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A Kiss In Time

Tourist Season

Mambo Peligroso : A Novel

Playing With Light : A Novel

The Elmore Leonard Collection

In Cuba I Was A German Shepherd

  • In Cuba I Was A German Shepherd
  • Attribution

    Ana Menendez
  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st ed, Grove Press, 2001
  • Description

    Already sold in eight countries around the world, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd is a hypnotic debut collection of linked tales about the attempts of immigrants to make new lives in America, by Cuban-American Pushcart Prize winner Ana Menendez. at other times they are deeply disturbing, as in “Miami Relatives,” which depicts a family’s escalating, surreal nightmare, fueled by the portrait and family stories of “the old uncle in Cuba” who refuses to die. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3563.E514 I5 2001  AVAILABLE

The Sugar Island

  • The Sugar Island
  • Attribution

    Ivonne Lamazares
  • Publication Details

    Book, Houghton Mifflin, 2000
  • Description

    The story of a mother and daughter who flee to American shores, THE SUGAR ISLAND depicts a culture in conflict with itself, where the old world chafes against the new and where a parent’s desperate grab for freedom has dire consquences for her child. The story is told in the brave, tough voice of Tanya, a girl on the verge of womanhood, who is at odds with her mother and with the rapidly changing world around her. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3562.A42175 S84 2000  AVAILABLE

The Aguero Sisters

The Mulching Of America : A Novel

Mrs. Ted Bliss

  • Mrs. Ted Bliss
  • Attribution

    Stanley Elkin
  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st ed, Hyperion, 1995
  • Description

    In language that is “rich, musical and playful, like that of a Joyce who grew up on Yiddish” (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times), Stanley Elkin offers us the extraordinary Dorothy Bliss, an eighty-two-year-old widow caught in a tragicomic world, forced to find purpose in endless card games and “Good Neighbor Policy Night” at a Florida retirement community. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3555.L47 M76 1995  AVAILABLE

My Family Vacation