The Love Queen of the Amazon
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2001-11
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1609401808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.
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The Love Queen of the Amazon
Author: Cecile Pineda
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Published: 1992-01-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780241131985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Love Queen of the Amazon
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Published: 1993-07-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780316708159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis hilarious novel is a feminist spoof on the mostly-male magical realists of the "Boom" generation.
Bardo99
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 85
ISBN-13: 1609401778
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDepicting the 20th century as a character, this novel explores what happens when that character, dying, passes through a Bardo state—an intermediate state of the soul between death and rebirth.
Fishlight
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2001-11
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 1609401832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTold in the voice of a five-year-old girl who sees more than she understands, this novel chronicles her passage through sickness, the separation of her parents, and a maze of secret lives, all with the richness of her budding imagination.
Redoubt
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 67
ISBN-13: 0930324862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTold in the voice of a lone holdout standing guard on an unnamed frontier, Redoubt addresses questions of conception and birth, gender, war and the slouch toward Apocalypse. Structured like a series of jazz riffs, its thematic underpinnings are drawn in part from the dictionary definitions that introduce each section--back cover.
Show and Tell
Author: Karen Christian
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780826318312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat elements are present for a body of writing to be considered Latina/o? Through the analysis of nine recent Latina/o novels, Karen Christian melds the theory of "performativity" with the latest scholarship on ethnicity and ethnic literature to create a framework for viewing identity as a continuous process that cannot be reduced to static categories.
Amazon Nights
Author: Arthur Cofresi
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Published: 2018-05-30
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 1641388919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReferences of Amazons date back to the time of Plato where he mentions trade between the Amazons and the island nation of Atlantis. In the "Iliad," a reference is made as to a battle that occurred between the Amazons, an ally of Troy and a Greek contingent led by the Greek hero, Achilles. The battle ended with the death of the Amazon queen, and therein lies the beginning of my tale. The novel, Amazon Nights, explores the question of, can a civilization of women (or men for that matter) exist without having some interaction with the other sex? The answer to that question rest with the plight of the new queen to produce a female heir to the throne. For that, she needs the assistance of a man, one that can woo her, seduce her, excite her, and eventually impregnate her. The chosen male for this union has other ideas. He wants more-a relationship that is an unconditional commitment to love. And while these two people work out their differences, a plot to overthrow the queen unfolds and a new king sets off to claim the Amazon world. Monitoring the events as they unfold is a champion for both the Amazon queen and her lover-the great goddess Hera. She, too, is seeking an unconditional commitment to love and will do all within her power to aid the lovestruck pair. The final chapter culminates in a battle said to be too insignificant to be chronicled in the history books, but be forewarned there can be only one winner as revealed when the day blends into Amazon nights.
Frieze
Author: Cecile Pineda
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 1609401867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis poetic narrative discusses the creative life of a 9th century Indian stonecarver who is drafted at an early age to spend his entire life working on the thousands of statues that fill the niches of an Indonesian temple. Exploring the muse–artist relationship as few works of fiction have done, this novel is an intensely political work—a parable that pits the blind cruelty of a feudal ruler against the creative expression of a single slave.
River Without a Cause
Author: Sam Moses
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2024-03-05
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1639365583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA riveting journey down Theodore Roosevelt's "river of doubt" with a diverse crew of adventurers, scientists, and Indigenous leaders who shine light on the past, present, and future of a natural wonder. Sam Moses took part in the adventure of a lifetime when he, along with seventeen men and two women, embarked on the Rio Roosevelt Expedition. They would follow the former president's wake down five-hundred miles of extreme whitewater into the dark heart of the Amazon. The party was guided by two chiefs from the Cinta Larga tribe—the same tribe that stalked Roosevelt’s expedition in 1914—who, between rapids, tell the story of the tribe’s own Trail of Tears. After the wildest whitewater is past, Moses travels with the chiefs to their village to witness the massive illegal mahogany logging from their forest, the Roosevelt Indigenous Territory. River Without a Cause puts us in the raft during those heart pounding rapid descents, as we experience the drama, dynamics and disputes between the Bull Moose and his co-leader, Brazil’s most famous explorer, the rigid Colonel Candido Rondon. As the Amazon stands on the precipiece of hope with the election of a new Brazillian president, River Without a Cause is a moving and galvanzing tale of adventure that is a fitting tribute to this world wonder.
