http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/JuliaAlvarez.html

http://www.fronteramag.com/issue5/Alvarez/
    *  An interview with Alvarez by Marny Requa of Frontera Magazine

http://www.goshen.edu/~angiemb/AnnotatedBib.html
    *  Goshen College bibliography of Julia Alvarez, including summaries of some of her books

http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedycompact_awl/chapter6/objectives/deluxe-content.html
    *  Longman Publishers biography

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-07-19.htm
    *  Atlantic Monthly's interview by Hilary McClellen with Alvarez

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452274427/ref%3Dnosim/sealarksgoodbook/102-0066193-3885778
    *  A review of the book, In the Time of Butterflies

Reviews and resources for use with the book, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent

http://clnet.ucr.edu/library/bplg/garcia.htm

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452268060/ref%3Dnosim/sealarksgoodbook/103-9195000-4800632
    *  Amazon.com reviews

http://mostlyfiction.com/latin/alvarez.htm
    *  A summary of the book, YO

The Dominican Republic

http://www.domrep.org/
    * Link to Dominican Republic Embassy in Washington, DC

http://www.usemb.gov.do/
    *  Link to US embassy in Santo Domingo.  In Spanish

http://www.latinosportslegends.com/sosa.htm
    *  Biography of Sammy Sosa

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/dr.html
    *  CIA-World Factbook

http://www.hoy.com.do/
    *  Link to Hoy, a newspaper in Santo Domingo

The Era of Dictators

http://www.jlhs.nhusd.k12.ca.us/classes/social_science/latin_america/dominican_Republic.html
    *  Summary of the Trujillo era

http://www.countryreports.org/history/dominhist.htm
    *  An overview of the country's history

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA%20Hits/DominRep_CIAHits.html
    *  A summary of the CIA's involvement with Trujillo.  Unsure of how factual.

http://www.onwar.com/aced/nation/day/dominican/findex.htm
    *  Summary of all the armed conflicts in the Dominican Republic

Immigration

http://www.bbc.co.uk/spanish/especiales/mundolatino/introduccion.shtml
    *  A BBC special on the Mundo Latino in the US.  Includes interviews and maps.

http://members.aol.com/classweb/spanish/ucsb2001/latinos.html
    *  A unit of Latinos in the US.

http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/4/96.04.08.x.html
    *  Unit plan "Hispanic Immigration: America in the Year 2000"

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/nw-srv/talk/cover/990707/front.htm
    *  Newsweek interview with editor, Veronica Chambers, about "Generation Ñ"

Caribbean recipes

http://www.caribcon.com/caribkit.html

http://www.swagga.com/recipe.htm

http://www.thedominicanrepublic.net/CaribbeanFood.html

http://www.deliciousindia.com/Recipes/InternationalRecipes/north%20america/carribean_2.htm#Recipes From Dominican Republic