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389 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Shy fifteen-year-old Cuban American Victoria Cruz feels trapped by the monotony of running on the cross country team and keeping up with her studies to maintain her scholarship to her prestigious college prep school, but the chance to join a rock band in need of a lead singer gives her the opportunity to confront her anxieties, find love and disappointment, and create a new playlist for her life.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Español
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"Para convertir una casita en mal estado en un hogar acogedor, todo lo que se necesita es una familia con un corazón muy grande, decidida a ayudar a los demás, y ... un poquito de esperanza. La casita ofrece un hogar a aquellos que no tienen adonde ir. Es un lugar sin miedo y sin peligro en un país nuevo, y Esperanza siempre es la primera en darles la bienvenida a todos."--Provided by publisher.
"When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United...
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293 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Luis just wants to go to prom with his boyfriend, but when a hit on the head knocks him back to 1985, he meets his parents' closeted classmate"--
All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his "progressive" high school hasn't allowed since an incident ages ago. Not after what happened to Chaz Wilson -- back when Luis's parents were in high school. Then a hit on the head knocks Luis back in time to 1985, and Luis meets...
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31 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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When Lazarita's unemployed father cannot afford a party for her "quinces," the birthday celebration that marks a fifteen-year-old girl's entrance into womanhood, her friends in her Miami Cuban-American community enlist the mayor's help to plan a surprise block party.
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Merci Suárez Books volume 2
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372 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Merci embarks on a seventh grade year shaped by high teacher expectations, a crush on a school-store co-worker, and a bossy classmate's plan for the annual Heart Ball.
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viii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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Rubio, U.S. senator and son of Cuban immigrants, tells his "American dream" story as he speaks on the national stage about the challenges we face and the better future that's possible if we return to our founding principles.
48) Running
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"When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz's father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens when you stop seeing your dad as your hero--while the whole country is watching"--
Senator Anthony Ruiz is running for president. Throughout his successful political career he has always had his daughter's vote, but this presidential campaign brings a whole new level of scrutiny...
49) Sherlock Dom
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Definitely Dominguita volume 4
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127 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Dom is excited to join her friend, Steph, for a mini vacation. They are going to visit Steph's grandmother ... As soon as they arrive, they find that Gran's neighbors have lost their goat! There are some mysterious footprints near the goat pen that lead to the marsh. Dom decides to use the methods of her favorite detective, Sherlock Holmes--observing the basics, using all her senses, and talking it through with her trusty friend--to try and bring...
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5 videodiscs (approximately 799 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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"...
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"A ... memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his attempts to understand his place in America while grappling with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities"--Amazon.com.
53) B de Bella
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340 pages ; 21 cm.
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Español
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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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Español
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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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396 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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Merci Suárez sabía que el sexto grado sería diferente, pero no tenía idea alguna lo diferente que resultaría. En primer lugar, Merci nunca se ha parecido a los otros niños de su escuela privada en la Florida, porque tanto ella como Roli, su hermano mayor, son estudiantes becados. Ellos no tienen ni una casa grande ni un yate elegante, y tienen que desempeñar servicios comunitarios adicionales para compensar por su matricula gratis. Así que...
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309 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Cuba, 1936: When Estelita Rodriguez sings in a hazy Havana nightclub for the very first time, she is nine years old. From then on, that spotlight of adoration--from Havana to New York's Copacabana and then Hollywood--becomes the one true accomplishment no one can take from her. Not the 1933 Cuban Revolution that drove her family into poverty. Not the revolving door of husbands or the fickle world of film. Thirty years later, her young adult daughter,...
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375 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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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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Español
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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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In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba -- exiled from his family, his country, and his own childhood by the revolution. The memories of Carlos's life in Havana are at the heart of this stunning, evocative, and unforgettable memoir. Waiting for snow in Havana is both an exorcism and an ode to a paradise lost. For the Cuba of Carlos's youth -- with its lizards and turquoise seas and sun-drenched siestas...
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