Results for "Arana, Marie"

A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority.LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic Ameri... Read More about LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority

Winner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). “... Read More about Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story

A brilliant biography that “reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history” (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this is the epic story of the famous South American general and statesman Simón Bolívar.SIMÓN BOLÍ VAR —El Libertador—freed six countries from Spanish rul... Read More about Bolivar: American Liberator

Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tales of The Writing Life. In it, authors divulge professional secrets: how they first discovered they were writers, how they work, how they deal with the... Read More about The Writing Life: Writers On How They Think And Work

Una lectura necesaria para comprender el tumultuoso pasado de América Latina y la complejidad de su identidad. «Trazar el alma de un continente es una hazaña extraordinaria, y Marie Arana lo hace con precisión académica, rigor moral y elegancia de estilo. Para cualquiera que esté interesado en enten... Read More about La plata, la espada y la piedra: Tres pilares cruciales en la historia de Améric a / Silver, Sword, and Stone: The Story of Latin America

A guide where today’s best writers reveal their secrets. How do writers approach a new novel? Do they start with plot, character, or theme? A. S. Byatt starts with color. E. L. Doctorow begins with an image. In Off the Page, authors tell us how they work, giving insight into their writing process. G... Read More about Off the Page: Writers Talk About Beginnings, Endings, and Everything In Between