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Cuban-American writer Ana Menéndez, author of In Cuba, I Was a German Shepherd, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, has a new book Adios, Happy Homeland! The collection of short stories in this book is a depiction of how stories are translated, interpreted, misinterpreted and shaped across time and traditions. Menéndez delivers a liberating, magical, and modern take on the idea of migration and flight. With Adios Happy Homeland! Menéndez puts a contemporary twist on the troubled history of Cuba and offers a poignant perspective on the conundrum of cultural displacement. In this book, Menéndez explores themes of art, family, language, superstition, and the urge to escape from the island.
Isabel Allende’s latest novel El Cuaderno de Maya (Maya’s Notebook) in Spanish tells the story of Maya Vidal, a 19-year-old American girl who falls into drugs, alcohol, crime, prostitution and must flee the country to avoid those who seek to kill her. Vidal writes her story, which includes all the pursuits by a gang, the FBI and in the process discovers a family secret. Read how between the U.S. and the island of Chiloe, in southern Chile she comes to understand the meaning of love and loyalty, and initiates the greatest adventure of her life: the journey into her own soul. Available in English from HarperCollins in 2012.
Christina Gonzalez’s, The Red Umbrella is the touching story of a 14-year-old girl’s journey from Cuba to America as part of Operation Pedro Pan—an organized exodus of more than 14,000 unaccompanied children, whose parents sent them away to escape Fidel Castro’s revolution. Meet Lucía Álvarez, whose life has been devastated when soldiers arrive to her Cuban town and change everything. Neighbors disappear. Her friends feel like strangers. And her family is being watched. As the revolution’s impact becomes more oppressive, Lucía’s parents make the decision to send her and her little brother to the United States—on their own to Nebraska with strangers. Will she adapt to a new country? Will she see her parents again? Find out in this moving story.
Best-selling author, Esmeralda Santiago presents Conquistadora, an epic novel of love, discovery, and adventure. In this novel, Santiago invites us into the lush, sensual, aggressive world of Puerto Rico’s formative years. Meet Ana Larragoity Cubillas, a young girl who grows up in Spain and is drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled with Ponce de León. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just 18, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. Read more about this feisty conqueror in this riveting tale.
Captain America
Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment present the story of one man destined to become the world’s First Avenger, in Captain America: First Avenger. It is 1941, and the world is being torn apart by war. After repeatedly trying to enlist in the military to do his part and fight alongside his brothers and sisters in the Allied Forces, the young and scrappy 98 pound Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) is accepted to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super-Soldier known as Captain America.
Strawberry Shortcake: Growing Up Dreams
Strawberry Shortcake™ and all of her friends take summer fun to new heights in the fabulous new adventure Strawberry Shortcake: Growing Up Dreams, arriving on DVD August 30 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and American Greetings Properties. Strawberry Shortcake and her friends can’t wait to grow up, and they wonder what they’ll become some day. It’s all berry exciting as imaginations soar and Strawberry and her friends see what it’s like to be busy career girls! But when Peppermint Fizz becomes Mayor and gets berry, berry bossy, trouble strikes in Strawberry land. Growing Up Dreams is all about getting along, working together, and believing in your dreams. Plus, no matter how big you get…you should never outgrow being nice!
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