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Author: Terry Farish
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books (R)
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1467757969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Nico doesn't have to join the Army to see the world--that's what younger brother Luis tries to show by painting a mural in the neighborhood alley. But Nico is deployed and his small brother paints the world in the alleyway to hold on to him"--
Author: Terry Farish
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1512406686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLuis wishes Nico wasn't leaving for the Army. To show Nico he doesn't need to go, Luis begins a mural on the alleyway wall. Their house, the river, the Parque de las Ardillas—it's the world, all right there. Won't Nico miss Mami's sweet flan? What about their baseball games in the street? But as Luis awaits his brother's return from duty, his own world expands as well, through swooping paint and the help of their bustling Dominican neighborhood.
Author: Peter LaSalle
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2020-10-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0807174246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World Is a Book, Indeed chronicles in eleven rich personal essays the ongoing quest of award-winning writer Peter LaSalle to embark on offbeat, often startlingly revelatory literary travel. LaSalle spends a summer roaming the lesser-known quarters of Paris, haunted by the writing of the French surrealists. In Hanoi, he meets for beers with the editors—two military men—of the Army Literature and Arts Magazine while investigating Vietnam’s acknowledged great modern novel, Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War. Other pieces find LaSalle on a strange nighttime drive through the streets of sprawling São Paulo in search of landmarks associated with Brazilian modernist poetry, bouncing around Africa to interview writers there when very young, exploring Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges's memorable stay in Texas, and traveling to Istanbul, Lisbon, Tunis, and elsewhere, as he considers major writers amid the settings that produced their works. Deeply felt and replete with insight into literature and life itself, even capable of evoking valid mind leaps in its innovative approaches, this is a collection for readers who love books and want to learn more about the places they originated, presented by a well-traveled guide with an intimate voice and a gift for the essay form.
Author: Terry Farish
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780763632977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe friendship between an old man and his cat, both of whom like potato soup, is strained after he goes fishing without her.
Author: Luis Martínez-Fernández
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2019-08-22
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1683401379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlorida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for General Nonfiction International Latino Book Awards, First Place, Best History Book (English) Scholarly and popular attention tends to focus heavily on Cuba’s recent history. Key to the New World is the first comprehensive history of early colonial Cuba written in English, and fills the gap in our knowledge of the island before 1700.
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1933693231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTells a story of a graffiti artist, Mr. Mendoza, who goes about the Mexican village of Rosario creating masterpieces that reflect the social ills of the city. One day his paintbrush creates a miraculous event that no one in Rosario ever forgets.
Author: Elizabeth Rusch
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 0763658553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the pioneering ideas of a leading contributor to modern electrical engineering includes coverage of such topics as his rivalry with Thomas Edison, his innovations in the field of alternating current and his history-changing role in the development of such inventions as remote controls, fluorescent lights and cell phones.
Author: Terry Farish
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 9781554518081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A refugee boy's determination to ride a bicycle leads to an unexpected friendship"--Publisher.
Author: F. Isabel Campoy
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-04-12
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 0544866630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this exuberant picture book about transformation through art, Mira lives in a gray urban community until a muralist arrives and, along with his paints and brushes, brings color, joy, and hope to the neighborhood. What good can a splash of color do in a community of gray? As Mira and her neighbors discover, more than you might ever imagine! Based on the true story of the Urban Art Trail in San Diego, California, Maybe Something Beautiful reveals how art can inspire transformation—and how even the smallest artists can accomplish something big. Pick up a paintbrush and join the celebration! "Simply superb.” (Kirkus) Tomás Rivera Book Award * ALA Notable Children's Book * Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books of the Year * Huffington Post Best Picture Books of the Year * Kirkus Best of the Year * School Library Journal Top 10 LatinX of the Year
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2011-11-28
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 031619204X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny,this novel from a Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America. Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons -- and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?
