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Author : Benita Bishop
Release : 2004-07-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 354/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Lost Girl From El Monte by : Benita Bishop
Download or read book Lost Girl From El Monte written by Benita Bishop. This book was released on 2004-07-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A teenage girls diary from 1975 to 1976 revealing bad decisions, first love, heartbreat, rivalry and unexpected peril.
Author : Benita Bishop
Release : 2004-09
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 154/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Escape from El Monte by : Benita Bishop
Download or read book Escape from El Monte written by Benita Bishop. This book was released on 2004-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about an 18 year young teen girl in the 70's, making life decisions, growing up, learning important lessons and dealing with heartbreak. She falls into the Disco and Punk scene, but still clings to her earthy love of hiking and backpacking. There are boyfriends who constantly let her down, but her Springer Spaniel, Rex, teaches her the importance of loyalty and trust. Finally, after many disappointments, a backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon, reveals to her a different view on life. She is finally able to accept her life in contentment.
Author : Romeo Guzmán
Release : 2020-02-14
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 489/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis East of East by : Romeo Guzmán
Download or read book East of East written by Romeo Guzmán. This book was released on 2020-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship can break new ground in public history. East of East tells stories that have been excluded from dominant historical narratives—stories that long survived only in the popular memory of residents, as well as narratives that have been almost completely buried and all but forgotten. Its cast of characters includes white vigilantes, Mexican anarchists, Japanese farmers, labor organizers, civil rights pioneers, and punk rockers, as well as the ordinary and unnamed youth who generated a vibrant local culture at dances and dive bars.
Author : Lydia Cabrera
Release : 2023-04-24
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 341/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis El Monte by : Lydia Cabrera
Download or read book El Monte written by Lydia Cabrera. This book was released on 2023-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Cuba in 1954 and appearing here in English for the first time, Lydia Cabrera’s El Monte is a foundational and iconic study of Afro-Cuban religious and cultural traditions. Drawing on conversations with elderly Afro-Cuban priests who were one or two generations away from the transatlantic slave trade, Cabrera combines ethnography, history, folklore, literature, and botany to provide a panoramic account of the multifaceted influence of Afro-Atlantic cultures in Cuba. Cabrera details the natural and spiritual landscape of the Cuban monte (forest, wilderness) and discusses hundreds of herbs and the constellations of deities, sacred rites, and knowledge that envelop them. The result is a complex spiritual and medicinal architecture of Afro-Cuban cultures. This new edition of what is often referred to as “the Santería bible” includes a new foreword, introduction, and translator notes. As a seminal work in the study of the African diaspora that has profoundly impacted numerous fields, Cabrera’s magnum opus is essential for scholars, activists, and religious devotees of Afro-Cuban traditions alike.
Author : Agustín Martínez
Release : 2019-01-24
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 426/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Village of the Lost Girls by : Agustín Martínez
Download or read book Village of the Lost Girls written by Agustín Martínez. This book was released on 2019-01-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Gripping and atmospheric' - Sunday Times A breath-taking missing persons thriller set under the menacing peaks of the Pyrenees Five years after their disappearance, the village of Monteperdido still mourns the loss of Ana and Lucia, two eleven-year-old friends who left school one afternoon and were never seen again. Now, Ana reappears unexpectedly inside a crashed car, wounded but alive. The case reopens and a race against time begins to discover who was behind the girls' kidnapping. Most importantly, where is Lucia and is she still alive? Inspector Sara Campos and her boss Santiago Bain, from Madrid's head office, are forced to work with the local police. Five years ago fatal mistakes were made in the investigation conducted after the girls first vanished, and this mustn't happen again. But Monteperdido has rules of its own. 'Addictive, atmospheric and haunting, one of the best books you'll read this year' - Jo Spain, internationally bestselling author of The Confession
