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Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell |
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Span… |
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Marilyn
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Ulises Páramo |
The book investigates the circumstances of Marilyn Monroe's death. |
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Who was Rosa Parks?
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Stephen Marchesi,Yona Zeldis McDonough |
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "… |
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Vivos bajo tierra
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Manuel Pino Toro |
"The story of the thirty-three trapped miners in the San Jose mine in the middle of the Chilean desert is an epic in the classic sense, filled with real heroes, blessings from God, and the curse of m… |
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Lo que no digo cantando
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Ricardo Montaner |
The singer/songwriter, born in Argentina but raised in Venezuela, offers an intimate look at his life and the role that his Christian faith has played, from an incident as a young boy in Montevideo t… |
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The Innovators
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Walter Isaacson |
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard histo… |
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La Reina
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Pilar Urbano |
Este libro nace del deseo de la Reina de España: Quiero que los españoles me conozcan. A esa tarea se aplicó Pilar Urbano a partir de una serie de entrevistas que mantuvo con Su Majestad Doña Sofía a… |
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El descubridor del oro de Troya
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Estanislao C. Stanislawski,Silvia M. Stanislawski |
Una selección de la obra de Heinrich Schliemann, así como pasajes de su vida. |
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Jorge Bergoglio Francisco
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Andrea Tornielli |
"Desde el primer momento como Papa electo, u obispo de Roma, apelativo que el mismo prefiere, el hasta hace poco cardenal Jorge Mario Bergoglio dio senales claras el mundo de los cambios que traera s… |
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El mundo amarillo
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Albert Espinosa |
El mundo amarillo es un mundo fantástico que quiero compartir contigo. Es el mundo de los descubrimientos que hice durante los diez años que estuve enfermo de cáncer. Es curioso, pero la fuerza, la v… |
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Buscando mi estrella
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Maruchi Mendez |
The mother of college baseball star Ramiro "Toti" Mendez tells the story of his life, from his illegal adoption in Spain through his death of an undiagnosed heart condition, and highlights the danger… |
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Las mamis
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Esmeralda Santiago,Nina Torres-Vidal |
An anthology of writings by distinguished Latino authors tackles the thorny issue of motherhood, with fourteen writers remembering their own mothers. |
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Mitologías
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Manuel Vicent |
Readers that venture into the portrait gallery that is this work, will face a series of fascinating, exceptional, and compelling yet real-life characters. Vicent traverses from the glamour of Andy Wa… |
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El nazi y el psiquiatra
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Jack El-Hai |
Ace reportage on the unique relationship between a prison physician and one of the Third Reich's highest ranking officials. |
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Perdón
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Chiquis Rivera |
"A singer and the daughter of the late music superstar Jenni Rivera, ... Chiquis ... reveals the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father during her childhood and the difficulties she's faced in… |
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¿Quién fue Paul Revere?
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Roberta Edwards |
Una biografía del patriota de la revolución que tuvo varios oficios, entre ellos la orfebrería, la producción de cobre, fundición de campanas, el grabado, y la odontología.
A biography of the patrio… |
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Katy Perry
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Lucas Diver |
It may come as a surprise that with all the talent and personality, Katy Perry had quite the difficult time getting a record deal. Learn about this and more with Perry's introductory biography. |
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La pasarela de mi vida
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Jacqueline Bracamontes |
254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm |
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Oaxaca de mis amores
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Guadalupe Loaeza |
"Oaxaca es uno de los estados de mayor tradición en México. Fascinada por sus colores, sus sabores, sus tradiciones y su gente, Guadalupe Loaeza, con su pluma ágil, amena y fresca, nos revela este má… |
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Verdugos
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Ana Lilia Pérez |
"Pérez tackles a crucial topic to understand the climate of uncertainty and vulnerability that oppresses Mexican society: the behavior of the army during the past few years. The author examines in de… |
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