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1) Furia
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
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Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Women's History Month - Young Adults
Immigrant Heritage Month - Young Adults
Pura Belpré Award Winner & Honor Books - Present to 1996
Women's History Month - Young Adults
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Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.
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What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?
The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau rich-they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But, when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con, he takes a risk that...
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"Esta es la obra más representativa de Horacio Quiroga. En estos relatos, Quiroga se maneja con absoluta maestría en el terreno de la narración de terror (no en vano se lo compara con Poe y Maupassant, como se puede apreciar al leer historias tan estremecedoras como "La gallina degollada"), y nos ofrece uno de los máximos exponentes del modernismo latinoamericano. Es, también, la obra más personal de alguien cuya trágica existencia estuvo marcada...
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