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2021.
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127 pages ; 23 cm
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"Mucho se ha hablado sobre la relación entre enfermedades degenerativas como el cáncer y las situaciones de estrés y traumas a los que se ven enfrentados los seres humanos. Infidelidades, tropiezos y decepciones laborales, discusiones con familiares que otro tiempo no surgían. Todo esto ha llevado poco a poco a la sociedad ha embarcarse en discusiones, peleas, malos entendidos que agotan y colman la energía de quienes participan en ellas....
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On Monday morning, October 2, 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. In front of twenty-five horrified pupils, thirty-two-year-old Charles Roberts ordered the boys and the teacher to leave. After tying the legs of the ten remaining girls, Roberts prepared to shoot them execution style with an automatic rifle and four hundred rounds of ammunition. The oldest hostage, a thirteen-year-old, begged Roberts to "shoot
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Pub. Date
2021.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
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"How to Change the World in 12 Easy Steps was inspired by Eva Kor, a child survivor of Auschwitz. She always stressed to young audiences that even though a child, they had the power to change the world. Easy, simple gestures from picking up a piece of trash on the sidewalk, tidying a bedroom, accepting someone who is different, along with other gestures of kindness and thoughtfulness can make a big difference. The book could also serve as a starting...
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"Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family but lives in fear of...
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[2022]
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229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Harvard, his younger brother, and his dad move to Maine for the summer, where they start an ant farm with their neighbor Neveah and learn about ants, each other, and how to forgive yourself when things do not go as planned.
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2008
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308 p. ; 22 cm.
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While hunting in the cold Minnesota woods, 17-year-old Jesse Matson's life is forever changed when he discovers his father, dead by a self-inflicted gunshot wound. But would easygoing Harold Matson really kill himself? If so, why? And just where was Jesse's uncle Clay--always jealous of Harold, and a bit too friendly with Jesse's mother--that cold afternoon?
13) Noel Street
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Noel collection volume 3
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"The year is 1975. Elle Sheen--a single mother who is supporting herself and her six-year-old, African-American son, Dylan, as a waitress at the Noel Street Diner--isn't sure what to make of William Smith when his appearance creates a stir in the small town of Mistletoe, Utah. As their lives unexpectedly entwine, Elle learns that William, a recently returned Vietnam POW, is not only fighting demons from his past, but may also have the answer to her...
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[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
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When an energetic child inadvertently upsets one of his classmates, everyone is reminded that it is important to take responsibility for a mistake, and it is equally important to be ready to forgive. Includes information about apologies and forgiveness.
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©2007
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1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Based on a true story, Crossroads : a Story of Forgiveness follows a family struggling with a sudden loss as they face the future together. When the beloved wife and daughter of Bruce Murakami (Dean Cain) are killed in a tragic accident, he begins a desperate search to find out what actually happened. Aided by a determined lawyer (Peri Gilpin), Bruce discovers that they were innocent victims of a street racing incident and he begins a campaign to...
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When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world. A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife. The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding...
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2022.
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268 pages : genealogical table ; 23 cm
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"La vida de Coco fue todo menos fácil o normal. Con una familia lastimada por generaciones, un padre ausente, una madre adolescente, cuatro hermanos menores y un padrastro agresivo, Coco pronto se descubrió sola en un mundo caracterizado por abusos, enfermedades mentales y problemas económicos. Desde muy pequeña, aprendió a valerse por sí misma para recorrer su camino, muchas veces desolado y tan lleno de oscuridad, que estuvo a punto de engullirla...
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