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Publisher
Latin American Youth Center
Pub. Date
c2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Joy-Grace is a fashionista, and this week is her school's culture day. She wants to bring in a garmet to reflect her background, but there's only one problem: her family is from Nigeria, Jamaica, AND Ethiopia! Will Joy-Grace be able to find the perfect dress to celebrate all of who she is in time for culture day?"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader. Across one bittersweet weekend in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother,...
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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...
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Series
Criterion collection volume 871
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Sri Lankan Tamil warrior flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker of a housing block outside Paris in a crime-ridden neighborhood.
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Publisher
Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
2013 ©2012
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 26 cm.
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"El sonido de la vida es un emocionante viaje que comienza en Hanover en 1904 y termina en Beatrice, Misuri, en la actualidad. El narrador es James, el nieto de Frederick y Jette, una pareja que se enamora a pesar de la oposición de todos. La única alternativa que les queda es huir de su Alemania natal a Estados Unidos, la tierra de las oportunidades a comienzos del siglo XX. El destino los lleva hasta esa pequeña ciudad de Misuri, donde deciden...
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