Cool Salsa by Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures.Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life.
Cubantime: una celebración de las costumbres cubanas en los Estados Unidos by Written by Giselle Balido, a renowned Cuban-American writer, and photographed by the award-winning Carlos Guerrero, the exuberant CubanTime shows the amazing achievements of the Cuban exile community. Essentially nonpolitical, this account describes with joy and pride a vibrant exile population of more than 1.5 million people who have succeeded in re-creating the Cuban experience in a free country.
Death to Silence (Muerte al Silencio) by (EBSCO eBook) These poems that put an end to silence convert one poet's struggle with exile from her homeland into a triumph of the human spirit. They are strong, spare, evocative poems that compel the reader to be a part of her struggle as she moves through the haunting landscape of revolution.
El Amor en Los Tiempos Del Colera by The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine.
Herencia by Herencia (meaning "inheritance" or "heritage") is the first anthology to bring together literature from the entire history of Hispanic writing in the United States, from the age of exploration to the present.
Isabel Allende by (Literary Reference Center Plus eBook) Isabel was a lonely girl. She would hide in the basement of her grandparents home in Santiago, Chile. In that dark and musty space, she played among the aged family photos and abandoned furniture. Among the cobwebs, the young Isabel read dust-covered books, through which she discovered the silken threads of fantastical stories, threads that would one day inform the novels of a legendary writer.
Primera causa = First cause by (Literary Reference Center Plus eBook) PRIMERA CAUSA/ FIRST CAUSE, the newest book in the Cross-Cultural Review Chapbook Series, is a cycle of meditations on art and memory:
Selected Poems by Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems -- the largest collection of Borges's poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. Throughout the volume, the brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched with luminous English versions rendered by a remarkable cast of translators, among them W. S. Merwin, John Updike, Robert Fitzgerald, Mark Strand and Alastair Reid.
Versos Sencillos by (EBSCO eBook) This is the first bilingual edition of the 19th century Cuban literary master's classic book of poetry.650 E Parkway S, Memphis, TN 38117 · (901) 321-3432