Andrés Pabon
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"Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short." --
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"With beauty, grace, and honesty, Castillo recounts his and his family's encounters with a system that treats them as criminals for seeking safe, ordinary lives. He writes of the Sunday afternoon when he opened the door to an ICE officer who had one hand on his holster, of the hours he spent making a fake social security card so that he could work to support his family, of his father's deportation and the decade that he spent waiting to return to...
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"Through the lens of their decades-long friendship and including exclusive interviews and details from previously classified documents, noted historian and New York Times bestselling author Steven M. Gillon examines John F. Kennedy Jr.'s life and legacy from before his birth to the day he died. Gillon covers the highs, the lows, and the surprising incidents, viewpoints, and relationships that John never discussed publicly, revealing the full story...
4) Race day!
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"Young readers are invited along on an automobile race, where they can see what it is like to race, take pit stops, and zoom around other cars."--
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2019.
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"An intimate, revisionist portrait of the early years of Fidel Castro, showing how an unlikely young Cuban led his country in revolution and transfixed the world. Castro got his toughness from a father who survived Spain's nasty class system and colonial wars to become one of the most successful independent plantation owners in Cuba. He grew up to be full of contradictions. in prison, he showed a passion for French literature, wrote flowery love letters,...
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"Emilio thinks he is living the American Dream: his parents, who emigrated from Guatemala to California, sacrifice daily to make sure of it. And his life seems relatively normal until he turns sixteen. Like most teenagers, Emilio is determined to get his driver's license--however, his mother dissuades him from doing so. When Emilio asks why, his parents reveal a shocking secret: he is undocumented. Emilio adjusts to his new normal. Under the Dreamers'...
7) Saving Emma
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"When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric hospital for the past four years, convicted of brutally murdering the pastor of a megachurch. But as a law professor working for the Innocence Project, Boady agrees to look into Elijah's file. When he does, he is alarmed to find threads that lead back to the death...
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[2020]
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Hidden in everyday foods are the causes of a surprising range of health problems. Barnard provides step-by-step guidance for understanding what's at the root of your suffering-- and what you can do to feel better fast. He shows how dietary changes can alleviate years of stress, pain, and illness. The easy-to-make hormone-balancing recipes provided will give new hope for people struggling with health issues. -- adapted from jacket
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[2018]
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"Tech-guru Brian McCullough delivers a rollicking history of the internet, why it exploded, and how it changed everything. The internet was never intended for you, opines Brian McCullough in this lively narrative of an era that utterly transformed everything we thought we knew about technology. In How the Internet Happened, he chronicles the whole fascinating story for the first time, beginning in a dusty Illinois basement in 1993, when a group of...
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[2017]
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Six years after he was lost at sea, James emerges from a dissociative fugue state to find he's a widower with two sons, but as James tries to unravel the mystery of his fractured identity, something he witnessed six years ago puts his family in danger.
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[2019]
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"Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that while we should take our perceptions seriously, we should not take them literally. How can it be possible that the world we see is not objective reality? And how can our senses be useful if they are not communicating the truth? Hoffman grapples with these questions...
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2018.
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"When novelist Manuel Ortigosa learns that his husband, Álvaro, has been killed in a car crash, it comes as a devastating shock, but it won't be the last. He's now arrived in Galicia where Álvaro died. It's where the case has already been quickly closed as a tragic accident. It's also where Álvaro hid his secrets. The man to whom Manuel was married for fifteen years was not the unassuming man he knew. Álvaro's trail leads Manuel deep into one...
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"¡Henry, Jessie, Violet, y Benny Alden son hermanos y hermanas, y son huérfanos! La unica manera que puedan estar juntos, ellos tendra que hacerlo. Una noche, durante una tormenta, los niños encuentran un vagon de carga rojo que los va a tener seguro y caliente. Deciden hacerlo su casa. Esté juego incluye la versión de la historia en español y inglés." --
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Gildan Media, LLC
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[2016]
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English
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This wise and delightful guide to the benefits of meditation practices will help listeners cultivate a calm, peaceful, and enlightened lifestyle. Drawing from his years of experience as a teacher, spiritual leader, and avid meditator, Edward Viljoen directs listeners down the path to enlightenment using wisdom such as: Mindfulness practices-Train yourself to become absorbed in a purposefully chosen activity. Sitting practices-Reduce the use of mental...
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Dreamscape Media
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[2016]
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English
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Award-winning author Duncan Tonatiuh reimagines one of Mexico's cherished legends. Princess Izta had many wealthy suitors but dismissed them all. When a mere warrior, Popoca, promised to be true to her and stay always by her side, Izta fell in love. The emperor promised Popoca if he could defeat their enemy Jaguar Claw, then Popoca and Izta could wed. When Popoca was near to defeating Jaguar Claw, his opponent sent a messenger to Izta saying...
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Oasis Audio
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[2017]
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Español
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Henry, Jessie, Violet, y Benny Alden acaban de darse cuenta que tienen una Tía Jane que no le ha hablado a su abuelo en años. Los niños están pasando el verano en el oeste en un rancho de Tia Jane. En camino las niñas ven a un "hombre misterioso." ¿Podra él reveler un des cubremiento asombroso del rancho que hara todo cambiar?
17) I'm new here
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Dreamscape Media, LLC
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[2017]
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English
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Walk in the shoes of three elementary-school-aged immigrants as they learn how to balance becoming American with being Guatemalan, Korean, and Somalian as well!
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Findaway World, LLC
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[2017]
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English
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"Retirement planning was simple and predictable forty years ago. All you needed was your company pension, personal savings, and Social Security. Those days are long gone. Most public pensions are underfunded, and private companies can't get rid of them fast enough. Social Security's own trustees predict it will run out of money in less than twenty years. And most people haven't saved even a fraction of what they should. Retiring comfortably today...
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Brilliance Audio
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[2019]
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English
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"Meet nine courageous young adults who have lived in the United States with a secret for much of their lives: they are not U.S. citizens. They came from Colombia, Mexico, Ghana, Independent Samoa, and Korea. They came seeking education, fleeing violence, and escaping poverty. All have heartbreaking and hopeful stories about leaving their homelands and starting a new life in America. And all are weary of living in the shadows." --