Books with author Alvarez

Mia Mercado is a newly graduate AB Journalism student who finds herself struggling into the world of Banking and Finance Industry after her job applications was rejected by the media companies.She will soon realize that living in a corporate world is far different from her life in school. She will meet different people--- both nice and harsh, that will contribute to the development of her career as a bank employee, and at the same time, she will find her new romance in the city, too.However, as she continue to strive harder, she will be involved in frauds and bank's irregularities that will jeopardize her career. How will Mia save her career and prove her innocence? Find out how she manage to cope up with the ups and downs of being a career neophyte.

Get kids giggling with the first book in the Hiccup's Hiccups series.A humorous, adventure story of friendship, acceptance, and compassion.The Hiccup's Hiccups series was written with the intention of teaching children to embrace their differences and to cultivate the values of empathy and kindness. With shorter chapters, bigger print, and a few illustrations, these hilarious chapter books, meant for kids ages 6-9, will entice and enrapture even the most reluctant readers.

Something strange is happening in fourteen-year-old Emily Murray’s world.First, there’s the strange man in the forest preserve, asking senseless questions and addressing her by name. Then, there are the books in the cave, new pages in old binding of crudely censored text that hint of a tragedy long past, but maybe not so long ago. And finally, the whispered conversation of her father and his colleague of lives lost, memories forgotten, and a powerful, powerful man who is looking to kill.All these moments come together as one when Emily, on a suspiciously abrupt vacation with her father and brother to the west coast of Mexico, is drugged and kidnapped by nameless strangers. Her life has just been changed forever.The Harris family, Mr. Harris and his teenage children, Andrea and Tyler, lead a life filled with inexplicable espionage and danger. There are cameras by the windows, threats of wiretaps, and a holding cell in the center of their house made to look like a basement. This is where Emily wakes up, and this is where the trouble begins.Because there is a secret in the world of 2044, a secret history that the world has forgotten, that only seventeen people know of and only five can remember, and it has been shaping the planet for over thirty years. And there is an organization called TRUE, dedicated to telling the secret and keeping the information alive. But there is also a man called Frederic Arrant, with motives of his own, whose sole intent is to do just the opposite, no matter the cost.It is into this secret world that Emily falls, and as part of the new generation carrying the secret, she must fight, with TRUE by her side, to keep the information alive. Frederic Arrant has started a new project, the consequences of which could devastate all humanity. The secret is the only way TRUE might be able to stop him, and they need the help of a new generation. Something strange is happening in Emily Murray’s world, and suddenly, she might just have to save it.

Would you choose closure or revenge?Anna Wodehouse, a.k.a. Carpenter Poole, is on her way north. With the long shadow of HALON receding in the distance like a fading nightmare, she heads to Vancouver hoping to find the closure that has eluded her.At the Canadian border she realizes that the closure she needs is nothing compared to the feeling of revenge when she discovers the man who set her up for murder, General Malik Palma, is in New York for an event at the United Nations.The questions that plague Anna get the better of her. Her anger towards Palma, the man she knew as Benson, gets the better of her and she decides to change direction.Did Marshall Wodehouse really abandon Anna 7 years earlier? What really happened to him?What is the mysterious project known as HALON?The ever-quickening decent of the roller coaster of Anna's life is speeding to its inevitable conclusion as she finds the dark answers she seeks.Follow Anna across the United States to New York in the startling conclusion of The Kidnapping Anna Trilogy: The Montague Tubes.

After Tyler's father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?In a novel full of hope, but no easy answers, Julia Alvarez weaves a beautiful and timely story that will stay with readers long after they finish it.

"Reading Julia Alvarez's new collection of essays is like curling up with a glass of wine in one hand and the phone in the other, listening to a big-hearted, wisecracking friend share hard-earned wisdom about family, identity, and the art of writing." —People The rich and revealing essays in Something to Declare offer Julia Alvarez's dual meditations on coming to America and becoming a writer. In the first section, "Customs," Alvarez relates how she and her family fled the Dominican Republic and its oppressive dictator, Rafael Trujillo, settling in New York City in the 1960s. Here Julia begins a love affair with the English language under the tutelage of the aptly named Sister Maria Generosa. Part Two—"Declarations"—celebrates Alvarez's enduring passion for the writing life. From the valentine to mythic storyteller Scheherazade that is "First Muse," to a description of Alvarez's itinerant life as a struggling poet, teacher, and writer in "Have Typewriter, Will Travel," to the sage and witty advice of "Ten of My Writing Commandments," Alvarez generously shares her influences and inspirations with aspiring writers everywhere.

In a world, long ago, where the age of dragons were only myths and legends, come two young children to bring back those stories and make them real. A story of family values, friendship and trust. Two children must grow and train to become true dragon riders as a new threat approaches. The age of dragons has begun once more and Anthony and Lucy are the key to it all.

Anita de la Torre never questioned her freedom living in the Dominican Republic. But by her 12th birthday in 1960, most of her relatives have emigrated to the United States, her Tío Toni has disappeared without a trace, and the government’s secret police terrorize her remaining family because of their suspected opposition of el Trujillo’s dictatorship.Using the strength and courage of her family, Anita must overcome her fears and fly to freedom, leaving all that she once knew behind.From renowned author Julia Alvarez comes an unforgettable story about adolescence, perseverance, and one girl’s struggle to be free.