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Voces Sin Fronteras: Our Stories, Our Truth
Author: Latin American Youth Center Writers
ISBN: 9781945434662
During a time of heated immigration debate and unrest, this book is an opportunity to hear directly from youth who are often in the headlines but whose stories don't get told in full. Sixteen young people from the Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) in Washington, D.C. came together to tell...
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En busqueda de un sueno (A Dream Called Home Spanish edition)
Author: REYNA GRANDE
ISBN: 9781501172076
An inspiring new memoir from Reyna Grande, the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and nationally bestselling author of The Distance Between Us, about her quest for her dream life and career and the home we build for ourselves. Now available in Spanish. When Reyna Grande crossed the U. S...
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Largo pétalo de mar
Author: Isabel Allende
ISBN: 9781984899163
Un viaje a través de la historia del siglo XX de la mano de unos personajes inolvidables que descubrirán que en una sola vida caben muchas vidas y que, a veces, lo difícil no es huir sino volver. En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a...
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Sembrando historias: Pura Belpré: bibliotecaria y narradora de cuentos: Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre
Author: Anika Aldamuy Denise
ISBN: 9781400212644
The Spanish language edition of Planting Stories—an inspiring picture book biography of storyteller, puppeteer, and New York City’s first Puerto Rican librarian, who championed bilingual literature. When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpré carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the...
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La fruta del borrachero
Author: INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS
ISBN: 9780525564010
Un debut fascinante situado en Colombia durante la violencia devastadora de los años 90 sobre una joven protegida y una empleada doméstica adolescente, quienes inician una improbable amistad que amenaza con deshacerlas a ambas.La familia Santiago vive en una comunidad cerrada en Bogotá, a salvo de la inestabilidad política que...
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Echo
Author: Pam Muñoz Ryan
ISBN: 9786075271965
Otto se pierde en un bosque prohibido cuando de repente se encuentra con tres misteriosas hermanas. En ese momento, su destino quedará ligado a una insólita búsqueda que entraña una profecía, una promesa y una armónica. Décadas más tarde, las vidas de Friedrich en Alemania, Mike en Pennsylvania, e Ivy...
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Interpreter of Maladies
Author: Zhongba Laxili / Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN: 9789869583572
Stories about Indians in India and America. The story, 'A Temporary Matter, ' is on mixed marriage, 'Mrs. Sen's' is on the adaptation of an immigrant to the U.S., and in the title story, an interpreter guides an American family through the India of their ancestors.
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The Wandering Earth
Author: Liu Cixin
ISBN: 9787536493759
流浪地球 : 刘慈欣短篇小说精选 = The wandering earth / 刘慈欣 著. 流浪地球 : 刘慈欣短篇小说精选 = The wandering earth / 刘慈欣 著 "Liu Cixin's short stories are well-conceived and rich in imagination, which hides the solid scientific foundation and humanistic concern into the delicate stories. This book selects 11 short stories of...
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Life Journal of Jiang Xun
Author: Jiang Xun
ISBN: 9787540488611
《此时众生》是蒋勋用心写下的生活周记，从某年五月开始，止于次年五月。在每个当令节气，他观察、体会自然的细微改变，记录下这些晨昏光影、花香叶色、林风潮响、虫鸣蛙声。从他宛如画笔的文笔中，我们可以再现珍贵的记忆，在四季流转中发现生命之美，在自然万物里看见自己与众生。这些文字更饱含他对友人、对母亲的深情，这既是一份横亘二十四节气的美的生活记录，也是给至爱别具深意的礼物。 "Sentients at this time" is a life weekly diary written by Jiang Xun, starting in May of a certain year and ending in May of the following year. At each seasonal solar term, he observed and experienced subtle changes in nature, recording these morning and evening light shadows, floral...
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الأعمال الشعرية الكاملة قروغ فرخزاد
Author: فروغ فرخزاد
ISBN: 9782843091193
حصريا من كتب العالم شاهد متجرنا لمزيد من الكتب العربية Farrokhzad was a 20th century controversial female Iranian poet whose works were banned in Iran for more than a decade. Her poetry features a strong modern female voice and has been translated into several world languages.
