Sandra Cisneros
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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The internationally acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature gives us a deeply moving tale of loss, grief, and healing: a lyrically told, richly illustrated fable for grown-ups about a woman’s search for a cat who goes missing in the wake of her mother’s death.
The word “orphan” might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old...
The word “orphan” might not seem to apply to a fifty-three-year-old...
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Español
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Elogiado por la crítica, admirado por lectores de todas las edades, en escuelas y universidades de todo el país y traducido a una multitud de idiomas, La casa en Mango Street es la extraordinaria historia de Esperanza Cordero. Contado a través de una serie de viñetas a veces desgarradoras, a veces profundamente alegres es el relato de una niña latina que crece en un barrio de Chicago, inventando por sí misma en qué y en quién se convertirá.
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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Una valiente colección de poemas nuevos de Sandra Cisneros, autora del libro de mayor venta La casa en Mango Street.
Han pasado veintiocho años desde que Sandra Cisneros publicara un libro de poesía. Con decenas de poemas inéditos, Mujer sin vergüenza es una conmovedora colección de canciones, elegías y declaraciones que dan testimonio de su peregrinaje hacia un renacimiento y hacia el reconocimiento de su derecho como mujer artista. Estas...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
The celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street “is back with her first work of fiction in almost a decade, a story of memory and friendship [and] the experiences young women endure as immigrants worldwide” (AP). In this masterfully written dual-language edition, a long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past.
As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to...
As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Una valiente colección de poemas nuevos de Sandra Cisneros, autora del libro de mayor venta La casa en Mango Street.
Han pasado veintiocho años desde que Sandra Cisneros publicara un libro de poesía. Con decenas de poemas inéditos, Mujer sin vergüenza es una conmovedora colección de canciones, elegías y declaraciones que dan testimonio de su peregrinaje hacia un renacimiento...
Han pasado veintiocho años desde que Sandra Cisneros publicara un libro de poesía. Con decenas de poemas inéditos, Mujer sin vergüenza es una conmovedora colección de canciones, elegías y declaraciones que dan testimonio de su peregrinaje hacia un renacimiento...
7) Caramelo
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Every year, Ceyala “Lala” Reyes' family—aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers—packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's house in Mexico City for the summer. From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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A candid, sexy and wonderfully mood-strewn collection of poetry that celebrates the female aspects of love, from the reflective to the overtly erotic. • From the bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
“Not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review
“All...
“Not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review
“All...
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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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Loose Woman
With a multiplicity of moods, Loose Woman offers intoxicating poems of extraordinary insight and imagining. What makes this a particularly special audio is hearing the poems recited in the author's own voice.
Woman Hollering Creek and other stories
The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom. Woman Hollering Creek and other stories confirms...
With a multiplicity of moods, Loose Woman offers intoxicating poems of extraordinary insight and imagining. What makes this a particularly special audio is hearing the poems recited in the author's own voice.
Woman Hollering Creek and other stories
The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom. Woman Hollering Creek and other stories confirms...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously told tale masterfully written by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street, in a dual-language edition.
As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light...
As a young woman, Corina leaves her Mexican family in Chicago to pursue her dream of becoming a writer in the cafés of Paris. Instead, she spends her brief time in the City of Light...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 161 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"...Woman Without Shame is a moving collection of songs, elegies, and declarations that chronicle her pilgrimage toward rebirth and the recognition of her prerogative as a woman artist. These bluntly honest and often humorous meditations on memory, desire, and the essential nature of love blaze a path toward self-awareness. For Cisneros, Woman Without Shame is the culmination of her search for home-in the Mexico of her ancestors and in her own heart."--Dust...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
55, 57 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"An enchanting story about a writer remembering her short time in Paris and her reflections on friendships, relationships, and her younger self in a beautiful dual-language edition. Paris has long been romanticized as the city of light. A city with a vibrant literary and artistic expatriate community. Corina-- nicknamed Puffina-- is a young writer hoping to find that idealized community, but when her money runs out sooner than expected, she finds...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
382 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved author of The House on Mango Street: a richly illustrated compilation of true stories and nonfiction pieces that, taken together, form a jigsaw autobiography: an intimate album of a literary legend's life and career. From the Chicago neighborhoods where she grew up and set her groundbreaking The House on Mango Street to her abode in Mexico, in a region where "my ancestors lived for centuries," the places Sandra Cisneros has lived...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Español
Description
"A book of essays spanning the author's career a[nd] reflecting upon the various homes she's lived in around the world"--
Desde Chicago a México, los lugares en los que Sandra Cisneros ha vivido han servido de inspiración para sus trabajos ya clásicos de ficción y poesía. Sin embargo, una casa propia, un lugar en el que realmente pueda echar raíces, la ha eludido. En esta autobiografía rompecabezas, formada de ensayos e imágenes a través...
17) Hairs =: Pelitos
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Pub. Date
1997, 1994.
Physical Desc
25 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 26 cm
Language
English
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A girl describes how each person in the family has hair that looks and acts different, Papa's like a broom, Kiki's like fur, and Mama's with the sweet smell of bread before it's baked.
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 480 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"A selection of the best and most representative contemporary American short fiction from 1970 to 2020, including such authors as Ursula K. LeGuin, Toni Cade Bambara, Jhumpa Lahiri, Sandra Cisneros, and Ted Chiang, hand-selected by celebrated editor and anthologist John Freeman."--