The Cinderella Collection

The Cinderella Collection

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Publisher: Golgotha Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 793

ISBN-13: 1629174408

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The story of Cinderella is timeless; while most people are familiar with the tale for Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault, the true origins are unknown. This large anthology collects over 10 of the best known Cinderella stories from around the world.Some of the authors include Louisa May Alcott, Amanda M. Douglas, Marjorie Cooke, Giambattista Basille, Richard Davis, and, of course, Charles Perrault and Brothers Grimm.This anthology also include a modern French and Spanish bilingual translation.The following tales are included in this collection:Cinderella: The Little Glass Slipper By Charles Perrault, Cinderella By Richard Harding Davis, Cinderella By Anonymous, Cinderella Jane By Marjorie Benton Cooke, Little Cinderella By Anonymous, A Modern Cinderella By Louisa May Alcott, A Modern, Cinderella By Amanda M. Douglas, Cinderella In French and English, Cinderella In Spanish and English, Cinderella In Modern English, Cenerentola by Giambattista Basile


Cinderella In English and Spanish (Bilingual Edition)

Cinderella In English and Spanish (Bilingual Edition)

Author: Brothers Grimm

Publisher: KidLit-O

Published: 2013-08-19

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1629170607

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What better way to introduce your child to a new language than with this dual language of Grimm’s classics! The Brothers Grimm’s fairytales are magical; but how do you get kids excited about the stories when most translations were written over 100 years ago in a dated English? This is a retelling of one of Grimm’s most beloved stories: Cinderella. This book is also available as a larger anthology with even more Grimm stories. KidLit-o is a new publishing house just for kids! From reimagined classics to history books, there's something for everyone here!


Lady Smoke

Lady Smoke

Author: Laura Sebastian

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Published: 2019-02-05

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1524767123

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The second installment in the New York Times bestselling series "made for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Sabaa Tahir" (Bustle), Lady Smoke is an epic new fantasy about a throne cruelly stolen and a girl who must fight to take it back for her people. The Kaiser murdered Theodosia's mother, the Fire Queen, when Theo was only six. He took Theo's country and kept her prisoner, crowning her Ash Princess--a pet to toy with and humiliate for ten long years. That era has ended. The Kaiser thought his prisoner weak and defenseless. He didn't realize that a sharp mind is the deadliest weapon. Theo no longer wears a crown of ashes. She has taken back her rightful title, and a hostage--Prinz Soren. But her people remain enslaved under the Kaiser's rule, and now she is thousands of miles away from them and her throne. To get them back, she will need an army. Only, securing an army means she must trust her aunt, the dreaded pirate Dragonsbane. And according to Dragonsbane, an army can only be produced if Theo takes a husband. Something an Astrean Queen has never done. Theo knows that freedom comes at a price, but she is determined to find a way to save her country without losing herself. Praise for the Ash Princess Series: "A darkly enchanting page-turner you won't be able to put down."--Bustle "A smart, feminist twist on a traditional tale of a fallen heroine, with plenty of court intrigue, love, and lies to sweeten the deal. Good luck putting this one down." --Virginia Boecker, author of The Witch Hunter series "This searing page-turner is a compelling examination of the complexities of both evil and resistance."--Sarah Porter, author of Vassa in the Night "A dark and spellbinding epic." --Sara Holland, New York Times bestselling author of Everless "A rebel queen fans the sparks of revolution...[and] Theo's first-person narration remains enthralling with emotional immediacy...[while] packed to the brim with intrigue and the promise."-Kirkus Reviews


The Very Best of Brothers Grimm In English and Spanish (Bilingual Edition)

The Very Best of Brothers Grimm In English and Spanish (Bilingual Edition)

Author: Brothers Grimm

Publisher: KidLit-O

Published: 2013-08-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1629170593

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This dual language book is the way to introduce your kids to the classics. The Brothers Grimm’s fairytales are magical; but how do you get kids excited about the stories when most translations were written over 100 years ago in a dated English? This is a collection of the very best known works of Brothers Grimm in modern English! All the classic tales are here (including: Cinderella, Snow White The Frog Prince, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Rumpelstitskin, The Fisherman and His Wife, Little Red Riding Hood, and Tom Thumb) KidLit-o is a new publishing house just for kids! From reimagined classics to history books, there's something for everyone here!


