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On the eve of the Jewish expulsion from Spain, Amalia Riba stands at a crossroads. In a country violently divided by religion, she must either convert to Christianity and stay safe, or remain a Jew and risk everything. It's a choice she's been walking toward her whole life, from the days of her youth when her family lit the Shabbat candles in secret. Back then, she saw the vast possibility of the world, outlined in the beautiful pen and ink maps her...
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258 pages ; 22 cm
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"In a secessionist rural state that has cut itself off completely from urban centers, where living is hardscrabble and poor but "free," Brooke Holland runs a farm with her husband, Milo, and two daughters. Their life at the fringes of modern society is tenuous - they make barely enough from each harvest to keep going - yet Brooke cherishes the loving, peaceful life they have carved out for themselves. She has even begun to believe she is free from...
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86 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
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El tío dice Sí al pequeño sobrino, el niño dice No a mamá y papá, los abuelos a veces dicen Sí y otras veces No... Historias para leer, crecer y aprender a respetar.
The uncle says Yes to the little nephew, the child says No to Mom and Dad, grandparents sometimes say Yes and other times No ... Stories to read, grow and learn to respect.
44) Velocidad
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Punto de lectura volume 179/1
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494 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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When the bookmobile librarian refuses to lend Stanley the story he wants, he learns the importance of advocating for the book of his choosing, and in doing so teaches the librarian the virtue in allowing everyone to select the stories they enjoy.
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Every day with April and Mae volume 7
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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"April and Mae are best friends (and so are their pets). On Saturdays they have a movie night: Mae brings pizza she knows April will like and April picks a movie she knows Mae will like. When the movie is too scary for April, the friends realize that it is OK to like different things as long as they like each other"--
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261 pages ; 24 cm
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"Stuck in neutral, Graham Patterson finds his decision to get tattooed by a brilliant tattoo artist in North Carolina setting off a series of extraordinary events that changes his life forever in ways he never could have imagined, including the opportunity to choose from three different lives"--
Graham Patterson's life has hit a dead end. His career as a comedian is failing. The love of his life recently broke up with him and he literally has no...
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280 pages ; 24 cm
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"After almost twenty years together, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An up-and-coming rock musician when they first met, Simon has been clinging to dreams of fame even as the possibility of it has grown dimmer, and now that his band might finally be on the brink again, he wants to go on the road, leaving Stella behind. But when she falls into a coma on the eve of his departure, he has to make a choice between stardom and his wife...
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275 pages ; 21 cm
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"Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky's husband, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay. They present their conservative Sri Lankan-American families...
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 33 cm
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"Every day presents us with a wide range of choices including what to have to breakfast, what to wear and what to do in our spare time. Even deciding which piece of homework to tackle first presents a challenge. But when night comes and it's time for bed, what choice is there but to lie in the dark ... and count sheep? This book takes us through all the choices in a typical child's busy day and presents the reader with nine different hidden picture...
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291 pages ; 25 cm
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"The Coincidence Makers tells the story of Guy, Emily & Eric, whose job is creating coincidences and initiating various events in other people's lives. The three graduated from a "coincidence creation course" that took place 2 years prior to the events in the book, in which they learned techniques for creating what look like random events which will cause people to change their own lives. Fate is nothing more than a well-executed mission. Coincidence...
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350 pages ; 21 cm
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Since her family was killed by a drunk driver six years before, Alexandra Tate, now eighteen, has seen emotions personified--especially Revenge--but now that the driver is out of prison, surprising discoveries about her father's past make choosing between Revenge and Forgiveness a struggle.
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44 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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"At times, all children need help getting along with others and respecting differences. Teaching tolerance and encouraging acts of kindness through clear words and charming illustrations, this English-Spanish bilingual version of We Can Get Along/Podemos llevarnos bien supports children's development with skills for conflict resolution and peacemaking. The book includes activities and discussion questions in both languages"--
"English-Spanish bilingual...
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xxix, 297 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"In Please Unsubscribe, Thanks!, Gambuto gives us a radical blueprint for the ways we can take a deep breath, renew, and commit to a life that we really want, individually and collectively, from unsubscribing to emails and automated subscriptions to reevaluating the presence of people and ideas and habits that no longer serve us or make us happy. Infused with the practical advice in James Clear's Atomic Habits and the humor of Sarah Knight's The Life-Changing...
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427 pages ; 25 cm
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"Twenty-four-year-old Bridge is paralyzed by choices: all the other lives she could have lived, the decisions she could have made. And now, who she should be in the wake of her mother's unexpected death. Jo was a maverick neuroscientist fixated on an artifact she called the "dreamworm" that she believed could open the doors to other worlds. It was part of Jo's grand delusion, her sickness, and it cost her everything, including her relationship with...
57) Amnesty: a novel
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256 pages ; 24 cm
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A young undocumented immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between reporting the murder of a female client -- and risking deportation -- or staying silent.
Dhananjaya "Danny" Rajaratnam is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. Danny learns a female client...
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240 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
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"Born loser Julian has burned every bridge and he's now alone on the streets of his small Midwestern town. When a plot to steal from his drug dealer goes wrong, he's forced to confront his demons and decide which path he'll take next"--
59) Bittersweet
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376 pages ; 24 cm
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"Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not enthusiastic about the limited prospects life holds...
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356 pages ; 21 cm
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"Lucy's life is at a crossroads. She's just walked out of her unrewarding job and must decide her next step: use her savings to pursue her dream of becoming a writer while staying in her seaside hometown, or move to London to revive her career? It almost seems like fate that on that same night she meets Caleb, a local charismatic stranger, and runs into Max, the onetime love of her life, in town from London. Should Lucy stay or go? It's just one decision,...
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