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Author
Publisher
Arcade
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Winner of the prestigious Azorín Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar.
A writer resembling Zoé Valdés—a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter—is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of...
A writer resembling Zoé Valdés—a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter—is preparing a novel on the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of...
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English
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"Winner of the prestigious Azori Prize for Fiction, the best-selling novel about love, sacrifice, and Picasso's mistress, Dora Maar. A writer resembling Zo Valds--a Cuban exile living in Paris with her husband and young daughter-is preparing a novelon the life of Dora Maar, one of the most promising artists in the Surrealist movement until she met Pablo Picasso. The middle-aged Picasso was already the god of the art world's avant-garde. Dora became...
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English
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A Jazz Age rake investigates an utterly divine art-world mystery Everyone who's anyone knows Bedford Green. Once a merciless gossip columnist, he has given up the life of sleaze and secrets and decamped for the Village to open a gritty little art gallery showcasing the most shocking European artists imaginable. The gallery is a money pit, and Green is in debt to some of the roughest loan sharks south of 14th Street, but that doesn't stop him from...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The ghost of a weeping woman dressed in white, La Llorona, is often spotted beside bodies of water. People in Mexico and in the southwestern United States have claimed to hear her wailing in the night, crying out for her drowned children. This centuries-old legend says that if the wailing woman gets too close, she will drag you to a watery grave.
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells, in parallel English and Spanish text, the traditional Hispanic American tale of a proud and beautiful woman who, in a fit of jealousy, commits a terrible act and then cannot stop weeping for it, even after she is dead.
6) Vincent Ventura and the curse of the weeping woman =: Vincent Ventura Y la maldición de la llorona
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Series
Publisher
Piñata Books, Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
¡Vincent Ventura, extraordinario luchador de monstruos, no puede creer que la casa en 666 Duende Street haya atraído a otra criatura espeluznante! De hecho, hay varios seres inusuales, incluidos fantasmas y una dama de blanco con ojos brillantes y ardientes. ¿Es ella... La Llorona?!? ¿Y quién es la otra joven? Al día siguiente en la escuela, Vincent y sus primos conocen a una nueva maestra sustituta, la Sra. Malin Che, que acaba de mudarse a...
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Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A life-size baby doll who stalks its prey. A flesh-hungry ogre who jingle jangles when he walks. A haunted house just dying for a visitor. What do all these things have in common? In collaboration with the Horror Writers Association, master of horror Jonathan Maberry has compiled a gruesome collection of terrifying stories--in tribute to Alvin Schwartz's classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series--that will absolutely chill readers to the bone....
10) Asusto #2
Publisher
Creative Impulse Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After crudely dismissing the talk of local terrors, Chito ventures home late at night only to find himself caught in the clutches of El Cadejos (The Black Devil Dog) and spellbound by La LLorona (The Weeping Woman).
Author
Series
Batwoman volume 1
Language
English
Description
Monsters from myth and legend are preying upon the children of Gotham City. La Llorona, "The Weeping Woman," drowns her victims in sorrow...or worse. Batwoman is no stranger to sorrow herself. Her mind, body and soul have been battered as never before, but she's emerged stronger than ever. On a collision course with the mother of monsters, no one-not the GCPD, not the Department of Extranormal Operations and not the people who care about her the most-will...
12) Life and Death
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Language
English
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When Natalia's younger brother disappears while on a visit to Mexico, Natalia is certain that La Llorona, the mythical Weeping Woman, has taken him. Her friend Miguel agrees to accompany her back to Mexico in the hopes that it will help him deal with the recent death of his grandfather. But as they embark on a journey to search for the creature that has taken Natalia's brother, it becomes apparent that the spirits Miguel had brushed aside as mere...
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Language
English
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A collection of forty-five true-crime stories about the visual arts in Australia: art theft, art forgery, art censorship, art vandalism, and protest art. The title comes from the famous artnapping of Picasso's Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria. One of the artnapper's demands was an art prize called 'The Picasso Ransom'.
While that crime is famous, others stories of crimes, from the colonial to the contemporary, have faded from memory....
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Series
Heirs of Alexandria volume 5
Language
English
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Sequel to Much Fall of Blood, book 4 in the Heirs of Alexandria series. Civilization at the crossroads. In an alternate Renaissance where magic works, a captain of Italian forces must deal with gods, goddesses and warfare in order to save his daughter at the siege of Constantinople-and prevent a new dark age. In an alternate 15th century where magic still is part of life, the Holy Roman Empire rules Europe. Constantinople is under siege by the Venetians...
15) Murder of Pearl
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English
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The world's her oyster…until someone is stabbed with her shucking knife.
With a struggling pearl party business, sisters Kelly and Jodi Silverman are thrilled to land a weekend long jewelry party at a large estate. But the gothic house, complete with its weeping woman fountain, gives Kelly a bad vibe.
A nasty storm strands them at the spooky mansion. And when the birthday gal is found with Kelly's shucking knife poking from her chest, they're not...
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Language
English
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Leticia Marisol Estrella Torrez, a university honors graduate, moves north to Los Angeles in an attempt to break from the traditional grandmother who raised her and from Weeping Woman, the Mexican folkloric siren who is said to fly through the skies at night to steal troublesome children and who has courted Leticia since her adolescence.
In Los Angeles, Leticia is quickly immersed in the post-punk, post-Queer hipster scene, and after a short-lived...
17) The liminal zone
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After abruptly departing from a train in a small town, a couple encounters a "weeping woman"--a professional mourner--sobbing inconsolably at a funeral. Mako changes afterward--she can't stop crying! In another tale, having decided to die together, a couple enters Aokigahara, the infamous suicide forest. What is the shocking otherworldly torrent that they discover there? One of horror's greatest talents, Junji Ito beckons readers to join him in...
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English
Description
Allie and Shoo Spywell is just regular kids-well, sort of. It's just that their dad is an archaeologist, and their mother is a mystery writer. The Spywell kids always seem to get a few more history lessons than they would like. While left on their own to explore the Detroit Historical Museum, Allie and Shoo soon meet strange characters. Shoo meets a boy in red tennis shoes who becomes even more mysterious and stranger as the afternoon wears on. Allie,...
19) Year of the Dog
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Series
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English
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In the tradition of women as the unsung keepers of history, Deborah Paredez's second poetry collection tells her story as a Latina daughter of the Vietnam War.
The title refers to the year 1970-the "year of the Metal Dog" in the lunar calendar-which was the year of the author's birth, the year of her father's deployment to Vietnam with a troop of Mexican-American immigrant soldiers, and a year of tremendous upheaval across the United States. Images...
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English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:
#1 The United States is a much more powerful entity than La Llorona, the weeping woman who takes children away. It takes away parents, not children.
#2 When my mother left to sell Avon products, I would often go with her. But when she said she wouldn't be gone for long, I knew it would be different. I never imagined that not too long would turn out to be never, because...