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Title: El sueño de siempre y otros cuentos Author: Avendaño,Fausto Price: $ 10.00 plus $1.50 shipping and handling (Bookrate). Format: Paperback Spanish. Winner of the Fuentes Mares Literary Prize. Collection of thirteen highly acclaimed short stories, many of which have been published in major literary journals in the U.S. and Latin America. This work is considered to be among the best prose in Spanish by a Mexican - American writer. A significant contribution to Hispanic letters in the U.S. Title: *Salazar’s Gold* Author: Avendaño, Fausto. Price: $ 10.00 plus $1.50 shipping and handling (bookrate) Format: Paperback English. Historical fiction based on California’s history. This novel includes historical fact with a compelling plot that recovers many aspects of the Mexican Californio story during the Gold Rush Era. Avendano, acclaimed for his Spanish fiction, in this work demonstrates a remarkable mastery of the English language, making him one of a few Mexican-Americans who excel in both languages. A significant contribution to Hispanic letters in the U.S. PREMIO SPANISHPRESS- EXPLICACION DE TEXTOS LITERARIOUS	Title: Donde empieza la historia Author: Bornstein, Miriam Price: $ 7.50 plus $1.50 shipping and handling (bookrate) Format: Paperback Spanish. Poetry. This collection is highly regarded as one of the best examples of contemporary poetry among Mexican-American female voices. Both a scholar and a writer, Bornstein has a long list of academic publications and poetry to her credit. Title: Juncos de mi rio / Reeds of my River Author: Oregel, Ernesto. Price: $ 12.50 plus $1.50 shipping and handling Format: Paperback Spanish/English. Poetry. Oregel’s poetry is rendered in Spanish with an English version on the opposite page. Poetry based on the author’s youth, ressonates with the joyful sounds of Santiago Tangamandapio, Michoacan, Oregel’s home town. The author, a linguist, poet and former priest, contributes an extraordinary work to Hispanic letters in the U.S. Title: Cuentos hispanos de los Estados Unidos Author: Julián Olivares. ISBN :1-55885-260-3 Price: $ 16.95 plus $1.50 shipping and handling Format: Paperback The first comprehensive collection of short stories written in Spanish by Hispanic authors of the United States. Informative introductions and a glossary of dialectical terms are included to make the book appropriate for students.	Title: La adivinanza a traves de 500 años de cultura hispanica Author: Santana, Jorge Price: $ 20.00 plus $2.50 shipping and handling (Bookrate). Format: Paperback Spanish. A historical collection of riddles in Spanish from Spain and Spanish America, including the northern regions of America (today part of the U.S.). A painstaking scholarly work, rendered over a twenty year period of research, La adivinanza is an outstanding collection of humorous, scatological and philosophical riddles. Over 400 pages! Title: La ciudad y los perros Author:Vargas Llosa, Mario. Price: $ 12.50 plus $1.50 shipping and handling Format: Paperback Spanish. Fiction by one of Latin America's foremost writers. This work is a classic novel dealing with Latin American reality. Recommended reading for all people interested in Peruvian and South American literatures. Title: Odisea del norte Author: Mario Bencastro. ISBN : 1-55885-266-2 Price: $ 12.95 plus $1.50 shipping and handling Format: Paperback Here is the powerful, original Spanish-language version of Mario Bencastro's latest novel, recently published in English as Odyssey to to the North. Decades of civil wars in Central America, combined with the need for manpower in the United States, have made the Hispanic migrant worker a stock character in urban American life. This is the story of one such man: Calixto, who heeds north " with his stomach empty but his soul full of hope."
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Title: Labios sellados Author: Carmen Alea Paz ISBN: 1-881781-09-7 Price: $15.00 plus shipping and handling Format: Paperback Spanish. Winner of the "Alberto Gutiérrez de la Solana" Prize (Novel, 1999). Noted poet and prose writer from the "Exilio cubano" generation. Carmen Alea Paz is highly acclaimed for her forceful, nostalgic voice. Through her, as the reader is absorbed by her prose, the Cuban experience is assimilated and understood. El caracol y el tiempo and El veranito de María Isabel are two other examples of her poetry and prose, among others. Title: Motorcycle Ride on The Sea of Tranquility	Title: Confidencias del fauno Author: Carmelo Gariano ISBN: 1-881781-07-0 Price: $15.00 plus shipping and handling Format: Paperback Spanish. Gariano's prose takes us back to Boccaccio, full of spice and elegance. His eroticism has a delicious, elegant tone. The reader is spured to read on, to delight in the rhythm of his prose and the brilliance of his wit. His gallery of characters include people from all backgrounds and nationalities. Carmelo Gariano is one of the best representatives of Hispanic cosmopolitan literature. His list of publications-totalling more than 15 titles- is too long to list here. Title: Motorcycle Ride on The Sea of Tranquility Author: Patricia Santana ISBN: 0-8263-2435-5 Price: $19.50 plus shipping and handling Format: Hard cover Patricia Santana takes you on an extraordinary journey through the waning years of the 1960's. It is a captivating portrayal of a Mexican-American family struggling with the consequences of a brutal war and the challenges of changing times.	Title: Hombre y poesía: Estudio crítico y antología selecta de la obra de Alfonso Alvarez de Villasandino Author: Yolanda Rosas ISBN: 1-881781-05-4 Price: $10.00 plus shipping and handling Format: Paperback Spanish. A critical anthology of the works of the Spanish medieval poet, Villasandino. This new, updated study by Yolanda Rosa fills the need in critical studies dealing with Villasandino's work. It sheds light on the poet's themes and artistic values. It sets the writer in the social context of medieval Spain. His insight into the social and moral issues in his poetry are delightful, as are his lighter, more jovial commentary of his times. This study is required reading for students and scholars of medieval Spanish literature.
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