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Español
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Not all immigrants in America are here legally. Many of these undocumented immigrants come here along a dangerous path, crossing deserts or oceans. Arm yourself with information to join the national conversation on undocumented immigrants. Learn about the reasons that people come to America, and the different ways that they can become American citizens. Written in standard Latin American Spanish.
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Alienist Angel of Darkness volume 1
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English
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New York City. 1897. Sara Howard has opened a pioneering private detective agency. She reunites with formidable alienist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler and New York Times journalist John Moore to find the kidnapped infant daughter of a Spanish dignitary. Their investigation leads them into a sinister path of corruption and deceit, towards a dangerous and elusive killer.
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Thornleigh novels volume 4
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[2011]
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English
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"Young Queen Elizabeth I's path to the throne has been a perilous one, and already she faces a dangerous crisis. French troops have landed in Scotland to quell a rebel Protestant army, and Elizabeth fears once they are entrenched on the border, they will invade England. Isabel Thornleigh has returned to London from the New World with her Spanish husband, Carlos Valverde, and their young son. Ever the queen's loyal servant, Isabel is recruited to smuggle...
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Ivy League meets the streets in this vivid work of hip-hop fiction. As a senior at prestigious Columbia University and the girlfriend of a drug dealer, India Maldonado is living two seemingly opposite lives. As India tries to gain control over her relationship and navigate cultural and class boundaries, she is drawn down a dangerous path. India quickly learns that every action brings an unexpectedly brutal reaction and realizes that the perilous nature...
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It's time for Guy Fawkes to face his destiny.
Seeking allies to help combat England's demons, Guy Fawkes fights all over Europe with friends old and new until an encounter with the King of Spain sends him into Africa to interrupt England's supply of gunpowder. But in Morocco, Guy discovers a dangerous cult, the Children of Mizraim, who plan to corrupt the entire world with a demon plague. Battling against a resurrected nun, black cathedrals rising...
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Harbor of Spies is an historical novel set in Havana in 1863 during the American Civil War, when the Spanish colonial city was alive with intrigue and war-related espionage. The protagonist-a young American ship captain named Everett Townsend-is pulled into the war, not as a Naval officer, as he had once hoped, but as the captain of a blockade-running schooner. The rescue of a man outside Havana harbor sets in motion a plot where Townsend finds himself...
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4 CITIES, 4 LIVES, 1 CRIME: In Madrid, an Argentinian bookseller gets caught up in the scheme of an American professor to prevent an appalling crime. Her sidekicks soon include a Gambian migrant in Paris and a Spanish waitress in London. Seeking some sort of companionship in their exiles, the four characters join forces in a quest that becomes a dangerous obsession. All four lives seem to be fatefully connected. But how to get people to take the crime...
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The lure of treasure makes strange bedfellows...
Salvador de Pascual, a young custodian working at Yale's famed library, is a high school dropout with untamed imagination who sees nothing but beauty. Beatrix Spear is a consummate scholar, a rising star in the Art History department, who knows everything about art but has forgotten its beauty. He's a poor dreamer with few prospects. She's a wealthy junior professor with burning ambition and unlimited...
9) The California Trail: The History and Legacy of the 19th Century Routes that Led Americans to the
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The westward movement of Americans in the 19th century was one of the largest and most consequential migrations in history, and among the paths that blazed west, the California Trail was one of the most well-known. The trail was not a single road but a network of paths that began at several "jumping off" points. As it so happened, the paths were being formalized and coming into use right around the time gold was discovered in the lands that became...
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Kay B. Warren is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University, after many years at Princeton University. She authored The Symbolism of Subordination: Indian Identity in a Guatemala Town, coauthored Women of the Andes: Patriarchy and Social Change in Two Peruvian Towns, and edited The Violence Within: Cultural and Political Opposition in Divided Nations. A Spanish version of Indigenous Movements and Their Critics will be published by the Maya press...
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THE DEAD MAN'S JOURNEY-Journada del Muerte, the locals called it: the blistering ocean of sand and sage between the Rio Grande River to the west and the Sacramento mountain range to the east. The bones of men and horses had bleached in the mile-high desert for three hundred years. Spanish conquistadors were the first white men to explore this new furnace of the Southeastern New Mexico Territory-and the first to perish. In the thin air, the riders...
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[2021]
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English
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Having opened her private detective agency, Sara reunites with Dr. Kreizler, the formidable alienist, and John Moore, now a New York Times reporter, to find the Spanish Consular's kidnapped infant daughter. Their investigation leads them down a sinister path of murder and deceit, heading towards a dangerous and elusive killer. The series shines a light on the provocative issues of the era, the corruption of institutions, income inequality, yellow...
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2014.
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Español
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This collection of stories illuminates moments that shape a life, from a dream or a sexual act to simple twists of fate that turn a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Set in the countryside and towns of Lake Huron, these stories about departures and beginnings, accidents, dangers, and homecomings both virtual and real, paint a portrait of how strange, dangerous, and extraordinary the ordinary life can be.
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[2017]
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English
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"Ayobami is an African girl who dreams of going to school. After war comes to an end, she can finally return to the schoolhouse. But in order to do so, she has to take a dangerous path through the jungle. Armed only with a piece of paper and a worn-out pencil, she embarks on a hazardous journey to fulfill her unweaving desire to learn and write"--Amazon.com.
16) Nobody
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[2021]
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English
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Hutch Mansell is an underestimated and overlooked dad and husband, taking life's indignities on the chin and never pushing back. A nobody. When two thieves break into his suburban home one night, Hutch declines to defend himself or his family, hoping to prevent serious violence. His teenage son, Blake, is disappointed in him and his wife, Becca, seems to pull only further away. The aftermath of the incident strikes a match to Hutch's long-simmering...
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[2017]
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Español
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Ayobami sueña con ir a la escuela, pero para llegar debe tomar un camino peligroso: el de la selva. Una historia sobre la importancia de la educación, la dificultad que tienen muchos niños para acceder a ella y la perserverancia e ilusión de quien desea aprender.
Ayobami is an African girl who dreams of going to school. When the war is over, the girl can finally do it, but to do so, she has to take the dangerous path through the jungle. With...
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Serie Harry Potter volume 7
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2015.
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Español
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Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
"La fecha crucial se acerca. Cuando cumpla los diecisiete años, Harry perderá el encantamiento protector que lo mantiene a salvo. El anunciado enfrentamiento a muerte con lord Voldemort...
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[2018]
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English
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A few years after the Final Battle in Storybrooke, a grown-up Henry Mills leaves home in search of his own destiny. What he finds is true love with a new incarnation of Cinderella and unexpected danger from her hateful stepmother and stepsister, plus the added menace of Mother Gothel, a villainous sorceress.
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[2012]
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English
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Back with a vengeance for a sixth season of startling suspense and unexpected twists. It's been a year since last season's shocking and heartbreaking conclusion, and mild mannered criminologist-cum-grisly serial killer Dexter Morgan has come to terms with who he is. But his existence is shattered when he crosses paths with an enemy unlike any he's faced before. A delusional religious zealot with unflinching convictions, this new adversary soon draws...
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