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Almost a Woman
by Esmerelda Santiago

ISBN 037570521X (0-375-70521-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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"Not only for readers who share [Santiago's] experiences but for North Americans who seek to understand what it means to be the other."--The Boston Globe

In her new memoir, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the theaters of Manhattan.

"Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macún in 1961 to live in a three-room tenement apartment with seven young siblings, an inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, privacy, and a life with her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she yearns to find balance between being American and being Puerto Rican. When Negi defies her mother by going on a series of hilarious dates, she finds that independence brings its own set of challenges.

At once a universally poignant coming-of-age tale and a brave and heartfelt immigrant's story, Almost a Woman is Santiago's triumphant journey into womanhood.

"A universal tale familiar to thousands of immigrants to this country, but made special by Santiago's simplicity and honesty."
--The Miami Herald

"A courageous memoir. . . . One witnesses. . .the blessings, contradictions and restraints of Puerto Rican culture."
--The Washington Post Book World [via]
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Aristotle on Poetics
by Aristotle, Michael Davis, Seth Benardete

ISBN 1587310260 (1-58731-026-0)
Softcover, St Augustine Pr Inc

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Aristotle's much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. The late Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew with a view to rendering Aristotle's text into English as precisely as possible. A literal translation has long been needed, for in order to excavate the argument of On Poetics one has to attend not simply to what is said on the surface but also to the various puzzles, questions, and peculiarities that emerge only on the level of how Aristotle says what he says and thereby leads one to revise and deepen one's initial understanding of the intent of the argument. As On Poetics is about how tragedy ought to be composed, it should not be surprising that it turns out to be a rather artful piece of literature in its own right.
Benardete and Davis supplement their edition of On Poetics with extensive notes and appendices. They explain nuances of the original that elude translation, and they provide translations of passages found elsewhere in Aristotle's works as well as in those of other ancient authors that prove useful in thinking through the argument of On Poetics both in terms of its treatment of tragedy and in terms of its broader concerns. By following the connections Aristotle plots between On Poetics and his other works, readers will be in a position to appreciate the centrality of this work for his entire thought.
In an introduction that sketches the overall interpretation of On Poetics presented in hisThe Poetry of Philosophy (St. Augustine's Press, 1999; see p. 33 of this catalogue), Davis argues that, while On Poetics is certainly about tragedy, it has a further concern extending beyond poetry to the very structure of the human soul in its relation to what is, and that Aristotle reveals in the form of his argument the true character of human action. [via]
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A Cafecito Story
by Julia Alvarez, Daisy Cocco-Defilippis, Bill Eichner, Belkis Ramirez

ISBN 1931498067 (1-931498-06-7)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co

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Caramelo

ISBN 1400041503 (1-4000-4150-3)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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Caramelo, Sandra Cisneros's first novel since her celebrated The House on Mango Street, weaves a large yet intricate pattern, much like the decorative fringe on a rebozo, the traditional Mexican shawl. Through the eyes of young Celaya, or Lala, the Reyes family saga twists and turns over three generations of truths, half-truths, and outright lies. And, like Celaya's grandmother's prized caramelo (striped) rebozo, so is "the universe a cloth, and all humanity interwoven.... Pull one string and the whole thing comes undone." The Reyes clan, from Awful Grandmother Soledad and her favorite son Inocencio to Celaya, follow their destinies from Mexico City to the U.S. armed forces, jobs upholstering furniture, and to Chicago and San Antonio. Celaya gathers and retells, in over 80 chapters, the stories that reinforce her family's, and subsequently her own, identity as they travel between the U.S.-Mexican border and within the United States. Rich with sensory descriptions and animated conversations and peppered with Mexican cultural and historical details, this novel can hardly contain itself. Also an acclaimed poet, Cisneros writes fiercely and thoroughly, and her characters enter and exit the page with uncommon humanity. Although the book is long--over 400 pages plus a relevant U.S.-Mexico chronology--in many ways it's not long enough. The world of the 20th-century Mexican family, and of the Reyeses in particular, is as complicated, timeless, and satisfying as our own family stories. --Emily Russin [via]
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Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About
by Carla Trujillo

ISBN 094321906X (0-943219-06-X)
Softcover, Third Women Pr

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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel

ISBN 0385721234 (0-385-72123-4)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.

