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Author
Publisher
Suma/Penguin Random house Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una época en la que el matrimonio es la única opción de una mujer, el futuro es incierto. Hasta la noche en que conoce a Rafe Martinelli y decide cambiar la dirección de su vida. Con su reputación arruinada, solo le queda una opción respetable: casarse con un hombre al...
Author
Publisher
Libre Expression
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"C'est fou, vous me faites penser à mon grand-père... -- C'est parce que je suis ton grand-père, p'tit con ! -- Pachou ? Qu'est-ce que tu fais là ? » Après l'avoir aperçu dans un campement au journal télévisé, Henri est venu chercher son Gillou, amoché par la pandémie. En désespoir de cause, Gilles, qui a perdu travail, logement et repères, suit le vieil homme dans sa petite ferme des Cantons-de-l'Est. Le citadin et voyageur dans l'âme...
63) Tierra inestable
Author
Publisher
Impedimenta
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Los mellizos Jeanie y Julius tienen 51 años y viven con su madre, Dot, en una casa antigua en mitad de la campiña inglesa. Julius sobrevive gracias a empleos ocasionales; Jeanie apenas sabe leer ni escribir. No tienen internet, televisión ni cuentas bancarias. Ninguno de los dos tiene pareja. Tampoco tienen padre: murió cuando eran niños. Cultivan verduras en su huerto y, cuando cae la noche, tocan sus instrumentos y cantan juntos. Sobreviven...
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English
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"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
67) Flying changes
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Denny and her family face hard times when her father is injured on the rodeo circuit.
Author
Series
My neighbor Totoro volume 1
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Satsuki and her little sister Mei move into a historic country house with their father and discover all kinds of interesting things, including the Soot Sprites that live in the walls and a possibly enchanted tree.
69) Treasure & dirt
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the desolate outback town of Finnigans Gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable young people and billionaires do as they please. Then an opal miner is found crucified and left to rot down his mine. Nothing about the miner's death is straightforward, not even who found the body. Sydney homicide detective Ivan Lucic is sent to investigate, assisted by inexperienced young investigator...
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Series
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
"Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by immigrants from Mecklenburg, Germany, Johannes Gillhoff created the archetypal character of Jürnjakob Swehn: the upright, honest mench who personified the German immigrant. This farmer-hero--planting and harvesting his Iowa acres, joking with his neighbors during the snowy winters, building a church with his own hands--proved so popular with the German...
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