Download or read book Grandma s Santo on Its Head written by Nasario García and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of bilingual stories about the Río Puerco Valley, where Nasario García grew up, he shares the traditions, myths, and stories of his homeland.
Download or read book Invencible Unstoppable Spanish edition written by Chiquis Rivera and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLER Un nuevo libro de memorias de la cantante ganadora del Latin Grammy y autora bestseller del New York Times, Chiquis Rivera, quien comparte sus triunfos, desafíos y lecciones de vida tras la muerte de su madre, Jenni Rivera. En los meses que siguieron a la trágica muerte de su madre, el mundo de Chiquis Rivera cayó en picada. Después de dejar de lado sus sueños para apoyar la metamorfosis de Jenni Rivera de cantante en ciernes a legendaria “Diva de la Banda”, un desgarrador malentendido impulsó a Jenni a excluir a Chiquis de su testamento y a desterrar a su hija de su vida. Aun abatida y procesando esta peripecia, Chiquis luego se vio sumida en la oscuridad con el fallecimiento prematuro de su madre. Mientras intentaba desesperadamente recoger los pedazos rotos de su vida, también tuvo que sacar fuerzas para volver a criar y cuidar a sus hermanos como hermana, figura materna y amiga. Rendirse no era una opción. Salir de la sombra de la ilustre carrera de su madre y descubrir su propia identidad como cantante fue un reto en sí mismo...pero navegar sus relaciones malsanas casi la hunde. Cuando Chiquis conoce y se casa con quien cree ser el hombre de sus sueños, parece que por fin todo se empieza a acomodar. Pero un secreto oscuro desmorona su relación, empujándola a recurrir a su resiliencia para emerger como una mujer soltera, chingona y segura de sí misma. Con la calidez, el humor y la positividad que la caracterizan, Chiquis comparte su cruda e íntima batalla para reconstruirse después de Jenni. También revela los detalles detrás de lo que ocurrió en su matrimonio, dónde se encuentra con respecto al legado de la familia Rivera, cómo pasó de ser una cantante con los nervios de punta y una emprendedora novata a una intérprete ganadora de un Grammy y una próspera empresaria, y qué visualiza para su futuro. Al final, nada puede detener a Chiquis. Su filosofía de vida lo dice todo: “O gano o aprendo”. Lleno de revelaciones afirmativas, Chiquis comparte su mayor regalo con sus fans: las lecciones inspiradoras y accesibles que la han hecho invencible.
Download or read book Abuelita s Paradise written by Carmen Santiago Nodar and published by Albert Whitman. This book was released on 1992 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although her grandmother has died, Marita sits in Abuelita's rocking chair and remembers the stories Abuelita told of life in Puerto Rico.
Download or read book Linda la Princesa de la Jungla written by Mirtha La Rosa De Hubbard and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda, la Princesa de la Jungla (2011) Linda, la Princesa de la Jungla (2011) es su primera obra narrativa donde relata la vida de una mujer que ha vivido momentos felices, historias tristes y violentas, infl uidas por el realismo identifi cándose con cualquier ser humano que pueda estar atravesando las mismas vivencias y experiencias. Esa obra está dirigida tanto a hombres como a mujeres, que han vivido controlados por temores, por engaño por violencia, por situaciones devastadoras que los han llevado a la desesperación .El objetivo de este libro es el de poder ayudar a tener mayor nivel de Fe y a confi ar en que existe un camino de esperanza donde se puede confi ar y sacar fuerzas para hacer un alto, respirar y continuar y darse otra oportunidad. A través de cada capítulo podrán encontrar distintas situaciones de la vida cuotidiana refl ejadas en la vida del personaje principal. Así como también, como se desarrolla el crecimiento natural y espiritual, y puedan comprender que todo en esta vida tiene un propósito.
Download or read book Mining Memory written by Mary Beth Tierney-Tello and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of age. Mining Memory argues that Peruvian narratives of the twentieth century re-imagine childhood not only to document personal pasts, but also to focus on national identity as a dynamic and incomplete process. Mining Memory shows how 20th-century narratives and films reimagine the self and the nation by representing child and adolescent protagonists and their evolution, using the remembrance of childhood as part of a nation-making project. The book demonstrates how, in the context of Peru, fictions focusing on childhood become vehicles for the national reimagining and collective remembering central to much of Latin American literature. The figure of the child, as emblem of both a collective memory and an always deferred utopian project, holds special promise for twentieth-century Peruvian writers as they write from a national context rife with cultural, racial and political conflict. The book intervenes in debates internal to Peruvian cultural studies as well as wider conversations in Latin American Studies and post-colonial studies. Mining Memory provides a new understanding to both the Latin American and Anglo-American traditions regarding the representations of national subjectivities through the voices of the child and adolescent. Such a representational strategy performs a very particular kind of hybridity and temporal balancing act capable of addressing the very issues of cultural memory and fractured identities so relevant to multi-cultural, post-colonial cultural contexts.
Download or read book Vamos Let s Go to the Market written by Raúl the Third and published by Versify. This book was released on 2019 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Scarry's Busytown gets a Mexican-American makeover in the marketplace of a buzzing border town from Pura Belpr Medal-winning illustrator Ra l the Third. Bilingual in a new way, this paper over board book teaches readers simple words in Spanish as they experience the bustling life of a border town. Follow Little Lobo and his dog Bernabe as they deliver supplies to a variety of vendors, selling everything from sweets to sombreros, portraits to pi atas, carved masks to comic books
Download or read book The Linguist written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Linguist written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories and Poems Cuentos y Poes as written by Rubén Darío and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich selection of works by Nicaraguan writer Rubén Darío, the high priest of the modernismo school of literature, features poems and stories from Azul (Blue), Prosas profanas (Worldly Hymns), and others.
