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De darlings van New York

De darlings van New York

Cristina Alger

Pamela Dorman Books / Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. © Cristina Alger 2012 © Nederlandse vertaling Lidwien Biekmann, Gerda Baardman en Wim Scherpenisse / Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers 2012 Alle rechten ...
Kleines Herz, großes Glück

Kleines Herz, großes Glück

Cristina Alger

Erst als Charlie Anschluss findet an eine Gruppe alleinerziehender Väter, erkennt er, welch große Chance sich ihm bietet: endlich seinen Sohn kennenzulernen, endlich wieder zu leben. »Kleines Herz, großes Glück« von Christina Alger ...
A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"

A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"

Gale, Cengage Learning

Kirkwood, Cynthia Adina, “A Cuban Odyssey: It Took a Trip to Havana to Piece Together Cristina Garcia's History and Literary Quest,” in Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1992, p. E7. Lopez, Ruth, “Five Questions” (interview with Cristina Garcia), ...
Lawmen in Scarlet: An Annotated Guide to Royal Canadian ...

Lawmen in Scarlet: An Annotated Guide to Royal Canadian ...

Bernard Alger Drew

An Annotated Guide to Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Print and Performance Bernard Alger Drew. The writer was born in Wales in 1865 and educated at Ludlow Grammar School and Wellesley Training Ship. He attended the School of ...
This Was Not the Plan: A Novel

This Was Not the Plan: A Novel

Cristina Alger

At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, This Was Not the Plan is a “sparkling and heartfelt” (Bookpage) story about loss and love, parenthood, and friendship, and what true work-life balance means.
This Was Not the Plan: A Novel

This Was Not the Plan: A Novel

Cristina Alger

At turns heartbreaking and hilarious, This Was Not the Plan is a story about loss and love, parenthood, and friendship, and what true work-life balance means."--Provided by publisher.
The Darlings: A Novel

The Darlings: A Novel

Cristina Alger

With echoes of a fictional Too Big to Fail and the novels of Dominick Dunne, The Darlings offers an irresistible glimpse into the highest echelons of New York society-a world seldom seen by outsiders-and a fast-paced thriller of epic ...
Park Avenue

Park Avenue

Cristina Alger

En épousant Merrill par amour, le jeune avocat Paul Ross est entré dans le clan Darling avec son cortège de privilèges : un appartement sur Park Avenue, un job en or, des week-ends dans les Hampton et des soirées avec le tout Manhattan ...
Père et fils

Père et fils

Cristina Alger

Charlie Goldwyn est avocat dans un prestigieux cabinet new yorkais.
King of Cuba: A Novel

King of Cuba: A Novel

Cristina Garcia

A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows ...
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox

I Wanna Be Your Shoebox

Cristina Garcia

It just happens. The choice is either to sit and watch or to join the dance. National Book Award finalist Cristina García's first middle-grade novel celebrates the chaotic, crazy, and completely amazing patchwork that makes up our lives.
Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the ...

Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the ...

Maria Cristina Garcia

In this incisive book, María Cristina García tells the story of that migration and how domestic and foreign policy interests shaped the asylum policies of Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
Cars of Cuba

Cars of Cuba

Cristina García

Cars of Cuba - with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, author of the novel Dreaming in Cuban, and fifty-three color photographs by Joshua Greene - is a visit to the greatest American car museum in the world!
Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South ...

Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South ...

Maria Cristina Garcia

María Cristina García—a Cuban refugee raised in Miami—has experienced firsthand many of the developments she describes, and has written the most comprehensive and revealing account of the postrevolutionary Cuban migration to date.
A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "Dreaming in Cuban"

A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "Dreaming in Cuban"

Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN13: 9781414473673 ISBN10: 1414473672 Contact your Gale, a part of Cengage Learning sales representative for ordering information. Printed in Mexico 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 16 15 14 13 12 Dreaming in Cuban Cristina Garcia 1992 Introduction ...
Dreaming in Cuban: A Novel

Dreaming in Cuban: A Novel

Cristina Garc??a

Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a ...
Dreams of Significant Girls

Dreams of Significant Girls

Cristina Garcia

Book design by Krista Vossen The text for this book is set in Andrade Regular. Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica 2 [t 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Library ofCongress CatalogingeinePublication Data Garcia, Cristina, 1958* Dreams of significant ...
The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: Evolution and Impact

The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: Evolution and Impact

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The use of the technical term of sgraffito is a considered decision, instead of sgraffiato, only used in some English language publications. However, Cristina Tonghini prefers the use of the term grafitta (Cristina Tonghini, Qal↩at Ja↩bar Pottery.
Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, ...

Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, ...

Cristina Malcolmson

Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-length examination of studies of skin ...
Female Subjective Strategies in Post-Franco Spain as ...

Female Subjective Strategies in Post-Franco Spain as ...

Kristin A. Kiely

Early in the text, we learn that Cristina does not care what her sisters think of her and that they feel she is wasting her life. Rosa, the middle child, arrives at the bar where Cristina works, and the discussion that follows reveals her feminist ...
Clark Kerr's University of California: Leadership, ...

Clark Kerr's University of California: Leadership, ...

Cristina Gonzalez

Leadership, Diversity, and Planning in Higher Education Cristina Gonzalez. tunities for promotion, when regular positions open up, no one seems to remember that these individuals exist, are qualified, and are available (Daryl G. Smith, 2009).
Locating Latin American Women Writers: Cristina Peri Rossi, ...

Locating Latin American Women Writers: Cristina Peri Rossi, ...

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This book considers the location(s) of four major women writers - Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferre, Albalucia Angel, and Isabel Allende - and their short fiction within these changing literary and social contexts.
Monkey Hunting

Monkey Hunting

Cristina García

In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina García follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America.
Feminist ethics and natural law: the end of the anathemas

Feminist ethics and natural law: the end of the anathemas

Cristina L. H. Traina

Cristina L. H. Traina now reexamines both Roman Catholic natural law tradition and Anglo-American feminist ethics and reconciles the two positions by showing how some of their aims and assumptions complement one another.
Altri orientalismi: l'India a Firenze, 1860-1900

Altri orientalismi: l'India a Firenze, 1860-1900

Filipa Lowndes Vicente

... hanno seguito costantemente la scrittura con interesse e attesa: Silvia Guimaràes, Cristina Ioanaz de Melo, Silvia Gusmano, Miguel Bandeira Ierónimo, Silke Kurth, Cristina Meirelles do Canto e Castro e Maria Iose' Chousal. Ringrazio ...
Critical Systems: Formal Methods and Automated Verification

Critical Systems: Formal Methods and Automated Verification

Laure Petrucci, Cristina Seceleanu and Ana Cavalcanti

Laure Petrucci, Cristina Seceleanu and Ana Cavalcanti. by Prof. Tiziana Margaria (University of Limerick and Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre, Ireland) and Prof. Bernhard Steffen (TU Dortmund, Germany). We hereby thank the ...
No Condition Is Permanent

No Condition Is Permanent

Cristina Kessler

"Dis no be America." In an unforgettable novel that teems with details of African culture and life, Cristina Kessler heroically tackles one of the most important, most controversial issues for women of our time.
Encyclopedia of the Victorian era

Encyclopedia of the Victorian era

James Eli Adams

ERNIE TEAGARDEN Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota Thomas Alva Edison; Prisons JESSICA B. TEISCH University of California, Berkeley Horatio Alger; John James Audubon; William Dean Howells; Frederic Law Olmsted; ...
100 Most Popular Nonfiction Authors: Biographical Sketches ...

100 Most Popular Nonfiction Authors: Biographical Sketches ...

Bernard Alger Drew

Provides alphabetically-arranged biographical entries of popular writers of nonfiction, including Richard Dawkins, Joan Didion, and Paul Theroux, and presents insights on the creative process for each individual.
100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical ...

100 Most Popular African American Authors: Biographical ...

Bernard Alger Drew

Provides information about the lives and literary careers of one hundred popular African American authors, including Maya Angelou, Edwidge Danticat, Alex Haley, Langston Hughes, and Walter Dean Myers.

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