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  • Born Grown

    The Making of Travis C. Burrell

    by Jo Evans Lynn, Travis C. Burrell ...
    Born Grown is a biographical sketch that uses the memories and experiences of Travis C. Burrell to paint a very vivid picture of the lives of children who grow-up in neglectful homes and in-and-out of foster care. He had seen so much and been responsible for himself, his siblings, and friend at such a young age that he felt that he was born grown. This life toughens the children who live them, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tooth Fairy's Legacy

    by Jo Evans ...
    The Tooth Fairy loves rewarding children for growing their big kid teeth. But as she flies around the world to spread her magic and place money under pillows every night, no one knows that she has a big dream to pass down her legacy to her daughter, Molina. As Molina grows up and becomes a skilled assistant, she brings joy to children while they sleep just like her mother. But when Molina suddenly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Holding On

    A Parable of Faith and Strength

    by Jo Evans Lynn ...
    Set in rural South Carolina and urban North Carolina, in the novel Holding On: A Parable of Faith and Strength, we watch Sister Fullmore emerge through a very untypical childhood to become a very untypical woman. The book begins on her first day of school, where we see hints of the smart, sassy young woman she becomes.----From a father who drinks his family into a life of poverty, to brothers who ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Luis Buñuel

    A Life in Letters

    Edited by Jo Evans, Breixo Viejo ...
    PROSE Award for Excellence in Media and Cultural Studies Finalist 2020Luis Buñuel: A Life in Letters provides access for the first time to an annotated English-language version of around 750 of the most important and most widely relevant of these letters. Buñuel (1900-1983) came to international attention with his first films, Un Chien Andalou (with Dalí, 1929) and L'Âge d'Or (1930): two ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Territories of the Visual in Spain and Spanish America

    Visual Studies and UK Hispanism

    Edited by Jo Evans, Julia Biggane, Nuria Triana-Toribio ...
    While studying the theory and contemporary impact of ‘embodied’ viewing, this book celebrates the emergence and development of Visual Studies as a major subject of research and teaching in the field of Hispanic Studies within the UK over the last thirty years.By exploring current routes of investigation, as well as analysing future pathways for study in the field, seven highly distinguished ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • The Promise of Friendship

    Friendship Is Forever. Isn’T It…

    by Jo Evans Lynn ...
    They were children who had seen too muchYoull be dead before youre five, those were the first words Joyce Ann could remember her grandmother saying to her and the fact that she was almost nine did not make living any easierJoyce Ann, Josephine, Kenny, and Janie-all the children had seen too much, been through too much, dealt with too many grown-up things to be considered children in more than age ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    The transnational filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón

    by Deborah Shaw ...
    Series series Spanish and Latin-American Filmmakers
    This is the first academic book dedicated to the filmmaking of the three best known Mexican born directors, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón.Deborah Shaw examines the career trajectories of the directors and presents a detailed analysis of their most significant films with a focus on both the texts and the production contexts in which they were made. These ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Change of Heart

    by Jude Deveraux ...
    Two childhood playmates grow into more than just friends in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux’s full-length romantic novel based on her short story of the same name.In the hugely popular, New York Times bestseller A Holiday of Love, Jude Deveraux wrote a novella about two kids playing matchmakers—Eli and Chelsea, best friends who were determined to find true love for Eli’s ... Read more

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  • The Cinema of Latin America

    Edited by Alberto Elena, Marina Díaz López ...
    Series series 24 Frames
    The Cinema of Latin America is the first volume in the new 24 Frames series of studies of national and regional cinema. In taking an explicitly text-centered approach, the books in this series offer a unique way of considering the particular concerns, styles and modes of representation of numerous national cinemas around the world. This volume focuses on the vibrant practices that make up Latin ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Spanish National Cinema

    by Nuria Triana-Toribio ...
    Series series National Cinemas
    This study examines the discourses of nationalism as they intersected or clashed with Spanish film production from its inception to the present. While the book addresses the discourses around filmmakers such as Almodóvar and Medem, whose work has achieved international recognition, Spanish National Cinema is particularly novel in its treatment of a whole range of popular cinema rarely touched on ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Directory of World Cinema: Spain

    Edited by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano ...
    Though loved by moviegoers worldwide, Spanish cinema has thus far suffered from a relative lack of critical attention. Focusing on the vast corpus of films that have left their marks on generations of spectators, Directory of World Cinema: Spain returns the national cinema of Spain rightfully to the forefront with numerous full-colour stills and essays establishing the key players and genres in ... Read more

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  • Translocas

    The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

    by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes ...
    Series series Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance
    Translocas focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for its political potential, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes explores the social and cultural disruptions caused by Latin American and Latinx “locas” (effeminate men, drag queens, transgender performers, and unruly women) and the various forms of violence to which queer individuals in Puerto ... Read more

    $21.59 USD