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1) Let's eat!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Each day Antonio's Mamá tries to get everyone to sit down together to eat, but someone is always busy elsewhere, until the family celebrates a new arrival.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Arriving simultaneously in a tiny village in Cumbria, England, Samantha Flood and Miguel Madero pursue investigations of the links between the community and their families, endeavors that reshape their senses of identity.
Author
Publisher
Little a
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It is a time of reckoning for José María Álvarez, an aristocratic Spanish banker living in a Swiss village with his American wife. Nearing the end of a long and tumultuous life, he's overcome by hallucinatory memories of the past. Among his most cherished memories are those of his boyhood in 1950s Franco-era Spain and the bucolic afternoons he spent salmon fishing on the Sella River with his father, uncle, and much-loved younger brother. But these...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the United States predates the arrival of the Pilgrims...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando Lola Goizueta, una reconocida y atractiva ejecutiva, aparcó su brillante carrera, estaba convencida de que se merecía ese tiempo sabático para dedicarse, por una vez en la vida, a su familia, su marido y sus pequeños hijos. Su estancia en Los Emiratos Árabes le permitiría dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a lo que era realmente "importante".Sin embargo, la exótica Dubái, iba a ser el punto de partida de un viaje hacia lo desconocido: el amor...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Historians refer to the Spanish Civil War as one of the bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. In 1937, at Mexico's request and offer, nearly 500 children from Spain - remembered as Los Niños de Morelia - were relocated via ship to Mexico to escape the war's violence. These children traveled across the sea without their families and were expected to return at the war's end. No one could have foreseen another world war was on the way - or that...
Author
Publisher
Angel City Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"Take a spin down Paseo Cerveza or Alameda de las Pulgas... did you know you'll actually be driving down Beer Boulevard or Mall of the Fleas? Learn the stories behind these romantic-sounding but sometimes inaptly named locales in a comprehensive study of Spanish place names in use today in California"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of the southwestern region of the United States from the sixteenth century to the Mexican War, examining the interactions between the Spanish, Indians, and American pioneers.
10) Spanish missions
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Missions were built in what are now the states of California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia, and North and South Carolina. Find out why they were built, how they were organized, their history, and more. Includes a glossary, statistics, and other resources.
14) Spain in the Southwest: a narrative history of colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and California
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navío fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que llevó a más de dos mil españoles rumbo a Valparaíso, embarcarán en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su país. Recibidos como héroes en Chile --ese "largo pétalo...
Author
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
""In Searching for Golden Empires, William K. Hartmann tells a true-life adventure story that recounts the shared history of the United States and Mexico, unveiling episodes both tragic and uplifting. Hernan Cortez Montezuma, Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, and Viceroy Antonio Mendoza are just some of the principal eyewitnesses in this vivid history of New World exploration"--
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