Spanish Language

One of the granddaddies of the Latin American Boom, the great Peruvian novelist, essayist, politician, and journalist Vargas Llosa also writes plays...

Diamant-Cohen has developed this manual to encourage librarians to present Spanish-language MGOL programs...

Gr 4—6—What happens when a group of children from a school for the deaf take public transportation on a field trip? How does a family learn that their child is hearing impaired? Is it easy for someone with cochlear implants to learn how to communicate? Answers to these questions and others are found in this collection of funny and touching short stories and poems...

Murra's first novel is a bizarre mishmash of theories rich in Mayan prophecy and pre-Hispanic history...

Pennsylvania-born Barthelme's fiction, the short stories in particular, are postmodernist works; as such, the narrative develops as postmodernist narrative are wont to do...

Mexican Vargas is a television spokesperson, author, and speaker who has published several books on personal growth, health, and self-esteem...

The turbulent encounter of the Spanish conquerors and the Aztec Empire frames this story of jealousy and betrayal featuring two noble Catalonian brothers: the perseverant Guifré, kidnapped on his wedding day and traded as a slave to the New World, where he joins with the Aztecs; and the ambitious Domènech, a calculating monk on his way to becoming a high-ranking inquisitor and the powerful bishop of Catalonia...

Gr 6—10—It's Saturday morning, and 30 middle school students are in the part of the library known as the "Sala de conflictos" or "Room of conflicts...

Separated into six sections, the first being the largest and offering an alphabetical list of the most common false cognates, this quick reference guide, put together by the editors of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE), is both charming and accessible...