anos de edad en 1960, la mayoria de sus familiares han emigrado a Estados Unidos, su tio Toni ha desaparecido sin dejar rastro y la policia secreta del gobierno aterroriza a su familia restante dada su presunta oposicion a la dictadura de Trujillo. Utilizando la fuerza y el valor de su familia, Anita debe vencer sus miedos y volar hacia la libertad, dejando atras todo lo que alguna vez habia conocido. De la renombrada autora Julia Alvarez llega una historia inolvidable sobre la...
Anita de la Torre nunca cuestiono su libertad viviendo en la Republica Dominicana. Pero al cumplir doce anos de edad en 1960, la mayoria de sus famili...
