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  • The Shimmering Is All There Is

    On Nature, God, Science, and More

    Series series Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
    The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and temperament—as a loving wife, mother, and daughter; a proud Texan; a teacher and scholar with graduate degrees in English literature and religion; ... Leer más

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  • Tejanaland

    A Writing Life in Four Acts

    Series series Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
    This collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta—poet, historian, author, and activist—spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection is divided into four parts: poems, essays, a children’s story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that she experienced from her childhood to the present.The plays, set in the Central Texas ... Leer más

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  • That Woman

    The Making of a Texas Feminist

    Series series Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
    When Nikki R. Van Hightower stepped into the position of Women’s Advocate for the City of Houston in 1976, she quickly discovered that she had very little real power. And when the all-male city council cut her salary to $1 a year after she spoke at a women’s rights rally, she gained full appreciation for just what she was up against.Nonetheless, before the job was abolished altogether two years ... Leer más

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  • Citizens at Last

    The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas

    Series series Ellen C. Temple Classics in the Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation
    “There is so much to be learned from the documents collected here. . . . Where better than in this record to find the inspiration to achieve another high point of women’s political history?”—from the foreword by Anne Firor ScottCitizens at Last is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of the suffrage movement in Texas. Richly illustrated and featuring over thirty primary ... Leer más

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  • Capitol Women

    Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999

    Along with bar rooms and bordellos, there has hardly been a more male-focused institution in Texas history than the Texas Legislature. Yet the eighty-six women who have served there have made a mark on the institution through the legislation they have passed, much of which addresses their concerns as citizens who have been inadequately represented by male lawmakers.This first complete record of ... Leer más

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  • Woman Hollering Creek

    And Other Stories

    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A collection of stories by Sandra Cisneros, the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.The lovingly drawn characters of these stories give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border with tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate ... Leer más

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  • Lotería

    A Novel

    In this literary debut, a young girl tells of her traumatic life via a Mexican card game in a "heart-wrenching tale of violence, love and a broken family" ( Los Angeles Times).With her older sister Estrella in the ICU and her father in jail, eleven-year-old Luz Castillo has been taken into the custody of the state. Alone in her room, she retreats behind a wall of silence, writing in her journal ... Leer más

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  • Hemingway's Havana

    A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba

    Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home—naming it the Finca Vigia—with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment that he couldn’t find anywhere else. Now, through more than a hundred color photographs and accompanying text, ... Leer más

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  • A House of My Own

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    Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Creative Nonfiction • From the celebrated bestselling author of The House on Mango Street: "This memoir has the transcendent sweep of a full life.” —Houston ChronicleFrom Chicago to Mexico, the places Sandra Cisneros has lived have provided inspiration for her now-classic works of fiction and poetry. But a house of her own, a place where she could ... Leer más

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  • The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    Series series BrightSummaries.com
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  • My Brigadista Year

    In an engrossing historical novel, the Newbery Medal-winning author of Bridge to Terabithia follows a young Cuban teenager as she volunteers for Fidel Castro’s national literacy campaign and travels into the impoverished countryside to teach others how to read.When thirteen-year-old Lora tells her parents that she wants to join Premier Castro’s army of young literacy teachers, her mother screeches ... Leer más

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  • The Revolutionaries Try Again

    Three childhood friends reunite to transform Ecuador only to find their idealism has succumbed to the cynicism of their fathers.Extravagant, absurd, and self-aware, The Revolutionaries Try Again plays out against the lost decade of Ecuador’s austerity and the stymied idealism of three childhood friends—an expat, a bureaucrat, and a playwright—who are as sure about the evils of dictatorship as they ... Leer más

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