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Author
Publisher
Penguin Group USA
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The founder of StoryCorps relates the true stories of people who are doing what they love amd making a difference, including a man from a Texas barrio who became a public defender, and a waitress who makes everyone feel at home at her diner.
Author
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5, but he left the country the next day, not to return for two years. Spanning decades and continents and...
Author
Series
Tapper twins (Spanish) volume 1
Publisher
RBA
Publication Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Los gemelos Claudia y Reese son los protagonistas de esta divertida nueva serie. Estos preadolescentes no podrían ser más distintos entre sí ... pero comparten la férrea determinación de salir victoriosos de la guerra de bromas que se tienen declarada, una contienda que se desarrolla desde la cafetería del colegio hasta el preciado universo creado por Reese en su videojuego favorito. Las batallas se intensifican hasta tal punto que los gemelos...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Svetlana Alexievich, comes the first English translation of her latest work, an oral history of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a new Russia. Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive documentary style, Secondhand Time is a monument to the collapse of the USSR, charting the decline of Soviet culture and speculating on what will rise from the ashes of communism....
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