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1) Mujercitas
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Español
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"Encontrarán en estas páginas la historia de los March, una familia sencilla, honesta, llena de sueños. Mientras el padre está en la guerra, nosotros vamos siguiendo lo que ocurre con las cuatro hermanas, muy distintas entre sí, y con los vecinos: el rico y bondadoso señor Laurence y su nieto Laurie, tan travieso como atractivo. Dolores, alegrías, esperanzas y desilusiones hay en la vida cotidiana de las cuatro mujercitas. Nada extraordinario...
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Doc Ford volume 25
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English
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"Murder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in the thrilling new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series. Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but he's never faced a situation like this. His old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing sunken wrecks most of his life, but now he's run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. Its...
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Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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Después de vivir un temblor devastador, el espíritu de los vecinos en esta dinámica zona de una ciudad mexicana se sacude, pero no se rompe.
After a devastating earthquake hits, a little girl and her neighbors help each other rebuild their city. Includes author's note.
4) Corduroy
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A toy bear in a department store wants a number of things, but when a little girl finally buys him he finds what he has always wanted most of all.
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English
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"At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising...
7) Abuela
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Series
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Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
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2021-12 - Food Safety Month
Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage 2023
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Hispanic & Latino Authors: Picture Books (SCPL-YS)
Hispanic Heritage 2023
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While riding on a bus with her grandmother, a little girl imagines that they are carried up into the sky and fly over the sights of New York City.
"¿Y qué tal si los pájaros me alzaran y me llevaran volando por encima del parque? ¿Qué pasaría si yo volara? ¡Claro que ella vuela! Y lleva consigo a su abuela y nos narra, en español sazonado con algunas frases en inglés, este maravilloso viaje. Muchos de los lugares que visitan le recuerdan...
8) Eclipse
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Twilight saga volume 3
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English
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"'Bella?' Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, and kissed me again. His kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us. As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her...
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Los animales de la granja intentan de despistar una arañita mientras que devana su tela, pero ella persiste y produce una cosa de belleza y utilidad. Se puede palpar la tela en los cuadros.
The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness. The pictures may be felt as well as seen.
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"Bring meaning and joy to all your days with this internationally bestselling guide to the Japanese concept of ikigai -- the happiness of always being busy -- as revealed by the daily habits of the world's longest-living people." -- From Amazon.com summary.
"...In researching this book, the authors interviewed the residents of the Japanese village with the highest percentage of 100-year-olds -- one of the world's Blue Zones. Ikigai reveals the secrets...
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2016.
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English
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When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year's Day, he doesn't expect much from the coming year. When a stray, brindle-furred cat slips into his Barcelona apartment, it becomes the catalyst that leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and classical music to places he's never been and to people he might never have met. Even better, he is led back to the mysterious Gabriela, whom he thought he'd lost...
13) Becoming
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English
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2023 FPPL Black History Month
Audiobooks with Famous Narrators
Biographies From People of Color
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"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton,...
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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Lucas Pereyra, un escritor recién entrado en la cuarentena, viaja de Buenos Aires a Montevideo para recoger un dinero que le han mandado desde el extranjero y que no puede recibir en su país debido a las restricciones cambiarias. Casado y con un hijo, no atraviesa su mejor momento, pero la perspectiva de pasar un día en otro país en compañía de una joven amiga es suficiente para animarle un poco. Una vez en Uruguay, las cosas no salen tal como...
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Español
Description
Todo es blanco y negro hasta que seis pingüinitos toman los pinceles y transforman su mundo nevado en un colorido jardín. ¿Crees que harán un desastre? ¡Adivina!
Everything is black and white until six little penguins pick up their paintbrushes and change their snowy world into a colorful garden. Do you think these six little penguins will make a mess? Guess!
17) Matilda
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Español
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"Una preciosa edición regalo ilustrada a todo color de MATILDA, uno de los libros más queridos y leídos de la literatura infantil. Siendo tan pequeña, él único poder de Matilda contra su terrible familia era el de su mente. Uno de los libros más queridos y leídos de la literatura infantil, ahora ilustrado a todo color por Sarah Walsh, una reconocida ilustradora americana con un estilo vívido y personal que te sumergirá de lleno en la fascinante...
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Judy Moody volume 3
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Español
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"En clase de Ciencias, Judy se entera de la destrucción de los bosques tropicales, de que hay muchos animales en peligro de extinción y de que el planeta entero tiene seros problemas ambientales. Entonces, ¡lanza una cruzada ecologista! Y, como siepre, lleva las cosas hasta el extremo..."--
"When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade...
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"En Linares, al norte del país, con la Revolución mexicana como telón de fondo... Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia Morales abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé deforme y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conservar y cuidar al pequeño, la familia decide adoptarlo. Cubierto...
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Raven Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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The little penguin is proud of his fuzzy coat. When his fuzz starts to fall off, he wants a sweater, until he discovers he's become a grown up penguin.
A Duncan el pinguinito le encanta su plumaje de pelusa de color gris. Cuando la pelusa empieza a caerse, su mamá le hace un suéter hasta que Duncan descubre que él se ha convertido en un pinguino adulto y muy guapo.
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