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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Memorias	Adolfo Bioy Casares	"Autobiografía. Narrada en base a anécdotas entretenidas ilustrada, en un registro diferente, el hábil manejo de la prosa que caracteriza al autor. A los recuerdos de juventud siguen los de amista…	OL14944462W
Michelle Obama in Her Own Words	Michelle Obama,Carlton Books Staff	The election of Barack Obama has brought worldwide attention not only to what his policies will be, but to what kind of First Lady Michelle Obama will be. Throughout the long campaign season, Michell…	OL15187506W
Breve historia de la conquista del Oeste	Gregorio Doval	La impactante y esclarecedora historia de los héroes del Álamo, Daniel Boone, John Colter, Ben Holladay y todos los conquistadores que fueron poblando el Oeste, tierra agreste y hostil, donde la búsq…	OL15187700W
Clemente	David Maraniss	On New Year's Eve, 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver supplies to Nicaragua af…	OL15825685W
A library for Juana	Pat Mora	A biography of the seventeenth-century Mexican poet, learned in many subjects, who became a nun later in life.	OL15831720W
Vivos bajo tierra	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…	OL15932682W
La Reina del Pacífico	Julio Scherer García	Resultado de una larga serie de entrevistas a Sandra Áila, la Reina del Pacífico, este libro contiene el primer testimonio sobre lo que significa nacer, crecer y vivir dentro de la mafia del narcotrá…	OL16160978W
Lo que no digo cantando	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…	OL16302739W
The Pacific	Hugh Ambrose	'The Pacific' describes the extraordinary true stories of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot fighting in the Pacific region during World War II.	OL16516538W
The Innovators	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…	OL17074268W
On the Move	Oliver Sacks	An impassioned, tender, and joyous memoir by the author of Musicophilia and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his …	OL17196751W
Who Was Alexandar Graham Bell?	David Groff,Bonnie Bader	Aprende más acerca de Alexander Graham Bell con esta divertida y fascinante biografía ilustrada. An illustrated biography of the inventor of the telephone, Alexander, Graham Bell.	OL17342642W
El artífice del método	Graco Rojo	This book discusses the life and work of Francis Bacon, the English politician and thinker who, imbued with the spirit of the Renaissance, helped to establish a new method for scientific thought.	OL17738353W
Los 33	Jonathan Franklin	Presents an account of the 2010 San Jose mine rescue in Chile, in which all thirty-three miners miraculously survived, providing intimate details of life inside the mine as well as the dramatic rescu…	OL17811204W
The closer	Mariano Rivera	The nineteen-year veteran pitcher for the New York Yankees describes his life, discussing the difficulties in being a Latino baseball player in the U.S., how he keeps his Christian values in professi…	OL17876791W
Francisco	Evangelina Himitian	Francisco, El Papa de la gente. Es el unico de todos los libros aparecidos que cuenta la historia completa de Jorge Mario Bergoglio, el primer Papa latinoamericano. Desde el nacimiento de su vocacion…	OL17910500W
Messi	Ramiro Martin	This is an exhaustive exploration of the career of one of the all-time soccer greats and one of the most influential and celebrated sportsmen ever. "La cuarta Pelota de Oro ganada a los 25 anos conv…	OL18173032W
Derek Jeter	Heather Feldman	A simple biography of the talented New York Yankees shortstop, discussing his popularity and three World Championships.	OL1933730W
Latinos in béisbol	James D. Cockcroft	Details the history and contributions of Latin American players in major league baseball, describing the obstacles, including racism, that they have had to face.	OL1986817W
Lincoln	Manuel Gimenez,Manuel Mas Franch	A biography of the American president.	OL19925766W