Julia Alvarez, Author Plume Books $17 (128p) ISBN 978-0-452-27567-6
Alvarez, author of the novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, adds to her 1984 collection of the same name. Limning her youthful experiences as a Dominican-American, the thoughtful, accessible poems in the
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Julia Alvarez. Algonquin, $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-61620-130-2
In this quirky, familial account of a dotty road trip she and her husband made to attend the Haitian wedding of one of her coffee-farm workers, novelist Alvarez (Saving the World) offers a moving homage to the Haitian people. Although living in...
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Julia Alvarez, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-525-93922-1
Widely known for her novels, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, Latina author Alvarez claims her authority as a poet with this collection. Tracing a lyrical journey through the landscape of immigrant life,...
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Julia Alvarez, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $18.95 (350p) ISBN 978-1-56512-157-7
The opening chapter of Alvarez's splendid sequel to her first novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, is so exuberant and funny, delivered in such rattle-and-snap dialogue, that readers will think they are in for a romp. It is narrated by...
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Julia Alvarez, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $21.95 (344p) ISBN 978-1-56512-038-9
During the last days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, three young women, members of a conservative, pious Catholic family, who had become committed to the revolutionary overthrow of the regime, were ambushed and assassinated...
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Julia Alvarez, Author Plume Books $15 (290p) ISBN 978-0-452-26806-7
Fifteen tales vividly chronicle a Dominican family's exile in the Bronx, focusing on the four Garcia daughters' rebellion against their immigrant elders. (June)
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Julia Alvarez, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $18.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-945575-57-3
The chronicle of a family in exile that is forced to find a new identity in a new land, these 15 short tales, grouped into three sections, form a rich, novel-like mosaic. Alvarez, whose first fiction this is, has an ear for the dialogue of non-native
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Julia Alvarez, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $23.95 (357p) ISBN 978-1-56512-276-5
The Dominican Republic's most famous poet and her daughter, a professor in the United States, are the remarkable protagonists of this lyrical work, one of the most moving political novels of the past half century. Camila Henr!quez Ure$a is...
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Julia Alvarez, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $20.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1-56512-193-5
Having transformed her tumultuous life story--a passage from childhood in the Dominican Republic and Queens, N.Y., to a career as a celebrated author and creative writing teacher--into a body of startlingly lyrical fiction and poetry ( Yo!, etc.),...
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Julia Alvarez, Author . Knopf $16.99 (325p) ISBN 978-0-375-85838-3
After Tyler’s father’s accident, his family hires undocumented Mexican workers in a last-ditch effort to keep their Vermont farm. Despite his reservations, Tyler soon bonds with a worker’s daughter, who is in his sixth-grade class.
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Julia Alvarez, Author . Viking $23.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-670-03873-2
Skillfully blending memoir and social science, Alvarez (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) explores the quinceañera, the coming-of-age ceremony for Latinas turning 15. She spent a year researching and attending “quince”...
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Julia Alvarez, Author . Algonquin/Shannon Ravenel $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-56512-510-0
In Alvarez's appealingly earnest fifth novel (after A Cafecito Story
), two women living two centuries apart each face "a crisis of the soul" when their fates are tied to idealistic men whose commitments to medical humanitarian missions...
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Julia Alvarez, Author . Knopf $15.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-375-82760-0
Milly Milagros Kaufman has two names and two identities. She is "Milly," a fairly normal ninth grader, who has lived in Vermont for most of her life with her adoptive parents, sister and younger brother. She is also "Milagros," the...
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Julia Alvarez, Author . Dell/Laurel-Leaf $5.99 (192p) ISBN 978-0-440-23784-6
In what PW
called "pitch-perfect narration," in a starred review, a 12-year old girl living in the Dominican Republic in 1960 relates the terrors of her country's regime and the attempt to overthrow Trujillo's dictatorship. Ages 12-
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Julia Alvarez, Author . Algonquin $14.95 (159p) ISBN 978-1-56512-406-6
Author of the popular novels How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
and In the Time of the Butterflies
, Alvarez continues to explore themes of cultural difference and personal experience in her new collection of poems. The book, which marks her...
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Julia Alvarez, Author . Dell/Yearling $4.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-440-41870-2
PW
called this story of a nine-year-old boy and his younger sister attempting to adjust after their move from New York City to Vermont in the wake of their parents' divorce "alternately affecting and treacly." Ages 8-12. (Aug.)
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Julia Alvarez, Author . Knopf $15.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-375-81544-7
In her first YA novel, Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) proves as gifted at writing for adolescents as she is for adults. Here she brings her warmth, sensitivity and eye for detail to a volatile setting—the Dominican...
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Julia Alvarez, Author, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Read by , read by Daphne Rubin-Vega. Penguin Audio $39.95 (7p) ISBN 978-0-14-314219-5
With a voice that is at once huskily mature and sweetly girlish and with a native sense of Spanish pronunciation and rhythm, Broadway star Daphne Rubin-Vega was an inspired choice to narrate Alvarez's examination of the Latina girl's “
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Julia Alvarez, Author, Beatriz Vidal, Illustrator , illus. by Beatriz Vidal. Knopf $15.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-82425-8
Vidal's (Federico and the Magi's Gift
) finely detailed gouache paintings provide exquisite accompaniment to Alvarez's (The Secret Footprints
) retelling, a Dominican legend of a miracle performed by Nuestra Señora de la...
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Alvarez (The Secret Footprints; How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) creates a story that is alternately affecting and treacly, starring nine-year-old Miguel (who soon turns 10) and his younger sister, Juanita, as they attempt to adjust...
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Julia Alvarez, Author, Fabian Negrin, Illustrator, Fabin Negrin, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-679-89309-7
Making her children's book debut, Alvarez (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) fulfills only some of the potential inherent in her story, which is based on an intriguing legend from the Dominican Republic, where she grew up. The ciguapas are a...
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Julia Alvarez, Author, Blanca Camacho, Narrated by, Anne Henk, Narrated by Recorded Books $19.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4193-7795-2
Alvarez's novel inches backward in time, unfolding as 15 separate but tightly linked tales of the four Garcia girls, daughters in a wealthy Dominican family who fled to the U.S. with their parents to escape the island's dictator. One central voice...
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Julia Alvarez. Algonquin, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-64375-025-5
Alvarez’s poignant return to adult fiction (after the young adult Tia Lola series) raises powerful questions about the care people owe themselves and others. Antonia Vega is reeling from the sudden death of her husband, Sam, who suffered an aneurysm
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Julia Alvarez. Algonquin, $28 (256p) ISBN 978-1-64375-384-3
The uplifting latest from Alvarez (Afterlife) follows a 60-something author as she contends with the relationship between fiction and reality. After Alma Cruz’s friend and fellow author dies unexpectedly, she’s convinced the cause of death was the...
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Julia Alvarez, illus. by Raúl Colón. Holt/Ottaviano, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-62779-932-4
Mari, the butterfly of the title, is a dazzling creature, a brown-skinned fairylike girl whose resplendent blue wings allow her to soar. But between exercises and work to “pollinate the whole field, she can’t find time to slow herself or rest. “You...
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