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  Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel

  by Ana Castillo

  The seductive world of flamenco forms the backdrop for a classic tale of independence found, lost, and reclaimed. Like Bizet's legendary gypsy, Carmen "La Coja" (The Cripple) Santos is hilarious, passionate, triumphant, and mesmerizing. A renowned flamenco dancer in Chicago despite the legacy of childhood polio, Carmen has long enjoyed an affair with Agustín, the married director of her troupe--a romance that's... (more)
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  The Return

  by Victoria Hislop

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  The Lost Diary of Don Juan

  by Douglas Carlton Abrams

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  The Flamenco Academy

  by Sarah Bird

  From the author of the widely praised The Yokota Officers Club , a superbly alive novel about two young American women caught up in the fevered excitement of the flamenco revival sweeping the Southwest. The place is Albuquerque. Cyndi Rae Hrncir, called Rae, seventeen and shy, is twice spellbound, first by high school bad girl Didi (“Dirty Deeds”) Steinberg, already embarked on a search for stardom, then by a... (more)
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  Duende

  by Jason Webster

  The music started: two guitarists beating out more Alboreás. The women took turns to dance in a frenzy, each trying to outdo the other. “Deep Song always sings in the night,” Lorca had written. It was the credo of the flamenco: a rejection of the mundane, the ordinary, the life of the everyday man, embracing, rather, an extreme world – extreme passions, extreme feelings, the extremes of life and death. And... (more)
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  Flamenco: Gypsy Dance and Music from Andalusia

  by Claus Schreiner

  Written by a group of dedicated flamenco enthusiasts, this book traces the history and development of flamenco, the stirring form of folk dance created by the gypsies of the Andalusian region of Spain in the 19th century and still popular today.
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  Duende

  by Jason Webster

  Having pursued a conventional enough path through school and university, Jason Webster was all set to enter the world of academe as a profession. But when his aloof Florentine girlfriend of some years dumped him unceremoniously, he found himself at a crossroads. Abandoning the world of libraries and the future he had always imagined for himself, he headed off instead for Spain in search of duende, the intense... (more)