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Una crónica familiar que abarca tres generaciones y dos países. Cuenta la historia del gordiflón y solitario Oscar de León en su intento de convertirse en el J.R.R. Tolkien Dominicano y su desafortunada búsqueda del amor. Pero Oscar sólo es la última víctima del fukú--una maldición que durante generaciones ha perseguido a su familia, condenándoles a vidas de tortura, sufrimiento y amor desdichado.
2) Dominicana
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"Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn't matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year's Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything...
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Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family...
4) Sammy Sosa
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Presents the life and baseball career of Sammy Sosa, who, along with Mark McGwire, in 1998 broke the long-standing record of most home runs hit in a season.
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Fourteen-year-old Caleb Parker has not been having much fun playing baseball recently, but when his mother volunteers to host Ricky Alvarez, a nineteen-year-old Dominican player on a local independent team in their Minnesota town, he finds a friend and mentor whose own struggles serve as an inspiration to the young Caleb.
7) Dominicana
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"On the last day of 1964, fifteen-year-old Ana Canciaon marries Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, in the Dominican countryside. The following day she becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a one-bedroom in Washington Heights. Juan is unfaithful, abusive, andcontrolling, he even forbids her from learning English. After a failed escape, Ana learns she is pregnant. Both her mother and husband compare her pregnancy to winning the lottery, her child will have...
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"Speak English, You're in America is a prose poetry collection that explores the complexities of belonging. When Carolina was forced to leave the place she knew as home and started over in foreign land, her sense of belonging became blurry, and her search for a place to call home spilled into every aspect of life. This book explores the journey of missing what was left behind enough not to allow it to disappear from within, belonging or the lack of...
13) Dólares de arena
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Todas las tardes Noeli, una joven dominicana, se dirige a las playas de Las Terrenas con su novio para buscar la manera de ganarse la vida a costa de uno de los muchos turistas que vagan la playa. Como personas desfilan por su vida, Noeli tiene un cliente constante; una mujer francesa madura que, conforme pasa el tiempo, ha encontrado un refugio ideal en la isla para pasar sus últimos años.
Every afternoon Noeli, a young Dominican girl, goes to...
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