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3283) Nowhere to hide
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Arabic
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Nowhere to Hide follows male nurse Nori Sharif through five years of dramatic change in the war-torn Diyala province, one of the most dangerous provinces in the middle of Iraq. Initially filming stories of survivors and the hope of a better future as American and Coalition troops retreat from Iraq in 2011, conflicts continue with Iraqi militias, and the population flees accompanied by most of the hospital staff. Nori is one of the few who remain....
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Yoram Globus and the late Menahem Golan are two movie-obsessed immigrant cousins who became Hollywood's ultimate gate-crashers. With hair-trigger randomness, these cousins of chaos churned out a breathtaking cavalcade of hits and misses, made movies out of posters, released a sequel before the original film, botched plots, bounced checks and burned careers - and in so doing, changed the way movies were made and marketed.
Charts the rise and fall...
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"Publicada en 1969, bajo la dictadura de Juan Carlos Onganía, Diario de la guerra del cerdo narra en clave semifantástica un enfrentamiento entre jóvenes y viejos en el barrio porteño de Palermo, suscitado por un inexplicable odio intergeneracional. De la noche a la mañana, unas pandillas de jóvenes violentos empiezan a atacar a ancianos y gente de edad, lo que trastoca la existencia del protagonista. Sus reacciones y la ambientación son realistas,...
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"Throughout America's past, some men have feared the descent of their gender into effeminacy, and turned their eyes to the ring in hopes of salvation. This work explains how the dominant fight sports in the United States have changed over time in response to broad shifts in American culture and ideals of manhood"--
3290) In my country
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A Washington Post journalist and an Afrikaans poet strike up a friendship and become romantically involved as they try to come to terms with their feelings about what they've learned at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
3292) Maldad
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"En su esfuerzo por encontrar el origen de la maldad, Tomé Bata, un periodista novato de nota roja, termina por vivirla en carne propia. De manera ágil y profunda, Marisela Aguilar S. construye una historia en la que sus personajes experimentan la injusticia y la violencia. Su muy particular punto de vista invita al lector a preguntarse por qué los seres humanos pueden ser tan malvados."--
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"In August, 2014, Michael Brown--a young, unarmed Black man--was shot to death by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. What followed was a period of protests and turmoil, culminating in an extensive report that was filed by the Department of Justice detailing biased policing and court practices in the city. It is a document that exposes the racist policies and practices that have become commonplace--from disproportionate arrest rates, to flagrant...
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Esta crónica describe la dimensión real de la lucha que el pueblo oaxaqueño emprendió en el año 2006 en pos de justicia social. Su cometido era ponerle punto final a los abusos de un régimen autoritario cuya legitimidad siempre estuvo en entredicho. En estas páginas se asienta con detalle la historia de una rebelión: los orígenes del descontento entre los más desprotegidos, la necesidad de una reconversión de nuestro anquilosado sistema...
3297) Rewind
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English
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Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.
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"Trapped in the game world of Elder Tales, Soujirou and the fetching lasses of the West Wind Brigade are getting tired of the tasteless food. However, with the sudden appearance of a burger joint, it seems the bland monotony may be at an end--but the quest for the secret to tasty burgers is not going to be as easy as they'd like."--Page [4] of cover.
3300) Bajo el puente
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Teseo Fournier presenta con Bajo el puente un road trip contemporáneo. Un hombre mexicano de clase media inicia un viaje por el submundo estadounidense."De alguna forma era una metáfora el ir en dirección a un lugar sin moverte, ser feliz en un viaje sin traslado."Un joven mexicano de clase media llega a Estados Unidos. Huye de su vida en México y emprende un viaje por distintas ciudades norteamericanas, donde se abandona al frenesí: fiestas,...
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