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41) Traitor's chase
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Last musketeer volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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"When the Musketeers pursue the dangerous Michel Dinicoeur to Spain, they're ambushed at every turn, causing them to suspect that there may be a traitor within their own ranks"--
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The Sheep Walker's Daughter pairs a colorful immigrant history of loss, survival, and tough choices with one woman's search for spiritual identity and personal fulfillment. Dee's journey takes her through the Northern and Central California valleys of the 1950's and reaches across the world to the obscure Basque region of Spain. She will begin to discover who she is and why family history matters. A Korean War widow's difficult mother dies before...
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A feast of family can be a plate load of problems!>/b>It's the Sixites. Modernity and tradition clash as two newlywed couples set up house together. Dee and her daughter Valerie move with their husbands into a modern glass house Valerie built in a proudly rural Los Altos, California, neighborhood.When their young relatives start showing up and moving in, the neighbors get suspicious. Then a body is found in the backyard and the life they are trying...
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Century trilogy volume 2
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Penguin Group USA
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This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed...
45) Violeta
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"Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavía se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe española llega a las orillas de su país sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento. Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne...
46) Fuente Ovejuna
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Letras hisp�anicas volume 137
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A cruel conqueror has captured the Spanish city of Fuente Ovejuna. As his reign of terror builds, the townspeople look within themselves to find the courage to overthrow him. The eminent Spanish playwright Lope de Vega based his best-known play on a historical incident that took place in 1476. Written in the early 17th century, the play remains a timely meditation on honor and selflessness in the face of oppression.
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47) A circle of time
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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In 1996, a fourteen-year-old girl in a coma is forced back in time by a girl who died in 1906, and who needs help in righting a series of terrible wrongs.
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Hombres buenos de Arturo Pérez-Reverte, uno de los escritores españoles contemporáneos más leídos. Mediante una nueva aproximación al siglo XVIII, la novela cuenta la historia de dos miembros de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua que se embarcan en la búsqueda de la famosa y revolucionaria Encyclopédie de Diderot. Es, pues, un homenaje a la Ilustración y a aquellos españoles...
50) El soñador
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Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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A fictionalized biography of Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who grew up as a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
51) The familiar
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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Erase una vez un mundo donde las noches eran largas y la Muerte contaba su propia historia. erase una vez una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. En el pueblo vivia una nina que queria leer, un hombre que tocaba el acordeon y un joven judio que escribia cuentos hermosos para escapar del horror de la guerra. Al cabo de un tiempo, la nina se convirtio en una ladrona que robaba libros y regalaba palabras. Y con esas palabras se escribio una...
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Profundo estudio sobre la presencia de la música arábigo-andaluza en el cante flamenco tanto en aspectos melódicos como en el uso de instrumentos. Más de cien fotografías y grabados antiguos ilustran un libro, desbordando las fronteras de la música, investiga las afinidades vitales, literarias y rítmicas entre el flamenco actual y la música Andalusí. En este libro la autora explora algunos de los parentescos de la música andalusí con el...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 2
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In free verse, evokes the voice of Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, a book-loving writer, feminist, and abolitionist who courageously fought injustice in nineteenth-century Cuba. Includes historical notes, excerpts from her writings, biographical information, and source notes.
57) Pan's labyrinth
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Telecinco
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Spain, 1944. Officially, the Civil War has been over for five years, but a small group of rebels fights on in the northern mountains of Navarra. Dreamy 10-year-old Ofelia and her pregnant mother Carmen move to Navarra, joining her new stepfather, Captain Vidal. A Fascist officer, he is under orders to destroy the rebels. Ofelia discovers an overgrown, tumbledown labyrinth and meets an ancient faun who claims to know her true identity and secret destiny....
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