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"Aaron Philip's memoir chronicles his extraordinary journey from happy baby in Antigua to confident teen artist in New York City. His honest, often funny stories of triumph-- despite physical difficulties, poverty, and other challenges-- are as inspiring as they are eye-opening"--Front jacket flap.
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In this heartfelt memoir, Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of tragic loss-the death of her daughter, Paula. Recalling the past thirteen years from the daily letters the author and her mother, who lives in Chile, wrote to each other, Allende bares her soul in a book that is as exuberant and full of life as its creator. She recounts the stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she...
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When Eduardo Calcines was three years old, Communists took control of Cuba. Eleven years passed before Calcines and his family were finally able to leave the country. Now sixty-three, Calcines, a successful American businessman, recounts what it was like to grow up under Fidel Castro's rule.
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According to Gigi Anders, when you're a bride-to-be Jubana in America, or a Cuban Jewess in the US of A, you have to know you're heading straight into the mondo-bizarro jaws of cross cultural hell. As the granddaughter of Boris and Dora, destitute teenagers from Russia and Lithuania who immigrated to Cuba in the early 20s, Gigi experienced what can best be described as life as a quintessential Jewish Cuban Princess, or JCP. Gigi asks a question which...
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Literary Works by 10 Dominican Women is an ode and an incentive to learn more about these amazing creative women. This book brings together ten transcendental Dominican women writers, who have lived or live outside of the Dominican Republic. They are: Camila Henríquez Ureña, Rhina Espaillat, Mélida García, Osiris Mosquea, Josefina Báez, Aurora Arias, Yrene Santos, Marianela Medrano, Sussy Santana and Rosa Silverio. Aside from poetry, fiction,...
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Este libro reconstruye la vida y obra de Javier Heraud Pérez (1942-1963), poeta desaparecido tempranamente en Puerto Maldonado. La biografía es un tributo de Cecilia, quien describe la infancia y la juventud de su hermano entrelazando recuerdos familiares con entrevistas, testimonios y cartas de amigos. Incluye, además, poemas y fotografías hasta ahora inéditos. Todo este conjunto de documentos da cuenta de una corta pero prolífica vida y nos...
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Contexting my life is a set of memoir poems by Anthony Pittsabe. A parent's life long illness is a struggle for children of every age. This is the case for me. Then, there was poverty. This book of memoir poems explores my life and how I perceive my own life experiences. It touches on family, poverty, love, drugs and hate.
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The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American history
Few poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation movements, and with the language of erotic love. Neruda: The Poet's Calling...
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In the last couple of decades there has been a surge of interest in Octavio Paz's life and work, and a number of important books have been published on Paz. However, most of these books are of a biographical nature, or they examine Paz's role in the various intellectual initiatives he headed in Mexico, specifically the journals he founded.
Reality in Movement looks at a wide range of topics of interest in Paz's career, including his engagement with...
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This collection of writing reflects thoughts stemming from the mid-1990s to early 2000s while growing up in Canada, more specifically Ottawa where I spent approximately nineteen years of my life. Other places that have influenced the pieces of writing are New York City, where I spent a few months living with relatives before returning to Ottawa and then Toronto where I ended up going and living for another significant part of my life. All those places...
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En este libro ameno, divertido y apasionante, Julio Ortega, uno de los críticos literarios más importante en español, nos narra sus memorias literarias. Como parte de su vida académica y literaria, ha sido testigo de primera mano del Boom literario latinoamericano, una de las épocas más importantes de la literatura en español. Ortega no fue solo un crítico, sino fue amigo de muchos de los escritores de este movimiento. Estas vivencias han...
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When, as the editor of a Trinidadian literary journal in the radical years of the early 1970s, Christopher Laird was sent Harold Sonny Ladoo's novel, No Pain Like This Body (1973) to review, he knew he was looking at something revolutionary in Caribbean fiction. It is a novel that has recently been republished as a Penguin Modern Classic. But the next news Laird heard of Ladoo was that he had returned to Trinidad from Canada and had been found dead...
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This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773–c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands of Yoruba speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land. In Havana, Prieto and most...
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Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. He learned to read at ten years of age, left school at fourteen, became a skilled metalworker, rose to union leadership, helped end a military dictatorship-and in 2003 became the thirty-fifth president of Brazil. During his administration, Lula led his country through reforms that lifted tens of millions...
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This biography of Beatriz Allende (1942—1977)-revolutionary doctor and daughter of Chile's socialist president, Salvador Allende-portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for change. Inspired by the Cuban Revolution, Beatriz and her generation drove political campaigns, university reform, public health programs, internationalist guerrilla insurgencies, and government strategies. Centering Beatriz's life within the global contours of the Cold...
16) The Long Honduran Night: Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup
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This powerful narrative recounts the tumultuous time in Honduras that witnessed then-President Manuel Zelaya deposed by a coup in June 2009, told through first-person experiences and layered with deeper political analysis. It weaves together two perspectives; first, the broad picture of Honduras since the coup, including the coup itself, its continuation in two repressive regimes, and secondly, the evolving Honduran resistance movement, and a new,...
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Recuerdos y Devenires es una autobiografía. En ella, Mario Valdivia rememora su vida en primera persona, transcurrida en años turbulentos.
Son memorias muy personales, iluminadas por reflexiones también muy personales hechas desde la perspectiva del año 2020, cuando son escritas. Resultan del afán por articular una existencia formateada y des formateada en una era histórica movediza como pocas.
Chile experimentó en la generación del autor...
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Gathered together are three extraordinary books by renowned storyteller and memoirist Austin Clarke. 'Membering, Clarke's breathtaking memoir, spans over fifty years of his life as a writer, chronicling his coming to Canada in the fifties, formative experiences with Malcolm X, Chinua Achebe, and LeRoi Jones, and bursting with cultural insights and poignant memories from a narrative master. In The Polished Hoe, winner of the Giller Prize and the 2003...
19) David Ortiz
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David Ortiz is always ready when the Boston Red Sox need their biggest slugger. Big Papi, as he is known to fans and teammates, has led his team to three World Series championships with his powerful hitting. David is one of baseball's greatest superstars, winning game after game with his bat. But the big man from the Dominican Republic is also a fine leader and one of the most beloved sports stars in New England. Learn more about Big Papi's journey...
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Havana without Makeup is the ultimate insider's view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex facets as seen by few. Its aim is to capture the soul of a city and a society that have evolved on their own terms at the moment before they face inevitable transformations. Opening on the eve of the announcement of reconciliation between the U.S. and Cuba, the book then looks back at the cultural, political, economic, and religious influences...
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