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November 2007 |
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Book Title: Love in the time of Cholera
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Summary: This novel is about a fifty-year love triangle between Fermina Daza, Florentino Ariza and Doctor Juvenal Urbino set in the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century (roughly 1880 to 1930). The novel, a tale of unrequited love, explores the idea that suffering for love is a kind of nobility.
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October 2007 |
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Book Title: My Family and I/Mi familia y yo
Author: Gladys Rosa-Mendoza, Carolina Cifuentes (Editor), Jackie
Snider (Illustrator)
Summary: My
Family and I Mi Familia y yo
Teach children the all-important concept of family in these
heartwarming pages of colorful and charming illustrations. Come
along with Emma as she introduces all the members of her family
while teaching the words for different relations, such as mother,
father, aunt, uncle, cousin, etc. There's a helpful pronunciation
guide in the back of the book.
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Book
Title: Stories from Puerto Rico
Author: Robert L. Muckley & Adela Martinez-Santiago
Summary: Stories
from Spain/Historias de Puerto Rico allows you to explore the
island's rich history. It includes 18 well-known Puerto Rican
legends that stretch from the dawn of creation to the twentieth
century. These tales will introduce you to an array of characters
as dynamic and colorful as the country that gave birth to them.
Animals, indigenous peoples, conquistadors, spiritual beings,
and extraterrestrials are among those who will make these pages
come alive for you! As you read these stories side by side, you
will be not only fine-tuning your language skills but also gaining
insight into the rich cultural heritage of the Puerto Rican people.
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Book Title: La casa de los Espíritus
Author: Isabel Allende
Summary: The
House of Spirits is probably Allende's most famous and important
book. In it, she chronicles the life of a family, as the patriarch
grows from a child to an elder, with the world changing all around
him while he tries to keep it the same. Through the lenses of
the Trueba family, we follow the portion of Chilean history that
eventually leads to the 1973 coup. Of course, the author is niece
of Salvador Allende, the socialist president democratically elected
that was removed from power and killed by Pinochet.
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