Julia Alvarez
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."...
2) Afterlife
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of Afterlife, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loveslines from...
Author
Language
English
Description
"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
“[A] beguiling memoir of family and culture.”—O, The Oprah Magazine
In a story that travels beyond borders and between families, acclaimed Dominican novelist and poet Julia Alvarez reflects on the joys and burdens of love—for her parents, for her husband, and for a young Haitian boy known as Piti. In this intimate true account of a promise kept, Alvarez takes us on a journey into experiences that challenge
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and...
Author
Series
Description
Esta novela "cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso m©Łgica t©Ưa Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pa©łuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor para las fiestas, caf©♭, hierbabuena, or©♭gano, an©Ưs, hojas de guan©Łbana, aj©Ưes--su alegr©Ưa invade la casa y--poco a poco--a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Esta novela "cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso mágica tía Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pañuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor para las fiestas, café, hierbabuena, orégano, anís, hojas de guanábana, ajíes--su alegría invade la casa y--poco a poco--a todo el pueblo. Un...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Yearling ed.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 20 cm
Language
Español
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara/Santillana USA Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
Español
Description
"La Vieja Belén es un personaje del folclor dominicano que llega a las páginas de este libro, de la mano de la autora Julia Alvarez, para enseñarles a lectores de todas las edades y de cualquier rincón del mundo, una hermosa lección sobre la generosidad y las prioridades de la vida... Mira mucho al cielo en su largo viajar, y suspira siempre, siempre, al recordar lo que aprendió un día con aquellos reyes: el mejor regalo es el tiempo que entregues."--Page...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice. But Mami and Papi are more traditional, and they have far more difficulty adjusting to their new country. Making matters worse, the girls--frequently embarrassed by their parents--find ways to rebel against them.
Author
Lexile measure
1180L
Description
The quincea©łera, the fifteenth birthday celebration for a Latina girl, is quickly becoming an American event. This legendary party is a sight to behold: lavish ball gowns, extravagant catered meals, DJs, limousines, and multi-tiered cakes. The must-haves for a "quince" are becoming as numerous and costly as a prom or wedding. And yet, this elaborate ritual also hearkens back to traditions from native countries and communities, offering young Latinas...
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her. Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about. Tia Lola, his quirky, "carismatica, " and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from the Dominican Republic...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
1180L
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The quinceañera, the fifteenth birthday celebration for a Latina girl, is quickly becoming an American event. This legendary party is a sight to behold: lavish ball gowns, extravagant catered meals, DJs, limousines, and multi-tiered cakes. The must-haves for a "quince" are becoming as numerous and costly as a prom or wedding. And yet, this elaborate ritual also hearkens back to traditions from native countries and communities, offering young Latinas...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press, Triangle Square Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
A Triange Square books for Young Readers First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Children wonder what happens to their loved ones after death.
17) Yo!
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charming and funny . . . Mesmerizing . . . Wonderful." --USA Today Yolanda García--Yo, for short--is the literary one in the family. Her first published novel, in which uses as characters practically everyone she knows, was a big success. Now she's basking in the spotlight while those "characters" find their very recognizable selves dangling in that same blinding light. But turnabout is fair play, and so here, Yolanda García's family...
Author
Description
Poco despu©♭s de jubilarse de la universidad donde ense©łaba literatura, Antonia Vega, una escritora latina, pierde a su adorado esposo y su vida parece desmoronarse de repente. Hasta entonces parec©Ưa haber encontrado consuelo en la literatura que ama--las palabras de sus autores preferidos dan vueltas en su cabeza como plegarias--, pero la desaparici©đn de su hermana, con su personalidad impredecible y su gran coraz©đn, junto con la aparici©đn...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Poco después de jubilarse de la universidad donde enseñaba literatura, Antonia Vega, una escritora latina, pierde a su adorado esposo y su vida parece desmoronarse de repente. Hasta entonces parecía haber encontrado consuelo en la literatura que ama--las palabras de sus autores preferidos dan vueltas en su cabeza como plegarias--, pero la desaparición de su hermana, con su personalidad impredecible y su gran corazón, junto con la aparición de...