"A Cafecito Story" is a story of love, coffee, birds and hope. It is a beautifully written eco-fable by best-selling author Julia Alvarez. Based on her and her husband's experiences trying to reclaim a small coffee farm in her native Dominican Republic...more details Format:Paperback
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Julia Alvarez;Beatriz Vidal
ISBN:9780375924255
After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony. Then, one night she dreams of a mysterious beautiful lady shrouded by trees with branches hung with hundreds of little suns. They are oranges like the ones Maria's parents once ate in their homeland...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:40
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Julia Alvarez;Beatriz Vidal
ISBN:9780375824258
After their olive crop fails, Maria fears that her family will have to abandon their farm on the new island colony. Then, one night she dreams of a mysterious beautiful lady shrouded by trees with branches hung with hundreds of little suns. They are oranges like the ones Maria's parents once ate in their homeland...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:40
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780440237846
Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States...more details Format:Paperback Pages:192
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9781400085286
Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States...more details Format:Audio
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780756940836
Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States...more details
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375815447
By 1960, most of 12-year-old Anita de la Torre's relatives have emigrated from the Dominican Republic to the United States. But her Tio Toni has disappeared...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:176
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Julia Alvarez;Greg Budbill David YDelanty
ISBN:9780807615218
On February 16, 2003, eleven contemporary poets held a reading in Manchester, Vermont, called "A Poetry Reading in Honor of the Right to Protest as a Patriotic and Historical Tradition...more details Format:Paperback Pages:121
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Julia Alvarez;Liliana Valenzuela
ISBN:9780375915529
"A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez." Moving to Vermont after his parents split...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:144
MILLY KAUFMAN IS an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont--until she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent...more details Format:Paperback Pages:264
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375927607
MILLY KAUFMAN IS an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont--until she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:264
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375827600
MILLY KAUFMAN IS an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont--until she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school. His exotic accent...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:264
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780747572657
Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. Previously privileged and wealthy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780945575573
Julia Alvarez's brilliant first book of fiction sets the Garcia girls free to tell their irrepressibly intimate stories about how they came to be at home -- and not at home -- in America. "A warm...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:308
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9781565129757
It's a long way from Santo Domingo to the Bronx, but if anyone can go the distance, it's the Garcia girls. Four lively Latinas plunge from a pampered life of privilege on an island compound into the big-city chaos of New York...more details Format:Paperback Pages:311
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Julia Alvarez;Andrea Cascardi
ISBN:9780375802157
"A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez." Moving to Vermont after his parents split...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:160
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780756936419
"A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez." Moving to Vermont after his parents split...more details Pages:147
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780440418702
"A delightfully entertaining story of family and culture from acclaimed author Julia Alvarez." Moving to Vermont after his parents split...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375869143
Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tia Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:147
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375969140
Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tia Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:147
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375873201
Release Date: 11 September 2012
Welcome to Tia Lola's bed and breakfast With the help of her niece and nephew and the three Sword Sisters, Tia Lola is opening the doors of Colonel Charlebois' grand old Vermont house to visitors from all over...more details Format:Paperback Pages:160
Tía Lola has been invited to teach Spanish at her niece and nephew’s elementary school. But Miguel wants nothing to do with the arrangement. He hasn’t had an easy time adjusting to his new school in Vermont and doesn’t like living so far away from Papi...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:133
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375964602
Tía Lola has been invited to teach Spanish at her niece and nephew’s elementary school. But Miguel wants nothing to do with the arrangement. He hasn’t had an easy time adjusting to his new school in Vermont and doesn’t like living so far away from Papi...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:144
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375857928
Tia Lola has been invited to teach Spanish at her niece and nephew's elementary school. But Miguel wants nothing to do with the arrangement. He hasn't had an easy time adjusting to his new school in Vermont and doesn't like living so far away from Papi...more details Format:Paperback Pages:134
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375867279
When three girls and their father visit for a week in the summer, it takes Tia Lola to make Miguel forget his unhappiness at the absence of any boys and embrace the adventures that ensue....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:141
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780452282438
From the beloved author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of Butterflies, an epic and intimate novel about two generations of women and the personal impact of history.
It is the summer of 1960...more details Format:Paperback Pages:357
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9781565122765
In her most ambitious work since "In the Time of Butterflies," Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication to teaching strengthened another...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:357
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9781565129764
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters...more details Format:Paperback Pages:339
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Julia Alvarez;Fabin Negrin
ISBN:9780385908573
In a time not so long ago and on an island not so far away lived a tribe of creatures called ciguapas. They lived in cool blue caves underwater and came out on land only at night to hunt for food. Luckily...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:40
The bestselling author of "How the GarcA-a Girls Lost Their Accents" explores the phenomenon of the Latina asweet fifteena celebration The quinceaAera...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:278
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780452288300
A aphenomenal, indispensablea (USA Today) exploration of the Latina asweet fifteena celebration, by the bestselling author of "How the GarcA-a Girls Lost Their Accents" The "quinceaAera...more details Format:Paperback Pages:278
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375851230
After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn't sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters...more details Format:Paperback Pages:325
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780606149549
For use in schools and libraries only. Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, and his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn't sure what to make of these workers and the three daughters...more details Pages:325
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375958380
After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn't sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters...more details Format:Library Binding Pages:325
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780375858383
After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn't sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:325
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9781565125582
Alma, the narrator of "Saving the World," discovers a small historical footnote while doing research for a novel: In 1803, a Spanish doctor crossed the Atlantic with twenty-two orphan boys--live carriers of the smallpox vaccine--to inoculate the population of Spain's American colonies. Accompanying them on the two-year voyage was a mysterious woman...more details Format:Paperback Pages:376
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9781565125100
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:368
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780440417477
The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints...more details Format:Paperback Pages:40
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Julia Alvarez;Fabian Negrin
ISBN:9780613878029
In a time not so long ago and on an island not so far away lived a tribe of creatures called ciguapas. They lived in cool blue caves underwater and came out on land only at night to hunt for food. Luckily...more details
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780452280670
The rich and revealing essays in Something to Declare offer Julia Alvarez's dual meditations on coming to America and becoming a writer. In the first section...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9781565121935
In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez takes us behind the scenes and shares the lessons she's learned on her way to becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist. In 1960...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:300
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Julia Tavares Alvarez
ISBN:9781425778149
This collection of writings and speeches was delivered and written over the course of the twenty-three years in which I represented my country at the United Nations. It reflects my efforts to bring to public attention the potential as well as the needs of older people...more details Format:Paperback Pages:152
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9781565124066
The works of award-winning poet and novelist Julia Alvarez are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life. Since her first celebrated novel...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:159
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9781616200725
The works of this award-winning poet and novelist are rich with the language and influences of two cultures: those of the Dominican Republic of her childhood and the America of her youth and adulthood. They have shaped her writing just as they have shaped her life. In these seventy-five autobiographical poems...more details Format:Paperback Pages:159
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Janet Sternburg;Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780393320558
Seventeen novelists, poets, and writers of nonfiction explore how they have become writers, why they write, and what it means to be a woman and a writer....more details Format:Paperback Pages:268
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780613997584
At last A zesty, exuberant follow-up to the wildly popular How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, full of Julia Alvarez's keen observations and tender affection for her characters.
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Julia Alvarez
ISBN:9780452279186
At last A zesty, exuberant follow-up to the wildly popular How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, full of Julia Alvarez's keen observations and tender affection for her characters.
The Garcia Girls are back...more details Format:Paperback Pages:309