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In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator General Trujillo.

This collection of writings and speeches was delivered and written over the course of the twenty-three years in which I represented my country at the United Nations. It reflects my efforts to bring to public attention the potential as well as the needs of older people, particularly older women, in our Third World. My aim was and is to replace the stereotype of helpless, pitiful elders with a truer picture - of people who could contribute to, a...

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Schön, klug und mutig sind die Widerstandskämpferinnen Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa und Dedé Mirabal. Die vier Schwestern, genannt »die Schmetterlinge« wurden hinterrücks von den Schergen Trujillo, des Diktators der Dominikanischen Republik ermordet. Nur Dedé kam davon. Julia Alvarez zeichnet die außergewöhnlichen Lebensgeschichten der vier Schwestern nach. Jede kommt selbst zu Wort und schildert aus ihrer Sicht ihre Kindheit, ihre erste Lieb...

»Die Geschichte meines Lebens beginnt mit der Geschichte meines Landes«, so beginnt die Erzählung um Salomé Ureña. Als Salomé 1870 beginnt, Gedichte über ihr Land zu schreiben, kommt dies einer Revolution gleich. Sie heiratet den unsteten Pancho, um dessen Liebe sie lange kämpfen musste, kurze Zeit später stirbt Salomé schwer lungenkrank und lässt ihre dreijährige Tochter Camila zurück. Jahre später versucht Camila das Schicksal ihrer berühmte...

Renowned Latina author Julia Alvarez recreates the legend of the Dominican folk character La Vieja Belen in this delighful bilingual rhyming story, beautifully illustrated by Dominican artist Ruddy Nunez. Alvarez's retelling keeps the magic of the traditional account while contributing a down-to-earth, timely moral: "Of all the gifts you can give, your time is the best.

A new paperback edition of Julia Alvarez's beloved story about family, identity, and first love. Milly Kaufman is an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont-and then she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent, strange fashion sense, and intense interest in Milly force her to confront her identity as an adopted child from Pablo's native country. As their relationship grows, Milly decides to undertake a courageous ...

A new paperback edition of Julia Alvarez's beloved Pura Belpré winner about life in Trujillo's Dominican Republic. "Diary entries written by a child while in hiding will remind readers of Anne Frank's story." -SLJ Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her twelfth birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have immigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the g...

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El deber es la más noble de las virtudes. Las mejores vidas incluyen la renuncia. Quien se entrega a otros vive entre palomas". Mujer fuerte, siempre en lucha contra la adversidad, Salomé Ureña inspiró una revolución con su poesía y abrió el camino de la educación para las mujeres de su país. Ni en los momentos aciagos cedió en sus empeños, aunque íntimamente se preguntara: ¿qué es la patria, qué es esta idea de la nación que empuja a tantos ...

¿Quién es Yo? ¿Una temible escritora que ejerce su oficio a pesar de la realidad de sus personajes? ¿Una invención de sí misma o una personalidad buscándose desesperadamente en otra cultura y en los demás? En ¡Yo! se aprecia el otro perfil de toda historia: la ficción que logra escapar al creador para revelarse sobre el claro lienzo de una realidad siempre aterradora. Quizá Yolanda García sea la única que logra escapar de la imaginación, ad...

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Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.

Tía Lola has been invited to teach Spanish at her niece and nephew's elementary school. But Miguel wants nothing to do with the arrangement. He hasn't had an easy time adjusting to his new school in Vermont and doesn't like living so far away from Papi, who has a new girlfriend and an announcement to make. On the other hand, Miguel's little sister, Juanita, can't wait to introduce her colorfully dressed aunt with her migrating beauty mark to a...

Miguel Guzman isn't exactly looking forward to the summer now that his mother has agreed to let the Sword family-a father, his three daughters, and their dog-live with them while they decide whether or not to move to Vermont. Little does Miguel know his aunt has something up her sleeve that just may make this the best summer ever. With her usual flair for creativity and fun, Tía Lola decides to start a summer camp for Miguel, his little sister...

The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of 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 seventy-five autobiographical poems, Alvarez's clear voice sings out in every line. Here, in the middle of her life, she looks back as a way of understanding and celebratin...

El agua se considera un recurso agotable en nuestros días, por lo que esta obra esta dedicada a proveer al lector de conocimientos generales y prácticos sobre el tratamiento de las aguas residuales generadas de los procesos productivos y en los hogares. El reciclado del agua como parte integrante del proceso y la utilización de las mismas en las producciones agrícolas e industriales como manera de reintegrar la misma a su ciclo habitual. Inclu...