LLC Findaway World
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Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to...
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"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of...
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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
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"Uses the framework of the alphabet to present information about plants and animals of the cloud forest on the western slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes and the 2013 discovery of the olinguito. Includes additional information about the cloud forest and the discovery of the olinguito, a map, a glossary, an author's note, and author's sources"--
8) Eragon
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"En el reino legendario de Alagaësia la guerra se está gestando. Los Jinetes protectores de la paz del Imperio y los únicos capaces de controlar a los inteligentes dragones, se han extinguido o han pasado a formar parte de las tropas del malvado rey Galbatorix. Los elfos hace tiempo que se han exiliado a un lugar oculto y los vardenos, un grupo disidente, se ocultan en ciudades protegidas. Cuando Eragon, un joven de 15 años que vive en una...
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Spanish edition of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe." Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy have adventures in Narnia with mythical characters and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter. Includes a movie still cover and a full-color movie still insert.
11) Mambas negras
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Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce beginning readers to the world of black mambas. Includes picture glossary and index.
Los lectores principiantes aprenderǹ cm̤o sobreviven las serpientes mamba negras en la sabana. Las fotos vibrantes a todo color y el texto cuidadosamente nivelado atraen a los lectores jov̓enes a medida que descubren el mundo dramat̓ico de estas serpientes venenosas. Un diagrama etiquetado ayuda a los...
13) Ripper: a novel
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"A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world"--
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Born in Germany during the outbreak of WWII, Marita was incarcerated in a Nzai concentration camp as a child. In 1959 she traveled to Cuba, where she met and fell in love with Fidel Castro. Yet, upon fleeing to America, she was recruited by the CIA to assassinate him. Torn by love and loyalty, she failed to slip Fidel the lethal pills. Caught up in Cold War intrigue and espionage, even testifying as a witness to the JFK assassination conspiracy, this...
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Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the...
17) El intermediario
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FonoLibro les trae "El Intermediario," en una magnifica producción, el audiolibro en español del famoso escritor John Grisham, autor de los bestsellers "La Firma", "El Informe Pelicano", "Tiempo para Matar", "El Rey de los Pleitos" y "El Cliente", otros éxitos.
Gracias a un indulto presidencial, Joel Backman es liberado tras seis años de confinamiento por uso indebido de una información altamente confidencial. Backman había obtenido un programa...
19) Gracias - Thanks
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Pura Belpré Illustrator Award Honor - American Library Association (ALA)
In a series of poetic sentences, a young boy (biracial Mexican/Caucasian) tells about some of the everyday things for which he is thankful.
There are so many things to be thankful for.
For one young boy, it's
flying ladybugs,
splashing ocean waves,
a best friend,
Dad's thick chocolate syrup,
and much more.
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In Familias diferentes, beginning readers will learn to celebrate diversity by appreciating the variety of configurations that can make a family. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text engage young readers as they draw inferences about how diversity makes our society stronger and more interesting. An activity helps readers identify and appreciate their own unique family, while a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Children can...