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La luna no era de queso: memorias de infancia (Librocultural)
By José Luis González. 1988
The Puerto Rican author and intellectual paints a historical, social, and political picture of his homeland in the 1930s. He…
describes his family and the formative experiences of his life, including the profound influences he felt from other Caribbean authors and intellectuals such as Juan Bosch. Spanish languageContra el viento: una narración muy personal
By Juan Suárez. 1991
The author tells of his life as an ordinary man of humble origins who, through his love of God, country,…
and family, overcame hardship and adversity. He portrays his beloved native Cuba as a land he saw corrupted by the Castro regime. He also describes how his family sustained him in his search for success and happiness. Spanish languageDon y misterio: en el quincuagésimo aniversario de mi sacerdocio
By John Paul. 1997
Pope John Paul II reflects on his fifty years of service to the Catholic church--his early experiences during World War…
II, his ordination and first visit to Rome in 1946, and the years leading up to his election as Pope in 1978. Spanish languageUn río, dos Riveras: vida de Diego Rivera, 1886-1929
By Guadalupe Rivera Marín. 1990
Biography of the famous Mexican muralist by his daughter. Rivera Marin tells of her father's early life and her memories…
of him up to the time he left his first wife to marry Frida Kahlo in 1929. Spanish languageFranco: caudillo de Espana
By Paul Preston. 1994
Biography of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, noted for his victory over Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War and for…
his forty-year rule over Spain until his death in 1975. Covers his birth, childhood, and early military career in Morocco, his rise to power in the 1930s, and the Franco regime during and after World War II. Spanish languageGeneral H. Norman Schwarzkopf: autobiografia
By H. Norman Schwarzkopf. 1993
Until his retirement in 1991 at age fifty-seven, the army was Schwarzkopf's life. He recounts his years at West Point;…
his two tours of duty in Vietnam; his problems with the Pentagon; and finally, his command of the American, British, and French troops during the Gulf War. Spanish languagePapillion
By Henri Charrière. 1987
Autobiografía de un hombre condenado a cadena perpetua por asesinato. Describe sus expriencias en la prisión de la Isla del…
Diablo y narra sus intentos por escapar y su eventual liberaciónCuando era puertorriqueña (Vintage español)
By Esmeralda Santiago. 1994
Autobiographical account of memories of the culture and freedom of a Puerto Rican barrio. Santiago and her ten younger siblings…
were brought to Brooklyn by their ambitious mother. Harsh as her new life is, and unable to speak English at first, she learns to cope and then to thrive. Some descriptions of sex. Spanish languageCristóbal Colón
By Jacques Heers. 1992
A French historian presents a documented history of Christopher Columbus and his discoveries, from his birth to his death. Cutting…
through the legends and misrepresentations that have surrounded the explorer for centuries, Heers points out that Columbus was neither hero nor villain, but simply a product of his epoch. Spanish languageDiego Velázquez (Palabra Plástica Ser. #Vol. 2)
By Julián Gállego. 1983
La vida y obra del famoso pintor español de principios del siglo XVII. Cubre la vida de Velázquez desde su…
niñez sevillana, a través de su educación y tutela bajo Pacheco, su llegada a Madrid como pintor de la corte, sus viajes a Roma y la consecuente ascensión al cenit de su profesión. A la biografía se añaden cartas, testimonios y apreciaciones críticasEl mundo iberoamericano, hombres en su historia
By Edilberto Marbán. 1974
Presents short biographies of more than forty men and women who have figured prominently in Latin American history and letters.…
Includes chapters on Columbus, Magellan, Moctezuma, Atahualpa, De Soto, Inez de lat Cruz, Simon Bolivar, San Martin, Juarez, Ricardo Palma, Ruben Dario, Jose Marti, Gabriela Mistral, Alfonso Reyes, Romulo Gallegos, and Jorge Luis Borges. Spanish languageDiana: su verdadera historia
By Andrew Morton. 1992
Morton uses information from undisclosed sources and Diana's family and friends for this portrait of the Princess of Wales, beginning…
with her childhood. Morton believes that Diana is an unhappy woman, trapped in a loveless marriage, who distrusts everyone around her, but who is coming to terms with her life--changing from victim to victor. Spanish languageGandhi
By George Woodcock. 1983
A specialist in Third World affairs offers a biography of a man who has influenced the political and humanistic concepts…
of freedom and independence in the Third World. Woodcock chronicles the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi from his birth in 1869 to his assassination in 1948. He traces the development of Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence and analyzes Gandhi's legacy for the twentieth century and for modern India. Spanish languageEl Cid Campeador
By Ramón Menéndez Pidal. 1989
El historiador y filólogo español describe la vida y la época de Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, conocido como El Cid,…
el héroe épico de la España del siglo XI. La biografía abarca el nacimiento de Rodrigo y sus primeros años de vida, su vasallaje a los reyes Sancho y Alfonso, su exilio de Castilla, sus batallas contra los moros y los invasores de Almoravid, y sus últimos días como señor de ValenciaMás brincos por la vida
By Mario Emilio Pérez. 1993
The author continues to chronicle with humor and local color the day-to-day tribulations of his life. His autobiographical anecdotes deal…
with such topics as the heartbreaks of romance. The terrors of moving, the dangers of a guitar, the pains of jogging, the intransigence of vehicles, and the general recalcitrance of his fellow man. Follows Brincando por la Vida (DB 35839). Spanish languageSor Juana Ines de la Cruz, o, Las trampas de la fe
By Octavio Paz. 1985
The Noble Prize-winning author and poet presents a biography of the famous nun of seventeenth-century Mexico. Paz attempts to unravel…
the powerful motivations that led a beautiful young woman to abandon court life to enter a convent, where she became the most influential writer and poet of her day, only in the end to abandon this too. Spanish languageDias y noches de amor y de guerra (Literatura)
By Eduardo H Galeano. 1979
The author, an Uruguayan journalist, affirms that everything written in this book is true. He describes, among his own personal…
vignettes, the drama of a repressed and despoiled continent and of a society paralyzed by two decades of disappearances, tortures, and murders. These stories are recounted with straight-forward eloquence. Casa de las Americas Prize, 1978. Spanish languagePancho Villa (Coleccion Occidente #2)
By Pere Foix. 1980
Biography of the controversial figure of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1914, from his humble beginnings as a poverty-stricken peasant through…
his rise as a leader of the revolution to his mysterious assassination in 1923. Even today, Villa is both reviled as a cruel bandit on one hand and extolled as a fearless hero on the other. Spanish languagePatty Hearst, todos mis secretos
By Patricia Hearst. 1982
Hearst describes her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, her imprisonment in a closet for fifty-seven days, her…
forced decision to join her captors, and her participation in the Hibernia Bank robbery. She also fills in the gaps concerning the "missing year" and tells of her arrest, trial, conviction, pardon, and release from jail. Some strong language. Spanish languageMemorias de una joven Catolica
By Mary McCarthy. 1977