The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce.

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The Dirty Girls Social Club
by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

ISBN 0312313829 (0-312-31382-9)
Softcover, Griffin

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El Arroyo De LA Llorona
by Sandra Cisneros, Liliana Valenzuela

ISBN 0679768041 (0-679-76804-1)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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The highly acclaimed short story collection by the author of The House on Mango Street is now available in a Spanish edition. El arroyo de La Llorana brings to life an astonishing array of characters and, like La casa en Mango Street, promises to become a book that will be cherished around the world. "Radiant."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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El Plan Infinito / The Infinite Plan
by Isabel Allende

ISBN 8401376556 (84-01-37655-6)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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El Plan Infinito, de la celebrada escritora latinoamericana Isabel Allende, es su primera novela situada en los Estados Unidos y con personajes nortemamericanos. Es la hipnozitizante y conmovedora saga de un hombre que, durante los largos años de su juventud y madurez, busca amor y aceptación. Allende traza la pobreza y abandono de la niñez de su protagonista, la persecuzion de las pandillas de un barrio de Los Angeles,el horror de sus experiencias en Vietnam, su vida frenética como abagodo en San Francisco---una serie de frustraciones que por fin se resuelven en acogida y redención.
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  Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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  Softcover, Random House Mondadori
Eva Luna
by Isabel Allende

ISBN 9500717654 (950-07-1765-4)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Las aventuras picarescas de una Sherezade latinoamericana, relatando su nacimiento ilegítimo, su orfandad, su adolescencia sin rumbo, sus actividades contra el gobierno, y su romance con un problemático director de películas documentales. Por medio de su don narrativo, Eva Luna inventa una realidad personal determinada por la magia y el destino.
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Hairs/Pelitos
by Sandra Cisneros, Terry Ybanez

ISBN 0679890076 (0-679-89007-6)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros's best-selling The House on Mango Street shows, through simple, intimate portraits, the diversity among us.

A Dragonfly Book in English and Spanish.

A Parenting Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year

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Un excelente constructor de vocabulario, con nombres de objetos en Inglés y en Español, acompañados por ilustraciones, agrupados por tópicos como colores, juguetes, animales y herramientas. [via]
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Hija De La Fortuna / Daughter of Fortune
by Isabel Allende

ISBN 8484500152 (84-8450-015-2)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc

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Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo común. Eliza recibe ayuda y afecto de Tao Chi'en, un médico chino, quien la conducirá de la mano en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciónes de la condición humana. hija de la fortuna es un retrato palpitante de una época marcada por la violencia y la codicia en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor, la amistad, la compasión y el valor.
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The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende, Magda Bogin, Christopher Hitchens, Madga Bogin

ISBN 1400043182 (1-4000-4318-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nation's history thrillingly to life, but also makes its people's joys and anguishes wholly our own. [via]
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The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros

ISBN 0072435178 (0-07-243517-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College

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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
by Julia Alvarez

ISBN 0452268060 (0-452-26806-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood. [via]
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In the Time of the Butterflies
by Julia Alvarez

ISBN 1565120388 (1-56512-038-8)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books

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From the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents comes this tale of courage and sisterhood set in the Dominican Republic during the rise of the Trujillo dictatorship. A skillful blend of fact and fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to overthrow the government. Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures--known as "las mariposas," or "the butterflies," in the underground--as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered.
Alvarez's controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as "the butterflies" near their horrific end. The novel begins with the recollections of Dede, the fourth and surviving sister, who fears abandoning her routines and her husband to join the movement. Alvarez also offers the perspectives of the other sisters: brave and outspoken Minerva, the family's political ringleader; pious Patria, who forsakes her faith to join her sisters after witnessing the atrocities of the tyranny; and the baby sister, sensitive Maria Teresa, who, in a series of diaries, chronicles her allegiance to Minerva and the physical and spiritual anguish of prison life.
In the Time of the Butterflies is an American Library Association Notable Book and a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. [via]
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LA Casa De Los Espiritus

ISBN 8401423023 (84-01-42302-3)
Softcover, Continental Book Co Inc

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LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende

