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Esta novela vibrante y provocativa explora los sueños y las luchas de tres generaciones de mujeres dominicanas. Graciela, nacida en las cercanías de Santo Domingo al final del siglo diecinueve, es una aventurera testaruda que se cria durante la ocupación de los Estados Unidos. Demasiada pobre para viajar mas allá de su imaginación y frustrada con la monotonía de su vida, se ve afectada en sus relaciones amorosas y en su relación con su hija...
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When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled. After eleven years, he decided he would go find her. He set off alone, with little more than a slip of paper bearing...
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Jorge Ramos argues for the urgent need to legalize undocumented immigrants in the United States and to reform an immigration system that is flawed. He presents 10 reasons for his beliefs and convincingly argues his point--that undocumented immigrants make the United States a better country and should be accepted.
Estados Unidos es un país que hoy tiene habitantes de primera y de segunda clase. Esto tiene que cambiar, y pronto. Hay 12 millones de...
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The husband of Gloria Estefan and founder of Latin pop group Miami Sound Machine shares the guiding principles of his success in business and investments, and offers advice on identifying values, believing in one's ideas, and planning for success.
Emilo Estefan, empresario y mogul de la música, personifica para muchos el sueño americano. Llegó a los Estados Unidos como refugiado cubano y se convirtió en uno de los productores más exitosos en...
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In 1980, 25,000 Cuban immigrants arrived in America--dubbed Marielitos for the port from which they departed. Ojito was 16. This book is both a detailed history of the Mariel boatlift and the touching memoir of an immigrant who struggled to find herself in a new world.
En esta memoria sobre una niña, dos culturas y una lucha por la libertad, la periodista Mirta Ojito, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer, vuelve al evento en su adolescencia que cambió...