Enseñar una lengua extranjera es siempre un desafío. Es mucho más fácil cuando a los estudiantes les encantan los materiales que se utilizan para enseñarles. No muchos libros están escritos por lectores jóvenes de secundaria. Esperamos que a sus estudiantes les guste aprender con estos libros bilingües.
I was born in a small town that at that time had about 300 inhabitants between children and adults ... I am a simple person, not very happy but not bitter. I am always willing to help those who need it; I do not wait for me to go begging, I offer help. I do not have much education I went to school for a short time. I finished sixth grade until I had 15 years old, but I remember that since I was young I liked to write stories, although I had never had the opportunity to publish them. I hope these stories reach your hearts and I also hope they like you. I want you enjoy them so much that you want to read them all... and other stories more. Remember that reading gives you education and culture. A part of these stories is true. A common occurrence for some people, whether by nature or custom, is to criticize or judge others and, often we do not realize that we make that person, or their family feel bad. Sometimes we can even physically or mentally harm them. Among the stories written here, one is true. It speaks of a little girl who has been criticized since her birth but has had the intelligence to turn criticism into positive energy. She has not stopped to listen to mediocre...
Portrays experiences during the development of New Mexico
In a post-apocalyptic earth, a group of teenagers are forced to embark on a dangerous quest, upon witnessing a world-changing event in their first mission outside the kingdom Olympus. They quickly learn that this occurrence is capable of ending The Age of Zombies, however, their oppressors soon obtain news of this incident as well. These teens must combat the undead army, the world government's elite enforcers, bandits searching for easy targets, and most deadly of all, each other in their perilous adventure for safety and answers around The New World!
This book has family stories that date back from 1875 to the present. Stories that took place at the rancherías (rural settlements) in the region of los Altos de Jalisco, Mexico, during and after the Cristero revolution. It recounts the ways of living, celebrations, and disciplines passed on from one generation to the next. The experiences of immigrant people and the challenges and opportunities they encounter in the United States. It talks about the pain families experience when they lose a loved one in another country and cannot physically be by their side. This book depicts the story of an unexpected accident and what happens in the "unconscious" mind of a dying person. It talks about how some human beings see life and death. There are testimonies of people who had dared to dream and achieve their dreams. A large family learned to heal the wounds from their past and it shares how they live after accomplishing their emotional healing.
Un relato honesto y conmovedor de los últimos meses de la vida de Susan Sontag, escrito por su hijo. Como reportero de guerra, David Rieff ha cubierto la mayoría de los conflictos de los últimos veinte años. Sin embargo, la batalla más dura que le tocó presenciar comenzó en la primavera de 2004, cuando a su madre, Susan Sontag, le fue diagnosticada una leucemia incurable que acabaría con su vida ese mismo año. Rieff narra conmovedoramente la experiencia de estar junto a ella -mujer de insaciable curiosidad y con un deseo infinito de vivir- los últimos meses de su agonía y sus propios sentimientos encontrados: la culpa tanto por no ser suficiente consuelo como por apoyarla en la idea de que sería capaz de imponerse a la enfermedad. Recorriendo los diarios y las cartas de su madre que Rieff leyó después de su fallecimiento y los textos de otros grandes escritores sobre la muerte, este libro proporciona un retrato íntimo de losúltimos días de Sontag y una profunda meditación sobre la mortalidad. Brutalmente honesto y conmovedor, es una bellísima elegía. Reseñas: «Tanto una crónica desde la vanguardia de los tratamientos contra el cáncer como un relato íntimo, ...
