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1) Dominicana
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"El último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. Al día siguiente se vuelve Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada a un apartamento de un cuarto en Washington Heights. Juan la engaña, abusa y controla, hasta le prohíbe aprender inglés. Después de un intento fallido de fuga, Ana se entera de que está embarazada. Su madre y su esposo comparan su embarazo...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Retellling of the Dominican folk character, La Vieja Belén, who leaves gifts for poor children a week after the Feast of the Epiphany.
El cuento de La Vieja Belén, personaje del folclor dominicano who deja regalos para los niños pobres la semana después de la Epifanía.
Author
Series
Punto de lectura. Narrativa volume 4/5
Language
Español
Description
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First bilingual edition.
Language
English
Description
"With the English and Spanish text side by side on the page, this bilingual edition of the vibrant picture book celebrating the strength of community and the versatility of plátanos is ideal for bilingual readers as well as Spanish speakers learning English and vice versa. Paletero Man meets Fry Bread in this vibrant and cheerful ode to plátanos, the star of Dominican cuisine, written by award-winning poet Lissette Norman, illustrated by Sara...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Latinísimo es una celebración de la cocina casera de América Latina --el primer libro en incluir recetas cotidianas de los veintiún países del continente-- que nos llega de manos de una de las autoridades culinarias más respetadas. En esta obra monumental, Sandra A. Gutierrez comparte más de trescientas recetas cotidianas --además de incontables variaciones-- que los cocineros caseros de todo el mundo querrán reproducir. Latinísimo nos...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Libros de cocina hay muchos, pero como este no hay ninguno. Cocina criolla, cocina familiar, cocina tradicional, cocina latina...no importa cómo la llames, lo importante es que digas: #yococinolatino. Seguro en tus redes sociales has visto platillos que te propones probar algún día... Éy luego no encuentras cómo prepararlos! Yo cocino latino pone al alcance de tus manos 68 deliciosas recetas de cinco populares blogs de cocina: La cocina...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the ominican diaspora from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is a book centered on one extended family--the Beléns--across multiple generations, ... set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa--and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights, too ... Told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical, ... its stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Situado durante los extraordinarios eventos del 6 de enero del 2021, este libro de memorias de Aquilino Gonell tiene como base las luchas y alegrías de la experiencia migrante las cuales han definido el experimento norteamericano"--
Aquilino Gonell era un jóven cuando llegó a los Estados Unidos de la República Dominicana. Aunque no hablaba inglés, se dedicó a su nueva tierra adoptada, luchando para conseguir el dichoso sueño americano....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Every afternoon Noeli, a young Dominican girl, goes to the beaches at Las Terrenas with her boyfriend to look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the many tourists that wander the beach. As people parade through her life, Noeli has a steady client; a mature French woman who, as time goes by, has found an ideal refuge on the island to spend her last years.
15) Woodpeckers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Julián finds love and a reason for living in the last place imaginable: the Dominican Republic's Najayo Prison. His romance, with fellow prisoner Yanelly, must develop through sign language and without the knowledge of dozens of guards.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
In Santiago, best friends Oliver, Moises and Hemingway prepare for a carefree summer road trip, before college, mapping a route from Montecristi in the north to an eventual destination of Pedernales in the south. Their car breaks down frequently, leaving the young men stranded with every character under the Dominican sun. Riffs on pop culture, national identity and politics offer an emblematic snapshot of the joys and insecurities of contemporary...
17) Sugar
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...
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