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1) La granja
Author
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
A promising young boxer, a barren midwife, and a fat kid with a bike: three intersecting stories focus around the pursuit of happiness and its unanticipated consequences during the economic collapse of the island of Puerto Rico. Each actor in this modern day tragedy will ultimately discover how the pursuit of hope can dehumanize and expose underlying animal instincts.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings - and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity."
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a society up, you need to stop keeping women down.
In this moving and compelling...
12) Nosotros
Author
Publisher
BayView Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
It follows a group of five friends during the weekend of the Spanish presidential election in December 2015, probably the most important election in Spain's recent history due to the crisis of old institutions and the phenomenal rise of new political parties to transform the political system. Maria, Suko, Sarah, Seda, and Felipe are in their 30's. They are part of a fragile generation, the first one in many decades to live in worse conditions than...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that other Generation X women were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She looked into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw a pattern: sandwiched between the Boomers...
Author
Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 8
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of North America and islands located in the Caribbean Sea.
18) Mexico
Author
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Surveys Mexico's geography, natural resources, economy, and population, and discusses some of the challenges being faced by Mexico today.
Author
Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 1
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of Central and South America.
Author
Series
Countries peoples and cultures volume 9
Publisher
EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Provides an introduction to the social, cultural, economic, historical, and religious practices and beliefs of nations and territories of Eastern Asia and in the Pacific Ocean.
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