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229 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcón stands over an open grave. Alone, she buries her mother--the only family she has ever known--and worries that when night falls thieves will rob the grave. Even the dead cannot find peace here. Adelaida had a stable childhood in a prosperous Venezuela that accepted immigrants in search of a better life, where she lived with her single-mother in a humble apartment. But now? Every day she lines up for bread that...
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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color w/ black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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The life of teacher-turned-guerrilla leader Lucio Cabañas. Learn how he was loved by the poor, scorned by the government, and watched by covert operatives from the U.S., and how he was gunned down by the Mexican Army in 1974.
29) Live in infamy
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English
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It has been eighty years since the Axis won World War II, and America was divided between the victors: the Nazis in the East and Imperial Japan in the West; but now resistance is growing in the Eastern territories and sixteen-year-old Chinese American Ren Cabot, who has every reason to hate the Japanese who executed his mother, finds himself drawn into a resistance group and confronted with choices that could lead to freedom -- or death.
30) UnSouled
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Unwind trilogy volume 3
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404 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
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Unwind trilogy volume 2
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402 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
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80 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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Examines the life and activities of Mary Ludwig, better known as Molly Pitcher, discussing her role in loading cannons for American troops during the Battle of Monmouth, and explaining how she got her nickname.
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340 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
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English
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Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
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328 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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"One of Grant Morrison's most controversial and trippiest and abstract comic book titles! Follow the adventures of The Invisibles, a secret organization out to battle against physical and psychic oppression brought upon humanity by the interdemsional alien gods of the Archons of Outer Church! Collects THE INVISIBLES #1-12, ABSOLUTE VERTIGO #1"--
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xxiv, 147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Written when he was only 24, this is Nabokov's earliest major work and his only full-length play, presented here for the first time in English, the story of which involves an incognito king whose love for the wife of a banished revolutionary brings on the chaos the king has fought to prevent.
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xviii, 410 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Thoroughly researched, written from a nonpartisan perspective, and as lively as a novel, this is the definitive biography of the revered Cuban patriot and martyr whose revolutionary movement eventually ended the Spanish colonial domination of Cuba."--
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493 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
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English
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"In a world where paranoia is a survival skill, the only hope for humankind is a group of unconventional occultist freedom fighters called the Invisibles. In this collection, the team launches an assault on an underground New Mexico lab to free the cure for the AIDS virus from the alleged inventors of the disease: the U.S. government. Collects The Invisibles Vol. 2 #14-22" and Vol. 3 #12-1.
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xii, 495 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"A first-ever biography of Oscar Wilde that places him within the context of his family and social and historical milieu finally tells the whole story of one of the most prominent characters of the late 19th century whose trial for indecency heralded decadence's demise - and his own"--NoveList.
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