Download or read book The Lady from Havana written by Luis Santeiro and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: In Act One, Mama, an elegant older woman from Cuba, arrives at the Miami home of her daughter, Marita, with her former maid, Zoila, in tow as well as a host of misgivings about living in exile in the United States. As the mother and daug

Download or read book Odyssey of the Chosen written by H. S. Theodore and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sam has good intentions when he takes his teenage children out sailing on the Atlantic. Rachael and Jayden couldnt be more different; their arguments prove as much. Rachael thinks her little brother a coward, while Jayden knows hes something specialeven if the past still haunts him and his entire family, their mother Abigail included. They set off for adventure, but when the sailing trip takes a turn for the worst, the entire family becomes embroiled in a war where they face supernatural enemies with preternatural power. Forced to believe in the unfathomable, they are led to destinies unknown to them but known to otherworldly creaturesone of good and one of pure evil. As battle ensues, the worlds balance teeters on the shoulders of mere children. However, Jayden and Rachael soon learn they are the Chosen, spoken of in ancient prophecy. Terrified, the children resist, but can anyone run from their predestined fate? Everything hangs in the balance, and what began as a day on the water is now a fight for the future.

Download or read book Destroyed Dreams written by Esperanza Reynolds and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh, never told before, recount of events after Castro's revolution, leading the reader through major events, Bay of Pigs invasion, Missile Crisis, and the exodus of innumerable number of Cubans, leaving the Island in search liberty, opportunity, and the pursuit of happiness! The dream of one man became the nightmare of a Nation! Destroyed Dreams surfaces Cuba's Castro as never before!

Download or read book Ambition Can Have Terrible Consequences written by Anni Jayde and published by Seize The Night Publishing Agency. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diva Delaney’s grandmother is determined to find her a warlock to settle down with and she isn’t going to let anything stand in her way. Forced to date strange conjurers she’s never met before, Diva isn’t happy about the situation at all, but standing up to Lilla could be hazardous to her health. Zoila, dressmaker extraordinaire and self-proclaimed fairy godmother, has a mission for Diva. The strange witch was robbed a decade ago and she wants her belongings back. Diva’s reputation as a psychic medium has grown. Zoila is convinced she is the key to finding her beloved property. Unfortunately, Diva will have to team up with Haydn Creighton to pull this mission off. Speaking of Haydn, Diva’s feelings for the sinfully handsome warlock haven’t changed. But now that the curse has been broken, he’s free to start dating blonde bimbos again. Seeing him with other women pushes her to the edge and her broken heart makes her do something that could very well come back to haunt her badly. cozy paranormal mysteries, cozy mystery, witches wizards warlocks, supernatural occult paranormal, female sleuth, spells magic, ghosts spirits phantoms poltergeist

Download or read book Contemporary Chicana Literature Re Writing the Maternal Script written by Cristina Herrera and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the growing literary scholarship on Chicana writers, few, if any, studies have exhaustively explored themes of motherhood, maternity, and mother-daughter relationships in their novels. When discussions of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships do occur in literary scholarship, they tend to mostly be a backdrop to a larger conversation on themes such as identity, space, and sexuality, for example. Mother-daughter relationships have been ignored in much literary criticism, but this book reveals that maternal relationships are crucial to the study of Chicana literature; more precisely, examining maternal relationships provides insight to Chicana writers' rejection of intersecting power structures that otherwise silence Chicanas and women of color. This book advances the field of Chicana literary scholarship through a discussion of Chicana writers' efforts to re-write the script of maternity outside of existing discourses that situate Chicana mothers as silent and passive and the subsequent mother-daughter relationship as a source of tension and angst. Chicana writers are actively engaged in the process of re-writing motherhood that resists the image of the static, disempowered Chicana mother; on the other hand, these same writers engage in broad representations of Chicana mother-daughter relationships that are not merely a source of conflict but also a means in which both mothers and daughters may achieve subjectivity. While some of the texts studied do present often conflicted relationships between mothers and their daughters, the novels do not comfortably accept this script as the rule; rather, the writers included in this study are highly invested in re-writing Chicana motherhood as a source of empowerment even as their works present strained maternal relationships. Chicana writers have challenged the pervasiveness of the problematic virgin/whore binary which has been the motif on which Chicana womanhood/motherhood has been defined, and they resist the construction of maternity on such narrow terms. Many of the novels included in this study actively foreground a conscious resistance to the limiting binaries of motherhood symbolized in the virgin/whore split. The writers critically call for a rethinking of motherhood beyond this scope as a means to explore the empowering possibilities of maternal relationships. This book is an important contribution to the fields of Chicana/Latina and American literary scholarship.

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Download or read book The Poisoned Pawn written by Peggy Blair and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Cuban Inspector Ricardo Ramirez is dispatched to Canada and told to bring home a priest found in possession of child pornography depicting Cuban children, he knows his job will be hard enough. But it gets worse once he’s in Ottawa, and women in Havana start dropping dead from a mysterious toxin. Worried about his family, powerless to help pathologist Hector Apiro, and faced with the threat of a Canadian travel advisory that could shut down Cuban tourism, Ramirez tries focus on his mission. As he does, he untangles a web of deceit and depravity that extends all the way from the corridors of power in Ottawa to those of the Vatican , and uncovers a cold-blooded killer. The Poisoned Pawn is the gripping, fast-paced sequel to the award-winning, critically acclaimed mystery The Beggar’s Opera. Evoking the crumbling beauty of Old Havana and featuring Inspector Ramirez, a man haunted by the victims of his unsolved cases, it’s perfect for fans of Donna Leon and Martin Cruz Smith who love exotic settings and unforgettable characters.

