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Pasando páginas: la historia de mi vida
Par Lulu Delacre, Sonia Sotomayor. 2018
La primera latina en la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor recuerda la influencia formativa de los libros…
en su vida. Ella explora cómo su amor por la literatura le proporcionó la inspiración para realizar sus sueños. Para grados 2-4Inmigración: las nuevas reglas : lo que debes saber para vivir y permanecer legalmente en Estados Unidos : una guía informativa de Univision
Par Univision, Armando A. Olmedo. 2017
A concise guide by an attorney and a journalist that clearly explains various topics related to legal immigration to the…
United States--including citizenship, residency, and the responsibilities and rights of immigrants. Spanish language. 2017Pablo Escobar, mi padre: las historias que no deberíamos saber
Par Juan Pablo Escobar, Sebastián Marroquín. 2014
An intimate portrait of the Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar Gaviria (1949-1993), written by his son, revealing the side that…
his father presented to his family, while exploring the violence that he engendered in his country and the world. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2014La cacería: una historia de inmigración y violencia en Estados Unidos
Par Mirta Ojito. 2014
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist explores the 2008 murder of thirty-year-old Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero in Patchogue, New York. Killed by a…
group of teenagers, Lucero became a symbol of a broken immigration system, intolerance, and bigotry focused on foreigners in the United States. Violence and strong language. Spanish language. 2014Details the life of Louis Zamperini (1917-2014), an Olympic athlete and World War II bombardier, who survived a plane crash…
and forty-seven days adrift at sea only to become a POW in Japan. Relates Zamperini's later religious awakening under Billy Graham's ministry. Violence. Spanish language. 2011Mi mundo adorado
Par Sonia Sotomayor. 2013
Memoir of United States Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor (born 1954). Recalls growing up with her Puerto Rican family in…
the Bronx and being diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Discusses her family life, education at Princeton and Yale, and becoming a district court judge in 1992. Spanish language. 2013Querida dra. Polo: las cartas secretas de Caso Cerrado
Par Ana María Polo, Ana Maria Dra. Polo. 2010
Letters sent to attorney and famed Latin American television judge Ana María Polo that were deemed too explicit or controversial…
to air on her show "Caso Cerrado." Includes Polo's advice on relationship and legal issues. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2010Explains how laws are made in the United States, the difference between federal and state laws, the difference between civil…
and criminal law, how the judicial system works, how contracts are made, and how the legal system affects all areas of daily life. Spanish language. 2006Explains what a child-support order is and discusses measures that can be taken to collect child support. Includes information on…
how to establish paternity, calculate payments, maintain or change child-support orders, and deal with enforcement agencies. Spanish language. 2007Cómo conseguir su visa: sesenta maneras (legales) de inmigrar a EE.UU (Guías prácticas)
Par Debbie M. Schell, Kurt A. Wagner. 2007
Dos abogados de inmigración enseñan las maneras de obtener visas para entrar en Estados Unidos. Describen visas de inmigrante y…
no inmigrante, visas para visitantes, visas de estudiante, visas de trabajo, y visas por vínculos familiares. También presenta información sobre formularios de visas y dónde conseguirlosInmigración y ciudadanía en Estados Unidos: su guía completa
Par Allan Wernick. 2005
Immigration lawyer provides updated information for legal immigration to the United States. Includes instructions for obtaining visas, green cards, and…
citizenship. Explains what helps and hinders the process, when a lawyer is needed, how interviews are conducted, and where to get more information. Spanish language. 2005Inmigracion sin confusión: cómo ingresar, residir y hacerse ciudadano de Estados Unidos
Par Mario A Vásquez. 1998
A Hispanic lawyer reviews and explains the most important aspects of immigration to the United States, ranging from simple tourist…
