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Sembrando historias

Pura Belpre bibliotecaria y narradora de cuentos
When Pura Belpre came to America in 1921, she carried with her a passion for her homeland's folktales. She became a New York City librarian renowned for her story hours---and continued to share Puerto Rican folktales across the United States by turning them into books.
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Planting stories

the life of librarian and storyteller Pura Belpr?
An illustrated biography of the life of Pura Belpr? the first Puerto Rican librarian in New York City.
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Winner of the National Book Award

a novel of fame, honor, and really bad weather
2003
Fraternal twins Abigail and Dorcas Mather could not be more different, have always been the best of friends, but when the new man in town takes an interest in both of them, their close relationship is tested.

American wife

a novel
2008

Smoke in mirrors

2002
Librarian Leonara Hutton, accused by Thomas Walker of helping her dead friend Meredith embezzle over one million dollars from a family charity, teams up with Walker to find out what is really going on when she discovers that Meredith has stashed the money along with startling information about a thirty-year-old murder.

The giant's house

a romance
1996
Story of a lonely librarian who develops a warm and trusting relationship with a young boy who also feels like a misfit and looks at how their feelings develop and strengthen over time.

Key of knowledge

2003
Librarian Dana Steele, one of the three young women in a quest for the keys to a mystical box that holds the trapped souls of three Celtic demigoddesses imprisoned by a jealous sorcerer, is led to author Jack Hawke, but their prior romantic history complicates things when the two of them are forced into working together to locate the next key.

Bibliophilia

a novella and stories
2003
A collection of short stories and one novella by Michael Griffith.

Oh pure and radiant heart

2005
Physicists J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard are transported to the future at the moment of the first atomic explosion and are forced to face the consequences of their deadly creation.

La cucina

a novel of rapture
2000
Rosa Fiore, a Sicilian woman with an amazing talent for cooking, deals twice with tragic love and loss and learns about life and sensuality through her culinary art.

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