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Author
Series
Paola Santiago volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
Author
Language
English
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"A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel"--
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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A young family vacationing in Mexico is terrorized by the unrelenting evil spirit known to locals as 'La Llorona.' This legendary specter has been kidnapping children for decades. When she captures their only child, his parents must fight back with everything they've got.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope to survive the deadly wrath may be a disillusioned priest and the mysticism he practices to keep evil at bay, on the fringes where fear and faith collide.
Author
Series
Los monstruos volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The twelve-year-old daughter of La Llorona vows to free her mother and reverse the curses that have plagued the magical town of Tres Leches"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Third edition, enlarged.
Language
English
Description
Retells, in parallel English and Spanish text, the traditional Hispanic American tale of a proud and beautiful woman who, in a fit of jealousy, commits a terrible act and then cannot stop weeping for it, even after she is dead.
Author
Pub. Date
2017, 2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
English
Description
La Llorona is a specter from legend, wailing in the night for her lost children and desperate to claim living children to replace her own. In the 1970s, a social worker deals with a woman charged with child endangerment who is actually a victim of La Llorona, and gets caught up in the supernatural realm herself. Now the only hope for her own children may be a priest who lives on the fringes of where fear and faith collide.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
In an adventure reminiscent of Homer's Odyssey, fifteen-year-old Odilia and her four younger sisters embark on a journey to return a dead man to his family in Mexico, aided by La Llorona, but impeded by a witch, a warlock, chupacabras, and more.
Cuando Odilia y sus cuatro hermanas encuentran un cadáver en un pozo de río, se embarcan en un viaje heroico para devolver al muerto a su familia en México. Pero su regreso a Texas se convierte en una...
11) La Llorona
Series
Criterion collection volume 1156
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
[Director-approved special edition].
Language
Español
Description
While standing trial for atrocities committed against Guatemala's Mayan communities, a former military dictator is haunted by a series of disturbing visions.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Latin American tale of La Llorona strikes fear in the hearts of all who hear it. It begins with a woman who drowns her children in a fit of rage and jealously. It ends with a weeping specter rumored to pull anyone she encounters to a watery grave. Where did the legend of this murderous mother begin? And why is La Llorona doomed to wander the waterways for all eternity? Young readers will find out in this easy-to-read ghostly graphic novel that...
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