The Hummingbird's Daughter, Paperback - Luis Alberto Urrea

Reducere. The prizewinning writer Luis Alberto Urrea's long-awaited novel is an epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late 19th-century ...

An epic mystical drama of a young woman's sudden sainthood in late nineteenth-century Mexico

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In this 'raucous, moving, and necessary' (San Francisco Chronicle) story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist, the de La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-Am...

Reducere. At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny, QUEEN OF AMERICA tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming o...

Reducere. Los milagros y las pasiones abundan en esta novela fascinante que ha sido aclamada como obra maestra. Es la historia de una joven Mexicana cuyas fa...

Reducere. Nayeli es una chica de diecinueve anos que trabaja en una taqueria de tres Camarones, un poblado mexicano. Ve en suenos a su padre, que emigro al n...

Reducere. Award NameGrand Canyon Reader AwardAward categoryTeenDescriptionNineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams abo...

Publisher: The Library of AmericaAuthor(s): Luis Alberto UrreaNumber of pages: 768Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 133 x 209 x 35Cover type: Hardb...

Reducere. DescriptionTheatrical play script. Comedy. Four characters, (three females and one male), in their sixties.1970. Northern California, three aging s...

Reducere. Am rica Latina est constituida por dieciocho naciones de habla espa ola (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Rep blica Dominican...

Reducere. DescriptionMexican architect Alberto Kalach (born 1960) founded Taller de Arquitectura X (TAX) in 1981, and for more than 35 years the firm's work ...

A powerful debut following an abused wife's attempt to escape her brutal marriage. With appeal to fans of Rosamund Lupton and Alice Sebold. 'Dietri...

Jacobo comes from a Spanish-speaking home in Oxnard, California. Even though his parents speak Spanish exclusively, Jacobo is embarrassed and asham...

Reducere. In this follow-up to his popular Science Secrets, Alberto A. Mart nez discusses various popular myths from the history of mathematics: that Pythago...

Reducere. Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos--faith healers--who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outs...

The musical and literary works of Luis Milton reveal the performance practices and theoretical conventions of the early 16th century.Publisher: Ind...

DescriptionSan Pedro, a visionary and hallucinogenic brew derived from the mescaline-based Trichocereus pachanoi or 'cactus of vision', is one of P...

Reducere. DescriptionA narrative nonfiction picture book following a hummingbird's migration south for the winter, with stunning art.When the last summer flo...

Reducere. Sadko the musician loved his city of Novgorod, the richest and most free in all Russia. With its great feasts, its white stone churches, its mercha...

Reducere. Orfan de mama si crescut de tatal lui, Armin, specialist in OZN-uri, Luis este un baietel de 12 ani care nu a avut o viata nici usoara, si, clar, n...

Reducere. Alberto Moravia este unul dintre cei mai mari scriitori moderni pe care Italia i-a dat panteonului literaturii universale. Romanul sau, Ciociara, d...

Reducere. Cu tulburatorul roman Ciociara, Alberto Moravia intra nu numai in insasi istoria patriei lui, ci si in istoria contemporana.Maestru incotestabil al...

Reducere. My father had thirteen wives and more than fifty children . . .This is the haunting memoir of Anna LeBaron, daughter of the notorious polygamist an...

Reducere. As a little girl, Teressa's father dotes on her and little sister, Karen, while mercilessly mocking her older sister, Debbie. Teressa thinks its De...

Reducere. Volumul Iubitul nefericit reuneste sapte povestiri, scrise cu eleganta si fluiditate. Fie ca este vorba despre un pusti a carui imaginatie infierbi...

Reducere. Alberto Mussa s-a nascut in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilia, in 1961. A studiat matematica, apoi diverse limbi straine (intre care araba, tupi si Yoruba),...

Vise curajoase. Cum viseaza samanii lumea intru fiintare Fizica moderna ne spune ca visam lumea intru fiintare prin fiecare gand ce ne trece prin m...

Reducere. One of the five Hungarian scientific geniuses dubbed "the Martians" by their colleagues, John von Neumann is often hailed as the greatest mathemati...

Reducere. In Enigma lui Qaf, Alberto Mussa aduce in scena o multime de referinte filosofice, mitologice si literare si le combina intr-o poveste alegorica de...

Reducere. Istoria lecturii. Cartea perfecta pentru orice iubitor de carti Intr-o clipa magica a copilariei tale, pagina unei carti - acel sir de simboluri co...

Reducere. Inima samanului. Practicile si experientele Luptatorului Iluminat Intra in lumea sacra a samanilor prin ritualuri stravechi si visuri mai bune! In ...

Demonologia astazi. Fundamente teologice si aspecte practice Un discurs despre diavoli si exorcisme risca sa atinga doua extreme. Una, des intalnit...

Reducere. Medicina spirituala. Cum sa creezi sanatate si abundenta in viata ta conectandu-te la sursa inteligentei superioare. Indiferent daca suferi de o bo...

Saman, vindecator, intelept. Cum sa te vindeci si cum sa ii vindeci pe ceilalti folosind medicina energetica a amerindienilor O carte bogata in int...

Reducere. Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo were curanderos--faith healers--who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, worked outs...

Reducere. DescriptionA memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wineIn The Wine Lover's Daughter, Anne Fa...

Reducere. The Diamond Cutter's Daughter: A Poet's Memoir might be thought of as a nonfiction bildungsroman. Told in short lyric pieces it gives a picture of ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Elle JohnsonNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 134 x 17Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera...

In 1600, the Catholic Inquisition condemned the philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno for heresy, and he was then burned alive in the Campo de...

Reducere. Doar ironia ne restituie viu trecutul. Doar ironia ne reda seriozitatea trecutului - a ceea ce pentru noi nu mai prezinta seriozitate, pentru ca nu...