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A stranger in a strange land, Eire (Waiting for Snow in Havana), one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba in Operation Peter Pan in 1962, describes the classic American immigrant experience in Miami, Fla., with a mix of insightful observation, humor, and heartfelt emotion.
65) Carlos
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A fictionalized account of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.
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Are you tired of trying to live for Christ--only to fail time and time again with the same old behaviors? Do you pray for guidance, ask for deliverance, and vow to do better, yet fail to progress? As an author, speaker, pastor, and blogger at Ragamuffin Soul, Carlos has lived much of his spiritual life in the spotlight. But, like any Christian, his faith story has its ups and downs. He spent decades trying to figure out how to be a "better person."...
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In this memoir, Santana shares for the first time her early experiences with racial intolerance, as a girl growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s, daughter of a white mother and a black blues guitarist father; her romantic involvement with musician Sly Stone and the suffering she endured in that relationship; and her adventures in the 1960s. Yet it is her spiritual awakening that is the core of this story. The civil rights movement was the foundation...
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Carlos Slim apareció en la lista de Forbes por primera vez in 1991 con mil millones de dólares en el bolsillo, la cantidad mínima para figurar en el elenco de los magnates más acaudalados del mundo. A partir de ese momento el empresario de origen libanés ha multiplicado su fortuna con velocidad inusitada, tanto que pronto llegó a encabezar dicha lista. Este relato abarca sus días en la Facultad de Ingeniería de la UNAM, su paso por la Bolsa...
77) The phantom
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The Phantom tells the story of one of the darkest episodes in the long history of American justice. A story of how the State of Texas knowingly sent an innocent man to his death and left a serial killer at large. A case in which for the first time it can be conclusively proven that the US courts executed a blameless man. This film uncovers the shocking truth behind a tale of murder, corruption and lies that unfolded in the dusty, desperate streets...
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