Brava

Brava
Author: Adriana Palomares
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2023-10-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

While growing up in México, Lucia Inocencio Granados is unconditionally loved by her grandmother, Mamá Juanita who tells her that she is the light of their destiny, born to change their lineage. All Lucia has to do is put herself in God’s hands. It is not until many years later, in the darkest moment of her life, that Lucia finally understands the depth of Mamá Juanita’s message. When she is just eight years old, Lucia’s life changes forever when she boards a bus with her parents and siblings without any idea that she is leaving everything she knows behind to migrate illegally to Los Angeles. After spending a month in Tijuana, Lucia and her family finally cross the border and settle in a rough neighborhood in Los Angeles. As she sets down a new path as a determined first-generation Méxican-American, Lucia attempts to overcome social pressures and expectations, financial and personal challenges, and cultural stereotypes. Brava is the inspirational story of a young Latina’s coming-of-age journey as she searches for success and true happiness after she migrates to the United States from México. But will she find a way to eventually realize the destiny her grandmother envisioned for her?

'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry of Brava (c. 1890-1975)

'Stringing Coral Beads': The Religious Poetry of Brava (c. 1890-1975)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 858
Release: 2018-08-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004365958

This book presents fifty-one didactic and devotional Sufi poems (with English translations) composed by the ulama of Brava, on Somalia’s Benadir coast, in Chimiini, a Bantu language related to Swahili and unique to the town. Because the six ulama-poets, among whom two women, guided local believers towards correct beliefs and behaviours in reference to specific authoritative religious texts, the poems allow insight into their authors’ religious education, affiliations, in which the Qādiriyyah and Aḥmadiyyah took pride of place, and regional connections. Because the poems refer to local people, places, events, and livelihoods, they also bring into view the uniquely local dimension of Islam in this small East African port city in this time-period.

A LA BRAVA, Latina Superhero Team

A LA BRAVA, Latina Superhero Team
Author: Kayden Phoenix
Publisher: Phoenix Studios
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2024-05-01
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

The A LA BRAVA team is finally together! Jalisco. Santa. Loquita. Ruca. And Bandita. The superheroes are brought together by Muneca, an eager agent wanting to prove herself and her new-found grassroots organization. When the controversial Fair Share Bill, a bill to tax the billionaires, gets presented to Congress, females in political powers mysteriously start dying. The media labels it as freak accidental deaths but Muneca has her suspicions as to who's behind it all. So she bands the superheroes together and has them stake out the possible suspects, billionaires. After a failed assassination attempt on President Hilda Ruth Sotomayor, the superheroes put aside their differences and work together to figure out which billionaire is causing political unrest and the murders.

Costa Brava, Costa Dorada

Costa Brava, Costa Dorada
Author: Elke Homburg
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2001
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9783886187249

Colourful, handy-sized travel guides with separate map.

Costa Brava and Barcelona

Costa Brava and Barcelona
Author: Michael Lockwood
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2003
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781856912228

This guide to Malta, Gozo and Comina includes: topographical walking maps; fold-out touring maps; many short walks and picnic suggestions - suitable for hot summer days and for those with young children; and an update service with specific route-change information.

Crush Me / Ría Brava

Crush Me / Ría Brava
Author: f.l.Crank
Publisher: Radical Narratives
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2016-10-23
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0998139815

"In Crush Me / Ría Brava, f.l.Crank writes from the perspective of an immigrant woman, a worker who cleans the house of a wealthy Anglo woman in the United States. The sparse prose and dreamlike qualities of the narrator’s language encourage us to read this story as that of both a singular person and a representative of a larger mass of immigrant workers. Indeed our protagonist only names herself once and by the end of the narrative seems poised to disintegrate to an even more abstract version of herself. We may read this novel, as we are asked to understand it, as a broken one, a set of jagged pieces that together offer a portrait of gendered labor in a foreign land.” -Ariana Vigil, Ph.D.

Catalunya Rough Guides Snapshot Spain (includes The Costa Brava, Cadaqués, Girona, Figueres, the Catalan Pyrenees, Sitges and Tarragona)

Catalunya Rough Guides Snapshot Spain (includes The Costa Brava, Cadaqués, Girona, Figueres, the Catalan Pyrenees, Sitges and Tarragona)
Author: AnneLise Sorensen
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2012-08-02
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 140931457X

Rough Guides Snapshot Catalunya is the ultimate travel guide to this unique part of Spain. It guides you through the Catalan region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights, including the Casa-Museu Dalí (Salvador Dalí's shrine to Surrealism), the rugged coves and pretty beaches of the Costa Brava, and the soaring peaks of the Pyrenees. Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops and tapas bars, ensuring you have the best trip possible, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to Spain, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around Catalunya, including transport, cuisine, costs and health. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to Spain. Full coverage: The Costa Brava, Roses, Cadaqués, Casa-Museu Dalí, Palafrugell, Begur, Girona, Figueres, Besalú, Vic, Cardona, Salsona, The Catalan Pyrenees, The Noguera Pallaresa Valley, The Romanesque Trail, Cava Country, Sitges, Tarragona, The Monestir de Poblet. (Equivalent printed page extent 116 pages).

Bravo! Brava! A Night at the Opera

Bravo! Brava! A Night at the Opera
Author: Anne Siberell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 65
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0195139666

Introduces the directors, musicians, designers, stagehands and many other people who make the magic happen. Singers work with all others to create a performance.

Brava, Valentine

Brava, Valentine
Author: Adriana Trigiani
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061257079

A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal.