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Book Synopsis A Place Called Zamora by : LB Gschwandtner
Download or read book A Place Called Zamora written by LB Gschwandtner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Niko and El are trapped in a politically corrupt dystopian city where brutality rules. After winning a cynical race where only one rider can survive, Niko tosses aside his chance to join the city’s corrupt inner circle by choosing lovely, innocent El as his prize—thus upsetting the ruling order and placing them both in mortal danger. With the Regime hunting them and the children of the city fomenting a guerrilla revolt, the two attempt a daring escape to the possibly mythical utopia, Zamora. But as events unfold, the stirrings of love El once felt for Niko begin to morph into mistrust and fear. If they reach Zamora, will Niko ever claim his secret birthright? And what will the future hold if he loses El’s love?
Download or read book Unaccompanied written by Javier Zamora and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
Book Synopsis A Place Called Zamora by : L. B. Gschwandtner
Download or read book A Place Called Zamora written by L. B. Gschwandtner and published by Zamora Chronicles. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The love story of Niko and El unfolds against the backdrop of a brutal dystopian regime in a city ruled by Premier Villinkash, his Overseers, Protectors and Watchers.Following the "Collapse," trust and hope have ceased to exist, memory has been "Cleansed" and electronic InCom screens monitor the people with daily lists to follow while they urge people to inform on neighbors. Children born during the Collapse are housed in penitentiary-like "Centers."When Niko escapes one of these centers, he melts into the city and begins life on the street. One day he meets lovely, innocent, El, who's been raised by two elderly nuns in the last convent to survive the Collapse.Niko and El's developing love is threatened when Niko is forced to compete in the regime's cynical rooftop motorcycle race where only one rider can possibly survive.Although Niko survives, when he chooses as his prize not one of the pimped up girls the regime has pre-selected, but the girl he loves - natural, innocent, El - he instantly becomes an enemy of the state. Relentlessly hunted after a bold escape from the Compound where he and El have been sequestered, even El has turned on him after being humiliated at the hands of the regime. But they are thrown together again in a desperate attempt to survive the Regime's wrath. While Niko and El hide and run, an urban guerrilla force of children trained by renegade priest, Father Ignatius, using the name "Niko" as their resistance cry, wreak havoc on the regime while Niko and El reluctantly rely on each other for a dangerous overland expedition to Zamora, a possibly mythical place where, if they can find it, they hope to be safe.Zamora probes whether love can survive a brutal political regime that pits people against each other to secure its hold on power. Surprise twists and turns in this intricate plot will keep readers guessing about who is really on the side of good and who can be trusted when all is not what it appears.
Book Synopsis The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by : Pablo Cartaya
Download or read book The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora written by Pablo Cartaya and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2018 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book Save the restaurant. Save the town. Get the girl. Make Abuela proud. Can thirteen-year-old Arturo Zamora do it all or is he in for a BIG, EPIC FAIL? For Arturo, summertime in Miami means playing basketball until dark, sipping mango smoothies, and keeping cool under banyan trees. And maybe a few shifts as junior lunchtime dishwasher at Abuela’s restaurant. Maybe. But this summer also includes Carmen, a poetry enthusiast who moves into Arturo’s apartment complex and turns his stomach into a deep fryer. He almost doesn’t notice the smarmy land developer who rolls into town and threatens to change it. Arturo refuses to let his family and community go down without a fight, and as he schemes with Carmen, Arturo discovers the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí. Funny and poignant, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora is the vibrant story of a family, a striking portrait of a town, and one boy's quest to save both, perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia.
Download or read book Solito written by Javier Zamora and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the PEN/Open Book Award “I read Solito with my heart in my throat and did not burst into tears until the last sentence. What a person, what a writer, what a book.”—Emma Straub “A riveting tale of perseverance and the lengths humans will go to help each other in times of struggle.”—Dave Eggers ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Vulture, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago—“one day, you’ll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.” Javier Zamora’s adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he barely remembers. Traveling alone amid a group of strangers and a “coyote” hired to lead them to safety, Javier expects his trip to last two short weeks. At nine years old, all Javier can imagine is rushing into his parents’ arms, snuggling in bed between them, and living under the same roof again. He cannot foresee the perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions that await him; nor can he know that those two weeks will expand into two life-altering months alongside fellow migrants who will come to encircle him like an unexpected family. A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments. Solito is Javier Zamora’s story, but it’s also the story of millions of others who had no choice but to leave home.
