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The pilot & first season that introduced America to the redheaded housewife with show business aspirations, her long-suffering bandleader husband, and their friends the Mertzes (the prototypical sitcom wacky neighbors). Produced by Ball & Arnaz' company Desilu, the duo (along with co-creator Jess Oppenheimer) decided to shoot the show in Hollywood, on 35 mm film in front of a live studio audience, with three cameras to capture the action.
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5 videodiscs (approximately 799 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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Contains gems such as "Job switching" in which Lucy and Ethel do unforgettable battle with a chocolate factory conveyor belt; and "The operetta" in which Lucy's money problems bring down the curtain on her role as "Queen of the gypsies". This collection also includes the groundbreaking "pregnancy shows", including the touching moment at the Tropicana when Lucy breaks the news to Ricky that they are going to have a baby, and "Lucy goes to the hospital"...
4) B de Bella
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340 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Su nombre es Bella María Zavala pero todos la llaman B. Su problema es muy simple: por culpa de sus generosas curvas B no se siente bella. Es por eso que no consigue novio, ni logra que le den ese anhelado ascenso por el que tanto ha luchado en su trabajo. Pero todo cambia un día, cuando B conoce a una misteriosa mujer que la sorprende con un inesperado cumplido: "Una mujer tan bella como tú podría ganar una fortuna"... En esta hilarante aventura,...
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341 pages ; 22 cm
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A Miami storekeeper shoots a robber armed with a knife. The knife is nowhere to be found and the law considers six shots excessive self-defense, which means the storekeeper could go to jail. The storekeeper's lawyer hires lady PI Lupe Solano to obtain evidence that the robber was indeed a robber, a task that almost gets her killed. By the author of Bloody Waters.
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375 pages ; 21 cm
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The la Torre family left Cuba after swindling the Delgado family of $2 million. Twenty-five years later Luis Delgado escapes in turn, goes to see them in Miami and they call a hit man. On hearing the story, PI Lupe Solano is skeptical, until her investigator is strangled with piano wire. By the author of Bloody Shame. -- Al haber estafado $2 millones de la familia Delgado durante la revolución, la familia La Torre huye de Cuba. Veinticinco años...
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311 pages ; 22 cm
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A baby develops an inherited disease which requires a bone-marrow transplant from the mother. But no one knows the mother, the baby having been illegally adopted. PI Lupe Solano, the daughter of upper-class Cuban emigres, agrees to search for her and in the process discovers a racket in babies from Cuba and a murder. A first novel.
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58, 58 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Celeste is heartbroken when her grandmother dies, but when letters and recipes begin to arrive with her grandmother's advice and recipes, Celeste finds consolation in preparing the dishes for herself, her mother, and their friends. Includes six traditional Cuban recipes.
Celeste es el corazón cuando su abuela muere, pero cuando las cartas y recetas comienzan a llegar con consejos y recetas de su abuela, Celeste encuentra consuelo en la preparación...
11) Alas salvajes
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211 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Los seres alados han de ser libres. Y también lo han de ser los artistas, pero el gobierno cubano ha criminalizado cualquier arte que no tenga su aprobación. Soleida y sus padres protestan contra esta injusticia con su jardín secreto de esculturas de aves encadenadas. Luego, un huracán derriba las paredes y deja al descubierto el arte ilegal, y sus padres son arrestados ... Soleida huye sola a Centroamérica y se une a miles de refugiados cubanos...
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223 pages ; 21 cm
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When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
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