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Chocolate para el alma de la mujer: 77 relatos para nutrir su espíritu y reconfortar su corazón
By Kay Allenbaugh. 2000
Collection of heartfelt essays by a wide variety of female contributors, including ministers, professional speakers, novelists, and mothers. Topics range…
from divine intervention to falling in love to overcoming depression. Spanish language. 1999De alba sombria
By Jesús Gardea, Jesus Gardea. 1985
Twelve stories by the Mexican author that are vignettes in the lives of despairing or intractable persons. In the title…
story, a man terrified of rain and lightning passes a stormy night in the company of two girls sent to care for him. In another story, a dying man has his son carry him into the hills to see his first love. Spanish languageContra los hijos
By Lina Meruane. 2018
In this diatribe on motherhood and the role of women in society, the author examines the return of the "dark…
angel" who, cloaked in environmentalist rhetoric, makes authoritarian calls for intensive parenting and sets forth an endless list of rules. Spanish language. 2017Es mi turno: un viaje en busca de mi voz y mis raíces (Atria Espanol)
By Ilia Calderón. 2020
Emmy-winning journalist shares her story, from growing up in the primarily Afro-Latino region of Chocó in Colombia, to rising to…
prominence in the U. S. Hispanic television world, first at Telemundo and later at Univision, where she is the first Afro-Latina to co-anchor an evening news broadcast. Some violence and some strong language. Spanish language. 2020Vayamos adelante: las mujeres, el trabajo y la voluntad de liderar
By Sheryl Sandberg. 2013
Facebook chief operating officer Sandberg laments the lack of women in leadership positions and offers advice on getting ahead in…
business. Uses anecdotes and research to advocate change in the workplace and at home and urges women to fight internal society barriers that hold them back. Spanish language. 2013Help me!
By Marianne Power. 2019
The author recounts her quest to discover whether she could achieve the life of her dreams by rigorously following the…
advice in self-help books--one book a month for a full year. Discusses the changes she experienced and whether they were for the better. Some strong language. Spanish language. 2018Derecho a decidir: el mercado y el cuerpo de la mujer
By Carmen Domingo. 2020
Foreword by Almudena Grandes. After years focused on abortion, this is a call for attention to several issues around a…
woman's right to make decisions about her own body: namely, prostitution, religious restrictions, beauty standards, and coerced surrogacy. Explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Spanish language. 2020Love: ten poems
By Pablo Neruda. 1995
Hasta luego, inseguridad: has sido una mala amiga
By Beth Moore. 2010
A Bible teacher, author of Believing God (DB 62187), draws on her experiences and a survey of nearly a thousand…
women to explore the reasons for female insecurity. Presents scriptures that counter negative stereotypes and suggests ways to free women from media projections and cultural expectations. Spanish language. 2010Valle inquietante
By Anna Wiener. 2021
Memoir of working as a woman in her mid-twenties in the United States' capital of the technology industry. Discusses leaving…
a job in book publishing, working for a big-data startup, specific work experiences, company culture, and the decline of startup culture. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2021El invencible verano de Liliana
By Cristina Rivera Garza. 2021
The author's sister, Liliana, was killed in 1990 by her abusive boyfriend when she finally decided to leave him. When…
the boxes of Liliana's belongings are opened years later, the author shares letters and recollections that illustrate her struggles, which are also those of many other women in Mexico. Violence, descriptions of sex, and some strong language. Spanish language. 2021"A man faces the serious and mysterious consequences of his unusual paternity. A young peasant girl takes an eccentric villager…
as her lover and pays for her audacity. A group of revelers experience horror at the abuses and vicissitudes of a strange visitor. We accompany a sick man on his journey through the landscapes of his feverish delirium, only to get lost along the way and arrive at the end that was not. A man emigrates from his homeland in search of a bait in the form of a woman and ends up facing a fantastic opponent. These are some of Pedro Cabiya's Tremendous Stories, the first book by the then very young writer and a fundamental text that forever changed the rules of the game in Caribbean literature." -- Translation provided by NLSCriada: trabajo duro, sueldos bajos y la voluntad de supervivencia de una madre
By Stephanie Land. 2021
Recounts years working in the domestic service industry, struggling in poverty as a single mother. Examines the difficulties and misleading…
rhetoric surrounding poverty as well as the realities of life in service work. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2021A collection of poems by more than thirty women from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, and Spain. Each…
has her own approach, so the collection brings together a wide variety of styles and themes. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2021Mujer segura de sí misma: empiece a vivir hoy resueltamente y sin miedo
By Joyce Meyer. 2019
A Christian minister encourages women to overcome their inner fears and live confident lives. Meyer interprets the Bible's view of…
women in ministry, highlights the characteristics of confident women, and proposes steps to independence. Spanish language. 2019The essential Neruda: selected poems
By Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner. 2004
Cincuenta poemas de Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), el poeta chileno y ganador del Premio Nobel, que abarcan la amplitud de su…
estilo, temas y periodos. Este esfuerzo colaborativo de academicos, traductores, y poetas incluye selecciones de sus obras publicadas entre 1924 y 1964 y postumamente. Editado con una introducción en inglés de Mark Eisner; prefacio de Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Texto de los poemas en ingles y espanolIn vitro (Ensayo (Editorial Almadía))
By Isabel Zapata. 2021
"In vitro is a pregnancy essay. On the page, the writing gropes its way through unexplored territory. In the laboratory,…
under the watchful eye of the microscope, fertilization is also rehearsed. Pregnancy and writing take place on that threshold of possibilities. In this book, Isabel Zapata shines a light--or a lens--on an experience that seems to exist in a tiny darkness. While life makes its way in a Petri dish, the author poses questions that reveal the rawness of a treatment marked by uncertainty: How is the desire to be a mother articulated? Is there really a resolved mourning? With what voice does what we keep silent speak? Who breaks in childbirth? In In vitro the hidden is revealed as a daughter begins to take shape." -- Translation provided by NLSLatinitas: una celebración de 40 soñadoras audaces
By Juliet Menéndez. 2021
"Discover how 40 influential Latinas became the women we celebrate today! In this collection of short biographies from all over…
Latin America and across the United States, Juliet Menéndez explores the first small steps that set the Latinitas off on their journeys. With gorgeous, hand-painted illustrations, Menéndez shines a spotlight on the power of childhood dreams. From Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to singer Selena Quintanilla to NASA's first virtual reality engineer, Evelyn Miralles, this is a book for aspiring artists, scientists, activists, and more. These women followed their dreams-and they just might encourage you to follow yours!" -- Goodreads"Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international…
sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism. This is an underground economy in which a sex slave can be bought for the price of a gun, but Cacho's powerful first-person interviews with mafiosi, pimps, prostitutes, and those who managed to escape from captivity makes it impossible to ignore the terrible human cost of this lucrative exchange." -- GoodreadsJulio Verne: una versión (Grandes biografías #1)
By David Mayor Orguillés. 2007
"The French novelist's life unfolded peacefully, punctuated with small maritime adventures only disturbed by the problems brought on by his…
son. Different mistresses have been attributed to Verne and he has even been accused of being a pedophile, but this does not seem to be based on very evident facts. The last third of the 19th century offered Europe a rapidly advancing industrial society. Verne observed this new panorama that was opening up to the real world and, also, to the literary world. A collector of scientific reviews, Verne patiently noted new technical theories. The success he achieved with his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon would not abandon him in successive publications, making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He was a forerunner of the science fantasy genre and foretold many scientific inventions and adventures." -- Translation provided by NLS