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1) Jerusalem
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Non nobis, Domine, non nobis, sed Nomine Tuo da gloriam. "Not to us, O Lord, but to Your Name give glory." This motto highlights the vows of chastity and humility taken by the Knights Templar. But, it also speaks to their role as ferocious warriors, passionately and bloodily seeking out glory for their God. Set in the Holy Land in 1187 A.D., Cecelia Holland's historical novel masterfully explores the conspiracies and political maneuvers leading up...
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"Latin America is a region that consists of 13 dependencies and 20 countries including Argentina and Brazil. Because of the area's wide breadth, diverse geography, and unique colonization patterns, there are many distinct sub-cultures that all offer a different perspective on life in the region. Along with eye-catching full-color images, this book's informative narrative examines these many cultures and explains how they came to be. Guided by sidebars...
4) The Aeneid
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"For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey not only gave Romans and Italians a thrilling origin story, it established many of the fundamental themes of Western life and literature--the role of duty and self-sacrifice,...
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"Building on in-the-field immersive ethnographies and extended interviews conducted in Spanish in California, Virginia, and New York City (the NYC piece is new), Lin shows how Latino Pentecostals form a new "American" identity in the process of following the teachings of Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism. While past studies have looked at how Latino immigrants become Pentecostals, Lin looks at how Latino Pentecostals become "American." This work arises...
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"In 1187 Jerusalem, the holy city held by Christians for four generations and the prize of the First Crusade, fell to Saladin after a short siege. The Christians within were outnumbered ten to one, and yet the city held out long enough for favourable terms to be negotiated. The population was spared. The city was defended by a woman: Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. The Holy City had been lost, but the Christians maintained their footholds in the Middle...
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Fighting for funding for her local clinic, Dr. Natalía Navarro never expected her ex-surgeon Leo Espinoza--to show up in her ER! Five years earlier, Nati knew the only way to compel Leo toward the prestigious future he'd been working towards was to set him free. But with Leo back in East Ward, the duo's long-dormant electricity sparks into instant flame. Now Leo not only holds the clinic's future in the balance...but might also have Nati's heart!...
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"Who wouldn't want Ms Higgins as their Latin mistress? From a deep acquaintance with both Roman poets…and television soaps…she has worked out "how to get laid, Roman-style." - The Times (London)
"Engaging, and sometimes very funny. . . . Hilarious." - The Guardian
"Latin Love Lessons is written with a light touch and a sense of humour that make it a delight to read. It's as useful to an A-level Latin scholar as it is to anyone who has ever fallen...
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Follow Aeneid as he flees a burning Troy with his family and sets out on a dangerous journey to found what will one day become The Roman Empire. Thrill with him as he gets caught up in conflicts between the gods, all the while striving to complete his own grand destiny. Virgil intended this book to be a sequel to the Iliad and the Odyssey, and as such, it takes up with events just after the finish of the Odyssey. Inscribed here are myths and legends,...
13) Migratory birds
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Winner of the PEN Translation PrizeIn her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories: language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, Oliver leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of a Berlin marked by historical fracture, recalls a shocking childhood...
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This lush romantic drama depicts a family of cigar makers whose loves and lives are played out against the backdrop of America in the midst of the Depression. Set in Ybor City (Tampa) in 1930, Cruz imagines the catalytic effect the arrival of a new "lector" (who reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina to the workers as they toil in the cigar factory) has on a Cuban-American family. Cruz celebrates the search for identity in a new land.
15) Cartas a Elpidio
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Las Cartas a Elpidio del cubano Félix Varela son un manual de educación patriótica. Sus ideas al respecto encierran un extraordinario mensaje educativo, que llegaría al pueblo. Muy en especial a la juventud cubana. Se publicaron en 1835, tras irse Varela exiliado a los Estados Unidos.
El primer tomo, dedicado a la impiedad, se compone de seis cartas; el segundo, en que trata de la superstición, consta de cinco. Según los críticos, el primer...
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Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often simultaneously contravene or cooperate with the newly established order of Latin American nations negotiating independence and a new political and cultural...
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Memorias de una isla es un libro de ensayos de Calvert Casey en que se mezclan la crítica literaria y textos de remembranza. Con profundo espíritu literario en Casey evoca sus recuerdos de infancia en Cuba.
Calvert Casey es un peculiar escritor cubano, nacido en Estados Unidos de padre estadounidense. Conoció y se llenó de influencias literarias norteamericanas y relató en su obra un universo insular. Interesado por las novelas que fraguaron...
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¿Por qué la sociedad española siempre ha creído en las bondades de la llamada conquista de América? ¿Fue en realidad un proceso civilizador, altruista y liberador? ¿Es justo considerar el imperialismo propio como un acto cualitativamente diferente al de otras naciones? ¿Debemos calificar a los conquistadores como héroes desde la óptica actual?
Tras el desembarco de Cristóbal Colón en las Indias se inició la explotación de un vasto continente...
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Combining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martinez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Hoping to build a nation of hardworking, peaceful, voting citizens, the Dominican intelligentsia impressed on the rest of society a discourse of modernity based on secular...
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Con Breve historia de Hernán Cortés se acercará a la figura del genial conquistador que, para unos, llevó la semilla del Evangelio a tierras mexicanas y que para otros, en cambio, fue un bárbaro y un genocida. Más allá de la leyenda rosa y de la leyenda negra, una obra que permite descubrir los claroscuros del imperio español en América, con matices a veces sorprendentes. Conozca al héroe que llevó a cabo casi en solitario una gran gesta,...
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