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It occurs to me that I am America : new stories and art / by Santlofer, Jonathan,1946-editor.(CARDINAL)350625; Nguyen, Viet Thanh,1971-author of introduction.(CARDINAL)350626; Alvarez, Julia.Speak! Speak!; Banks, Russell.Oh, Canada.; Broyard, Bliss.Party.; Carter, Stephen L.,1954-Compline.; Child, Lee.New blank document.; Clark, Mary Higgins.Veterans Day.; Cunningham, Michael,1952-Atonement.; Di Ionno, Mark.Intersections.; Dunn, Anna.Third twin.; Erdrich, Louise.Balancing acts.;
In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Subjects: Fiction.; Short stories, American.; American fiction;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 19
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¡Yo! / by Alvarez, Julia,author.(CARDINAL)169420;
Includes bibliographical references.Yolanda Garcia has managed to put herself at the center of many lives. Each part of this novel is told from the viewpoint of one of those first tangled in her web and now frozen in the spotlight her literary fame has generated. While everybody from her three sisters to her third husband attempts to sort out Yo's character, motivations, and behavior, Yo herself never speaks on her own behalf, even though, in her native Spanish, her nickname means "I." "960LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Dominican Americans; Women authors;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the time of the butterflies [kit] : by Alvarez, Julia,author.(CARDINAL)169420;
"They were the four Mirabel sisters - symbols of defiant hope in a country shadowed by dictatorship and despair. They sacrificed their safe and comfortable lives in the name of freedom. They were Las Mariposas, "The Butterflies," and in this extraordinary novel Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, and Dedé speak across the decades to tell their own stories. From tales of hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, they describe the everyday horrors of life under the Dominican dictator Trujillo. Through the art and magic of acclaimed novelist Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies come to vibrant dramatic life in a warm, brilliant, and heartbreaking story that makes a haunting statement about the human cost of political oppression."910LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mirabal, María Teresa, 1936-1960; Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960; Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960; Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961; Women revolutionaries; Women revolutionaries; Martyrss;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the time of the butterflies / by Alvarez, Julia,author.(CARDINAL)169420; Kingston, Maxine Hong,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)149968;
"It is November 25, 1960, and three sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of the dictatorship of General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's storytelling, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage, love, and the human cost of political oppression"--910LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mirabal, María Teresa, 1936-1960; Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960; Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960; Women revolutionaries;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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In the time of the butterflies / by Alvarez, Julia.(CARDINAL)169420;
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--"The Butterflies. "In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and the survivor, Dede--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human cost of political oppression.910LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mirabal, María Teresa, 1936-1960; Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960; Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960; Women revolutionaries;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 19
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In the time of the butterflies / by Alvarez, Julia.(CARDINAL)169420;
Includes bibliographical references (page 339).It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everyone knows of Las Mariposas - "The Butterflies." Now, three decades later, Julia Alvarez, also a daughter of the Dominican Republic and long haunted by these sisters, immerses us in a tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell their story in the only way it can truly be understood - through fiction. In this brilliantly characterized novel, the voices of all four sisters - Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Dede - speak across the decades, to tell their own stories - from hair ribbons to gunrunning to prison torture - and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. The Butterflies were extraordinary women. Minerva, once the object of the dictator's desire, had dared to publicly slap his face. Devout Patria found her calling to the uprising through the church. Alluring - and vain - Maria Teresa joined in pursuit of romance. Only Dede, the practical one, the most diligent in her duty to family and tradition, kept apart. And only she survived to see that their names were remembered. Now, through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again. And Dede joins them as a heroine of equal courage.--Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Fiction.; Mirabal, Mara̕ Teresa, 1935-1960; Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960; Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960; Women revolutionaries;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 20
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The Beacon Best of 2000 : creative writing by women and men of all colors and cultures / by Danticat, Edwidge,1969-;
Subjects: Essays.; Short stories.; Fiction.; Poetry;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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In the time of the butterflies / by Alvarez, Julia,author.(CARDINAL)169420;
I. Dedé, 1994 and circa 1943 -- Minerva, 1938, 1941, 1944 -- María Teresa, 1945 to 1946 -- Patria, 1946 -- II. Dedé, 1994 and 1948 -- Minerva, 1949 -- María Teresa, 1953 to 1958 -- Patria, 1959 -- III. Dedé, 1994 and 1960 -- Patria, January to March 1960 -- María Teresa, March to August 1960 -- Minerva, August to November 25, 1960 -- Epilogue. Dedé, 1994 -- A Postscript.Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of the acclaimed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this extraordinary novel. Each of the sisters speaks in her own voice; beginning as young girls in the 1940s, their stories vary from hair ribbons to gun-running to prison torture. Their story is framed by their surviving sister who tells her own tale of suffering and dedication to the memory of Las Mariposas.910LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mirabal, María Teresa, 1936-1960; Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960; Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960; Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961; Women revolutionaries; Women revolutionaries; Martyrss;
Available copies: 9 / Total copies: 114
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Poetry speaks who I am / by Paschen, Elise.(CARDINAL)394773; Raccah, Dominique.(CARDINAL)663233;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Collects more than one hundred poems for young readers, with selections by Maya Angelou, Arthur Sze, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, and others; and includes an audio CD with some of the poets reading their works.NP
Subjects: Sound recordings.; American poetry.; English poetry.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 15
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Women writing resistance : essays on Latin America and the Caribbean / by Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer.(CARDINAL)545023;
Includes bibliographical references (page 10-11) and index.
Subjects: Social justice; Social justice; Ethnicity; Ethnicity; Women; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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