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Cooking Dominican Republic Fiction Grief Fiction Hispanic Americans Rites and ceremonies Hispanic Americans Social life and customs Mexican Americans Social conditions Mexicans Pennsylvania Philadelphia Social conditions Mexicans United States Social conditions Philadelphia (Pa.) Emigration and immigration Social aspects Quiñones-Hinojosa, AlfredoSummary: The World Inequality Report: 2018 is the most authoritative and up-to-date account of global trends in inequality. Researched, compiled, and written by a team of the world's leading economists, it presents, with unrivaled clarity and depth, information and analysis that will be vital to policy makers and scholars everywhere.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339 WORAlvarado, Melissa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.34 ALVAlvarado, Denise
Summary: "New Orleans has long been America's most magical city, inhabited by a fascinating visible and invisible world, full of mysteries, known for its decadence and haunted by its spirits. If Salem is famous for its persecution of witches, New Orleans is celebrated for its embrace of the magical, mystical, and paranormal. New Orleans is the historical stronghold of traditional African religions,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weiser Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133.4 ALVAlvarado, Rudolph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.3 ALVAlvarado, Rudolph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Michigan State University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.4 DTPAlvarado, Anthony
Summary: "Like its predecessor, the effervescent, self-published phenom D.I.Y Magic, which dared to invite its readers into a brave new world of artistic expression and magical thinking, D.I.Y. Resistance focuses its attention on you, on us, and what we can do to survive and thrive as leaders of our own nascent resistance movement during these years of government antagonism and the fracturing of our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 ALVAlvarado, Denise
Summary: "Marie Laveau may be the most influential-and is among the most famous-American practitioner of the magical arts. She is the subject of songs, films, and legends and the star of New Orleans ghost tours. Her grave in New Orleans ranks among the most popular spiritual pilgrimages in the US. This book explores Laveau's life and work-the history and mystery. It gives an overview of New Orleans...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weiser Books 2019
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Summary: "The first guide and spell book for modern witches on how to bring the renowned Marie Laveau's spiritual heritage to life. The Marie Laveau Voodoo Grimoire is a practical guide to New Orleans-style magic inspired by the life and traditions of Marie Laveau-the eternal and enduring Queen of New Orleans Voodoo. This is a working grimoire, or spell book, created for the modern witch and Conjure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weiser Books 2024
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Summary: The Mexican skeleton Catrina has been invited to a Day of the Dead dance, and she's searching for just the right outfit to wear. She pulls her Aunt María's dress from a dusty chest, but it has a stain! There's a skirt made of fine cloth, but it looks like a dusty old drape. Purple shoes that don't fit, a pair of pants that are too short and a blouse missing a button what will she wear? Finally,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG DE ASoderguit, Alfredo
Summary: A beautiful, simple, and deep book about how accepting others can enrich us all. Hens and their chicks are living safe and secure in their coop, or at least it seems that way. They are happy with life as it is. Each one knows what she should be doing. They don't even seem to notice when every now and then one of them is carried off. Until one day some capybara appear. It's hunting season and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids/Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SODAlvarez, Julia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 395.24 ALVAlvarez, Julia.
Summary: A cultural exploration of the Latina fifteenth birthday celebration traces the experiences of a Queens teen preparing for her quinceañera, in an account that documents the history of the celebration's traditions as well as its growing popularity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 395.24 ALVCorchado, Alfredo
Summary: When Alfredo Corchado moved to Philadelphia in 1987, he felt as if he was the only Mexican in the city. But in a restaurant called Tequilas, he connected with two other Mexican men and one Mexican American, all feeling similarly isolated. Over the next three decades, the four friends continued to meet, coming together over their shared Mexican roots and their love of tequila. One was a radical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 CORLaredo, Ruth.
Contents: Three dances from the Three-cornered hat / Manuel de Falla (10:00) -- Songs of Spain : op. 232 / Isaac Albeniz (22:00) -- El amor brujo : suite / Manuel De Falla (16:00) -- Suite espanola / Isaac Albeniz (17:00).
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Classics 1989
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL LAREnrigue, Alvaro
Summary: A 1599 Roman tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Quevedo represents the way the world changed in their times, in a novel that goes from the execution of Anne Boleyn to Mexico after the conquest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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Summary: "From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan - today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ENRAlvarez, Danielle
Summary: "Always Add Lemon is the highly anticipated first book from American-born Danielle Alvarez--one of the most exciting young chefs cooking in Australia today. Taking the lessons, skills and tastes acquired working alongside some of the best chefs in America, Danielle translates formidable kitchen smarts into an inspiring collection of recipes and projects for nourishing, vegetable-forward,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hardie Grant Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 ALVAlvarez, 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 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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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC ALVQuiñones-Hinojosa, Alfredo.
Contents: Starry Nights -- Faraway -- The Kaliman Maneuver -- Lessons from the fields -- Where the road doesn't lead -- Green eyes -- From harvest to Harvard -- In the land of giants -- Question the rules, when possible make your own -- Brainstorm -- Hopkins -- Gray matter -- Seeing the light -- Finding the steel in your soul.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 QUIANONES-HINOJOSA, ALFREDO QUIEstrada, Alfredo José.
Summary: Takes readers from the Plaza de Armas, the tree-lined square where Havana was founded by Spanish conquistadors in 1519, to the Malecon, the elegant boulevard along the shore where Fidel Castro rode a Soviet tank in triumph. Estrada reveals the essence of his native city through the events that shaped its fascinating history and the people who left their stamp on its cobblestoned streets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.91 ESTAlvarez, 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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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