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Jason Dessen was knocked unconscious and kidnapped before he wakes up surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Welcome back, they say. This world hes woken up to is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not a physics professor at the university Is this world a dream? Or was his world before the dream? To find out who he really is, Jason must face the darkest parts of himself as he battles a terrifying,...
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"The 6:20 Man is back, dropped by his handlers into a small coastal town in Maine to solve the murder of a CIA agent who knew America's dirtiest secrets--can Travis Devine uncover the truth before his time runs out? When CIA operative Jenny Sikwell is murdered in rural Maine, government officials have immediate concerns over national security. Her laptop and phone were full of state secrets that, in the wrong hands, endanger the lives of countless...
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Disfruta con tus hijos de una seleccin de los mejores cuentos clsicos infantiles de 5 minutos de todos los tiempos. Por primera vez Booka produce estos magnficos audiolibros con una de las mejores actrices del doblaje en espaol y con msica original. Te lo imaginas? No te decepcionar. Divirtete con estos cuentos cortos de 5 minutos en los que encontrars: Hansel y Gretel, Blancanieves, La Caperucita Roja, El Flautista de Hameln, El soldadito de plomo......
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La huerta de manzanas/ The Apple Orchard Text and photographs introduce a visit to the apple orchard, with a description of how apples are harvested. La granja/ The Farm A visit to the farm, with descriptions of some farm buildings and animals, including chickens, sheep and pigs. La estacion de bomberos/ The Fire Station Text and photographs introduce a visit to the fire station that includes descriptions of some of the fire engines and ladders....
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Unfortunately, Roys first acquaintance in Florida is Dana Matherson, a well-known bully. Then again, if Dana hadnt been sinking his thumbs into Roys temples and mashing his face against the school-bus window, Roy might never have spotted the running boy. And the running boy is he was running away from the school bus, carried no books, andheres the odd partwore no shoes. Sensing a mystery, Roy sets himself on the boys trail. The chase introduces him...
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One of "The Best Memoirs of a Generation" (Oprah's Book Club): a young woman's journey from the mango groves and barrios of Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and eventually on to Harvard In a childhood full of tropical beauty and domestic strife, poverty and tenderness, Esmeralda Santiago learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs, the taste of morcilla, and the formula for ushering a dead baby's soul to heaven. But when her mother, Mami,...
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From bestselling, National Book Awardwinning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives. Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wakea party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life shes ledher...
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Its Diary of a Wimpy Kid for girls in this hilarious novel! Meet Nikki Maxwell! She's starting eighth grade at a new schooland her very first diary packed with hilarious stories and art in Book One of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series! New school. New mean girl. New crush. New diary so I can spill about all of it I put a lot of really personal stuff in this diary along with my sketches and doodles. But, mostly its about how TRAUMATIC...
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From the award-winning, best-selling author of When I Was Puerto Rican, a powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and the Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together. In Puerto Rico in 1975, fifteen-year-old Luz is the tallest in her dance academy and the only Black girl in a sea of petite, light-skinned, delicate swans. Tragically, she is seriously injured...
12) American Royals
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What if America had a royal family? When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne. As Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America's first queen regnant, the duty she has embraced her entire life suddenly feels stifling. Nobody cares about the spare except when she's breaking the rules, so Princess Samantha doesn't...
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La princesa del guisante (The Princess and the Pea) El papalote de Pablo (Riley Flies a Kite) -Blackaby, Susan John Henry (John Henry) La gallinita roja (The Little Red Hen) Pollita Pequeita (Chicken Little) -Jones, Christianne C. El pastorcito mentiroso (The Boy Who Cried Wolf) -Blair, Eric La zorra y las uvas (The Fox and the Grapes) -White, Mark Max va a la biblioteca (Max Goes to the Library) Max va a la escuela (Max Goes to School)...
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The anecdote often dwells on the legendary figure of Homer, a supposed blind minstrel who went from town to town singing his great epic narratives. "The Iliad," a narrative from the era of Troy, originated from the abduction of the world's most beautiful woman, Helen, by Paris. "The Odyssey," the description of the adventures of the wise Ulysses or Odysseus on his return to Ithaca, his homeland, after the end of the Trojan War, his adventures along...
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Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes...
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Fans of dark fairy-tales like The Hazel Wood and The Cruel Prince will relish this atmospheric and absorbing book based on Guillermo del Toros critically acclaimed movie. Oscar winning writer-director Guillermo del Toro and New York Times bestselling author Cornelia Funke have come together to transform del Toros hit movie Pans Labyrinth into an epic and dark fantasy novel for readers of all ages, complete with haunting illustrations and enchanting...
17) El ritmo del éxito - Cómo un inmigrante se forjó su propio sueño americano (The rhythm of success)
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Rhythm of Success Coming to the United States as a Cuban refugee, Emilio Estefan went on to become a 19-time Grammy Award-winning producer and songwriter, as well as CEO and founder of Estefan Enterprises, with investments in real estate, entertainment, hotels and restaurants. The embodiment of the American dream, Emilio succeeded on his own terms. Here he shares the basics needed for readers to establish their own plans for success.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios presents an epic tale of adventure and comedy with Frozen. When the kingdom is trapped in an eternal winter, Anna, a young dreamer, must team up with Kristoff, a daring mountain man, and his reindeer on the grandest of journeys to find Annas sister, the Snow Queen Elsa, and put an end to her icy spell. Encountering mystical trolls, a hilarious snowman named Olaf, Everest-like extremes, and magic at every turn, Anna and...
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In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
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Brothers Nestor and Cesar Camillo arrive from Cuba in 1949 with dreams of becoming famous mambo musicians. This memorable novel traces the arc of the two brothers' lives-one charismatic and macho, the other soulful and sensitive-from Havana to New York, from East Coast clubs and dance halls to the heights of musical fame.
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