Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031619204X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny,this novel from a Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America. Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons -- and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?
Queen of America
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031619204X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny,this novel from a Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America. Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons -- and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 031619204X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
At turns heartbreaking, uplifting, fiercely romantic, and riotously funny,this novel from a Pulitzer Prize finalist tells the unforgettable story of a young woman coming of age and finding her place in a new world. Beginning where Luis Alberto Urrea's bestselling The Hummingbird's Daughter left off, Queen of America finds young Teresita Urrea, beloved healer and "Saint of Cabora," with her father in 1892 Arizona. But, besieged by pilgrims in desperate need of her healing powers, and pursued by assassins, she has no choice but to flee the borderlands and embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of turn-of-the-century America. Teresita's passage will take her to New York, San Francisco, and St. Louis, where she will encounter European royalty, Cuban poets, beauty queens, anxious immigrants and grand tycoons -- and, among them, a man who will force Teresita to finally ask herself the ultimate question: is a saint allowed to fall in love?
El Carmen
Author: Art Martinez de Vara
Publisher: Alamo Press
ISBN: 9780984212170
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
El Carmen Church in present-day Losyoa, Texas was constructed over the burial crypt of Spanish royalist soldiers who died at the Battle of Medina in 1813. This battle, the largest ever fought in Texas, decisively ended the First Republic of Texas and allowed Spain to maintain colonial control over Texas and Mexico. In 1817 a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. "El Carmen" was constructed at the site by order of Joaquin de Arredondo, the Commander of Spanish forces at Medina, who credited his victory to the intercession of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. The chapel developed into a fully functional mission church on the south bank of the Medina River in southern Bexar County, Texas by 1854. In the 1870s,the first bishop of San Antonio A.D. Pellicer constructed theVilla del Carmen, a Catholic colony adjacent to the church. Publshed during is bicentennial year of 2017, this volume contains records with an index of nearly 20,000 names essential for the historian or genealogist of early Texas.
Publisher: Alamo Press
ISBN: 9780984212170
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
El Carmen Church in present-day Losyoa, Texas was constructed over the burial crypt of Spanish royalist soldiers who died at the Battle of Medina in 1813. This battle, the largest ever fought in Texas, decisively ended the First Republic of Texas and allowed Spain to maintain colonial control over Texas and Mexico. In 1817 a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. "El Carmen" was constructed at the site by order of Joaquin de Arredondo, the Commander of Spanish forces at Medina, who credited his victory to the intercession of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. The chapel developed into a fully functional mission church on the south bank of the Medina River in southern Bexar County, Texas by 1854. In the 1870s,the first bishop of San Antonio A.D. Pellicer constructed theVilla del Carmen, a Catholic colony adjacent to the church. Publshed during is bicentennial year of 2017, this volume contains records with an index of nearly 20,000 names essential for the historian or genealogist of early Texas.
El Hermano
Author: Carmen Baca
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889921549
Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
El Hermano is a rare and authentic window into everyday Hispanic village life the way it once was, and to some extent, persists.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889921549
Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
El Hermano is a rare and authentic window into everyday Hispanic village life the way it once was, and to some extent, persists.
Gazetteer of Mexico
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Gazetteer - United States Board on Geographic Names
Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Colombia
Author: United States. Geographic Names Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Cuba
Author: United States. Office of Geography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Argentina
Author: United States. Office of Geography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Argentina
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
United States Board on Geographic Names: Gazetteer
Author: United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Colombia
Author: United States. Office of Geography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description