Spanish Language Collection
Kannapolis City and the surrounding area revealed a need for more resources in Spanish for adults to support a growing population. To better support our community, we are expanding our Spanish language resources in a variety of formats including print books, digital resources, magazines, audio books, and more.
Description: Referencia Latina is a database by EBSCO.
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Annotation: This resource contains a combination of quality English translations and Spanish original works from over 150 books and encyclopedias and nearly 40 periodicals on topics such as art, history, health, and entertainment. Topics are mostly concerned with Latin America, but address international issues as well that may be of interest to Spanish speaking patrons. (Arriola, 2019)
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Referral: CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
Database
Books
La casa de los espiritus
By Isabel Allende
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​​​​Description: The Truebas are wealthy estate owners and Esteban Trueba leads an abusive and privileged childhood. He eventually meets and marries Clara, a clairvoyant woman, and the story follows the turbulent lives of their family through the decades.
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Annotation: This is a classic fiction novel of Latin America complete with magic realism and leftward political context.
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Review: Kirkus Reviews
En el tiempo de las mariposas
By Julia Alvarez
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Description: The Mirabal sisters each eventually discover the courage necessary to rise up against Dominican dictator Trujillo. They fight in their own ways to escape oppression and join in the struggle to advance civil rights.
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Annotation: Alvarez masterfully uses language to celebrate women's courage and human fraility. This is a landmark Dominican novel from a well known Dominican voice.
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Review: Publishers Weekly
Los niños perdidos
By Valeria Luiselli
Description: An essay that the author constructs around her time as a translator and the forty questions she would ask children to match them to a lawyer. Upon learning the stories of these children, Luiselli frame them for the reader as a testimony.
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Annotation: Los niños perdidos is an important short essay that chronicles the political issues relevant to our times. Luiselli humanizes and gives voice to children who have been often only the subject of reporting.
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Review: Gatopardo
The Game
By Alessandro Barrico
Description: A work of nonfiction wherein Barrico maps the revolution of our digital uprising, the collapse of the norms of the 20th century, and the implications of our advanced technology for the future.
Annotation: The Game discuses the advance of our technology and where it may lead us, one of the great questions of our day, with an exhaustive and open perspective.
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Review: Anagrama
Lectura facil
By Cristina Morales
Description: The story of four Hispanic women, each living with a disability, and sharing the struggles they are constantly asked to overcome in Barcelona in their day to day lives.
Annotation: This novel won the 2018 Premio Herralde for its unrelenting ambition to share the sometimes uncomfortable and often unheard narratives of people living with disabilities.
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Review: Anagrama
El fuego invisible
By Javier Sierra
Description: David Salas, protagonist in this novel, is a linguist on a trip to Spain. He runs into an old friend and together to begin to unravel the historic and well kept mysteries of the grail.
Annotation: Winner of the Premio Planeta in 2017, El fuego invisible is a gripping thriller that will intrigue readers who seek a tale of history and adventure.
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Review: Dylibros
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Aqui, Borya
By Alberto Lati
Description: A novel that follows a frustrated writer’s quest to find stories that have never been read before into a journey of absurdities and uncertainties. He attempts to understand the story he’s chasing, or perhaps to become it.
Annotation: A new psychologically thriller that pulls the reader deeper and deeper into the mind games of the protagonist.
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Referral: Enoch Pratt Library, New York Public Library
Más allá del invierno
By Isabel Allende
Description: A novel that follows the journey of three very different people from Brooklyn to Guatemala as two of them discover a love long overdue.
Annotation: Más allá del invierno is an inspiring novel of overcoming obstacles, second chances, and shared humanity. It also remarks upon relevant societal issues such as immigration, exile, and politically instability.
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Review: Aloha Criticon
Donde los Crawdads cantan
By Delia Owens
Description: This novel tells of a murder in a quiet town, a girl’s coming-of-age story, and the lessons of survival that she has learned from the marsh that became her refuge during a troubled childhood.
Annotation: A highly reviewed work of fiction that uses carefully selected language to express a memorable and heartbreaking story of loneliness and survival.
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Review: New York Journal of Books
Antes de que llegaras
By Lisa Wingate
Description: Four children are stolen one night from their homes while their parents deal with a crisis and put into an orphanage. A woman who seems to have it all braves the troubling mystery of her family to find the truth.
Annotation: Antes de que llegaras is a historical fiction novel based on a true American tragedy. Wingate brings the story to life with relatable characters and a compelling story.
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Review: Escaparate Literario
El amor en los tiempos de cholera [Sound Recording]
By Gabriel Garcia Marquéz
Description: A novel set in the late 19th century in South America that chronicles the love and tribulations of two protagonists from their childhood into old age.
Annotation: A classic novel by Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez that diverges from his well-known tales of magic realism to tell a story about possibilities, love, and humanity.
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Review: New York Times
Description: Salud en Español is a database containing reports and facts on health and wellness.
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Annotation: This database contains authoritative overviews on popularly search topics within health and wellness including diseases, childcare, aging, and first aid. The interface has quicklinks to the most popular topics and can be search in English and Spanish.
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Referral: Texas Law Library
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Electronic Resources
Digitalia Public Library
Description: Spanish language ebooks to be downloaded or read online.
Annotation: Digitalia Public Library offers a wide range of ebooks, more than 4,000, from Spanish and Latin American publishers. Includes books for children, science fiction, history, classics, and more.
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Review: Public Libraries Online
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Digitalia Film
Description: A collection of Spanish language films and documentaries available for streaming.
Annotation: Digitalia Films is a subscription based streaming service that offers films from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, France, Mexico, Spain, and the United States. Public Performance Rights apply to the entire collection.