Esta nina fue muy querida por toda su familia, ella es carinosa, muy alegre y entusiasta. Le gustaba el deporte, cantar y hacer actividades. Pobre, pero contenta, se crio con su madre y sus abuelos maternos. Para ella su familia era, como una barrera que la protegia, pero fue la vida la que la enseno a ser mas fuerte y luchadora. Amo con pasion y obtuvo lo que queria, pero sufrio cada golpe que le dio la vida. Fue una madre adorada y amo a sus hijos con todo su corazon al igual que a su familia. Esta historia es dura, pero se aprende de ella. This little girl was very loved by all her family; she was affectionate, very cheerful and enthusiastic. She loved sports, singing and activities. Poor, but happy, she grew up with her mother and her maternal grandparents. For her, her family was like a barrier that protected her, but it was life that taught her to be a strong fighter. She loved with passion and always got what she wanted, although she endured every blow that life threw at her. She was an adored mother and loved her children with all her heart. This will be a hard story to read, but you will sure learn from it.
Faith and love in Tibet is a novel of moral defiance, three Tibetan Buddhist monks face the pain of seeing their millennial culture fall, the Dalai Lama's escape and the prohibition of their religion by the Chinese communists. Samye, Shakya y Dusum have to choose between fulfilling his faith or to live the passions of his youth. “When I converted to Buddhism, I made many Tibetan friendship, some children who left Tibet with the Dalai, Lama; others, just a few years ago managed to evade the snipers of Lhasa City, they have some extraordinary experiences to tell, I decided to start with this one, said the author”.
The day that Gillese Blondet turned 50, she vowed to herself that not only will she confess her age, but she would share all her secrets that confirm the following: YES, 50 is the new 30. I am 50... So What? Is the manual to get you to your mid-life feeling successful, made, beautiful in control and, above all, enjoy what you are and not grieve over what has not been. The day that Gillese Blondet turned 50, she vowed to herself that not only will she confess her age, but she would share all her secrets that confirm the following: YES, 50 is the new 30. This book is a friendly reminder that no botox will fix the wrinkles of the soul. Giselle, one of the most beloved women in the Hispanic market, takes us through the highlights of her life and the lives of powerful Latinas in their fifties who have not only achieved success in that dreaded age, but even have the luxury of having known the true love at 50. Because in this book, Blondet also shows us that in the game of love, the champion doesn't come first, but last. Funny, human, inspiring and full of anecdotes, I am 50 ... so what? Is an injection of energy for girls who want to reach that age as Giselle Blondet, and a foothold for ...
This is a story of three visits, which is remote back in the year 80 and 90, in the center of the cold war in El Salvador. A teenager is dragged by his dreams, his ambition to get to know the city; for love is involved on the front of the guerillas, making travels from the city to his town, ending with the reunion of his blood that he did not know existed and next to it says goodbye to his big love.
Los seres humanos pocas veces estamos contentos con nuestra suerte, la mayoría quisiéramos tener una o mas vidas diferentes. Es en este sentido, que la literatura narrativa, nos da la oportunidad de recrearnos en la vida de otros individuos, reales o imaginados. En estos “9 Cuentos” de diversas temáticas, que Mario Ramón comparte, nos lleva como en los sueños: de un macro a un microcosmos, de un país a otro, utilizando libremente el manejo del tiempo; del presente al pasado y de este al futuro, igualmente de la vida a la muerte y de esta nuevamente a la vida. Cuentos que se acercan y se alejan de la historicidad, para entrar en el mundo de los mitos, de la magia, de la imaginación y de los sueños. Mario R. Meneses. R., (1942) es asiduo asistente a las citas del “jueves por las tardes en la Librería Gandhi” para junto con el grupo de lectura, tener un acercamiento a las grandes obras de la literatura universal.
Sadly, domestic violence is the most underreported crime worldwide. But domestic abuse against women, children, or the elderly, is not acceptable. 19 twist ending short stories. Ⓒ2015 Will Smile
Border Chicano poetry written in English and Spanish.
