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Author
Publisher
Editorial Planenta Mexicana
Publication Date
2025.
Language
Spanish
Description
El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, una joven que crece en un volcán en una comunidad de mujeres indígenas, es llamada a la capital, donde se la considera un oráculo para un dictador en ascenso. Allí conoce a Consuelo, la hermana que nunca conoció, quien fue secuestrada de su hogar antes de que Graciela naciera. Ambas pasan años bajo el cruel régimen de El Gran Pendejo, colaborando involuntariamente con su régimen de terror, hasta que el genocidio...
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, traveling across the Atlantic with meager resources. She returns to a community riven with...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Clive Cussler, 'The Grand Master of Adventure,' sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Publication Date
2025.
Language
Spanish
Description
"Los personajes de esta novela habitan un barrio marginal de la ciudad centroamericana de San Salvador, El Salvador. Se rigen por sus propios códigos y pareciera que viven al margen de todo, en otro universo. Tan cerca y tan lejos al mismo tiempo. Es un mundo sórdido en el que ni el autor ni los protagonistas se dejan atrapar"--Back cover.
Author
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana,...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Publication Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
Spanish
Description
When the magic dogs who live on the volcanoes of El Salvador and protect the villagers from harm are pursued by wicked lead soldiers, they are aided by two ancient volcanoes.
Author
Publisher
Piñata Books, an imprint of Arte Público Press
Publication Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
Spanish
Description
Ten-year-old Jimena loves El Salvador but when gangs threaten to force her to join, she and her mother immigrate to the United States, but are separated at the border.
"Ten-year-old Jimena Pérez loves life with her parents in El Salvador. They sell fruit at the market, just like her grandmother and great grandmother did. "Fruits / are a blessing / like you, Jimena," her mother tells her. But one day a group of boys threaten her friend Rosenda at...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Publication Date
2020.
Language
Spanish
Description
Salvadoran society is shocked by the murder of Olga María, a young upper-class woman and mother, and no one more so than her best friend Laura.
El desconcertante homicidio de Olga María, una mujer de clase alta y madre de familia, deja conmocionada a la sociedad salvadoreña. Su mejor amiga no concibe que alguien pueda haber asesinado -a sangre fría, delante de sus dos hijas pequeñas y en su propia casa- a esta mujer honesta y de reputación...