Download or read book A World for Julius written by Alfredo Bryce Echenique and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julius was born in a mansion on Salaverry Avenue, directly across from the old San Felipe Hippodrome. Life-size Disney characters and cowboy movie heroes romp across the walls of his nursery. Out in the carriage house, his great-grandfather's ornate, moldering carriage takes him on imaginary adventures. But Julius's father is dead, and his beautiful young mother passes through her children's lives like an ephemeral shooting star. Despite the soft shelter of family and money, hard realities overshadow Julius's expanding world, just as the rugged Andes loom over his home in Lima. This lyrical, richly textured novel, first published in 1970 as Un mundo para Julius, opens new territory in Latin American literature with its focus on the social elite of Peru. In this postmodern novel Bryce Echenique incisively charts the decline of an influential, centuries-old aristocratic family faced with the invasion of foreign capital in the 1950s. Winner of the Outstanding Translation Award of the American Literary Translators Association and the Columbia University Translation Center Award.

Download or read book What the Owl Saw written by Gerald W. McFarland and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume in the Buenaventura Series and the sequel to The Brujo’s Way, opens in December 1705 with a terrifying nightmare that fills Don Carlos Buenaventura, a powerful brujo in his sixth life, with dread. Feeling the need to strengthen his brujo powers, always weakened by town life, he rides out into the wild mountain landscapes around Santa Fe in order to practice his sorcerer’s technique of transforming himself into hawks and owls. Transformations are exhilarating, but they do not dispel his sense of an impending menace. In addition, as he tells his friend Inéz de Recalde, whom he has rescued from a difficult past and to whom he has declared his love, he is impatient to move forward in his quest for wisdom on what he calls the Unknown Way. Into this picture comes a trio of itinerant entertainers, a magician and two women dancers, who offer an ambiguous promise. Can they lead him to deeper realms of consciousness, or are they agents of his enemy, the evil sorcerer Don Malvolio? The magician and his alluring companions introduce Carlos to dances that transport him into ecstatic mind states, but he remains uncertain about what master they serve. Despite the risk of exposing his secret brujo identity and of being disloyal to Inéz, Carlos allows himself to be drawn ever farther into their web of dark and dangerous enchantments. Includes Readers Guide.

Download or read book The Learning Sciences in Conversation written by Marie-Claire Shanahan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Learning Sciences in Conversation explores the unique pluralities, complex networks, and distinct approaches of the learning scientists of today. Focused on four key scholarly areas – transdisciplinarity, design, cognition, and technology – this cutting-edge volume draws on empirical and theoretical foundations to illustrate the directions, perspectives, methods, and questions that continue to define this evolving field. Contributions by researchers are put in dialogue with one another, offering an exemplary analysis of a field that synthesizes, in situ, various scholarly traditions and orientations to create a critical and heterogenous understanding of learning.

Download or read book Ethnography and Prostitution In Peru written by Lorraine Nencel and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2001-04-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, hard-hitting feminist study of prostitution within the third world.

Download or read book Simple Compassion written by Keri Wyatt Kent and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every woman longs to make a difference in her world, but sometimes the needs just seem too big and the days are already too full of errands and obligations.This fifty-two-week devotional offers fresh inspiration and encourages every woman to see that she is uniquely gifted by God to make a difference right where she is. Poignant stories and powerful Bible passages demonstrate that small acts of compassion matter to God. Along with gaining a clear vision of God’s heart for the poor and marginalized, readers are challenged to nurture the twelve characteristics of women who overflow with creative compassion. Each weekly devotional reading includes principles and action steps for carrying God’s love and grace to those in need.As readers are equipped and motivated to put their faith into action, they’ll find their eyes and hearts opened to countless opportunities to carry out small acts of compassion and justice in the midst of daily living. Simple Compassion infuses women with the confidence that they can change the world, one life at a time.

Download or read book The Paintings That Hung written by Angel Van Atta and published by Angel N. Van Atta. This book was released on 2022-10-23 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoila is gifted. She never knew her gifts were real until finding herself ensnared within a witch's cruel trap. Sarah and her family are moving across the country and find themselves caught in that same twisted web. Will Zoila be able to escape with Sarah's young Levi safely in tow, or will they all fall victim to the old woman's evil ways?

Download or read book Mexican Showdown written by Jory Sherman and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Taste of Nostalgia written by Amy Cox Hall and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In recent years, Peruvian food has become of interest to tourists drawn to the inventive ways in which the incredibly ecologically diverse country has been a locus for chefs to experiment with the many foodstuffs and to draw on Indigenous knowledge and cultural histories. However, the simpler, everyday cooking of Peru is rarely the focus of media about Peru. In this manuscript Amy Cox Hall illustrates this history for readers who want to expand their understanding of the complex culinary histories of Peru"--

Download or read book Martial Way of Heaven written by Xin Ban Hong Shuang Xi and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strong ones in the world of martial arts is respected most! Fist and power is connected, and the strong make the rules! The young man fights against the sky, rises strongly and makes his own rules.There was nothing that couldn't be resolved with a single sword strike. If it cannot do, then two sword strikes! The dormant dragon has been awakened to sleep, a roar moved a thousand mountains! Sacred blood in the body, the sword art in the body, stepping on the genius of all worlds rise, defy or fight, this is a different art!

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