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Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
461 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
"From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition, a child kissed by the devil. But he is welcomed by landowners Francisco and Beatriz Morales, who adopt him and care for him as if he were their own. As he grows up, Simonopio becomes a cause for wonder to the Morales family,...
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 24 cm
Description
Follows a group of 456 children whose families sent them to Mexico aboard the Mexique at the start of the Spanish Civil War for what was expected to be a short stay. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Fantastic frame volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Description
Will young inventor Tiger and his neighbors Luna and Viola, the owner of the magical picture frame, finally find Viola's missing son when they enter Mexican artist Diego Rivera's painting "The Flower Vendor (Girl with Lilies)?"
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House / Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
487 pages ; 20 cm.
Description
En Linares, al norte del país, con la Revolución mexicana como telón de fondo.Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé misterioso y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conversar y cuidar al pequeño, la familia Morales decide adoptarlo. Cubierto...
Author
Series
Publisher
Watson-Guptill Pub
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
147 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
In 1940, after traveling from their country village to Mexico City to find their mother, fourteen-year-old Maria and her younger brother Victor are befriended by the artist Frida Kahlo and the talking animals and household objects that inhabit her home.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
463 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A spy ring weaved around Mexico is waiting for the right time to start a war. Meanwhile, Venustiano Carranza has in his hands the possibility to recover the territory lost after Antonio Laopez de Santa Anna's wicked betrayal. When he receives the Zimmermann Telegram, the President doesn't know that Mexico would then trigger the outbreak of the First World War. With his superb pen, Francisco Martain Moreno takes us among Villistas, Huertistas, Carrancistas,...
9) La laguna
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
653 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Harrison Shepherd nació en Estados Unidos, pero cuando aún era un niño tuvo que irse a México. Acabó trabajando en la cocina de la casa de Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo. Fue en esa casa donde Shepherd conoció a Leon Trotsky. De vuelta a Norteamérica, se dedica a la escritura y deja un diario que llena su propia laguna con palabras reveladoras. Una novela que muestra la influencia de la política en el destino de cada persona.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
646 pages
Description
La versión oficial dice que, siendo presidente electo, Álvaro Obregón fue asesinado a tiros por José de León Toral, pero la autopsia encontró en el cuerpo 13 orificios de entrada y seis de salida de balas de distintos calibres, y concluyó que, o el tirador usó varias pistolas, o hubo seis tiradores. Para colmo, los posibles testigos de los hechos fueron muriendo, también asesinados o en circunstancias extrañas, pocos meses después de aquel...
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