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81) Candela
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
The lives of three strangers, a high society girl, a lonely lieutenant, and a drag queen cabaret performer, intertwine on the eve of a hurricane following the mysterious death of a young poet and drug dealer.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Every afternoon Noeli, a young Dominican girl, goes to the beaches at Las Terrenas with her boyfriend to look for ways to make a living at the expense of one of the many tourists that wander the beach. As people parade through her life, Noeli has a steady client; a mature French woman who, as time goes by, has found an ideal refuge on the island to spend her last years.
83) Sammy Sosa
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and baseball career of Sammy Sosa, who, along with Mark McGwire, in 1998 broke the long-standing record of most home runs hit in a season.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Raised in the Dominican Republic, signed by the Seattle Mariners, and released by the Minnesota Twins, David Ortiz landed in baseball-crazy Boston, of all places. Generally regarded as an underachiever to that point in his career, Ortiz blossomed into one of the most feared and adored sluggers in baseball while altering the course of the game's history, helping Boston win its first World Series in eighty-six years and thereby breaking the infamous...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the ominican diaspora from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is a book centered on one extended family--the Beléns--across multiple generations, ... set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa--and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights, too ... Told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical, ... its stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives"--Provided...
93) Fast & furious
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dom Toretto is a former street racer who, along with his crew, hijacks an oil truck out on the highway. Dom is living the life of a fugitive in the Dominican Republic, but after suffering a devastating personal loss, he is driven by revenge to return to Los Angeles to bring down an elusive drug smuggler. He is reunited with undercover FBI agent Brian O'Connor who let him go eight years earlier. Brian is also on the case of the drug smuggler and he...
Author
Series
Pilar Ramirez volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While doing research for her documentary about her cousin Natasha--who disappeared in the Dominican Republic fifty years ago during the Trujillato--twelve-year-old Pilar Violeta Ramirez is transported to Zafa, an island where Dominican myths and legends come to life and where her cousin is being held captive in a sinister magical prison, and Pilar must defeat the Dominican bogeyman if she hopes to free Natasha and return home to Chicago. Includes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
Description
Retellling of the Dominican folk character, La Vieja Belén, who leaves gifts for poor children a week after the Feast of the Epiphany.
El cuento de La Vieja Belén, personaje del folclor dominicano who deja regalos para los niños pobres la semana después de la Epifanía.
97) Juan Soto
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""Engaging images accompany information about Juan Soto. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
98) Sugar: DVD
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A nineteen-year-old pitcher from the Dominican Republic struggles to work his way from a minor league team in Iowa to the major leagues of American baseball.
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