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Carlos Finlay

1990
Bilingual biography of the Cuban-born physician who developed the theory of yellow fever transmission by mosquitoes.

The inferno of Dante

a new verse translation
1996
Describes what the blind poet Virgil encounters as he passes through the various cycles on his trip through hell. Presented verse-by-verse in both Italian and English.

La maleta de Hana

un relato ver?dico
2005
A biography of a Czech girl who died in the Holocaust, told in alternating chapters with an account of how the curator of a Japanese Holocaust center learned about her life after Hana's suitcase was sent to her.

El viaje de su vida

2009
Ohio teen Carlos Ayala's cruise to Yucatan with his family turns into a dangerous adventure when he witnesses the theft of an object of great value and the thief tries to kill him.

Pobre Ana

2009
A simple novel presented in English and Spanish about a fifteen-year-old leading a difficult life in California who is offered the chance to go the Mexico, where she discovers a new way of looking at the world around her.

Le voyage perdu

2008
Craig and Buzz, visiting the island of Martinique as part of a Caribbean cruise, get more adventure than they bargained for when a missed boat and stolen money force them to extend their stay.

Luis Alvarez

1990
A bilingual biography of the scientist who worked on the atom bomb, and won the 1968 Nobel Prize for physics.

Rosa Blanca

1985
A young girl risks her life to give food to the prisoners in a concentration camp during World War II.

Robin de los bosques

1984
The adventures of the outlaw Robin Hood and his merry men in Sherwood Forest.

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