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Bian cheng
Author: Shen Congwen zhu
ISBN: 9789861898155
《边城》以二十世纪三十年代川湘交界的边城小镇茶峒为背景，以兼具抒情诗和小品文的优美笔触，描绘了湘西地区特有的风土人情；借船家少女翠翠的爱情悲剧，凸显出人性的善良美好与心灵的澄澈纯净，其独特的艺术魅力，生动的乡土风情吸引了众多海内外的读者。《边城》收录了《边城》、《柏子》、《萧萧》、《丈夫》和《三三》等五篇小说。 "Border Town" takes the background of Chadong, a border town in the 1930s and the border of Sichuan and Hunan, as a background, with beautiful brushstrokes and lyric poems, depicting the unique customs and customs of the western Hunan area; the love tragedy of the boat girl Cui Cui...
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همس النجوم همس النجوم / Hams Al-Nujum
Author: Najib Mahfuz
ISBN: 9786140321106
A brand new collection of never before published short stories of the great Egyptian writer, Naguib Mahfouz. These stories were discovered in a box of papers delivered to the editor by Mahfouz's daughter, Umm Kuthum. Mahfouz won the 198 Nobel Prize for Literature. The book includes facsimiles of the original...
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Barid al-layl بريد الليل
Author: Hoda Barakat هدى بركات
ISBN: 9789953895673
حكايات أصحاب الرسائل، التي كتبوها وضاعت مثلهم في البحر. لكنّها تستدعي رسائلَ أخرى، تتقاطع مثل مصائر هؤلاء الغرباء. هم المهاجرون، أو المهجّرون، أو المنفيُّون المشرَّدون، يتامى بلدانهم التي كسرتها الأيَّامُ فأحالت حيواتِهم إلى لعبة "بازل". ليس في هذه الرواية من يقين. ليس مَن قَتَلَ مجرمًا، ولا المومسُ عاهرةً. إنّها، كما زمننا، منطقة الشكّ الكبير، والالتباس، وامِّحاء الحدود... وضياع الأمكنة والبيوت الأولى. هدى بركات: روائيَّة لبنانيَّة، تُرجمتْ رواياتُها إلى لغاتٍ عديدة، ووصلتْ إلى اللائحة القصيرة لجائزة "مان بوكر إنترناشونال برايز 2015" التي تُمنح عن مجمل أعمال الكاتب أو الكاتبة مرَّةً كلّ سنتين. صدرت لها عن دار الآداب: ملكوت هذه الأرض، أهل الهوى، حارث المياه، سيِّدي وحبيبي، حجر الضحك.
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Gen Zhe Yue Liang Zou: Han Guoyu de ye xi jing shen yu fen jin ren sheng
Author: Huang Guangqin
ISBN: 9789571376882
跟著月亮走 : 韓國瑜的夜襲精神與奮進人生 / 口述 韓國瑜 ; 採訪撰述 黃光芹. 跟著月亮走 : 韓國瑜的夜襲精神與奮進人生 / 口述 韓國瑜 ; 採訪撰述 黃光芹 Follow the Moon: Korean Yu's Spirit of Night Attack and Endeavour Life / Oral Korea Yu; Interview Writer Huang Guangqin. Follow the Moon: Korean Yu's Night Attack Spirit and Endeavour Life / Oral Narration of Korea Yu; Interview Write Huang Guangqin
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Al Nabiza النبيذة
Author: إنعام كجه جي
ISBN: 9789953111353
حصريا من كتب العالم شاهد متجرنا لمزيد من الكتب العربية Based on a true story that spans the history of Iraq in the 1940s, it follows a journalist and female owner of the first magazine in Iraq through her various relationships with high-ranking men and is ultimately forced to flee her beloved country.
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Namesake / al-Samī /السمي السمي
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN: 9789948173816
The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things...
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