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Author
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The author's first novel is a story about an American girl in Paris, who navigates the intoxicating and treacherous complexities of independence, friendship, and romance. Lita del Cielo, the daughter of two Colombian orphans who arrived in America with nothing and made a fortune with their Latin food empire, has been granted one year to pursue her studies in Paris before she must return to work in the family business. She moves into a gently crumbling...
42) Jaded
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened-and how much she's willing to put up with to make her way to the top of the corporate ladder."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"La joven Lita ha viajado a Paris con la excusa de aprender bien la idioma, aunque lo que de verdad desea es vivir una apiasionado historia de amor. Pero, mientras pasea por las hermosas calles de la capital frencesa, ni siquiera sospecha que este sentimiento puede ser tan intenso, tan poderoso, como el que la invadira cuando conozca a Cato, un joven aparentemente inalcanzable, desarraigado y con una infancia triste a su espalda. Sin embarga, Lita...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Searching for her own identity apart from her poverty-stricken Ukrainian family in Chicago, Luba attends a local college where the tumult of 1968 envelops her, but she soon finds she cannot leave her family completely behind.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Young is an American Born Chinese (ABC) growing up in Queens and has been told by his beloved Su Su (uncle) that one has only seven great loves in a lifetime. Young's childhood is marked by an obsessive love of comics, music, and movies. . . as well as a parade of school-yard crushes, tantalizing pen-pal exchanges, and a lasting infatuation with Winona Ryder. But, at the end of 1995, when Young is a sophomore at NYU, he meets Erena--brilliant, charismatic,...
47) Come and get it
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Doran & Co
Pub. Date
1935.
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1935, this is Pulitzer Prize winner Edna Ferber's sprawling novel of Wisconsin's logging days, when fortunes -- and families -- were made and broken over king lumber. Barney Glasgow, who had fought his way up from chore-boy in the lumber camps of Iron Ridge to lumber king of Wisconsin, is fifty-three and has much reason to be content when the granddaughter of his old friend, Swan Bostrom, disrupts his life. But destiny provides...
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando las tropas estadounidenses ocupan Alemania, los amigos Jakob y Emmanuelle se salvan del terrible destino de tantos en los campos. Con la ayuda de patrocinadores, se dirigen a Nueva York. Para no separarse, permiten su amistad florecer en el amor y el matrimonio, y comenzar una nueva vida en el Lower East Side, trabajando en trabajos agotadores y mal pagados. Décadas más tarde, a través del talento, la fe, la fortuna y el trabajo incansable...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 362
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The first Latino novelist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Hijuelos (1951?2013) wrote rich and radiant novels that brought the Cuban American immigrant experience into the heart of American literature. "I marveled," recalls Juan Felipe Herrera, at "how meticulous he was and how deep he got into the lives of Latino and Cuban Americans in the United States." Hijuelos launched his career with Our House in the Last World (1983), a masterful recreation...
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