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3864) El mundo amarillo
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In a narrative that is both humorous and touching, Espinosa tackles the subjects of life, death and love with wry humor and sharp insight, relating the discoveries he made during his 10-year battle with cancer as a teenager.
En una narrativa que es a la vez divertida y conmovedora, Espinosa fuerza a los temas de la vida, la muerte y el amor con humor irónico y la visión aguda, relacionando los descubrimientos que hizo durante su batalla de 10 años...
3865) Home front
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To date, nearly 20,000 American troops have been wounded in the war in Iraq. This film follows Army Ranger Jeremy Feldbusch, severely wounded during his Iraq tour, through his bittersweet homecoming. Shrapnel sliced through his brain and left him blind, with seizures and serious psychological problems. Feldbusch's hands-on family works tirelessly to help him regain a sense of normalcy, but many are released from hospitals with not much more than...
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"Me llamo Stephen Hawking y he sido uno de los científicos más brillantes de nuestro siglo, a pesar de padecer una grave enfermedad neuromotora. He estudiado los agujeros negros y el origen del universo, y también ideé algunas teorías muy innovadoras que nos han ayudado a comprenderlos mejor. Si lees estas páginas conocerás la historia de mis descubrimientos, y te asombrarás de lo fascinante que puede llegar a ser la ciencia!"--
Meet world-famous...
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Un relato honesto y desgarrador sobre la pérdida de un hijo y la confianza en que la muerte no separa a las almas de los seres queridos. En este libro conmovedor, la actriz chilena Leonor Varela, quien vive actualmente en Estados Unidos, relata la historia vivida con su hijo Matteo, diagnosticado leucodistrofia AGS (Leukodystrophy AGS) a los cuatro meses de vida. Jamás aceptó el diagnóstico de los médicos y emprendió una lucha física, emocional...
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"Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames--before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in...
3869) Nadia: a novel
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"Nadia moves between the competing perspectives of two survivors of the 1990s Balkan wars who have escaped to London, only to discover that the war has followed them there. Nadia is a young Bosnian refugee who just wants to forget the past-until Iggy starts temping at her London office. Afraid he may be a sniper from the war she fled, Nadia starts seeing threats everywhere, alongside unsettling visions of her lost girlfriend and secret lover, Sanja....
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"She's one of the most beloved political figures in the country, and on the surface, seems to have led a charmed life. In many ways, she has. Beautiful family. Thriving career. Supportive friendship. Loving marriage. But she's no stranger to adversity. Many know of the strength she had shown after her son, Wade, was killed in a freak car accident when he was only sixteen years old. She would exhibit this remarkable grace and courage again when the...
3873) Huérfanos de Brooklyn
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"Tengo el síndrome de Tourette. Las palabras salen atropellándose, incontrolables, y las manos no pueden evitar tocar impulsiva y compulsivamente todo lo que tengan cerca. Es el sino de Lionel Essrog, criado en un orfanato y que, junto con sus tres amigos de la infancia, trabaja para un mafiosillo local, Frank Minna, en una agencia ilegal de detectives. El asesinato de Frank le obligará a sumergirse en la trama, compleja y llena de sombras, de...
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"'After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,' Otis Trotter writes in Keeping Heart : A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine. Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Trotter and his thirteen siblings, the story begins in 1914 with his parents. By tracing the family's movement...
3878) Pewnej sierpniowej nocy
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Piękno natury nie zawsze współgra z pięknem ludzkich dusz... W 1957 r. na jednej z greckich wysp wydarzyła się ogromna tragedia. Spinalonga - wyspa, na której zlokalizowana była kolonia osób chorujących na trąd - przestaje być dla nich miejscem bezpiecznym. Podczas jednej z upalnych nocy dochodzi do wydarzeń, których druzgocące konsekwencje wpłyną na życie wielu greckich rodzin. Dwie siostry, Anna i Marta tracą w jednym momencie...
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