Adriana Sananes
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A guide for recently divorced wonen offers help in understanding the rules of the game and explains that in the end, the most important lesson to be learned is the certainty that pain ultimately disappears.
Todo cambia cuando un divorcio irrumpe en nuestras vidas: las emociones, las relaciones de familia y sociales, la estabilidad económica, la seguridad personal e incluso las cuestiones de tipo laboral son puestas a prueba. Qué hacer ante esto?...
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"Una novela que describe una gran historia de amor donde existen muchos obstaculos que separa a los protagonistas. Pues una vez mas como en la mayoria de las historias de amor verdadero, las miradas de la sociodad, el dinero y las propias costumbres de las familias impiden que este encuentro no se de. Pero ese amor se convierte en una obsesioń para los protagonistas pero muchos anõs despueś y hasta que y no hay nada que les impida reencontrarse,...
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The author explains the nature of obesity caused by poor eating habits and teaches the reader to "learn to eat."
"La obesidad es un mal de nuestro tiempo que origina numerosas enfermedades y que afecta cada vez a un mayor número de personas. Principalmente está causada por una conducta alimentaria caracterizada por comer mal, sin control, sin placer y a destiempo. Cuando el origen de la obesidad está causada por ese tipo de conducta alimentaria,...
26) Dreamers
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This incredible true story of a Caldecott Honor and Pura Belpré Award-winning author and illustrator's immigration to America is a lasting testament to the immigrant's journey.
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You're not alone. About 51 million American households carry credit card debt at an average balance of nearly $12,000. Credit debt is a problem you can't ignore. No matter how much money you earn or where you live, if you've made mistakes with credit in the past, those mistakes will haunt you--unless you empower yourself to fix them. And you can.
"Usted no está solo. Alrededor de 51 millones de familias estadunideses tienen deudas en tarjetas de...
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This liberating guide to a twenty-first century relationship is brought to listeners by noted psychotherapist, Marilyn Graman, who run workshops that have helped thousands of women find rewarding relationships.
"Descubre los secretos que han ayudado a miles de mujeres a conseguir la relación con la que siempre soñaron"--Container.
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Blog Post - Memories of Desegregation
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Picture Book Biographies for Hispanic Heritage Month
Summer Challenge 2023: Banned & Challenged Books
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Picture Book Biographies for Hispanic Heritage Month
Summer Challenge 2023: Banned & Challenged Books
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"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--
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"Originally written in the mid-1950s, 'Go set a watchman' was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before 'To kill a mockingbird.' Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. 'Go set a watchman' features many of the characters from 'To kill a mockingbird' some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch--Scout--struggles with issues both personal and political,...
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Books for Kindergarteners
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Mighty Little Girls
Picture Book Biographies for Hispanic Heritage Month
Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Mighty Little Girls
Picture Book Biographies for Hispanic Heritage Month
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Follows a young Cuban girl in the 1930s as she strives to become a drummer, despite being continually reminded that only boys play the drums, and that there's never been a female drummer in Cuba. Includes note about Millo Castro Zaldarriaga, who inspired the story, and Anacaona, the all-girl dance band she formed with her sisters.
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WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL! Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule-until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream. Inspired...
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WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL! Girls cannot be drummers. Long ago on an island filled with music, no one questioned that rule-until the drum dream girl. In her city of drumbeats, she dreamed of pounding tall congas and tapping small bongós. She had to keep quiet. She had to practice in secret. But when at last her dream-bright music was heard, everyone sang and danced and decided that both girls and boys should be free to drum and dream. Inspired...
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Una novela policiaca de gran intensidad, donde a traves de una exhibicion sobre tortura a lo largo de la historia, nos revela un antiguo rito azteca, en donde los sacerdotes hacian que sus victimas vieran como su ultima imagen terrenal, a la mariposa de obsidiana, el autor lo define asi: el cuchillo negro de obsidiana con el cual se abrira y extraera el corazon de la victima, por un efecto optico contra el sol, se convertira en una mariposa que ayudara...