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Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coast. Don't disturb the dead ... On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafes, and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it's hard at first to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him....
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HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Tells the story of Easy Company, 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, an elite rifle company that parachuted into France early on D-Day morning, fought in the Battle of the Bulge, captured Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden, and suffered heavy casualties. Also includes a documentary about the soldiers in Easy Company.
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When a musician's new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish nationalists' ire, and it's up to Bruno to track down the extremists who seem ready to take deadly measures, in another delightful installment of the internationally acclaimed series featuring Bruno, Chief of Police. Les Troubadours, a folk music group that Bruno has long supported, go viral with their new number, "Song for Catalonia," when the Spanish...
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Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of what Muslim, Jewish, and Christian cultures had to offer,...
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Piñata Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When Estella is banned from the adult exercise dance class, she decides to petition for childrens' rights--to have salsa dance classes at the community center.
Cuando Estella se prohibió la clase de adultos de ejercicios de baile, ella decide peticionar por los derechos del niño - a tener clases de baile de salsa en el centro comunitario.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2011.
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Martha is not happy that summer will bring noisy weekly fireworks shows that will hurt her sensitive ears, so she organizes the local dogs to help Mrs. Demson's petition drive to get them banned, only to realize how unhappy that will make Helen.
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Long before penning Moby-Dick, which many regard as the quintessential American novel, author Herman Melville was captivated by life on the open sea. White Jacket adopts a different perspective, focusing on the brutal treatment that many sailors received at the hands of their superiors. In particular, it has been noted that this novel proved to be instrumental in banning the practice of flogging in several branches of the U.S. military.
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Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Español
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"Pedro tiene la mejor tarea para la escuela: coleccionar insectos y elegir uno sobre el cual escribir. Llena un frasco con cada hormiga, catarina y escarabajo que encuentra. Pero se desata el caos cuando su hermano, Paco, ¡los deja escapar a todos!"--Page 4 of cover.
Pedro collects a lot of different bugs for a class assignment, but when his brother lets them out in the house their parents are furious, and ban any further collecting.
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HBO Home Entertainment
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2013.
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English
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This action drama follows Lucas Hood, an ex-convict who improbably becomes sheriff of a rural, Amish-area town while searching for a woman he last saw 15 years ago, when he gave himself up to police to let her escape after a jewel heist. Living in Banshee under an assumed name, Carrie Hopewell is now married with kids and is trying to keep a low profile. Lucas not only tries to rekindle things with Carrie but has to deal with a town riddled with drugs,...
10) !Al baño!
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Macmillan Infantil y Juvenil
Pub. Date
[2009]
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Español
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Shows photographs of infants getting ready and taking a bath along with some of the objects they use for each activity.
Muestra fotografías de niños preparándose y tomando un baño junto con algunos de los objetos que utilizan para cada actividad.
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"For author Mulligan Sepúlveda, the son and husband of Spanish-speaking immigrants, the battle for immigration reform is personal. Mulligan Sepúlveda writes of visiting border detention centers, defending undocumented immigrants in court, and taking his services to JFK to represent people being turned away at the gates during Trump's infamous travel ban"--
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Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"The Central American nation of Costa Rica is located between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The country's history has shaped the rich cultural heritage of its people, from its indigenous peoples, through Spanish colonization, and the fight for independence. In this dynamic text, an excellent aid to elementary social studies curricula, readers will not only discover more about Costa Rica's past but also its current art and cuisine. This...
15) El Zorrito
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Editorial Juventud
Pub. Date
2007.
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Español
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A baby fox anticipates the time when he can go out alone, but first his parents must teach him the way of the wilderness.
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2013
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English
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Following the dates of the calendar year, Galeano resurrects the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories.
"Galeano's new book is his richest and most poetic yet, a joyous calendar of the sacred and the damned, a book of inspiration for those fighting tyranny, greed, and amnesia Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Galeano's new work has an illuminating...
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DK Publishing, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"From sugar skulls and sparkly skeleton costumes to sweet-tasting pan de muerto bread and altars adorned with marigold flowers, all the elements of this fun festival are included. With easy-to-follow pictures and simple sentences, this entertaining dual-language book is an opportunity to enjoy fun reading time with your children and help them on their path to learning English and Spanish."--Amazon.com.
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Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"People have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as novelist and narrative journalist Mark Haskell Smith shows in Naked at Lunch, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. "Nonsexual social nudism, " as it's called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle Époque France and Gilded Age Manhattan...
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Secret kingdom volume 5
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Oceano Travesía
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Best friends Ellie, Summer, and Jasmine head to the slopes of Magic Mountain in order to stop the brownies from being turned into icicles by recovering Queen Malice's fifth enchanted thunderbolt.
Entra en un mundo mágico lleno de amistad y diversión... Paula, Abril y Rita se dirigen a las heladas laderas de la Montaña Mágica en busca del quinto rayo de la reina Malicia. ¿Lo encontrarán?¿Podrán evitar que los duendes de la nieve se conviertan...
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