visas to the detailed requirements of residence, citizenship, and procedures to bring relatives into the U.S. Includes information on the most recent laws and lists agencies administering immigration. Spanish languageCómo obtener la tarjeta verde: maneras legítimas de permanecer en los EE.UU
Par Loida Nicolas Lewis. 1994
Advice on how noncitizens can legally enter or stay in the United States. Covers immigration categories, application for visas, quotas,…
family members of immigrants, legal recourses, and other relevant topics. Spanish languagePráctica para exámenes de ciudadanía
Par Carlos F Paz, Carlos F. Paz. 1988
Presents in Spanish the requirements for U.S. citizenship and offers, in Spanish and English, summaries on the history and government…
of the United States, including samples of questions that are asked in citizenship examinations. Also includes bilingual texts of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States. Spanish languageRequisitos para la naturalizacion e informacion general
Par United States. 1979
Explains the requirements for naturalization, the steps for filing citizenship papers, how to obtain citizenship for wives and children of…
citizens, and how aliens may legalize their United States residence to be eligible to apply for naturalization. Spanish languageGives a brief description of U.S. history and government and explains in practical language the Immigration Law of 1952 and…
its many amendments. Also includes information on when citizenship is necessary, a brief introduction to the Social Security system, information on income tax, and simplified instructions for filling out immigration forms. Spanish languageA short biography of Jesse James, who formed his own gang of robbers and murderers with his brother, Frank, in…
1866, focusing on banks, stagecoaches, and trains. He became an outlaw due to guerrilla warfare tactics employed during the Civil War. For grades 4-7 and older readers. Spanish language. 2004Puño y letra (Biblioteca breve (Santiago, Chile))
Par Diamela Eltit. 2014
"In Handwriting, Eltit offers her reading of the Argentine trial of Enrique Arancibia Clavel for his participation in the assassination…
of General Prats and his wife, Sofía Cuthbert. The work's main concept is the literal transcription of documents generated by third parties, but also considers three brief texts, written in her own handwriting, that explain the book's motives and allow two reflections. The first, linked to her narrative staging of the book, to the use of third-party documents, and their function in the literary act; the second focuses on the documents' content that reveals the motives of one of so many political crimes executed during the Pinochet dictatorship." -- Translation provided by NLS1978. El año que marchamos a la guerra
Par Guillermo Parvex. 2018
El mismo autor del exitoso Un veterano de tres guerras entrega este relato que cobra actualidad a 40 a …
os de una guerra que no fue Mientras estudiaba Periodismo en la Universidad de Chile Guillermo Parvex fue llamado por el Ej rcito para recibir instrucci n militar espec fica y ser parte de las milicias chilenas que se dirigir an a la frontera con Argentina Era 1978 Parvex ten a 24 a os y la guerra con el pa s vecino era inminente Este libro reconstruye la historia personal del autor durante los meses que estuvo en la frontera y el contexto hist rico de esos dif ciles a os un relato in dito en primera persona que nos habla de aquellos a os convulsos en que se ocultaba la movilizaci n de tropas hasta las regiones lim trofes que nos separan del pa s vecino Rese a Un libro que reconstruye por primera vez la instrucci n militar que recibieron en secreto miles de j venes chilenosNoticia de un secuestro
Par Gabriel García Márquez. 1996
¡Disponible por primera vez en eBook!La crónica de un secuestro real magistralmente retratado por Gabriel García Márquez. En 1990, temiendo…
la extradición a Estados Unidos, Pablo Escobar --cabecilla del cartel de Medellín-- secuestroì a diez conocidos colombianos para usarlos como moneda de cambio. Con el ojo de un poeta, Gabriel García Márquez describe la peligrosa prueba de los secuestrados y el increíble drama de las negociaciones para su liberación. También muestra el dolor de Colombia después de casi cuarenta años de revolución guerrillera, sicarios, crisis económica y narcodemocracia. Con intensidad cinematográfica, lenguaje impresionante y rigor periodístico, García Márquez evoca la enfermedad que afecta a su amado país y muestra coìmo penetra cada estrato social, desde el más humilde campesino hasta el mismo presidente.