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1) Ponchao
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Alex Ramirez is destined to become the greatest baseball player ever -- and he'll do anything to make it. But the road to success proves troublesome and hilariously unpredictable.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When celebrated writer Alma Cruz inherits a small plot of land in the Dominican Republic, she turns it into a place to bury her untold stories--literally. She creates a graveyard for manuscript drafts and revisions and the characters whose lives she tried and failed to bring to life and who still haunt her. Alma wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas, and the cemetery becomes a mysterious sanctuary for their true narratives."--...
4) Cocote
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
"A rapturous crime fable set in the Dominican Republic, Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias' Cocote follows Alberto, a kind-hearted gardener returning home to attend his father's funeral. When he discovers that a powerful local figure is responsible for his father's death, Alberto realizes that he's been summoned by his family to avenge the murder. It's an unthinkable act--especially for him, an Evangelical Christian. But as pressure mounts, he sees...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the Dominican diaspora from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is a book centered on one extended family--the Beléns--across multiple generations, ... set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa--and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights, too ... Told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical, ... its stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A collection of eleven interconnected short stories from the ominican diaspora from debut author Camille Gomera-Tavarez. It is a book centered on one extended family--the Beléns--across multiple generations, ... set in the fictional small town of Hidalpa--and Santo Domingo and Paterson and San Juan and Washington Heights, too ... Told in a style both utterly real and distinctly magical, ... its stories explore machismo, mental health, family, and...
Author
Language
Español
Description
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.
Anita de la Torre es una niña de 12 años que vive en la República Dominicana en los años sesenta. La policía secreta ha comenzado a atemorizar a su familia porque se sospecha que están en contra del dictador, General Trujillo.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Dominican Republic has experienced tremendous economic growth in recent years. Its pristine beaches and beautiful mountains make it a popular tourism spot, and its vibrant culture contains many aspects that are unique to the country. Exotic fruits, merengue music, baseball, and a humpback whale sanctuary are only the beginning of what the Dominican Republic has to offer. Full-color photographs and detailed maps augment the engaging text, bringing...
12) Papi: my story
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a key part of the Boston Red Sox for 14 years, David "Big Papi" Ortiz has helped the team win 3 World Series, bringing back a storied franchise from "never wins" to "always wins." He made Boston and the Red Sox his home, his place of work, and his legacy. In this memoir, Ortiz opens up about his life in baseball and about the problems he sees in Major League Baseball, about former teammates, opponents, coaches, and executives, and about the weight...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastian, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastian are separated, and she desperately...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Desde una infancia dolorosa con complicados secretos familiares a un amor muy diferente al de las novelas, Charytin Goyco nos lo cuenta todo, con su peculiar tono cargado de drama y comedia a la vez. Sus anecdotas con famosos (Juan Luis Guerra, Camilo Sesto, Jenni Rivera, entre muchos). Los (S0(Bbesos de divorcio(S1 (Bque compartio con los galanes de moda en innumerables peliculas. La perdida de un bebe y su angustia mas persistente: la de ser madre...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
For generations, General Rafael Trujillo has ruled the Dominican Republic with a mixture of terror and savagery, until Minerva Mirabal dares to oppose him. Inspired by her love for a rebel leader, Minerva and her sisters, known as Las Mariposas, endure unimaginable hardships in a battle for the very soul of a nation. But as their acts of bravery gain notoriety, Trujillos forces close in determined to put an end to Minervas heroics.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Before Pedro Martínez pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship, before he was named to the All-Star team eight times, before he won the Cy Young Award three times, he was a kid from a place called Manoguayabo in the Dominican Republic. Pedro loved baseball more than anything, and his older brother Ramón was the best pitcher he'd ever seen. He dreamed of the day he and his brother could play together in the major leagues. This is the story...
Author
Series
Pilar Ramirez duology volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the Dominican Republic, twelve-year-old Pilar helps Ciguapa and Carmen hunt for the escaped demon El Baca and his mysterious new ally, and now, facing the threat of an ancient enemy, Pilar must harness her bruja powers in order to save Zafa and her family."--
20) Candela
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
The lives of three strangers, a high society girl, a lonely lieutenant, and a drag queen cabaret performer, intertwine on the eve of a hurricane following the mysterious death of a young poet and drug dealer.
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