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29142) Casi una mujer
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
Español
Description
"Author's third novel and a long-awaited sequel to her first autobiographical novel, Cuando era puertorriqueña. She continues to chronicle her life as she leaves her childhood behind and enters adult life where her American values increasingly clash with those of her Puerto Rican parents. Most of all, this novel helps understand how Esmeralda Santiago, the writer, was formed and became a writer"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
29143) One scandalous story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and thirteen days that tarnished American journalism
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
29144) Seraglio
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A fictional portrait of Aimee Dubucq, who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and placed in a Turkish harem, traces her relationships with several powerful sultans and her place as an influential woman in the Ottoman Empire.
29145) Nįa morena suęa
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Nací en Ohio, pero las historias de Carolina del Sur corrían ya, como ríos, por mis venas. Hablan de crecer en distintos hogares, de una época que arrastra todavía los residuos de las leyes Jim Crow y del movimiento de los derechos civiles como respuesta.
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s,...
29147) La distancia entre nosotros
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando el padre de Reyna Grande deja a su esposa y sus tres hijos atrás en un pueblo de México para hacer el peligroso viaje a través de la frontera a los Estados Unidos, promete que pronto regresará; con el dinero suficiente para construir la casa de sus sueños. Sus promesas se vuelven más difíciles de creer cuando los meses de espera se convierten en años. Cuando se lleva a su esposa para reunirse con él, Reyna y sus hermanos son depositados...
29148) Irena's jars of secrets
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"The story of Irena Sendler, a Polish Catholic social worker who helped rescue nearly 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. Includes afterword, author's note, sources, and glossary"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across the floors of her house in her socks all the way to the...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days to her own children. Florence was an unlikely warrior....
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Excerpts from the diary of a woman who served as nurse to a regiment of black soldiers fighting for the Union during the Civil War, including her observations on the treatment of "coloreds" after the war.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Alfred Hitchcock was fixated--not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn't much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were the rarest human specimen--a natural blonde--as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. The lengths he went to in...
29153) Escaping Mr. Rochester
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre has no interest in a husband. Eager to make her own way in the world, she accepts the governess position at Thornfield Hall. Though her new employer, Edward Rochester, has a charming air (not to mention a handsome face), Jane discovers his smile can sharpen in an instant. Plagued by Edward's mercurial mood and the strange wails which echo through the corridors, Jane grows suspicious of the secrets hidden within Thornfield Hall, unaware of...
29154) The White Queen
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
A riveting portrayal of one of the most dramatic and turbulent times in English history. A story of love and lust, seduction and deception, betrayal and murder, it is uniquely told through the perspective of three different, yet equally relentless women - Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort and Anne Neville. In their quest for power, they will scheme, manipulate and seduce their way onto the English throne.
Publisher
Museum of Contemporary Art
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Written entries on each artist offer key biographical and descriptive information and accompanying essays by leading critics, art historians, and scholars offer new perspectives on feminist art practice. The topics provide a broad social context for the artworks themselves.
Author
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A mere 45 words, the First Amendment to the Constitution stands as a pillar of our democracy and has had an incalculable influence on the development of human freedom in the United States and the Western world. By defining the relationship between the people and the state and placing checks on governmental power to silence its populace, its protections have important ramifications for every American. But the First Amendment is not simply a legal construct...
29158) El amante turco
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
Español
Description
Esmeralda finalmente se desprende y supera la intensa lucha con so madre solo para caer subyugada por Ulvi, un sofisticado hombre turco mucho mayor que ella. Asi descubre que la pasion amorosa tambien puede convertirse en una prision. Su viaje de liberacion y descubrimiento personal es atrevido, y conduce hasta su triunfante graduacion de Harvard.--Desde la descripcion de la editorial.