Ashes of Izalco

Ashes of Izalco

Author: Claribel Alegra

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-02-20

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781508569121

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A novel that blends politics, history and romance with unfailing gentleness, unforeseeable, explosive events determine the actions of the characters but never interrupt the work's lyrical structure. Carmen Rojas, the heroine, was a child when, in 1932, she witnessed the brutality of the El Salvadoran National Guard, who murdered 30,000 rioting peasants. The tragedy shapes her political consciousness, and, although she marries an American and lives in Washington, D.C., she cannot escape its memory. Thirty years later, she returns home to attend her mother's funeral and to care for her sickly father, and discovers a diary kept by her mother's American lover in the months before the 1932 uprisings.


Empire of Care

Empire of Care

Author: Catherine Ceniza Choy

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2003-01-31

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0822384418

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In western countries, including the United States, foreign-trained nurses constitute a crucial labor supply. Far and away the largest number of these nurses come from the Philippines. Why is it that a developing nation with a comparatively greater need for trained medical professionals sends so many of its nurses to work in wealthier countries? Catherine Ceniza Choy engages this question through an examination of the unique relationship between the professionalization of nursing and the twentieth-century migration of Filipinos to the United States. The first book-length study of the history of Filipino nurses in the United States, Empire of Care brings to the fore the complicated connections among nursing, American colonialism, and the racialization of Filipinos. Choy conducted extensive interviews with Filipino nurses in New York City and spoke with leading Filipino nurses across the United States. She combines their perspectives with various others—including those of Philippine and American government and health officials—to demonstrate how the desire of Filipino nurses to migrate abroad cannot be reduced to economic logic, but must instead be understood as a fundamentally transnational process. She argues that the origins of Filipino nurse migrations do not lie in the Philippines' independence in 1946 or the relaxation of U.S. immigration rules in 1965, but rather in the creation of an Americanized hospital training system during the period of early-twentieth-century colonial rule. Choy challenges celebratory narratives regarding professional migrants’ mobility by analyzing the scapegoating of Filipino nurses during difficult political times, the absence of professional solidarity between Filipino and American nurses, and the exploitation of foreign-trained nurses through temporary work visas. She shows how the culture of American imperialism persists today, continuing to shape the reception of Filipino nurses in the United States.


Latin America's New Historical Novel

Latin America's New Historical Novel

Author: Seymour Menton

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0292786271

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Beginning with the 1979 publication of Alejo Carpentier's El arpa y la sombra, the New Historical Novel has become the dominant genre within Latin American fiction. In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works. Menton argues persuasively that the proximity of the Columbus Quincentennial triggered the rise of the New Historical Novel. After defining the historical novel in general, he identifies the distinguishing features of the New Historical Novel. Individual chapters delve deeply into such major works as Mario Vargas Llosa's La guerra del fin del mundo, Abel Posse's Los perros del paraíso, Gabriel García Márquez's El general en su laberinto, and Carlos Fuentes' La campaña. A chapter on the Jewish Latin American novel focuses on several works that deserve greater recognition, such as Pedro Orgambide's Aventuras de Edmund Ziller en tierras del Nuevo Mundo, Moacyr Scliar's A estranha nação de Rafael Mendes, and Angelina Muñiz's Tierra adentro.


Global Families

Global Families

Author: Catherine Ceniza Choy

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1479891169

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In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative path to family making. Despite the cultural acceptance of this practice, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the factors that allowed Asian international adoption to flourish. In Global Families, Catherine Ceniza Choy unearths the little-known historical origins of Asian international adoption in the United States. Beginning with the post-World War II presence of the U.S. military in Asia, she reveals how mixed-race children born of Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese women and U.S. servicemen comprised one of the earliest groups of adoptive children. Based on extensive archival research, Global Families moves beyond one-dimensional portrayals of Asian international adoption as either a progressive form of U.S. multiculturalism or as an exploitative form of cultural and economic imperialism. Rather, Choy acknowledges the complexity of the phenomenon, illuminating both its radical possibilities of a world united across national, cultural, and racial divides through family formation and its strong potential for reinforcing the very racial and cultural hierarchies it sought to challenge.


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Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 125017001X

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