ISBN 8484503887 (84-8450-388-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Bestseller internacional y muy admirado clásico de la literatura latinoamericana, la trascendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia épica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los días violentos del golpe que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. En La casa de los espíritus, Allende combina lo supernatural con lo real en una versión sumamente personal de realismo mágico.Es raro, el caso, en que una primera novela lanza a su autora tan repentinamente al foro internacionales.
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LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Street
by Elena Poniatowska, Sandra Cisneros

ISBN 0679755268 (0-679-75526-8)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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La novela mejor vendida, trata de una niña que crece en una de las comunidades latinas de Chicago-algunas veces le romperá el corazón y otras veces le dará gran alegría-describe un nuevo paisaje americano a través de sus múltiples personajes. -"Una novela profundamente conmovedora . . . Como lo mejor de la poesía, abre las ventanas del corazón sin desperdiciar las palabras." -Miami Herald. [via]
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Latin For All Occasions (Lingua Latina Occasionibus Omnibus): Become the Life of the Party with Everyone's Favorite Dead Language!
by Henry Beard, J. Mark Sugars, Mikhail Ivenitsky

ISBN 1592400809 (1-59240-080-9)
Softcover, Gotham Books

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With more than 200,000 copies in print, Latin for All Occasions and its follow-up, Latin for Even More Occasions, have helped scores of readers harness the language of Caesar and Cicero. Impress your boss with Occupational Latin (Lingua Latina Occupationi); sell your product with Sales Latin (Lingua Latina Mercatoria); flirt with your classics professor with Sensual Latin (Lingua Latina Libidinosa); look like the hipster you are with Pop-Cultural Latin (Lingua Latina Popularis); survive the holidays with Familial Latin (Lingua Latina Domestica) and Celebrational Latin (Lingua Latina Festiva). Its all here, whether youre a student of the language or just want to talk like one.
From cocktail-party banter to climbing the corporate ladder to online dating, Latin for All Occasions features dozens of handy sections, including Las Vegas Latin, Latin for Golfers, Latin for Breakups, Latin for the Politically Correct, and much, much more. In one easy-to-use volume, National Lampoon founder Henry Beard presents hundreds of listings rendered in grammatically accurate classical Latin, with a foolproof pronunciation guide.
Who says Latin is a dead language? From the comic genius who brought us X-Treme Latin comes Latin for All Occasions, guaranteed to help readers delight their friends, insult their enemies, and elevate the public discourse.
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Latin Satins
by Terri De LA Pena, Terri De La Pena

ISBN 1878067524 (1-878067-52-4)
Softcover, Seal Pr

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Like Water for Chocolate
by Thomas Christensen, Laura Esquivel, Carol Christensen

ISBN 038542017X (0-385-42017-X)
Softcover, Anchor Books

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Despite the fact that she has fallen in love with a young man, Tita, the youngest of three daughters born to a tyrannical rancher, must obey tradition and remain single and at home to care for her mother. Reprint. Movie tie-in. [via]
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Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel, Carol Christensen

ISBN 0385420161 (0-385-42016-1)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This novel includes recipes, romances, and home remedies. [via]
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Memory Mambo
by Achy Obejas

ISBN 1573440175 (1-57344-017-5)
Softcover, Cleis Pr

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Achy Obejas, a Cuban lesbian living in Chicago, scored a huge hit with her 1994 collection of short stories, We Came All the Way from Cuba So You Could Dress Like This? Now in Memory Mambo, her first novel, she describes the life of Juani, a 25-year-old Cuban lesbian who has to deal with family, work, love, sex, and the weirdness of North American culture. Obejas's writing is sharp and mordantly funny. She understands perfectly how the romance of exile--from a homeland as well as from heterosexuality--and the mundane reality of everyday life balance one another. Memory Mambo is ultimately very moving in its depiction of what it means to find a new and finally safe sense of home. [via]
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Paula
by Isabel Allende

ISBN 8401423635 (84-01-42363-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que moría su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de si misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara la enfermedad. [via]
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Retrato En Sepia
by Isabel Allende

ISBN 8401014093 (84-01-01409-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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A finales del siglo XIX en Chile, Aurora del Valle sufre de un trauma brutal que borra de su mente los primeros cinco años de su vida. Criada por su ambiciosa abuela, Paulina del Valle, crece en un ambiente privilegiado, pero se ve atormentada por horribles pesadillas. Cuando debe afrontar la traición del hombre que ama, y la soledad, decide explorar el misterio de su pasado.
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Sister Chicas: A Novel
by Lisa Alvarado, Ann Hagman Cardinal, Jane Alberdeston Coralin

ISBN 0451217705 (0-451-21770-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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Taina's turning fifteen-and is so dreading her Pepto-pink quinceañera, her Sweet Fifteen.What about her secret Jamaican artist boyfriend? Should she let Mami choose her escort, or follow her heart-and ignite a family riot?

