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Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Fiction Cemeteries Fiction Characters and characteristics in literature Fiction Dominican Americans Fiction Dominican Republic Fiction Drawing Comic books, strips, etc Sisters Fiction Transgender people Juvenile fiction Young adult fiction Young women FictionSummary: "Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars featuring the monsters of Latine myths and legends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2022
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Summary: "The best contemporary Ukrainian novel written since Ukrainian Independence in 1991. It reveals a family saga that is much more dynamic than classical sagas and at the same time is much more touching and engaging. It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spuyten Duyvil 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MATVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: Leonora loves a knight who serenades her as a troubadoor. The knight is in an army fighting a civil war agaist the Count, who also loves Leonora. The knight thinks he's the son of the gypsy woman who raised him & whose mother was killed by the Count, but he's actually the Count's brother. When the rivalry between the two men becomes violent, tragedy occurs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deutsche Grammophon 2012
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA TROMatias, Carlos
Summary: Author Carlos Matias and Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning illustrator Gracey Zhang deliver a stunning picture book based on a finalist in the New York Times Metropolitan Diary "Best of the Year," about a young boy in the city who tries his best to avoid spending his precious quarters on tempting local treats in case of an "emergency." A poignant, cheeky tale perfect for fans of Matt de La Peña,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: "As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life: his ongoing fascination with the Middle East and his numerous travels to Istanbul, Aleppo, Damascus, and Tehran, as well as the various writers, artists, musicians,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENAAlvarez, Julia
Summary: "A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Alvarez 2020Alvarez, Julia
Summary: A too busy butterfly who spends her day hurrying and worrying finds her own "quiet place" after learning about meditation and mindfulness from a flower bud.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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Summary: Alma Cruz doesn't want to end up like her friend, a novelist who fought so long and hard to finish a book that it threatened her sanity. So when Alma inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, her homeland, she has the beautiful idea of turning it into a place to bury her untold stories, literally. She creates a graveyard for the manuscript drafts and revisions, and the characters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tom©Łs Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tom©Łs studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARMalzieu, Mathias.
Summary: Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine--witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans--who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MALAlvarez, Julia
Summary: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2018
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2 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH ALVCall number: YA 468 SPANISH
Alvarez, Julia
Summary: Children wonder what happens to their loved ones after death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories, Triangle Square Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALVAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: Esta novela "cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso mágica tía Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pañuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor para las fiestas, café, hierbabuena, orégano, anís, hojas de guanábana, ajíes--su alegría invade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yearling 2004
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 ALV SPANISHAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: A best-selling, Latin-American author living in Vermont, Alma stays behind when her husband travels to the Dominican Republic to help fight AIDS. She needs the time to work on her latest book, but she has terrible writer's block. Soon, her focus is diverted to an entirely new story, that of the early 19th-century anti-smallpox expedition of Dr. Francisco Balmis. Accompanying Dr. Balmis was Doa...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC AlvAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her best-selling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization and wants her help on an AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him--her publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVAlvarez, Julia
Summary: "When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: Captures the vivid lives of the García sisters, four privileged and rebellious Dominican girls adapting to their new lives in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALVAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: In the 1960s, political tension forces the García family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice. But Mami and Papi are more traditional, and they have far more difficulty adjusting to their new country. Making matters worse, the girls--frequently embarrassed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALVAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell Dragonfly Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 ALVAlvarez, Lorena
Summary: Every night, tiny stars appear out of the darkness in little Sandy's bedroom. She catches them and creates wonderful creatures to play with until she falls asleep, and in the morning brings them back to life in the whimsical drawings. When a mysterious new girl appears at school, Sandy's drawings are noticed for the first time, but Morfie's fascination with Sandy's talent soon turns into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nobrow 2016
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Summary: When a young boy's father is worried about the crops and his mother loses her job, the boy worries as well. He tries counting sheep to help him sleep but they only multiply. Then he has a solution as a result of believing in his dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Red Chair Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CERLaties, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vox Pop 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 381.45 LATMachias, Jules
Summary: Daniel and Ash cross paths when a pomeranian is about to be euthanized; the sensitive Dan rescues the dog and Ash offers to help on a day when they are female-presenting. As the friendship grows, Ash feels less and less able to be their full self -- sometimes male and sometimes female -- in front of Dan without knowing that both people find themselves constantly at war with their non-conforming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MACÁlvarez Miguéns, Marta
Summary: What is snow? What's snow made of? Where can I find some and what can I do with it? Wrap up warm -- it's time to find out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018