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2) Zorro
Author
Publisher
Rayo/HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Español
Description
Nacido en 1795 en la California hispana, Diego de la Vega esta atrapado entre dos mundos. Su padre es militar convertido en prospero hacendado, su madre es guerrera indigena y su abuela materna es la sabia chaman de su tribu. Del primero, Diego aprende las virtudes de un hidalgo, mientras su madre y su abuela lo inician en las tradiciones indigenas. Desde la ni~nez se da cuenta de las injusticias que soportan los indios a mano de los colonos europeos....
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Source/Editorial Buenas Letras
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Profiles John Paul Jones, who served during the Revolutionary War and is credited with founding the United States Navy. Presented in English and Spanish.
5) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
Author
Publisher
W. Ritchie Press
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
The author's personal preferences for 31 works which have been read beyond a single generation, ranging from Anza's California Expedition to Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, are the subject of this illuminating study of the creative impulse of writers, not necessarily native sons, who have made California the setting of their masterpieces. In combining biography and criticism the author has gone to the original sources of each work, seeking...
7) Malinche
Author
Language
Español
Description
When Malinalli met Cortez she assumed that he was her god Quetzalcoatl returned to free her people. The two fell passionately in love, but this love was soon destroyed by Cortez's thirst for conquest, power, and riches. Though some have considered her a traitor to her people, this book pictures her more as a mediator between two cultures during the fall of the Aztec Empire and the birth of the mestiza culture.
8) Scaramouche
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Disguised as a stage clown, Andre Moreau perfects his skill as a swordsman in order to strike a blow for the French Revolution.
11) The 300 Spartans
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In the 5th-century B.C., King Leonidas of Sparta has only his 300 bodyguards to stand with him against an invasion by the 60,000 men of the Persian army. Their heroic stand against the invasion gives the other Greek city-states time to organize a large fighting force and ultimately defeat the Persians.
15) Goya's ghosts
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of celebrated Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Set against political turmoil at the end of the Spanish Inquisition and start of the invasion of Spain by Napoleon's army. Captures the essence and beauty of Goya's work which is best known for both the colorful depictions of the royal court and its people, and his grim depictions of the brutality of war and life in 18th century Spain. When Goya's beautiful muse is accused of being...
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas volume 433
Language
Español
Description
"Nueva edición de Soldados de Salamina, novela imprescindible del siglo XXI, revisada a fondo por el autor y rematada por un esclarecedor epílogo escrito por él mismo. A finales de enero de 1939, apenas dos meses antes del final de la guerra civil, un grupo de prisioneros franquistas es fusilado cerca la frontera francesa por soldados republicanos que huyen hacia el exilio. Entre esos prisioneros se halla Rafael Sánchez Mazas, fundador e ideólogo...
18) Nueva York
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
Rutherfurd homenajea a la ciudad mas grande de Estados Unidos en una saga rica, fascinante, que muestra su extraordinaria habilidad para combinar la investigacion historica impecable y su estilo narrativo. Describe trastornos culturales, sociales y politicos a traves de la vida de un conjunto muy diverso de familias. Una brillante mezcla de romance, guerra, drama familiar, y triunfos personales que captura la busqueda de la libertad y la prosperidad...
20) Nada
Author
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Loosely based on the author's own life, Nada is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.
