Arturo and the Bienvenido Feast
Title | Arturo and the Bienvenido Feast PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Broyles |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781455622832 |
Arturo and his grandmother, Abue Rosa, are preparing a welcome dinner for his aunt's fiancé, but when his grandmother unexpectedly needs to rest, Arturo must prepare the feast himself. Includes recipes.
Arturo and the Navidad Birds
Title | Arturo and the Navidad Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Broyles |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 2013-08-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781455618019 |
It's time for Arturo and his Central American grandmother, Abue Rosa, to decorate their Christmas tree. Abue Rosa shares with him the family history of each ornament as it is hung. But what happens when Arturo plays with-and breaks-a glass bird? Young readers will find out in this touching, bilingual picture book.
Priscilla and the Hollyhocks
Title | Priscilla and the Hollyhocks PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Broyles |
Publisher | Charlesbridge |
Total Pages | 34 |
Release | 2008-02-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1607341050 |
A young African American girl is sold away from her mother as a slave, and then later is sold to a Cherokee Indian, but eventually she is bought by a white man who not only sets her free, but adopts her into his family of fifteen children. Based on a true story; includes instructions for making a hollyhock doll.
Shy Mama's Halloween
Title | Shy Mama's Halloween PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Broyles |
Publisher | Tilbury House Publishers |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Immigrants |
ISBN | 9780884482185 |
When their father gets sick and cannot take them out trick or treating on their first Halloween in their new country, Anya and her sisters and brother are surprised when their shy mother agrees to accompany them.
Blue Frog
Title | Blue Frog PDF eBook |
Author | Dianne de Las Casas |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 2011-09-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1455614599 |
Relates the native Central American tale of how the gift of chocolate came to be shared by the gods with humans.
The Girl Who Saved Yesterday
Title | The Girl Who Saved Yesterday PDF eBook |
Author | Julius Lester |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 19 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1939547245 |
Silence, sent on a mysterious mission by the ancient trees that raised her after she was sent away from her village, reconnects the villagers with their forgotten ancestors.
The Dictator's Seduction
Title | The Dictator's Seduction PDF eBook |
Author | Lauren H. Derby |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 430 |
Release | 2009-07-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822390868 |
The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a “vernacular politics” based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo’s exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo’s regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the tíguere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator’s Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power.