Penguin Random House.
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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
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All great leaders, thinkers, artists, athletes, and visionaries share one indelible quality. It enables them to conquer their tempers. To avoid distraction and discover great insights. To achieve happiness and do the right thing. Ryan Holiday calls it stillness -- to be steady while the world spins around you. Drawing on a wide range of history's greatest thinkers, from Confucius to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius to Thich Nhat Hanh, John Stuart Mill to Nietzsche,...
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2019.
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380 pages ; 24 cm
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"For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers" -- the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to...
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[2023]
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x, 303 pages ; 22 cm
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"An exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of memoir, inspiration, and specific exercises and prompts, with timely messages about social and racial justice and how the world needs to move beyond body positivity to something even more exciting and revolutionary-body liberation"--
When King first joined a gym, she fell into the all-too-common cycle of "not enough-ness": no matter what she achieves, there was always something she felt she needed to...
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In a small Florida town, a young lawyer is shot to death. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but the Episcopal minister in charge gets more than he bargained for as powerful people do not want Miller exonerated.
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"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The exceptional new thriller from the writer whose books are "pure reading pleasure" (Booklist) The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those...
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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
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"Ace the AP Statistics Exam with this comprehensive study guide, including 4 full-length practice tests with answer explanations, content reviews for all topics, strategies for every question type, and access to online extras. Techniques That Actually Work. Tried-and-true strategies to help you avoid traps and beat the test. Tips for pacing yourself and guessing logically. Essential tactics to help you work smarter, not harder. Everything You Need...
10) Extreme prey
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"The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner John Sandford. After the events in Gathering Prey, Lucas Davenport finds himself in a very unusual situation--no longer employed by the Minnesota BCA. His friend the governor is just cranking up a presidential campaign, though, and he invites Lucas to come along as part of his campaign staff. "Should be fun!" he says, and it kind of...
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La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los espíritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos, ahora en una edición especial con motivo de su 40 aniversario, y con nuevo prólogo de su autora. El despótico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social explosivo. Finalmente, la decadencia personal del patriarca...
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"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers"--...
13) Orgullo prieto
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2022.
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220 pages ; 23 cm
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"México es un país racista que niega serlo. Con argumentos como "No es racismo, sino clasismo", "Acá somos todos mestizos" o "Nunca hubo un sistema segregacionista como en Estados Unidos" negamos que hemos perpetuado la discriminación durante generaciones."--Page [4] of cover.
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2023
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302 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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"In the early hours of July 16, 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered by her abusive ex-boyfriend. A life full of promise and hope, cut tragically short, Liliana's story instead became subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of domestic violence. With Liliana's case file abandoned by a corrupt criminal justice system, her family, including her older sister Cristina, was forced to process their grief and guilt in private, without any hope...
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2022.
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191 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"¿Un postrecito? Con su estilo de recetas fáciles y rápidas, kiwilimón comparte sus mejores platillos dulces aptos para cocineros primerizos y experimentados, o cualquiera que desee crear momentos inolvidables alrededor de la mesa. En este viaje culinario encontrarás recetas doblemente comprobadas de flanes, gelatinas; tartas y pays para la hora del café; pasteles esponjosos y galletas; postres sin horno y sin batidora; cubiertos con chocolate,...
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2022
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326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Ser una mujer victoriosa y feliz puede ser un gran desafío. No subestimes el poder de los pequeños cambios. ¿Te has sentido tan abrumada que parece que el mundo se te cae encima? ¿O tan decaída que casi no puedes levantarte de la cama? El estrés, la ansiedad y la depresión son algunas de las enfermedades más comunes de este siglo. Enfermedades silenciosas que, poco a poco, van minando lo que somos. Jessica Domínguez lo sabe de primera...
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2021.
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382 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Dos almas arrogantes condenadas a entenderse. ¿Pueden un duque y una mujer trabajadora del Londres victoriano salvar el abismo que los separa? Paige Clearington ha cumplido el sueño que tenía desde niña: convertirse en doctora. Sin embargo, recién graduada en la Escuela de Medicina para Mujeres de Londres, tendrá que enfrentarse a un reto inesperado: curar bajo coacción al hijo del duque de Breighton. La difteria y los sentimientos...
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2022
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550 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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La ciudad de Chichén Itzá es escenario de profundos cambios. A pesar de la terrible sequía que azota la región desde hace décadas, siguen llegando inmigrantes del sur que huyen de la guerra, así como comerciantes de la meseta central en busca de nuevos recursos. Uno de ellos es Pilotl, un acaudalado mercader de origen tolteca con quien arreglan el matrimonio de la joven noble Manik, originaria de Chichén. La vida de la mujer da un giro...
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Pub. Date
2023
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
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Una nįa que crece en una finca de pįas en M̌xico nos descubre el verdadero significado de la palabra magia en este libro ilustrado, un volumen verdaderamente m̀gico sobre el cambio y la transformaci̤n --tanto sobre aquellas cosas que no podemos controlar, como los desastres naturales y las p̌rdidas, como las que s̕ est̀n en nuestro poder. La magia puede transformar la tierra en pįas, las semillas en ̀rboles, la lana en mantas, las palabras...
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...