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Resources, information, and advocacy for DREAMers, immigrants, and advocates.
Selected Spanish language books you can find in Plough Library:
Cool Salsa by Lori Marie Carlson (Editor)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.
Call Number: 811.54 C37c 2013
ISBN: 9781250016782
Cubantime: una celebración de las costumbres cubanas en los Estados Unidos by Giselle BalidoWritten 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.
Call Number: 305.868 B38 2001
ISBN: 0760726906
Death to Silence (Muerte al Silencio) by Emma Sepulveda; Shaun T. Griffin (Translator)(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.
ISBN: 9781558852037
Publication Date: 1997
El Amor en Los Tiempos Del Colera by Gabriel García MárquezThe 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.
Call Number: 863.64 G37 2003
ISBN: 9780756988456
Herencia by Nicolás KanellosHerencia (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.
Call Number: 810.8 H57
ISBN: 9780195138245
Publication Date: 2002
Isabel Allende by Celia Correas Zapata(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.
Residence on Earth and Other Poems by Pablo NerudaPablo Neruda is regarded as the greatest Latin American poet of the 20th century. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971, his breadth of vision and wide range of themes are extraordinary, and his work continues to inspire new generations of writers.
Call Number: 861 N47 1973
ISBN: 0811204669
Selected Poems by Jorge Luis BorgesSelected 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.