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Call Number
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PS3551.L845 I5 1994 - Regular Loan - Main Library Collection (Books)
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Author
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 Alvarez, Julia.
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Title
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In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez.
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Edition
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1st ed.
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Publisher
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Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994.
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Description
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325 p. ; 23 cm.
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Summary
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The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
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Document Type
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Fiction
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Subject Headings
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Mirabel, María Teresa, 1935-1960 -- Fiction.
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Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960 -- Fiction.
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Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960 -- Fiction.
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Dominican Republic -- History -- 1930-1961 -- Fiction.
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Women revolutionaries -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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ISBN
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1565120388
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9781565120389
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000069423
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Call Number
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PS3551.L845 I5 1994 - Regular Loan - Main Library Collection (Books)
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