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"After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and reading late into the night."--Amazon.com.
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
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"A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo is the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel. Escobar's criminal empire held a nation of thirty million hostage in a reign of terror that would end only with his death. In an intense, up-close account, award-winning journalist Mark Bowden exposes details never before revealed about the U.S.-led covert sixteen-month manhunt....
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La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia. A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero...
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Based on the best seller "La Parabola de Pablo" by journalist and ex Major of Medelln, Alonso Salazar. Based on real life events and is backed up by an impressive journalist documentation that makes it the most ambitious TV series from Colombia. Presents a provocative and realist look at the life of one of the most famous criminals of the XX Century: Pablo Escobar. Considered by some a hero and by others the most violent of "Capos" ever.
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Based on the best seller "La Parabola de Pablo" by journalist and ex Major of Medelln, Alonso Salazar. Based on real life events and is backed up by an impressive journalist documentation that makes it the most ambitious TV series from Colombia. Presents a provocative and realist look at the life of one of the most famous criminals of the XX Century: Pablo Escobar. Considered by some a hero and by others the most violent of "Capos" ever.
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"On the second part of the series "Pablo Escobar: The Boss of Evil", we continue to review key moments that will directly impact the life of the notorious "capo"; based on a book by Alonso Salazar; the series has been a huge success everywhere, learn more about the life and times of one of "the most wanted men" in all history; the blood and desire to conquer the whole world continue on this exciting episodes"--Container.
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"La vida de Juanes es una canción, o mejor, son miles de canciones volando a toda velocidad en miles de millones de segundos, o en una sola historia. En estas líneas, escritas desde los más lejanos rincones de su memoria, sus recuerdos se hacen palabras e imágenes. Juanes, el hombre que ha vendido más de 20 millones de discos, que fue seleccionado por la revista Time como una de "las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo", que suma 26...
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"Manuel Betancourt has long lustfully coveted masculinity--in part because he so lacked it. As a child in Bogotá, Colombia, he grew up with the social pressure to appear strong, manly, and, ultimately, straight. And yet in the films and television he avidly watched, Betancourt saw glimmers of different possibilities. From the stars of telenovelas and the princes of Disney films to pop sensation Ricky Martin and teen heartthrobs in shows like Saved...
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After his father's death, his 16-year-old son, Juan Pablo, struggles to stay alive in the ruins of the drug empire he intended to inherit. With exclusive access to Juan Pablo Escobar, Escobar family members, former employees, and rivals, this series charts the fallout of Pablo Escobar's empire and how this affected his family.
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"THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER! THE POPULAR SERIES NARCOS CAPTURES ONLY HALF THE TRUTH. HERE, AT LAST, IS THE FULL STORY. Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the most infamous drug kingpin of all time, but these versions have always been told from the outside, never from the intimacy of his own home. More than two decades after the full-fledged manhunt finally caught up with the king of cocaine,...
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