Author: A. Hayat
Publisher: A. Hayat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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This is book 38. Read books 1-37 before proceeding. Lily lives in a refugee camp with her mother and father. One day, her father is approached by some men offering him work. He takes up the offer in the hope to provide for his family, but Lily never sees him again. Soon later, her mother is shot dead escaping some rapists in the woods. With both of her parents gone, Lily is left to fend for herself, dragged into the heartbreaking, brutal world of human trafficking, when she comes across a man named Lazarus Landucci. A tragic tale of love and loss, taking Lily from her childhood to her adulthood, and how she continues to fight the monsters from her past, no matter how hard she tries to move on... NOT STANDALONE AND ENDS IN A CLIFFHANGER. ALL BOOKS NEED TO BE READ IN ORDER, TO UNDERSTAND THE STORY CORRECT
Author: Richard Frederick Maddox
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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In his innovative ethnographic history of the southwestern Spanish town of Aracena, Richard Maddox explores how tradition has been authored, what it has authorized, and to what extent it has been authoritative. His investigation of the cultural, political, and religious discourses and practices of various socioeconomic groups in Aracena offers a richly detailed view of how both leading citizens and ordinary townspeople have interpreted, used, and contested traditions over the last three centuries. Maddox argues that we can best understand culture in complex societies by taking into account the ways in which institutionally generated discourses and practices articulate with the informal, improvisational, and commonsense speech and customs that guide the conduct of everyday life. He bases his study on a wide range of published and unpublished materials, including biographies, notarial records, wills, tax and voting lists, historical surveys, records of property transactions and town council meetings, privately held documents, and interviews with men and women of Aracena. Through a genealogical approach to traditional culture, Maddox demonstrates that traditions repeatedly have been transformed and reinvented in accordance with shifts in relationships of power and in response to changing political and socioeconomic conditions.
Author: Philip Caputo
Publisher: Henry Holt
ISBN: 1627794743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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"The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows to stop the unspeakable violence and help the people he has pledged to protect"--Amazon.com.
Author: Roberto A. Valdeón
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027269408
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Two are the starting points of this book. On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias in the creation and expansion of the Spanish Black Legend. The author aims to go beyond them by considering the role of translators and interpreters during the early colonial period in Spanish America and by looking at the translations of the Spanish chronicles as instrumental in the promotion of other European empires. The book discusses literary, religious and administrative documents and engages in a dialogue with other disciplines that can provide a more nuanced view of the role of translation, and of the mediators, during the controversial encounter/clash between Europeans and Amerindians.
Author: California (State).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Author: Ray Michael Baca
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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A novel about the un-easy and often misunderstood relationships of Crypto-Jews and Hispanos in New Mexico and their deep common roots in Spanish history--conquest and colonization--and religious faith and shared values. Brotherhood of the Light follows the lives of three men from one family who lived in different centuries but were inexorably bound by the legacy of a cross that was brought from the Old World to the New. A relic that had come to prominence at the battle for Granada, when Spain united to expel the Moors. Descendants of Sephardic Jews who fled the Inquisition in Spain, the family joined Los Hermanos Penitentes. This secretive society of lay Catholic men in Northern New Mexico, who believe in emulating Christ's Passion, his trial, his walk, and his suffering on the cross at the end of each Lenten season, was used for a dozen generations as a shield by the family to disguise their Crypto-Jewish identity while they struggled with the legacy bestowed upon them. John Castillo lives in this century, and is in search of the cross which had become lost two-hundred years before. Spiritually, he is devoid of a true set of beliefs, as he is one who knows of the family's past through inherited secret oral history. He is conflicted with who he is. Is he Catholic, or is he Jewish? Is he something because he was born into it, or is he something because he believes? The others in John's long family history include Ramn Bernal de Castilla, a Sephardic Jew who leaves Spain in the 1590's as a reluctant Conquistador, joins Juan de Oate's troops to settle Nuevo Mexico, and is the first keeper of the cross that originated in the forges of Castile. And, Andrs Castillo, a boy of thirteen in theearly 1800's taken as a slave by Navajo raiders. Having hidden the cross in a desperate attempt to save it, he returns decades later to the hiding place with his son and grandsons as a tribute to the spiritual wealth it has brought to them all. Moving seamlessly between the past and present, weaving together the intricacies of religious fundamentalism, unwavering faith, and a true passion for knowing one's past, Ray Michael Baca takes us on a journey into the stark, beautiful desert, and the romantic valley of the Rio Grande, where Spanish dreams and Native souls have clashed and then lived as neighbors for 400 years. The text of this gripping story is written in English, Spanish and Ladino.
Author: A. Hayat
Publisher: A. Hayat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Boxset of books 36-40 in the Mafia Bride series. Contains the following: 36. No Rain No Flowers 37. Tears of Ink 38. Castillo's Brotherhood 39. Ransom Note 40. Ragdoll All books need to be read in order to understand the story correctly. Read books 1-35 before proceeding. SERIES SUMMARY: Lily lives in a refugee camp with her mother and father. One day, her father is approached by some men offering him work. He takes up the offer in the hope to provide for his family, but Lily never sees him again. Soon later, her mother is shot dead escaping some rapists in the woods. With both of her parents gone, Lily is left to fend for herself, dragged into the heartbreaking, brutal world of human trafficking, when she comes across a man named Lazarus Landucci. A tragic tale of love and loss, taking Lily from her childhood to her adulthood, and how she continues to fight the monsters from her past, no matter how hard she tries to move on...
Author: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 964
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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillois a first-person narrative by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler who served in three Mexican expeditions; those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of Juan de Grijalva (1518), and the expedition of Hernán Cortés (1519) in the Valley of Mexico; the history relates his participation in the fall of Emperor Moctezuma II, and the subsequent defeat of the Aztec Empire.
Author: Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Author: John Ingram Lockhart
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752324031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Reproduction of the original: The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo by John Ingram Lockhart
