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  • Frida

    A Novel

    by Barbara Mujica ...
    Mexican painter Frida Kahlo life, work, and love are examined through the lens of her sister in this dramatic biographical novel.Frida Kahlo, painter and cultural icon, lived a life of extremes. The subject of an Academy Award(c)–nominated film starring Salma Hayek, Kahlo was crippled by polio and left barren by an accident when she was a teenager. And yet she went on to fall in love with and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sister Teresa

    The Woman Who Became Saint Teresa of Ávila

    by Bárbara Mujica ...
    "This brilliant fictional biography of Saint Teresa of Ávila breathes new life into a sacred subject" ( Booklist).She is Saint Teresa—known as a mystic, reformer, and founder of convents, and the author of numerous texts that introduced her radical religious ideas and practices to a society suffering through the repressive throes of the Spanish Inquisition. In Bárbara Mujica's masterful tale, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Am Venus

    A Novel

    by Bárbara Mujica ...
    This fictional account of the seventeenth-century Spanish painter's life is "a very enjoyable read . . . A portrait of Velázquez and a meditation on love" ( Washington Independent Review of Books).Narrated by the mysterious model who posed for Rokeby Venus, Diego Velázquez's only surviving female nude, I Am Venus is the riveting account of a great artist's rise to prominence, set against the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Miss del Río

    A Novel of Dolores del Río, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood

    by Bárbara Mujica ...
    “Dolores del Río bursts to life in this vivid, well-researched portrayal. Her iconic feline elegance and brash spirit dominates every page, but it’s her defiance to live life on her own terms that sets her apart—and what an extraordinary life she led.”—C.W. Gortner, bestselling author of Marlene1910, Mexico. As the country’s revolution spreads, Dolores, the daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

  • Women Religious and Epistolary Exchange in the Carmelite Reform

    The Disciples of Teresa de Avila

    by Bárbara Mujica ...
    Series series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church. Monastic reorganization was a major issue, and women were at the forefront of charting new directions in convent policy. The story of the Carmelite Reform has been told before, but never from the perspective of the women on the front lines. Nearly all accounts of the movement focus on Teresa de Avila, (1515-1582), and end with ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Imagining Iraq Stories

    by Barbara Mujica ...
    "As a veteran, I always knew that each time I volunteered for a deployment, I was also volunteering my wife and parents. With some guilt, I recognized I was asking them to do the hardest job. Through her stories, Bárbara Mujica becomes an eloquent spokeswoman for those who did that job. Veterans and civilians alike owe her a sharp salute." Tom Young, Washington Independent"This spellbinding ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Collateral Damage

    Women Write about War

    Edited by Bárbara Mujica ...
    From Homer to Tim O’Brien, war literature remains largely the domain of male writers, and traditional narratives imply that the burdens of war are carried by men. But women and children disproportionately suffer the consequences of conflict: famine, disease, sexual abuse, and emotional trauma caused by loss of loved ones, property, and means of subsistence.Collateral Damage tells the stories of ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia

    Translation, Interpretation, Performance: Essays in Honor of Susan L. Fischer

    Edited by Bárbara Mujica ...
    Shakespeare and the Spanish Comedia is a nearly unique transnational study of the theater / performance traditions of early modern Spain and England. Divided into three parts, the book focuses first on translating for the stage, examining diverse approaches to the topic. It asks, for example, whether plays should be translated to sound as if they were originally written in the target language or ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    Miss del Río

    by Bárbara Mujica ...
    Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 2 min

    “Dolores del Río bursts to life in this vivid, well-researched portrayal. Her iconic feline elegance and brash spirit dominates every page, but it’s her defiance to live life on her own terms that sets her apart—and what an extraordinary life she led.”—C.W. Gortner, bestselling author of Marlene1910, Mexico. As the country’s revolution spreads, Dolores, the daughter of a wealthy banker, must flee ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • Émilienne

    A Novel of Belle Époque Paris

    by Pamela Binnings Ewen, Janieta Eyre ...
    From the bestselling author of The Queen of Paris comes a glittering new novel about youth, beauty, and having the courage to carve your own path in a world on the brink of war.Pamela Binnings Ewen’s newest novel reveals the story of Émilienne, once the most beautiful, sought-after woman in Paris during the Belle Époque, the era of peaceful years just before World War I. As a girl, Émilienne ... Read more

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  • 'Til All These Things Be Done

    A Novel

    by Suzanne Moyers ...
    Set against the rich but often troubled history of Blacklands, Texas, during an era of pandemic, scientific discovery, and social upheaval, the novel offers a unique—yet eerily familiar—backdrop to a universal tale of triumphing over loss.Even as dementia clouds other memories, eighty-three-year-old Leola can’t forget her father’s disappearance when she was sixteen. Now, as Papa appears in ... Read more

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  • Hard Like Water

    by Yan Lianke ...
    "Yan is one of those rare geniuses who finds in the peculiar absurdities of his own culture the absurdities that infect all cultures." — The Washington PostFrom the Kafka Prize winner and two-time Booker Prize finalist, this is a gripping and bitingly satirical story of ambition and betrayal, following two young communist revolutionaries whose forbidden love sets them apart from their ... Read more

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