Grachi must choose between being the good Chicana-and grabbing la oportunidad de la vida. Now she needs her Sister Chicas more than ever...

Leni's the rebel-with a punk style and an attitude to go with it. But as she tries to make sense of her roots with her Chicas, her life gets more complicated, especially when her childhood friend turns into a handsome rockero...

And even though Taina,Grachi, and Leni don't always agree on things-like boys, clothes, and music-nothing gets in the way of their friendship. [via]
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When I Was Puerto Rican
by Esmeralda Santiago

ISBN 0306814528 (0-306-81452-8)
Softcover, Da Capo Pr

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Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
by Sandra Cisneros

ISBN 0679738568 (0-679-73856-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Cisneros gives voice to characters on both sides of the Mexican border, from a young girl harboring special secrets to a witch woman circling above her village. [via]
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Yo!
by Julia Alvarez

ISBN 1565121570 (1-56512-157-0)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books

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- Yo!: ISBN 0452279186 (0-452-27918-6)
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Caramelo : En Español
by Sandra Cisneros, Liliana Valenzuela

ISBN 0375415092 (0-375-41509-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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  Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
La Casa De Los Espiritus
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ISBN 9685956790 (968-5956-79-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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LA Casa De Los Espiritus / House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende

ISBN 0060951303 (0-06-095130-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Bestseller internacional y muy admirado clásico de la literatura latinoamericana, la trascendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia épica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los días violentos del golpe que derrocó al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. En La casa de los espíritus, Allende combina lo supernatural con lo real en una versión sumamente personal de realismo mágico.Es raro, el caso, en que una primera novela lanza a su autora tan repentinamente al foro internacionales.
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LA Casa En Mango Street/the House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros, Elena Poniatowska

ISBN 0613046889 (0-613-04688-9)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, but she tries to rise above the hopelessness. [via]
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Casi Una Mujer / Almost a Woman
by Esmeralda Santiago, Nina Torres-Vidal

ISBN 0375705260 (0-375-70526-0)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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A simultaneous Spanish-language edition, originally translated for Vintage by
Nina Torres-Vidal

In her new memior, the acclaimed author of When I Was Puerto Rican continues the riveting chronicle of her life.

"Negi," as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-bedroom tenement apartment with seven siblings, and inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, for privacy, and her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's Performing Arts High School in the afternoon, and dancing salsa all night, she also seeks to find balance between being an American and Puerto Rican. When Negi defies her mother by going on a series of dates, she finds that independence brings challenges.

At once a universally poignant coming-of-age tale and a heartfelt immigrant's story, Almost a Woman is Santiago's triumphant journey into womanhood. [via]
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Como Agua para Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel

ISBN 0385471378 (0-385-47137-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing

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Como Agua Para Chocolate / Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel

ISBN 0385471483 (0-385-47148-3)
Softcover, Random House Espanol

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Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.

The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce. [via]
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by Not Available

ISBN 9706907483 (970-690-748-3)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops onions at the kitchen table in her final days of pregnancy. While still in her mother's womb, her daughter to be weeps so violently she causes an early labor, and little Tita slips out amid the spices and fixings for noodle soup. This early encounter with food soon becomes a way of life, and Tita grows up to be a master chef. She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story.

The Spanish language edition of the best-selling Like Water For Chocolate is a remarkable success in its own right. Now, in this mass market edition, thousands of new readers will be able to partake in the sumptuous, romantic, and hilarious tale of Tita, the terrific cook with an extra special something in her sauce.

