When the great Velázquez was painting his masterpieces at the Spanish court in the seventeenth century, his colors were expertly mixed and his canvases carefully prepared by his slave, Juan de Pareja. In a vibrant novel which depicts both the beauty ...
His father's loyalty to the Mexican president deposed by Porfirio Diaz in 1876 forces a boy known as El Güero and his family into exile to the dangerous Baja California territory.
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At the age of sixteen, Leona Vicario, a heroine of the Mexican struggle for independence, falls in love with a lawyer who becomes a revolutionary, drawing her into a decision that will affect history, in a real-life historical love story....
Elizabeth Borton de Treviño Friendship springs up between a boy who has lost his voice and his mother at the same tragic moment, and an ailing albino deer sent from China as a gift to the King of Spain. It is Lalo's task to nurture the deer back to ...