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Hardcover:
9780394538556 | Grove Pr, November 1, 1984, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: The poet reflects on the Old World traditions of her mother's household where she spent her childhood as an apprentice housekeeper but discovered her talents as an artist
Hardcover:
9780525939221 | E P Dutton, June 1, 1995, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A collection of poems in English occasionally flavored with Spanish words reveals respect for the past, delight in the sensory details of the present, and tentative but cherished hope for the future, and culminates in the title poem about the poet's return to her native Dominican Republic
Paperback:
9780452273412 | Reprint edition (Plume, December 1, 1996), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems in English occasionally flavored with Spanish words reveals respect for the past, delight in the sensory details of the present, and tentative but cherished hope for the future, and culminates in the title poem about the poet's return to her native Dominican Republic
Paperback:
9780452275676 | Subsequent edition (Plume, March 1, 1996), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Gathers the poems included in the author's first book, which focused on her bilingual and bicultural heritage, thirteen new poems, and the author's reflections on her first book
Hardcover:
9780786247592, titled "En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas / In the Time of the Butterflies" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep 'accident.
Paperback:
9780452286863, titled "En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas / In the Time of the Butterflies" | Plume, October 25, 2005, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep 'accident.
9780452279964, titled "En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas / In the Time of the Butterflies" | Reprint edition (Plume, May 1, 1998), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep 'accident.
9789500814461, titled "En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas / In the Time of the Butterflies" | Atlantida Editorial S.A., February 1, 1994, cover price $21.95
Prebinding:
9780613065658, titled "En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas / In the Time of the Butterflies" | Turtleback Books, June 1, 2002, cover price $23.65 | About this edition: A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep 'accident.
Reinforced:
9780606176545 | Demco Media, June 1, 1998, cover price $23.40 | About this edition: A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep 'accident.
Hardcover:
9781565122765 | Algonquin Books, June 9, 2000, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself in the days following the Cuban revolution
Paperback:
9780452282438 | Reissue edition (Plume, June 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself in the days following the Cuban revolution.
Reinforced:
9780606217927 | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $22.73 | About this edition: Camila, whose mother, Salome, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself in the days following the Cuban revolution.
Hardcover:
9781931498005 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, October 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents a modern fable on the challenges of living sustainably, caring for the land, and producing coffee.
Paperback:
9781931498548 | Chelsea Green Pub Co, March 1, 2004, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Presents a modern fable on the challenges of living sustainably, caring for the land, and producing coffee.
Paperback:
9781931498067, titled "El Cuento Del Cafecito / a Cafecito Story: El Cuento Del Cafecito" | Bilingual edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, June 1, 2002), cover price $10.00
Hardcover:
9781931498203 | Bilingual edition (Chelsea Green Pub Co, June 1, 2002), cover price $14.95
Hardcover:
9780786243815, titled "En El Nombre De Salome / In the Name of Salome" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 2002), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Es el verano de 1960 y Camila HenrÃquez Urena, profesora de español jubilándose de la Universidad de Vassar, está empacando sus últimas pertenencias antes de mudarse de su apartamento en Poughkeepsie, Nueva York para unirse a la revolución de Fidel Castro en Cuba.
Paperback:
9780375726903, titled "En El Nombre De Salome / in the Name of Salome" | Random House Spanish, July 1, 2002, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Camila, whose mother, Salomâe, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself after the Cuban revolution.
Hardcover:
9780679893097 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
Paperback:
9780440417477 | Reprint edition (Dragonfly, September 1, 2002), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
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9780679993094 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 2000, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
Prebinding:
9780613878029, titled "Secret Footprints" | Turtleback Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $17.20 | About this edition: A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
Camila, whose mother, Salomâe, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself after the Cuban revolution.
Reinforced:
9780606242332 | Demco Media, September 1, 2002, cover price $22.73 | About this edition: Camila, whose mother, Salomâe, inspired a Dominican revolution with her poetry, spends most of her life trying to please her father and her brothers, all prominent men, before seeking a place for herself after the Cuban revolution.
Prebinding:
9780613579070 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2002, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.
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9780606258746 | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $15.85 | About this edition: A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
Reinforced:
9780606258739, titled "Las Huellas Secretas / Secret Footprints" | Demco Media, December 1, 2002, cover price $15.81 | About this edition: A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.
Hardcover:
9780887395840 | Bilingual edition (El Leon Literary Arts, August 1, 2003), cover price $35.00
Hardcover:
9788479017361, titled "Cuando La Tia Lola Vino (De Visita) A Quedarse / How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay" | Rba Publicaciones Editores revistas, June 1, 2004, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.
Paperback:
9780375815522 | Dgs edition (Yearling Books, June 22, 2004), cover price $5.50 | About this edition: Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.
Paperback:
9789685956017 | Italian edition edition (Random House Mondadori, June 30, 2004), cover price $12.95
In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
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9780606308427 | Demco Media, October 30, 2004, cover price $14.53 | About this edition: In the early 1960s in the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Anita learns that her family is involved in the underground movement to end the bloody rule of the dictator, General Trujillo.
Hardcover:
9789706515056 | Oceano De Mexico, February 1, 2001, cover price $16.67 | About this edition: Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her.
Reinforced:
9780606308342 | Demco Media, October 30, 2004, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Book by Alvarez, Julia
Reinforced:
9780606336666 | Demco Media, October 11, 2005, cover price $16.95
Hardcover:
9780375824258 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 11, 2005, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Maria's family is almost forced to leave their farm on the new island colony, until a mysterious lady appears in Maria's dream.
Library:
9780375924255 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 11, 2005, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Maria's family is almost forced to leave their farm on the new island colony, until a mysterious lady appears in Maria's dream.
Paperback:
9780553113433 | Dragonfly, October 11, 2005, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Maria's family is almost forced to leave their farm on the new island colony, until a mysterious lady appears in Maria's dream.
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