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| Hijo
De Hombre by Augusto
Roa Bastos
$16.99
Paperback,
(November 1996)
Penguin USA (Paper);
Dimensions (in inches): 0.61 x 7.70 x 5.05
If in this novel there is,
therefore, a persistent rumor of possible salvation, it is not
uttered without having passed through the inferno. The images are
terrifying. Paraguay is like the eroded crater left by a bomb, where
the living are hardly more alive than the dead. Paraguay is an
infinite plantation guarded by savage overseers and hallucinatory
sicknesses. Paraguay is a besieged garrison fighting a senseless war
without water in the middle of a desert. And, for those who manage
to escape these geographic zones of the country, the nation itself
is conceived as a vast prison from which escape is impossible.
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| La
Vida Loca : El Testimonio De Un Pandillero En Los Angeles
by Luis J.
Rodriguez
$10.40
Paperback,
(November 1995)
Simon & Schuster
(Paper); Dimensions (in inches): 0.71 x 8.41 x 5.50
In the tradition of The
Autobiography of Malcolm X and Manchild in the Promised Land--an
explosive memoir of hopelessness and resurrection that vividly
portrays the brutality of barrio gang life. A timely exploration
into the roots of Latino rage. |
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| La
Llaman America by Luis J.
Rodriguez
$11.17 Hardcover,
32 pgs (Aug 1998)
Curbstone Pr;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.34 x 10.29 x 8.29
Set in the Pilsen barrio of Chicago, this children's picture book
gives an heartwarming message of hope. This story deals
realistically with the problems in urban neighborhoods and has an
upbeat theme: you can succeed in spite of the odds against you.
Carlos Vasquez's inspired 4-color illustrations give a vivid sense
of the barrio, as well as the beauty and strength of the young girl
America. |
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| Harry
Potter Y La Camara Secreta (Book 2) by J.
K. Rowling
$8.95 Reading
level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover, (January 2000)
In this sequel to Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone, the monster that is unleashed is
literally petrifying Hogwarts students (turning them into stone,
that is), and who is the primary suspect? Harry Potter himself. Add
to this some enormous spiders, a Deathday Party, a ghost named
Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and lots and lots of
suspense, and you'll soon find yourself engrossed in another
terrific tale in which magic does exist and good eventually triumphs
over evil. |
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| Harry
Potter Y La Piedra Filosofal (Book 1)
by J.
K. Rowling
$19.95 Reading
level: Ages 9-12 Hardcover,
5th edition (September 1999)
Orphaned as a baby, Harry Potter
has spent 11 awful years living with his mean aunt, uncle, and
cousin Dudley. But everything changes for Harry when an owl delivers
a mysterious letter inviting him to attend a school for wizards. At
this special school, Harry finds friends, aerial sports, and magic
in everything from classes to meals, as well as a great destiny
that's been waiting for him...if Harry can survive the encounter.
From an author who has been compared to C. S. Lewis and Roald Dahl,
this enchanting, funny debut novel won England's National Book Award
and the prestigious Smarties Prize. |
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| Harry
Potter Y El
Prisionero De Azkaban (Book 3) by J.
K. Rowling
$8.76
Reading
level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover, (April 2000)
This is the third book in the Harry Potter series. With help form
his army of Dementors, Sirus Black, recently escaped from Azkaban
prison, has but one thing on his mind--to find our young
wizard-in-training. But will Harry be able to figure out why in
time? |
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| Margarita,
Esta Linda La Mar
by Sergio
Ramirez
$21.95 Paperback,
373 pgs (April 1999)
Ediciones Alfaguara,
S.A. Dimensions (in inches): 0.96 x 8.28 x 5.26
The author poetically
intertwines fact and fiction to retell modern Nicaraguan history. A
famous phrase from legendary Nicaraguan poet Ruben Dario is used to
spin this tale of fiction. It begins with the imaginary visit of
Dario to Leon, Nicaragua, in 1907. There he writes a famous verse on
the fan of a nine-year-old girl. Fifty years later, the same girl
and her sister play a role in the plot to assassinate the dictator
Anastasio Somoza. |
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| Detras
De La Mascara by
Jorge Ramos
$9.00 Paperback,
333 pgs
Pocket edition (Jan 1998)
Editorial Grijalbo, S.A. de
C.V.
Detras de la mascara is a
true revelation of a journalists behind the scenes work. The author,
Jorge Ramos, tells readers what it is really like interviewing world
leaders like President Bill Clinton, or dictator Fidel Castro. |
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| La
Otra Cara De America by
Jorge Ramos
$9.95 Paperback,
326 pgs (Jun
2000)
Editorial Grijalbo, S.A. de
C.V.;
Stories of
famous, infamous, and not so famous immigrants and their struggles,
triumphs and trials in this land. Jorge Ramos is the national news
anchor for the most widely watched news show by Hispanics in the
United States. |
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| Lo
Que Vi by Jorge Ramos
$3.74
Paperback,
344 pgs (Oct
1999)
Editorial Grijalbo,
S.A. de C.V.
Jorge Ramos anchor of Univision comes
out with yet another bestseller on his journalistic impressions. |
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| Nueve
Siglos De Literatura Espanola: A Dual-Language Anthology by
Seymour Resnick
$10.36 Paperback,
462 pgs (Nov 1994)
Dover Pubns;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.96 x 8.47 x 5.39
Ranging from the
medieval epic "Poema del Cid" to the modern verse of
Garcia Lorca, this dual-language anthology offers a rich sampling of
the finest Spanish poetry, prose and drama--over 70 selections by
more than 40 authors.
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| Y
No Se Lo Trago La Tierra by Tomas Rivera
$10.36 Paperback,
208 pgs (May 1995)
Arte Publico Pr;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.48 x 8.49 x 5.40
Tomas Rivera's
classic novel about a Mexican-American family's life as migrant
workers during the 1950s, as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
Exploited by farmers, shopkeepers and even fellow Mexican Americans,
the boy must forge his self identity in the face of exploitation,
death and disease, constant moving and conflicts with school
officials. |
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| Vidas
Impropias : Transformaciones Del Sujeto Femenino En La Narrativa
Espanola Contempornea by Maria Pilar
Rodriguez
$48.95 Paperback,
268 pgs (Jan
2000)
Purdue Univ Pr;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.42 x 8.96 x 5.98
An analysis of six
Spanish novels, one for each decade from the 1940s through the
1990s, in which Rodriguez proposes a new concept of the novel of feminine
development. The study begins with
Nada by Carmen Laforet, and continues with La playa de los locos, by
Elena Soriano, La placa del Diamant, by Merc Rodoreda, two stories
from Te dejo el mar, by Carme Riera, Los perros de Hcate, by Carmen
Gomez Ojea, and Efectos secundarios by Luisa Etxenike. In these
texts, "la mujer espanola" of the Franco period's official
discourse-woman as wife and mother as the most desirable
possibilities of realization and development-is deconstructed into a
multitude of vital, affective, and sexual options that confront this
domestic image. |
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| Pedro
Paramo by Juan Rulfo
$8.80
Paperback,
(December 1991)
Fondo De Cultura
Economica; Dimensions (in inches): 0.40 x 7.11 x 4.35
Beseeched by his dying
mother to locate his father, Pedro Paramo, whom they fled from years
ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala. Comala is a town alive with
whispers and shadows - a place seemingly populated only by memory
and hallucinations. Built on the tyranny of the Paramo family, its
barren and broken-down streets echo the voices of tormented spirits
sharing the secrets of the past.
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