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Review: American Libraries Magazine
Rosetta Stone
Description: Rosetta Stone is language learning software that is accessible through computers, mobile devices, and tablets. It offers patrons a wide range of languages to learn, including English.
Annotation: This software utilizes immersion techniques for a visually rich and overall effective means of language learning. It comprehensively gives instruction with reading, writing, speaking, and listening, and has a friendly user interface to track progress.
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Review: Choice (2014)
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Leamos
Description: Leamos is an online Spanish literacy tool designed to teach Spanish-speaking adult how to read and write.
Annotation: Leamos is broken into modules to teach basic literacy skills to adults in Spanish using the most common parts of the language that are not specific to any one country’s dialect. It meets standards set by the Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System and is approved as a pre-ESL course.
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Review: American Libraries (2018)
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Brainfuse: Adult Learning Center
Description: Patrons connect live with a tutor online to help them through a variety of school and career goals with coaching, practice tests, and other online resources
Annotation: The Brainfuse Adult Learning center helps patrons through high school equivalency exams, career readiness, citizenship preparation, Microsoft Office tutorials, and writing a resume. Many of these resources are available in Spanish, including connecting with a Spanish-speaking tutor.
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Review: Library Administrator's Digest (2008)
Referrals: Kansas City Public Library, San Diego Public Library
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Magazines
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People en Español
Description: This magazine is a Spanish language version of People that covers mostly entertainment news, pop culture, and real life stories.
Annotation: People magazine is an established magazine that is read throughout the country. People en Español searches for stories that interest their consumer base not only on the premise of shared language, but shared culture.
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Review: Echo Media
Description: Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica is a journal that focuses on international relations, especially those having to do with Latin America.
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Annotation: This journal is a branch of the long standing and reputable Foreign Affairs journal. It provides authoritative articles on international news and policies through English translations and Spanish original works.
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Referral: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Journal
Arriola, F. (2011). Referencia latina. Choice, 48(6), 1048-1048,1050. Retrieved from https://login.libproxy.uncg.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/862160468?accountid=14604
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Brainfuse. (2008). Library Administrator's Digest, 43(9), 68. Retrieved from https://login.libproxy.uncg.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/236447184?accountid=14604
Canacci, M. (n.d.). Isabel Allende – Más Allá Del Invierno – Crítica [Review of the book Más allá del invierno]. Aloha Criticón. Retrieved from https://www.alohacriticon.com/literatura/comentarios-libros/isabel-allende-mas-alla-del-invierno-critica/
Dylibros. (2017, November 3). El fuego invisible Javier Sierra Premio Planeta [Review of the book El fuego invisible]. Retrieved from https://www.dylibros.es/el-fuego-invisible-javier-sierra/
Enoch Pratt Free Library. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.prattlibrary.org/
Everhart, D. (n.d.). Where the Crawdads Sing [Review of the book Where the Crawdads Sing]. New York Journal of Books. Retrieved from https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/where-crawdads-sing
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​Foreign Affairs. (n.d.). In Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Foreign-Affairs-journal
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The Game. (n.d.). The Game [Review of the book The Game]. Anagrama. Retrieved from https://www.anagrama-ed.es/libro/argumentos/the-game/9788433964366/A_530
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Garba, J. (2018, August 17). Valeria Luiselli gana el American Book Award [Review of the book Los niños perdidos]. Gatopardo. Retrieved from https://gatopardo.com/arte-y-cultura/american-book-award/
Kansas City Public Library. (2019). Retrieved July 12, 2019 from https://www.kclibrary.org/research-resources/research-databases/adult-learning-center-brainfuse
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Kirkus Reviews. (2011). The House of the Spirits [Review of the book The House of the Spirits]. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved from https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/isabel-allende/house-spirits/
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Learning Spanish First: California libraries pilot unique literacy program. (2018). American Libraries, 49(5), 16–17. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.libproxy.uncg.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=llf&AN=129540462&site=ehost-live
Lectura fácil. (n.d.). Lectura fácil [Review of the book Lectura fácil]. Anagrama. Retrieved from https://www.anagrama-ed.es/libro/narrativas-hispanicas/lectura-facil/9788433998644/NH_616
Martín, M. (2018, March 14). Reseña: Antes de que llegaras (Lisa Wingate) [Review of the book Antes de que llegaras]. Escaparate Literario. Retrieved from https://escaparateliterario.com/resena-llegaras-lisa-wingate/
Miller, L. K. (2014). Rosetta stone library solution. Choice, 52(2), 230-231. Retrieved from https://login.libproxy.uncg.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/1566518964?accountid=14604
Morehart, P. (2015, September 22). Libraries Go to the Movies. American Libraries. Retrieved from https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2015/09/22/libraries-go-to-movies/
New York Public Library. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.nypl.org/
People en Español. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://echo-media.com/medias/details/11357
Pynchon, T. (1988, April 10). The Heart’s Eternal Vow [Review of the book Love in the Time of Cholera]. The New York Times. Retrieved from https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-cholera.html
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San Diego Public Library. (2019). Retrieved July 12, 2019 from https://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/services/adulteducation/
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Texas State Law Library. (2019). Electronic Databases. Retrieved July 8, 2019 from https://guides.sll.texas.gov/electronic-databases/ebsco
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Teysko, H., Novak, T. (2014, July 8). New Product News May/June 2014. Public Libraries Online. Retrieved from http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2014/07/new-product-news-mayjune-2014/
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Publishers Weekly. (1994). In the Time of the Butterflies [Review of the book In the Time of the Butterflies]. Publishers Weekly. Retrieved from https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-56512-038-9