Book Synopsis The Ladies of Zamora by : Peter Linehan
Download or read book The Ladies of Zamora written by Peter Linehan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis El Mesquite by : Elena Zamora O'Shea
Download or read book El Mesquite written by Elena Zamora O'Shea and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The open country of Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was sparsely settled through the nineteenth century, and most of the settlers who did live there had Hispanic names that until recently were rarely admitted into the pages of Texas history. In 1935, however, a descendant of one of the old Spanish land-grant families in the region-a woman, no less-found an ingenious way to publish the history of her region at a time when neither Tejanos nor women had much voice. She told the story from the perspective of an ancient mesquite tree, under whose branches much South Texas history had passed. Her tale became an invaluable source of folk history but has long been out of print. Now, with important new introductions by Leticia M. Garza-Falcón and Andrés Tijerina, the history witnessed by El Mesquite can again inform readers of the way of life that first shaped Texas. Through the voice of the gnarled old tree, Elena Zamora O'Shea tells South Texas political and ethnographic history, filled with details of daily life such as songs, local plants and folk medicines, foods and recipes, peone/patron relations, and the Tejano ranch vocabulary. The work is an important example of the historical-folkloristic literary genre used by Mexican American writers of the period. Using the literary device of the tree's narration, O'Shea raises issues of culture, discrimination, and prejudice she could not have addressed in her own voice in that day and explicitly states the Mexican American ideology of 1930s Texas. The result is a literary and historic work of lasting value, which clearly articulates the Tejano claim to legitimacy in Texas history. ELENA ZAMORA O'SHEA (1880-1951) was born at Rancho La Noria Cardenena near Peñitas, Hidalgo County, Texas. A long-time schoolteacher, whose posts included one on the famous King Ranch, she wrote this book to help Tejano children know and claim their proud heritage.
Book Synopsis The Long, Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora by : Michael Nesmith
Download or read book The Long, Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora written by Michael Nesmith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reality and fantasy sweetly merge in this Southwestern tale of one man's spiritual journey, written by an original member of the Monkees.
Book Synopsis Travels to Tana and Persia by : Giosofat Barbaro
Download or read book Travels to Tana and Persia written by Giosofat Barbaro and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travels to Tana and Persia, and A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the 15th and 16th Centuries by : Giosofat Barbaro
Download or read book Travels to Tana and Persia, and A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the 15th and 16th Centuries written by Giosofat Barbaro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains six narratives by Venetian diplomats of travel to Persia in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Book Synopsis Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by :
Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travel to Tana and Persia ; “A” Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia, in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries by : Giosafat Barbaro
Download or read book Travel to Tana and Persia ; “A” Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia, in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries written by Giosafat Barbaro and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain by : Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Maqqarī
Download or read book The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain written by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Maqqarī and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Book of the Knowledge of All the Kingdoms, Lands, and Lordships that are in the World by : Sir Clements Markham
Download or read book Book of the Knowledge of All the Kingdoms, Lands, and Lordships that are in the World written by Sir Clements Markham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of the Libro del Conoscimiento de todos los reynos. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1912.
Book Synopsis The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain... by : Ahmad b. Muhammad al- Maqqari
Download or read book The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain... written by Ahmad b. Muhammad al- Maqqari and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain by : Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī
Download or read book The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain written by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Maqqarī and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence by : William Lawrence
Download or read book The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence written by William Lawrence and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography presents the memoirs of a soldier of Wellington's army called Sergeant William Lawrence. He served during Wellington's Peninsular campaigns, ultimately leading to the Waterloo battle. William Lawrence talks about his early life and the hardships that resulted in his joining. Lawrence does not focus only on the action he partook in but on the logistics. The book runs smoothly from one scenario to another and makes for a quick and delightful read.
