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Describes the settlement of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Texas, covering changes and conflicts under Spanish rule, and discusses the Mexican Revolution.

A young Christian in Islamic Spain flees C?rdoba and takes refuge in the monastery of Ripoll, where he is viewed with suspicion for studying the Arabic number system.

Captain Diego Alatriste along with his two comrades Sebastian Copons and Moor Gurriato are ordered to intervene against a crucial Spanish crown conspiracy, an assassination during Christmas Mass in Venice.

Contains the twelfth-century epic poem which follows the exploits of a soldier and adventurer. Presented in Spanish.

Captain Alatriste embarks upon a dangerous mission in Seville where he is charged along with his men for a plot involving contrab and gold from the Spanish galleons returning from the Indies.

L?zaro, a Salamanca town crier, relates the story of his struggle out of poverty, beginning with his widowed mother who apprenticed him to a cunning, blind beggar, and leading to his efforts at outwitting a variety of disreputable masters before getting married to the mistress of a local churchman.

An adaptation of the classic novel by sixteenth-century Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes about a middle-aged Spanish gentleman who, obsessed with the chivalrous ideals found in romantic books, decides to defend the helpless, destroy the wicked, and win the heart of his beloved Dulcinea. Includes margin notes.

Tells the story of an eccentric country gentleman and his companion who set out as a knight and squire of old to right wrongs and punish evil in sixteenth-century Spain.

"This book introduces readers to life during the First Century in what is now present day Merida in Spain. They will meet a boy named Marco, who, along with his friend Anselmo, make many of the same mistakes of today's youth set in a time of great sophistication as well as violent entertainment"--Amazon.