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1) Argentina
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32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
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English
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Describes the history, geography, people, and customs of the South American country, Argentina.
2) Argentina
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144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Discusses the history, geography, and people of Argentina as well as the country's rich culture and traditions and its beautiful natural areas.
3) Argentina
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61 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
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English
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English
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"The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is evangelizing across the Argentinian countryside with Leni, his teenage daughter, when their car breaks down. This act of God or fate leads them to the workshop and home of an aging mechanic called Gringo Brauer and a young boy named Tapioca. As a long day passes, curiosity and intrigue transform into an unexpected intimacy between four people: one man who believes...
6) Argentina
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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Three-time Academy Award nominee Carlos Saura's latest foray into the music of Argentina explores the heart of traditional Argentine folklore and its stunning musical heritage, from traditional styles to modern dance.
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Español
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"Se acerca el confinamiento de 2020 y el protagonista siente la tentación de retirarse a su cabaña en las afueras de Buenos Aires para hacer frente desde allí a lo que pueda venir. Mientras espera, cultiva un jardín con todo tipo de plantas y flores. Su amor por la naturaleza le lleva a indagar en la formación del pensamiento científico, el nacimiento de la botánica y la gran aventura de las expediciones europeas del siglo xviii. Al mismo tiempo,...
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Zay Harding takes the road trip of a lifetime on one of the longest and most spectacular highways in the world, Argentina's Ruta 40, often called La Mitica Ruta 4,0 or the Mythical Route 40. Running the entire length of the country, from the border with Bolivia to the southern tip of Patagonia and along the edge of the Andes mountains, Zay completes a 3,000 mile journey from north to south across the entire country.
10) Tango
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1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience. Things become complicated when Mario falls in love with...
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158 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"El calor agobia en el monte chaqueño. ¿Lloverá? Varados por una falla mecánica, el reverendo Pearson y su hija Leni esperan pacientes que el Gringo Bauer y Tapioca, el chico que hace años han dejado a su cuidado, pueda repararla para seguir camino. En ese cementerio de autos desmantelados y chatarra agrícola, los adolescentes pasan el rato y los adultos conversan sobre sus propias vidas. El encuentro inesperado cambiará a todos. Padres de...
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273 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Simón Cardoso had been dead thirty years when his wife, Emilia Dupuy, spotted him at lunchtime in the lounge bar in Trudy Tuesday. So begins Purgatory. Simón, a cartographer like Emilia, vanished during a trip to map an obscure road in Argentina's back country. Later, testimonies suggested that he was one of the thousands of "subversives" arrested, tortured, and executed by the military regime. Yet Emilia, daughter of the regime's chief propagandist,...
17) Greta & Valdin
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English
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"Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladislavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric Māori-Russian-Catalonian...
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183 pages ; 24 cm.
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Español
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The Argentine literary revelation according to The Wall Street Journal. That by far they look like flies is an explosive black novel that has become a cult phenomenon, for a writing as talented as it is unexpected. Mr. Machi is the perfect reflection of success and contempt. Owner of a small empire in Argentina, he made his fortune under the military dictatorship and then secured it under the first two governments of democracy by marrying a woman...
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219 pages : portrait ; 20 cm
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Español
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Lo que no digo cantando, el primer libro de Ricardo y un proyecto muy anticipado del cantante/compositor, invita al lector a un recorrido intimo a traves de los viajes a nivel mundial de Montaner y los encuentros que ayudaron a moldearlo hasta convertirlo en el hombre que ahora es. Desde un incidente que cambio su vida con un chico llamado Mauricio en un hospital en Montevideo, Uruguay hasta un secuestro express por las calles de Caracas, Venezuela,...
20) Ardor
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1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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When a gang of ruthless bandits set fire to a remote family farm and kidnap the farm-owner's daughter Vania, help arrives in the form of Kai a mysterious man who emerges from the rain forest. With the grace of a jaguar, Kai rescues Vania and plunges into a lethal game of cat-and-mouse with the gangsters. With the hornet's nest now stirred Kai and Vania must decide how far they will go to preserve the farm and their vanishing way of life.
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