From the Paperback edition. [via]
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Cuando Era Puertorriquena / When I Was Puerto Rican
by Esmeralda Santiago

ISBN 0679756779 (0-679-75677-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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Magia, tensión sexual, comedia e intenso drama se mueven dentro de ésta encantadora pero a la vez dura autobiografía; es la historia de una niña que deja a su pueblo en puerto rico por la atracción de nueva york, y una oportunidad para el éxito. "clara, calladamente poderosa y muy lírica: una historia de verdadera valentía." - kirkus reviews [via]
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De Como Las Muchachas Garcia Perdieron el Acento/ How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent
by Julia Alvarez, De Mercedes Guhl

ISBN 1400096944 (1-4000-9694-4)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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Cuando las hermanas García Carla, Sandra, Yolanda y Sofía y sus padres huyen de la República Dominicana buscando refugio de la persecución política, encuentran un nuevo hogar en los Estados Unidos. Pero el Nueva York de los años sesenta es marcadamente diferente de la vida privilegiada, aunque conflictiva, que han dejado atrás. 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 tiempos. [via]
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En el Tiempo de las Mariposas
by Julia Alvarez, Rolando Costa Picazo

ISBN 0452279968 (0-452-27996-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas
by Rolando Costa Picazo, Julia Alvarez, Antonio Alfau

ISBN 0452286867 (0-452-28686-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of the acclaimed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this extraordinary novel. Each of the sisters speaks in her own voice, beginning as young girls in the 1940s, their stories vary from hair ribbons to gun-running to prison torture. Their story is framed by their surviving sister who tells her own tale of suffering and dedication to the memory of Las Mariposas. This inspired portrait of four women is a haunting statement about the human cost of political oppression, and is destined to take its place alongside Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Allende's The House of the Spirits as one of the great 20th-century Latin American novels. [via]
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Hija de la fortuna / Daughter of Fortune
by Not Available

ISBN 8497592530 (84-9759-253-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1849, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido a encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal, escondida en la cala de un velero, y la búsqueda de su amante en una tierra de hombres solos y prostitutas atraídos por la fiebre del oro, transforman a la joven inocente en una mujer fuera de lo común. Eliza recibe ayuda y afecto de Tao Chi'en, un médico chino, quien la conducirá de la mano en un itinerario memorable por los misterios y contradicciónes de la condición humana. hija de la fortuna es un retrato palpitante de una época marcada por la violencia y la codicia en la cual los protagonistas rescatan el amor, la amistad, la compasión y el valor.
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Paula
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ISBN 849759388X (84-9759-388-X)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Paula es el libro más conmovedor, más personal y más íntimo de Isabel Allende. Junto al lecho en que moría su hija Paula, la gran narradora chilena escribió la historia de su familia y de si misma con el propósito de regalársela a Paula cuando ésta superara la enfermedad. [via]
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El Plan Infinito / the Infinite Plan
by Isabel Allende

ISBN 9500707241 (950-07-0724-1)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp

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Yo!
by Julia Alvarez, Dolores Prida

ISBN 0452281407 (0-452-28140-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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The heroine of Julia Alvarez's Yo! is an author who writes what she knows--much to the chagrin of her close-knit immigrant family. During the first chapter, one of Yolanda (Yo) Garcia's sisters explains the basic problem: "I always was a reader, but now, whenever I open a book, even if it's something by someone dead, all I can do is shake my head and think oh my god, I wonder what their family thought of this story." Yo's friends and family members, many of whom appeared in Alvarez's earlier novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, take turns narrating this book. They draw a vivid portrait of the writer, describing her big mouth and high-strung nature as well as the details of her youth in the Dominican Republic. They're often more keenly aware of class, gender, and racial divisions than is Yo herself. When Yo returns to the Dominican Republic to spend a summer reconnecting with her roots, for instance, the servants at the family estate regard her as a very strange (but likeable) foreigner. In another segment, Yo's landlord, whose husband beats her, describes the writer's efforts to save her from the abusive relationship. In these episodes and others, Yo comes across as a woman who doesn't quite fathom the complexity of the events going on around her but has so much good will and verve that people forgive her small transgressions. It is a pleasure to hear all these diverse voices; some are funny, some wistful, but all of them seem to think Yolanda Garcia is the bee's knees. Yo! is a thoughtful, entertaining novel about the immigrant experience and the impact writers have on the lives of their peers. --Jill Marquis [via]
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