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21) The extra
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English
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Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler's favorite filmmaker a chance at life -- or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination? In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.
22) La novia gitana
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403 pages ; 24 cm.
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Español
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"Susana Macaya, una joven gitana educada como paya, desaparece tras su despedida de soltera. El cadáver es encontrado dos días después: la víctima ha sido brutalmente torturada siguiendo un ritual insólito y atroz. Su hermana Lara sufrió idéntida suerte siete años atrás, en vísperas de su boda, pero el asesino cumple condena en prisión: ¿alguien ha imitado sus terribles métodos o hay un inocente encarcelado? La inspectora Elena Blanco,...
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Blood rose rebellion volume 1
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408 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Social prestige is derived from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic. However, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place. Sent from England to her family's once powerful but now oppressed native Hungary, Anna Arden finds herself in the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor. She must choose to either deny her unique power and cling to the life she's always wanted, or embrace...
24) A ciambra
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Italiano
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Fourteen-year-old Pio wants nothing more than the respect of his older brother, whom he emulates in every way, including his career as a petty criminal. When both his father and brother are arrested, Pio is determined to prove that he can step up and be the head of his Romani family. But a fateful night and a wrenching decision soon test just how ready he is.
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Seven sisters volume 5
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531 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"The Moon Sister transports you to the grandeur of the remote Scottish Highlands and the gypsy caves of Granada, just as Spain descends into civil war, interweaving the stories of two women searching for their destinies, at the risk of potentially losing their chance at love. Tiggy D'Apliese spends her days experiencing the raw beauty of the Scottish Highlands doing a job she loves at a deer sanctuary. But when the sanctuary is forced to close, she...
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340 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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En medio de una vehemente discusión entre sus padres y del desplazamiento atropellado de los gitanos, la pequeña Sofía se pierde entre la gente. Tiene tan sólo siete años y nunca más se reencontrará con su familia. Y aunque el destino le brinda otros padres entrañables y un mundo nuevo, también la enfrenta a muchas situaciones dolorosas y a la prepotencia patriarcal de René, el marido que la cela y la priva de su libertad. Protegida por...
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411 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Eleanor, la mayor de las tres hermanas Caulfield, debe cumplir la profecía y descubrir su origen. Pero si Eleanor está destinada a casarse con un príncipe, ¿por qué no puede resistirse al canalla que la sedujo y la abandonó? El reverendo y padre adoptivo de las hermanas Caufield, se casa. La boda está en marcha y pronto los invitados comienzan a llegar, entre ellos, Taliesin Wolf, un chico gitano que también fue adoptado por el reverendo y...
31) Gypsy groove
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1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Multiple
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Contains eleven songs from Eastern Europe representing a blend of Gypsy and Balkan traditions, including selections by Balkan Beat Box, the Eastenders, Gipsy.cz, and others.
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English
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When a girl falls into a mysterious, impenetrable sleep, the borders between her provincial French village and the peculiar, beguiling realm of her dreams begin to disappear: A fat woman sprouts delicate wings and takes flight; a failed photographer stumbles into the role of pornographer; a beautiful young wife grows to resemble her husband's viol. Madeleine, the dreamer, travels in their midst, trying to make sense of her own metamorphosis. She leaves...
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"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva's feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever's history...
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269 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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With the help of a troupe of free-spirited freegans, three very clever internet hackers and a bunch of singing vegans, Melbourne baker Corinna and her luscious Daniel go head-to-head with a sinister religious cult on a mission and a band of Romanies out for revenge in a wild and wonderful chase to find two missing runaways.
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xi, 401 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Twelve-year-olds Ambrose, Tom, and Frankie are transported to the boys' hometown of Freedom Falls, Ohio, in 1852 when Frankie blows her Romani family's magical trombone, and to return home they'll have to use both Morse code and the ancient form of divination known as the I-ching.
37) Nine Open Arms
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256 pages : map ; 23 cm
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English
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When the Boon family moves into an old, ramshackle house at the very edge of a small town in the Netherlands, Oma Mei, the grandmother of seven motherless children, relates the house's remarkable origin in the 1860s.
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34 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm
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Español
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La historia del don secreto del joven Alejandro y de su afortunado encuentro con Elena, la bella gitana Andaluza.
The story of young Alexander's secret gift and his fortunate encounter with Elena, the beautiful Andalucian gypsy.
39) The midnight zoo
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217 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Twelve-year-old Andrej, nine-year-old Tomas, and their baby sister Wilma flee their Romany encampment when it is attacked by Germans during World War II, and in an abandoned town they find a zoo where the animals tell their stories, helping the children understand what has become of their lives and what it means to be free.
40) Tierra
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1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Español
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Angel is a pest control specialist (and recently released mental patient) working the soil in Spanish wine country to rid the terrain of destructive grubs. Unexpectedly, Angel finds romance and adventure beyond his wildest imagination when he falls for two of the locals: the earthy and soulful farmer's wife, Angela; and the sensuous, amorous (and much too young) Mari.
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