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IRB
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 Lourdes, the mother, is leaving her son, Enrique, behind in Honduras. She cannot afford to bring him with her to the United States, so she leaves him behind. #2 The journey is hard for the Mexicans, but even harder for the Central Americans. They must make an illegal and dangerous trek up the length of Mexico. They are hunted by corrupt police, bandits, and gang...
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Publisher:
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date:
2012
Language:
Spanish
Description:
La travesia de Enrique cuenta de un nino abandonado por su madre que se marcha a los Estados Unidos en busca de una mejor calidad de vida. Sonia Nazaro, galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer por esta historia real, nos presenta la realidad que viven los inmigrantes en su peregrinar para lograr el sueno americano. La historia comienza en Honduras y narra el viaje de Enrique en busqueda de su madre a los Estados Unidos, sin dinero y sin ningun otro recurso...
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Publisher:
Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin, Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Description:
"From the award-winning author of the memoir The Three of Us, a lyrical exploration--part travelogue and part history--of the area beneath the North Sea which, until 6,000 years ago, was home to a rich ecosystem and human settlement. Shortly after her husband's death, Julia Blackburn became fascinated with Doggerland, the stretch of land that once connected Great Britain to Europe but is now subsumed by the North Sea. She was driven to explore the...
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
[2006]
Language:
Spanish
Description:
Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled in America. Without her, he became lonely and troubled....
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English
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A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth's dominant species.
10. Cortadito
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Publisher:
Mango Media
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
AN EXILE AND THE FLAVORS OF HIS NATIVE LAND In the sprawling Cortadito, Enrique Fernández explores Cuban cuisine through memories of growing up on the pre-revolutionary island. In his sensual journey through the origin and evolution of staples of Cuban food, Fernández wonders what shapes flavor: is it the soil or the community-whether at home or abroad? As an exile, he affirms, "I will continue to sample the crumbs that fall from [Cuba's] table...
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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The year was 1971. Thirty-year-old Charles Lubar, a Washington, DC-born Harvard Law School graduate with a two-and-a-half-year deep dive in the Chief Counsel's Office of the Internal Revenue Service recently behind him, was floundering in Nairobi, Kenya where he had come to seek the kind of high-stakes adventures one could never find at a major law firm in the US. But with his entrepreneurial hopes quashed in Nairobi by an environment that hardly...
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Publisher:
Eerdmans
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga makes a striking claim: preachers who read widely will most likely become better preachers. Plantinga- himself a master preacher- shows how a wide reading program can benefit preachers. First, he says, good reading generates delight, and the preacher who enters the world of delight goes with God. Good reading can also help tune the preacher's ear for language- his or her primary tool. General reading can...
13. Bumblebee
Publisher:
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Cybertron has fallen. When Optimus Prime sends a transformer to defend Earth, his journey to become a hero begins. Charlie Watson, a teenager trying to find her place in the world, discovers and repairs the battle-scarred robot, who's disguised as a Volkswagen Beetle. As the Decepticons hunt down the surviving Autobots with the help of a secret agency led by Agent Burns, the transformer and Charlie team up to protect the world in an action-packed...
14. The Two Seeings
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Publisher:
Independent Publishing Network
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Speaking Woman whispers beyond time and through spirits known and unknown to Morag MacAulay, and sometimes they just downright interfere!Awaiting Morag across continents and time is an initiation as a High Priestess in the Indus Valley in 4BC, a magical reinvention as a Gnostic Saviouress on 16th Century Mallorca and the French déjà vu of Morag's teenage years is finally solved in her third remembrance and she thinks maybe she'd have been better...
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Publisher:
Pelican Book Group
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Step into a world of intrigue, danger and romance. Discover how these contemporary women-sisters by choice-find strength in God and in the support of the men who love them. This Sisters by Choice Anthology includes a trilogy of novels by beloved author Lillian Duncan. DECEPTIONTwins are supposed to have an unbreakable bond, but Patti and Jamie have serious relationship issues. They haven't spoken since Jamie ruined Patti's upcoming nuptials years...
Publisher:
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2004]
Language:
English
Description:
The saga of El Mariachi contunues when a corrupt CIA agent forces him out of hiding to help sabotage an assassination attempt on the president of Mexico by an evil cartel kingpin. El Mariachi has his own reason for helping - he is doing it for revenge.
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Colin Farrell and Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek star in the story of two young men--best friends and former teenaged lovers--who fall in love with the same woman and find A HOME AT THE END OF THE WORLD. In suburban Cleveland of the 1960s and '70s, lonely, introspective, insecure Jonathan (Dallas Roberts) and hip, dark, inarticulate Bobby (Farrell) were more than best friends. As young adults, Jonathan has been living as an openly gay man in New...
18. Cesar Chavez
Language:
English
Description:
The story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to people. He inspired millions of Americans who never worked on a farm to fight for social justice. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual's...
Publisher:
Lake Forest College Press
Pub. Date:
©2014
Language:
English
Description:
"In 2002, art collector and philanthropist Madeleine P. Plonsker began traveling to Cuba to uncover Havana's thriving art scene. The Light in Cuban Eyes: Lake Forest College's Madeleine P. Plonsker Collection of Contemporary Cuban Photography focuses on Cuban photography between 1992-2012. These years cover Cuba's "Special Period," a desperate time resulting from the withdrawal of financial support from the former Soviet Union that continues to present...
20. Europa report
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Description:
Six top astronauts set out to explore the possibility of a hidden ocean – and life – beneath Europa’s icy surface. After a near-catastrophic technical failure, the survivors must overcome the tolls of deep space travel to survive a profound discovery.