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1) Red glass
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Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.
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Language
English
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Description
Mani Semilla is determined not to go to Guatemala until she finds letters written between her mother and her journalist aunt who has disappeared, revealing both the beauty of the country and its history of violence against women, which slowly transforms her into a budding activist.
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Language
English
Description
In the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn, 60-year-old human rights scholar Richard Bowmaster hits the car of Evelyn Ortega, a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes a far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor's house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz, a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile, for her advice. These three very different people are...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
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Description
Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
9) Tree Girl
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When, protected by the branches of one of the trees she loves to climb, Gabriela witnesses the destruction of her Mayan village and the murder of nearly all its inhabitants, she vows never to climb again until, after she and her traumatised sister find safety in a Mexican refugee camp, she realizes that only by climbing and facing their fears can she and her sister hope to have a future.
11) Caminar
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Carlos knows that when the soldiers arrive with warnings about the Communist rebels, it is time to be a man and defend the village, keep everyone safe. But Mama tells him not yet -- he's still her quiet moonfaced boy. The soldiers laugh at the villagers, and before they move on, a neighbor is found dangling from a tree, a sign on his neck: Communist. Mama tells Carlos to run and hide, then try to find her ... Numb and alone, he must join a band of...
12) Abuela's weave
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A young Guatemalan girl and her grandmother grow closer as they weave some special creations and then make a trip to the market in hopes of selling them.
15) Borderless
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 597
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Ganadora del XXXV Premio Herralde de Novela. Que tiene que suceder para que nos veamos obligados a redefinir nuestra idea de la infancia? La aparicion de treinta y dos ninos violentos de procedencia desconocida trastoca por completo la vida de San Cristobal, una pequena ciudad tropical encajonada entre la selva y el rio. Veinte anos despues, uno de sus protagonistas redacta esta Republica luminosa, una cronica tejida de hechos, pruebas y rumores...
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