Aldama (English, University of Colorado) presents unpublished short fiction, poetry, and essays by Islas (1938-1991), a gay Chicano writer best known for his novels The Rain God and Migrant Souls. An introduction discusses Islas' poetic form and narrative technique and his place in Chicano literature, and a chronology outlines major events in his life. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Este libro, el tercero de la serie Jazz en Dominicana: Las Entrevistas (2019, 2020 y ahora 2021), contiene 11 conversaciones sostenidas con músicos en el año 2021. Las preguntas fueron articuladas con un esquema simple y orgánico, que logró llevar a respuestas concretas, resaltando la diversidad de criterios y dando particularidad a cada diálogo; estos, una vez más, abren una ventana que permite asomarse a la escena jazzística actual de República Dominicana. El libro se publica en español e inglés, y está integrado con Códigos QR (Quick Response), que los lectores pueden escanear y escuchar la música de cada músico entrevistado. This book, the third in the Jazz en Dominicana: The Interviews series (2019, 2020 and now 2021), contains 11 conversations held with musicians in the year 2021. The questions were articulated with a simple and organic scheme, which managed to lead to concrete answers, bringing out the diversity of criteria and giving particularity to each dialogue; these, once again, open a window that allows a look into the current jazz scene of the Dominican Republic. The book is published in Spanish and English, and is integrated with QR Codes (Quick...
Combining poetic language and the traditions of magic realism to paint a vivid portrait of her family, Pat MoraÕs House of Houses is an unconventional memoir that reads as if every member, death notwithstanding, is in one room talking, laughing, and crying. In a salute to the Day of the Dead, the story begins with a visit to the cemetery in which all of her deceased relatives come alive to share stories of the family, literally bringing the food to their own funerals. From there the book covers a year in the life of her clan, revealing the personalities and events that Mora herself so desperately yearns to know and understand. ÒPoet MoraÕs complex and dramatic family history comprises more than personal reminiscences: it also embraces resonant aspects of Mexican American history. Mora recounts her familyÕs traumatic exodus from Mexico to escape the violence of Pancho Villa and his forces and their struggles to begin new lives in another country. To anchor her psychologically rich, dramatic, sometimes funny, often touching multigenerational tale, Mora uses the image of a houseÑthe house of housesÑduring a single year, a fruitful metaphor that allows her to dwell on the bright ...
Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muñoz and Gregorio López y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of Mexico, where Pancho Villa was a popular hero and a personal friend of her family, show not only the stark realism of Cartucho but also the tender lyricism of My Mother's Hands. They are noteworthy, too, as a first-person account of the female experience in the early years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of events from a child's perspective.
My father, Juan Antonio Cremades, first met Saint Josemaria Escrivá when they were fellow-students in the Department of Law at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, from 1925 to 1927. It was there that they made friends. Years later, at a very painful time for the founder of the Opus Dei, when his mother had just died, my father was able to do him a service for which Saint Josemaria was very grateful ever after. And for that reason, the large Cremades family – my parents and all of us ten siblings – enjoyed a very close, direct friendship with him until he went to Heaven. In this book I have collected some of the adventures – really big adventures! – that we had with our father and friend, Saint Josemaria. I have tried to highlight his kindness, the affection and friendly warmth that he scattered (especially on my lucky family), his sanctity, his joy and sense of humor. Also, his closeness to God, and the way he was able to bring all those who crossed his path closer to God.
The Silenced Dead is an invaluable contribution to filling a substantial gap in the memory picture of our recent past and to putting an end to the conversion of crime into an archetype of good.
Buero Vallejo is Spain's most important living playwright. His profound, innovative theatre has earned him success and respect since 1949. Each new play has been an exciting experiment with dramatic form as well as a powerful expression of a tragic view of human life and Spanish society. A Dreamer for the People was first performed in 1958. In this history play, the first of a remarkable series, culminating in La detonacion ( The Shot also published by Aris & Phillips), the dreamer of the title is the often maligned Marquis of Esquilache, the reformist minister of Carlos III. Buero sets off Esquilache's relations with the king, the aristocracy, his wife and his maidservant against a lively re-creation of the build-up to the famous 1766 Capes and Hats Revolt in the streets of Madrid. Public history and private tragedy are brought together in a complex structure, bringing into clear focus the clash between forces of change and immobility that lay at the heart of both the 18th century and the Franco period in Spain. In returning his proofs, Buero compliments the author of this first translation into English of his play: 'La version de Mr Thompson es muy cuidada y fiel, asi como...