Download or read book Can He Love Me After This written by Wanda Folk Warner and published by LifeRich Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth was very happy living on her farm with her husband, Mark and baby girl, Cassie. Everything was good until the frightful day six cowboys came to her house when her husband was gone. She spends the next four years learning to forgive the unforgivable.
Download or read book Coco Middle Grade Novel written by Diana López and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Pixar Animation Studios' latest film, Coco, this middle grade novel retells the story of Miguel's daring adventure, and features exciting new scenes about his family. Coco is the celebration of a lifetime, where the discovery of a generations-old mystery leads to a most extraordinary and surprising family reunion.
Download or read book The House of the Scorpion written by Nancy Farmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium
Download or read book Walking Away written by Alexander B. Pratt and published by IAP. This book was released on 2024-09-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking away is both refusal and production (Tuck & Yang, 2014), a seeming paradox taken up in work on fugitivity and marronage (Diouf, 2021; Grant, Woodson, & Dumas, 2021; Harney & Moten, 2013; Hartman, 2007), survivance (Powell, 2002; Sabzalian, 2019; Vizenor, 2008), testimonios (Calderon-Berumen, 2021; Delgado Bernal, Burciaga, & Flores Carmona, 2012; Latina Feminist Group, 2001), and other forms of critical pedagogy and curriculum. In other words, walking away presumes both the rejection of a form of status quo (walking away from something) and a new direction taken (a walking toward something else). In the context of education, many teachers and researchers have reached that breaking point where/when no more curricular/pedagogic violence can be survived, and it is in that moment that those researchers and teachers actively remove themselves from those systems and assert new courses with new possibilities. This edited volume is a collection of works chronicling acts of refusal that manifest as walking away. In some cases what is walked away from is the erasure of experience in curriculum while in others it is a fundamentalist religious experience. In still other cases what is walked away from is the carceral nature of school discipline policies. In each case walking away is resistance, refusal, and re/co-producing new possibilities and agencies. What is walked toward is a new curriculum/pedagogy of resistance sometimes within and sometimes without that place ENDORSEMENTS: "Walking Away provides a window into what it is for educators to form a new world: Enter Walking Away and walk into..." — Leonard Harris , Purdue University "Walking away is sure to inspire pre-service educators, practicing teachers, and others to participate in the construction of more just and equitable worlds." — Tristan Gleason, Cal Poly Humbolt "Ultimately, Walking Away represents the capacious thinking that emerges from the various connections, conversations, and profound contributions of each author." — Boni Wozolek, Pennsylvania State University, Abington Campus "This important book insists that we, as curriculum scholars, seriously ask ourselves what our roles and responsibilities are as academics, researchers, and educators in these dire times." — Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University
Download or read book Summer of the Mariposas written by Guadalupe Garcia McCall and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.
Download or read book Grandma Rebecka and the Witches Tree written by J Froebel-Parker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1692 is an annus horribilis on the American timeline which has been engraved on the hearts of men, inscribed in the annals of history, is remembered with sadness, and continues to admonish humanity about the ease with which those deemed as other can be persecuted and made to suffer. Rebecka Nurse, ne Towne (known to many as Rebecca Nurse from Arthur Millers The Crucible and the authors 11th maternal great grandmother) could claim Charlemagne, the Anglo-Saxon kings of England, and the noble family de Ferrers among her ancestors, but nothing could save her from the gallows which had been made of the Witches Tree in the ancient Wampanoag settlement called Naumkeag, now Salem. Her own second cousin, Roger Conant, had founded Salem after leaving Plymouth (Plimoth), which all at her trial knew. He, in turn, had fought with Myles Standish (a relative of both his and Rebeckas) the governor of Plymouth and the authors 9th maternal great grandfather. This turmoil, envy, and perhaps even boredom, intertwine like the gnarled branches of the ancient tree which gives this story its title.
Download or read book Bella s Recipe for Success written by Ana Siqueira and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bella has talented siblings but she is not sure what she is good at herself, so she goes on quest to discover her special gift and along the way learns the importance of never giving up.
Download or read book La Cruel Ni EZ de Benita written by Ma Del Socorro Uriostegui and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benita, nació en un pequeño ranchito. Fue una niña que quedó huérfana de padre a la edad de seis meses, su madre nuevamente se casó. Benita y sus seis hermanos se quedaron con sus abuelos paternos, Benita recibió toda la crueldad con la que fue tratada por parte de su abuela, sin compasión alguna. Creció sin amor, trabajó mucho, recibía castigos sin merecerlo, lloro muchas lágrimas. Se caso a la edad de veintiún años, vivió un matrimonio muy feliz por pocos años. Su esposo murió quedándose a sufrir nuevamente con siete hijos, aunque en diferente manera. Pasaron muchas cosas increíbles en la vida de Benita. Vivió su viudez siéndole fiel a su esposo, y añorando los años de felicidad al lado de él. Esta es realmente una triste historia de: "La Cruel Niñez de Benita."
