The Story of Maria Merian
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Published: 2020-08-04
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ISBN-13: 9781952920080
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Becoming Maria: Love and Chaos in the South Bronx
Author: Sonia Manzano
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-08-25
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 0545621860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPura Belpre Honor winner for The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano and one of America's most influential Hispanics--'Maria' on Sesame Street--delivers a beautifully wrought coming-of-age memoir. Set in the 1970s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and nosy neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an alcoholic father. But it is Sonia's dream of becoming an actress that keeps her afloat among the turbulence of her life and times. Spiced with culture, heartache, and humor, this memoir paints a lasting portrait of a girl's resilience as she grows up to become an inspiration to millions.
Just Maria
Author: Jay Hardwig
Publisher: Fitzroy Books
Published: 2022-01-07
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781646030828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJust Maria is the story of Maria Romero, a blind sixth-grader who is trying her hardest to be normal. Not amazing. Not inspiring. Not helpless. Not weird. Just normal. Normal is hard enough with her white cane, glass eyes, and bumpy books, but Maria's task is complicated by her neighbor and classmate JJ Munson, an asthmatic overweight oddball known in the halls of Marble City Middle as a double-dork paste-eater. When JJ draws Maria into his latest hare-brained scheme--a series of public challenges to prove their worth as gumshoes for his Twinnoggin Detective Agency--she fears she's lost her last chance to go unnoticed. When a young girl goes missing on the streets of Marble City, Maria's new-found confidence is tested in ways she never anticipated. Use your cane and your brain, and figure it out . . . Aimed at middle-grade readers, Just Maria explores difference and disability without resorting to the saccharine and engages universal themes about the price of popularity and the meaning of independence.
Maria in the Moon
Author: Louise Beech
Publisher: Orenda Books
Published: 2017-08-16
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1495628167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Quirky, darkly comic, but always heartfelt, this original and sad story has wonderful characters and will linger long in your memory' Sunday Mirror 'A Stirring novel, beautifully written' Irish Times A devastating memory emerges ... that changes everything, in this dark and moving novel by the bestselling author of How To Be Brave and The Lion Tamer Who Lost 'Like a cold spider, the memory stirred in my head and spun an icy web about my brain. Someone else crawled in. I remembered' Thirty-one-year-old Catherine Hope has a great memory. But she can't remember everything. She can't remember her ninth year. She can't remember when her insomnia started. And she can't remember why everyone stopped calling her Catherine-Maria. With a promiscuous past, and licking her wounds after a painful breakup, Catherine wonders why she resists anything approaching real love. But when she loses her home to the devastating deluge of 2007 and volunteers at Flood Crisis, a devastating memory emerges ... and changes everything. Dark, poignant and deeply moving, Maria in the Moon is an examination of the nature of memory and truth, and the defences we build to protect ourselves, when we can no longer hide... 'Part psychological thriller, part love story and fans of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine will love it' Red Magazine 'A beautiful and compassionate read' Prima Magazine 'Beech's exploration of the effects of childhood trauma keeps the reader intrigued until the end' Mary Ellen Quinn, Booklist 'As heartbreaking as the book ends up being, it's a title worth wading into and rolling with' Book Riot 'Beautifully constructed, laugh-out-loud funny in places, and achingly sad in others. It's such a beautifully told story of loss and gain. Equal parts Victoria Wood, Alan Bennett and John Irving, all rolled up into an emotive, heart-breaking story. I completely fell in love' John Marrs 'A beautiful, and heart-achingly touching read' LoveReading
Once I Was You
Author: Maria Hinojosa
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1982128666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Emmy Award-winning NPR journalist Maria Hinojosa shares her personal story interwoven with American immigration policy's coming-of-age journey at a time when our country's branding went from "The Land of the Free" to "the land of invasion.""--
Maria, Maria: & Other Stories
Author: Marytza K. Rubio
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Published: 2022-04-26
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1324090553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut. “The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. As the enigmatic community college professor in “Brujería for Beginners” reminds us: “There’s always a price for conjuring in darkness. You won’t always know what it is until payment is due.” This commitment drives the disturbingly faithful widow in “Tijuca,” who promises to bury her husband’s head in the rich dirt of the jungle, and the sisters in “Moksha,” who are tempted by a sleek obsidian dagger once held by a vampiric idol. But magic isn’t limited to the women who wield it. As Rubio so brilliantly elucidates, animals are powerful magicians too. Subversive pigeons and hungry jaguars are called upon in “Tunnels,” and a lonely little girl runs free with a resurrected saber-toothed tiger in “Burial.” A colorful catalog of gallery exhibits from animals in therapy is featured in “Art Show,” including the Almost Philandering Fox, who longs after the red pelt of another, and the recently rehabilitated Paranoid Peacocks. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, “Maria, Maria”—a tropigoth family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as an ineffable new voice in contemporary short fiction.
The Story of Maria
Author: Maria H. Robinson
Publisher:
Published: 2006-09
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 9780984302369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaria's Revenge
Author: Christopher Fox
Publisher: Foxwise
Published: 2020-02-28
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1989721036
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHer parents threatened; an abducted child; a cartel taken down. While on a black ops assignment in North Korea, chasing a deranged general, Maria learns that her parents survived a plane crash, killing the pilot—but it wasn’t an accident. Thousands of miles away in a remote village in Mexico, a human trafficking ring claims its newest young victim, someone connected to Maria. As Maria and her team of investigative agents hone in on those responsible, they discover that Maria is now being targeted. As the investigation unfolds further, they learn that the attempt on her parents’ lives, and the child’s abduction, goes right to the top of the Sinaloa Cartel. Maria wants revenge—not only for targeting her parents, but for the death of the pilot, who was a family friend—and she won’t rest until she gets it. Can Maria and the team take on such a powerful adversary…and stay alive?
Salam Maria
Author: Fatimah Busu
Publisher: ITBM
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 550
ISBN-13: 9830689042
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Author: Sonny Nairn
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-01-22
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1803138807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaria was born and raised in a beautiful northern Spanish village on the coast with a close loving family and a college degree, ostensibly she appears to have a very comfortable lifestyle.
