The Heart That Bleeds
Title | The Heart That Bleeds PDF eBook |
Author | Alma Guillermoprieto |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2011-03-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0307787966 |
An extraordinarily vivid, unflinching series of portraits of South America today, written from the inside out, by the award-winning New Yorker journalist and widely admired author of Samba.
Looking for History
Title | Looking for History PDF eBook |
Author | Alma Guillermoprieto |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 030742667X |
From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can write with such acumen and sympathy about statesmen and campesinos, leftist revolutionaries and right-wing militias, and political figures from Evita Peron to Mexico’s irrepressible president, Vicente Fox. Whether she is following the historic papal visit to Havana or staying awake for a pre-dawn interview with an insomniac Subcomandante Marcos, Guillermoprieto displays both the passion and knowledge of an insider and the perspective of a seasoned analyst. Looking for History is journalism in the finest traditions of Joan Didion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryszard Kapucinski: observant, empathetic, and beautifully written.
All That Bleeds
Title | All That Bleeds PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly Frost |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2012-01-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101553871 |
As the last heiress of the House of North, Alissa knows that striking up a secret friendship with a half-vampire enforcer is dangerous, but Merrick is a temptation she can't resist. But when Alissa is kidnapped, Merrick proves that he will do anything to protect the woman who tempts him with her very existence.
Bleed Into Me
Title | Bleed Into Me PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Graham Jones |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2005-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0803226055 |
The author, an Indian himself, profiles the lives of many Native Americans and how people treat them just because of their race. Even in today's society the uneasy relations between Indians and white's is still fueled by mistrust, stereo-types and casual violence.
The Book of Blood and Shadow
Title | The Book of Blood and Shadow PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Wasserman |
Publisher | Ember |
Pages | 466 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0375872779 |
While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer and is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.
Bleed
Title | Bleed PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Faria Stolarz |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2010-04-27 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1423141636 |
Over the course of a single summer day, ten teenagers in Salem, Massachusetts, will discover important truths about themselves and each other. There is Nicole, whose decision to betray her best friend will shock everyone, most of all herself; Kelly, who meets the convicted felon she has been writing to for years; Maria, whose definition of a true friend is someone who will cut her. Then there is Sadie, a chubby eleven-year-old whose mother forces her to wear a "please don't feed me" sign stapled to her shirt; while Joy, a fifteen-year-old waitress hoping for true intimacy narrowly escapes a very dark fate. Derik discovers that his usual good looks and charm won't help him hold onto the girl he wants, while nineteen-year-old drifter, Mearl, is desperately looking for a place to call home. Sean is torn between his loyalty to his girlfriend and the possibility of finding something more with her friend, while Ginger's single-minded pursuit to bring down her nemesis only proves that they may be more alike than she thought. Seamlessly woven together, this incredibly powerful and compelling collection of stories chronicles the very real trials of today's teen experience.
Dancing with Cuba
Title | Dancing with Cuba PDF eBook |
Author | Alma Guillermoprieto |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0307425444 |
In 1970 a young dancer named Alma Guillermoprieto left New York to take a job teaching at Cuba’s National School of Dance. For six months, she worked in mirrorless studios (it was considered more revolutionary); her poorly trained but ardent students worked without them but dreamt of greatness. Yet in the midst of chronic shortages and revolutionary upheaval, Guillermoprieto found in Cuba a people whose sense of purpose touched her forever. In this electrifying memoir, Guillermoprieto–now an award-winning journalist and arguably one of our finest writers on Latin America– resurrects a time when dancers and revolutionaries seemed to occupy the same historical stage and even a floor exercise could be a profoundly political act. Exuberant and elegiac, tender and unsparing, Dancing with Cuba is a triumph of memory and feeling.