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“heather hennes”

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  • Alive in Their Garden

    The True Story of the Mirabal Sisters and Their Fight for Freedom

    by Dedé Mirabal, Ana E. Martínez, Heather Hennes ...
    The lives and legacy of the iconic Mirabal sisters, as told in an intimate memoir by the sister who survivedIn 1960, the three sisters Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal, code-named “Las Mariposas” (The Butterflies) by a Dominican underground resistance movement, were assassinated by order of dictator Rafael Trujillo. Alive in Their Gardennis the memoir of Dedé Mirabal, their surviving ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Letters of Minerva Mirabal and Manolo Tavárez

    Love and Resistance in the Time of Trujillo

    by Minou Tavárez Mirabal ...
    Translated by Heather Hennes ...
    For the first time in English, the stories of two Dominican national icons in their own wordsThe letters between Dominican revolutionaries Minerva Mirabal Reyes and Manolo Tavárez Justo tell an intimate story of life and love under the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who held power in the nation from 1930 to 1961. Leaders in the 14 of June Movement, Minerva and Manolo were imprisoned ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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    by Haley Cohen Gilliland ...
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life

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    Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, is one of the most popular writers of the last 50 years. Gerald Martin's superb achievement is to reveal the gritty, fascinating, and frequently humorous reality behind the books. While completely immersing himself in García Márquez's world, Martin never loses his critical perspective as he recounts a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Age of Disenchantments

    The Epic Story of Spain's Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War

    by Aaron Shulman ...
    "An intriguing narrative of literary ambition and family dysfunction—betrayal, drug addiction, and madness—that begins during the Spanish Civil War." —Amanda Vaill, The New York Times Book ReviewIn this absorbing and atmospheric historical narrative, journalist Aaron Shulman takes us deeply into the circumstances surrounding the Spanish Civil War through the lives, loves, and poetry of the Paneros ... Read more

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  • A Lexicon of Terror

    Argentina and the Legacies of Torture

    by Marguerite Feitlowitz ...
    "We were all out in la charca, and there they were, coming over the ridge, a battalion ready for war, against a schoolhut full of children." Tanks roaring over farmlands, pregnant mothers tortured, their babies stolen and sold on the black market, homes raided in the dead of night, ordinary citizens kidnapped and never seen again--such were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. Now, in A Lexicon ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Lexicon of Terror : Argentina and the Legacies of Torture Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue

    Argentina and the Legacies of Torture, Revised and Updated with a New Epilogue

    by Marguerite Feitlowitz ...
    Tanks roaring over farmlands pregnant women tortured 30000 individuals "disappeared"--these were the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and Finalist for the L.L. Winship / PEN New England Award in 1998 A Lexicon of Terror is a sensitive and unflinching account of the sadism paranoia and deception the military junta unleashed on the Argentine people from ... Read more

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  • My Life With Che

    The Making of a Revolutionary

    by Hilda Gadea ...
    He stayed to talk that day for some time. Eventually Lucila left the room. Then we turned to more personal matters, the disagreement completely forgotten. I confessed that I had been deeply moved by what he had written in the book' Che Guevara's first wife, Hilda Gadea, was with him during a tumultuous period in his life, the period which turned him from an intellectual theorist to a dedicated ... Read more

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  • Game of Freedom

    Mestre Bimba and the Art of Capoeira

    by Duncan Tonatiuh ...
    In the powerful, vibrant biography Game of Freedom, award-winning creator Duncan Tonatiuh sheds light on the legacy of a legendary capoeira player, Mestre Bimba, who resisted racial oppression through art and turned a marginalized practice into a global phenomenon.A meia lua whooshed in the air. The strike was evaded and followed with an aú.Two young men were playing capoeira in the middle of the ... Read more

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  • Haydée Santamaría, Cuban Revolutionary

    She Led by Transgression

    by Margaret Randall ...
    Taking part in the Cuban Revolution's first armed action in 1953, enduring the torture and killings of her brother and fiancé, assuming a leadership role in the underground movement, and smuggling weapons into Cuba, Haydée Santamaría was the only woman to participate in every phase of the Revolution. Virtually unknown outside of Cuba, Santamaría was a trusted member of Fidel Castro's inner circle ... Read more

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  • Portrait of a Young Painter

    Pepe Zuniga and Mexico City's Rebel Generation

    by Mary Kay Vaughan ...
    In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surrounding the Mexico City youth rebellion of the 1960s. Her chronicle of the life of painter Pepe Zúñiga counters a literature that portrays post-1940 Mexican history as a series of uprisings against state repression, injustice, and social neglect that ... Read more

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  • Gabriel García Márquez

    by Stephen M. Hart ...
    Series Book 33 - Critical Lives
    ‘Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.’ Thus begins Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, one of the twentieth century’s most lauded works of fiction. In Gabriel García Márquez, Stephen M. Hart provides a new insight into García Márquez’s life ... Read more

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