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Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt,...
2) Havana fever
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Mario Conde, a former police detective turned second-hand book dealer, finds a magazine clipping about a singer from the 1950s, Violeta del Río, and begins to investigate her mysterious retirement.
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"A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisi©đn de un mecanismo de relojer©Ưa, Jane Austen perfila una galer©Ưa de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de ©♭poca: las peripecias de una dama empe©łada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la regi©đn, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un cl©♭rigo adulador...--
Author
Series
Sister magic volume 2
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
When Violet conjures a pool for their yard and refuses to make it disappear, Mabel, who is not magical, does not know how to explain this to their parents.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"At six years old, the child-narrator of this picture book loves nothing more than spending time with his grandpa, Luis--especially in his marvelous garden, where green beans reach as high as the sky. Luis’s garden is where the little boy practices reading and writing. But just as importantly, it’s also where he learns wonderful things from Luis, like the names of all the birds in the trees and new expressions that are so much fun to say. Luis's...
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Series
Rainbow magic volume 2
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Rainbow Fairies Raquel and Cristina must rescue Amber, who is trapped in a seashell.
Raquel y Cristina encuentran a Azafr�n escondida en una colmena del jard�n de la se�orita Merry. La liberan, pero despu�s se dan cuenta de que se han olvidado la varita m�gica de Azafr�n en la colmena. Los duendes de Jack Escarcha han sido m�s r�pidos que ellas y se han apoderado de la valiosa varita. �Conseguir�n...
7) Gabriela
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Description
Mike dreams of finding his soul mate. Finally, when he meets the beautiful and sensitive Gabriela, a therapist at the clinic where he works, he seems to have found the woman of his dreams. The two soon start a passionate love affair that renews romance in both of their lives. There is only one catch--she is engaged to be married to another man, and ending the engagement is no easy matter. DVD format.
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
From the Publisher: Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the world. Editors Cecilia Vicuna and Ernesto Livon-Grosman present a fresh and expansive selection of Latin American poetry, from the indigenous responses to the European conquest, through early feminist poetry of the 19th century,...