Blogs in March 2024

The Cemetery of Untold Stories 20th March 2024

Literary icon Julia Alvarez, bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies, shares an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling and her homeland–the Dominican Republic–that Kirkus Reviews calls a “rich and moving saga” and Shelf Awareness calls “a...

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Islandborn 25th September 2021

A powerful tale about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination Every kid in Lola’s school was from somewhere else. Hers was a school of faraway places. When Lola’s teacher asks the students to draw...

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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents 23rd September 2021

Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. Previously privileged and wealthy, the...

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Anita and the Dragons 1st March 2021

Anita watches the dragons high above her as she hops from one cement roof to another in her village in the Dominican Republic. But being the valiant princesa she is, she never lets them scare her. Then one day,...

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Clap When You Land 10th January 2021

The stunning New York Times bestselling novel from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning, Waterstones Book Prize shortlisted author of THE POET X. 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Winner of CLAP WHEN YOU LAND. Camino Rios lives for the summers when...

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