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By Joshua Levine. 2017
An account of the 1940 rescue of over 300,000 Allied troops trapped at the French port of Dunkirk through a…
seaborne evacuation. Includes interviews with veterans and survivors, and is told from the viewpoints of land, sea, and air. Violence. Spanish language. 2017By Jorge Ramos. 2018
El periodista latino analiza sus experiencias y las de otros inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos a principios del siglo veintiuno,…
particularmente desde la elección de Donald Trump. Examina por qué él y muchos otros se sienten como extraños a pesar de décadas de vivir en Estados UnidosBy Francisca Lachapel. 2018
La presentadora del popular programa matutino "Despierta América" cuenta su historia de vida. Nacida en el pueblo de Azua en…
la República Dominicana, Lachapel se mudó a los Estados Unidos sola, participando en concursos de belleza y cultivando el amor por el teatro en su ascenso al estrellato televisivoBy Mark Eisner. 2018
La vida del poeta chileno ganador del Premio Nobel Pablo Neruda (1904-1973). Sigue la trayectoria de Neruda de sus primeras…
escrituras en su adolescencia; su carrera como cónsul y político; sus amistades consecuentes en la España republicana; el giro dramático de sus fortunas políticas; y las circunstancias controvertidas que rodearon su muerte. Traducido del inglésBy Jomari Goyso. 2018
Television presenter and stylist recounts his improbable transformation from an overweight farmboy in rural Spain into one of the most…
influential voices in Hispanic fashion--working with stars such as Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek and Kim Kardashian. Strong language and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2018By Laura Bozzo. 2018
La presentadora peruana describe la controversia que la envolvió a ella y a su familia cuando fue detenida por las…
autoridades en Lima en 2002. Acusada de corrupción debido a sus conexiones con el ex presidente Alberto Fujimori, ella describe los años que pasó tratando de demostrar su inocenciaBy José Luis Roig, Carlota Coronado. 2010
Relates the life of Martin Luther King Jr, from boyhood in Atlanta--suffering racial discrimination in the American South-- to prominence…
as a pastor and activist leading a movement for social change prior his untimely death. For grades 4-7 and older readers. Spanish language. 2001By Rosa Montero. 1999
La periodista y novelista española presenta dieciocho intensas relaciones románticas a lo largo de la historia--incluyendo a Cleopatra y Marc…
Antony; John Lennon y Yoko Ono; Oscar Wilde y Lord Alfred Douglas; Arthur Rimbaud y Paul VerlaineBy Lulu Delacre, Sonia Sotomayor. 2018
La primera latina en la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor recuerda la influencia formativa de los libros…
en su vida. Ella explora cómo su amor por la literatura le proporcionó la inspiración para realizar sus sueños. Para grados 2-4By Carlos Serván. 2017
Carlos Serván reflects upon his life's trajectory, including becoming blind as a result of a grenade blast as a Peruvian…
police cadet, and his subsequent career as an educator and blind advocate in the United States. Spanish language. 2017By Richard Wolffe, José Andrés. 2018
El chef hispano-estadounidense José Andrés reflexiona sobre sus esfuerzos de socorro en Puerto Rico después del huracán María en 2017.…
Acreditado con la mitigación de una crisis humanitaria, Andrés y su organización benéfica supervisaron la preparación de 100,000 comidas diarias para el pueblo puertorriqueño. Prólogo por Lin-Manuel Miranda y Luis A. Miranda, Jr. Traducido del inglésBy Javier León Herrera, Javier Leon Herrera. 2018
Biography of the Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer and performer. Considered to be the most successful Latin American musical artist in…
history, Luis Miguel emerged from a complicated childhood--his mother was an Italian actress who disappeared mysteriously, his father a singer and demanding manager--and quickly rose to stardom. Spanish language. 2018By Bob Woodward. 2018
El periodista de investigación ganador del premio Pulitzer detalla el proceso de la toma de decisiones en la administración Trump.…
Tratando con la política exterior e interior del país, se basa en entrevistas con fuentes de primera mano, notas de reuniones, diarios, archivos y documentos. Lenguaje injuriosoBy Francisco Cantú. 2018
After being stationed at the remote crossroads of a drug route and a smuggling corridor, the Mexican-American author abandons the…
Border Patrol for civilian life. Then a friend of Cantú travels back to Mexico to visit his dying mother and doesn't return. Violence and strong language. Spanish language. 2018By Sasha Abramsky. 2016
A journalist recreates the singular world of his grandparents' house in London. Chimen and Miriam Abramsky amassed an extensive collection…
of socialist literature and Jewish history, and they frequently held large gatherings to bring together influential thinkers, including Eric Hobsbawm and Isaiah Berlin. Spanish language. 2016By Yuyi Morales. 2018
Author and illustrator, a Caldecott Honor and Pura Belpré Award recipient, reflects on her own immigration journey from Mexico to…
America. Her feelings of isolation disappear after she discovers the wonders of a public library. Spanish language. 2018By Doctor Juan Rivera. 2016
By Rosa Montero. 2015
Spanish author reflects upon the contributions of women to human culture by exploring the lives of Irene of Constantinople, Mary…
Wollstonecraft, George Sand, Camille Claudel, the Brontë sisters, Frida Kahlo, Margaret Mead, and Simone de Beauvoir, among others. Spanish language. 2015By Tara Westover. 2018
Memoir exploring the author s path from being raised in a fundamentalist, paranoiac Mormon family where she was homeschooled to…
eventually working her way to graduate degrees at Cambridge and Harvard. Discusses hardships faced by the family, abuse at the hands of a sibling, and more. Spanish language. 2019A former Wall Street executive relates the story of her life from her childhood as an undocumented immigrant in San…
Antonio and her steep climb up the ladder of academic and financial success in the United States. Spanish language. 2016