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1984) Cuando seas mayor
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"Yo tenía nueve años y vivíamos todavía en Rumanía, en un pueblo pequeño al borde de la montaña. Recuerdo el frío, la ropa congelada, el olor a leña y las brasas del fuego apagándose en la estufa, pero sobre todo recuerdo la pobreza. Allí aprendí el significado de la supervivencia, hasta que una noche de mayo mi madre me susurró unas palabras que cambiarían mi vida para siempre: "Cuando seas mayor entenderás por qué nos fuimos." A...
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An unscripted look at what happens when a person is put into a lifestyle that is nothing like what they are used to for 30 days. See what is like to live in a mixed status Mexican family that live in a one-bedroom apartment. A man who lost his job to outsourcing travels to Bangalore to see how outsourcing U.S. jobs has affected India's culture. An atheist will live with a fundamentalist Christian family in Texas. A father attempts to find inner peace...
1986) The girl in the torch
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After her father is killed in a pogrom, twelve-year-old Sarah and her mother immigrate to America--but when her mother dies before they get through Ellis Island, and the authorities want to send her back to the old country, Sarah hides in the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
1990) Anya's war
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In 1937, the privileged and relatively carefee life of a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl, whose family emigrated from Odessa, Ukraine, to Shanghai, China, comes to an end when she finds an abandoned baby, her hero, Amelia Earhart, goes missing, and war breaks out with Japan. Based on the author's family history.
1992) El viaje circular
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"Un migrante cubano relata su trágica, erótica, sarcástica, frustrante, desilusionante y sorprendente odisea que va de Cuba a México, pasa por Estados Unidos y finalmente recala en Francia. Una obra que retrata los diversos sentimientos en torno la odisea y peligros que deben afrontar los migrantes latinoamericanos en su titánica búsqueda de la felicidad en los países desarrollados. Conmovedora y elocuente novela sobre la fragilidad de la vida...
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Rosie life in Italy volume 1
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Wedding planner Rosie is struggling with her grey, rain-soaked life in Ireland. Everyone dismisses her long-term dream to live in Italy as another "mad hippy whim." While she's busy planning other people's happy endings, grief, eviction and debt nip at her heels. Trying to stabilise her life as an entrepreneur in the middle of an economic crash is almost impossible. When her landlord suddenly doubles the rent, Rosie is left with no choice but to pack...
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"What began in 1865 in Glatigny, France, at a dinner party hosted by esteemed university professor Édouard René de Laboulaye and attended, among others, by a promising young sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was the extravagant notion of creating and giving a monumental statue to America that celebrated the young nation's ideals. Bartholdi, and later civil engineer Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, caught the spirit of the project and thus began the...
1996) Feeding ground
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A famine drives Diego Busqueda, a noble "coyote, " to lead his family across the unforgiving "Devil's Highway, " a desert cursed with blistering days and deadly nights.
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"When she was 11 years old Julissa Arce left Mexico and came to the United States on a tourist visa to be reunited with her parents, who dreamed the journey would secure her a better life. When her visa expired at the age of 15, she became an undocumented immigrant. Thus began her underground existence, a decades long game of cat and mouse, tremendous family sacrifice, and fear of exposure. After the Texas Dream Act made a college degree possible,...
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"After the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under the guidance of former slaveholders with former slaves providing the bulk of the labor force. By developing these new centers of agricultural production and commercial exchange, the Mexican...
1999) My two worlds
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Contrasts the two worlds of an eight-year-old Dominican American girl who lives in New York City but speaks Spanish as her native language and frequently returns to her island home.
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