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2020.
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"Two Zapatista women, bound by cultural expectations, struggle to express the truth of their lives in the highlands of Chiapas. When a woman rises-no man is left behind and a community is nourished. In the Maya township of Chenalhó in Chiapas, Veronica, a teenage girl, is recovering from a disastrous early marriage. Spurred on by a community program of women telling their stories, she asks her mother Magdalena to record the story of her growing up...
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2023.
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Español
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"As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might we approach one another? Claudia Rankine, without telling us what to do, urges us to begin the discussions that might open pathways through this divisive and stuck moment in American history. Just Us is an invitation to discover what it takes to stay in the room together, even and especially in breaching the silence, guilt, and violence that follow...
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Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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Elena, diplomatica espanola y Alta Comisionada de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados, esta a punto de iniciar el viaje mas importante de su vida. Mientras espera su vuelo a El Cairo, ira desgranando su historia y las poderosas razones que la impulsan a dar a su existencia un giro de ciento ochenta grados. Su compromiso con los desheredados de la tierra y su profundo amor por Diego Serrano, un medico sin fronteras y un ser humano extraordinario, son...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Existe un hilo invisible que une los testimonios orquestados aqui y que comparten con frecuencia las personas superdotadas: la musica y la relacion con los instrumentos. A traves de once historias intimas y secretas, se compone una sinfonia de circunstancias comunes a las altas capacidades y a las personas que pertenecen a su entorno. Reconocer, visibilizar y ofrecer un papel protagonista a quienes poseen cualidades que exceden de lo normal, tiene...
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2021.
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New York Times Bestseller "An irreverent satirical fantasy about a sudden and violent upheaval. Think Tom Robbins channeling Jonathan Swift." -David Takami, Seattle Times Adjustment Day is an ingenious darkly comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war to control the burgeoning population of young males, while working-class...
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2022.
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"Mexico, why are you like this? Who hurt you so much? Questions of this nature require deep socio-anthropological studies. But since nobody in the country supports research, we have an Engineer from Chihuahua proposing (terrible) theories and exposing his (very) personal traumas in the process of answering them. A bit of History, a bit of analysis, a lot of "I don't really care", is what people need to survive in a country abandoned by fate a long...
8) De donde soy
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2022.
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Español
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From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking : In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” ( The Baltimore Sun ), Didion-a native Californian-reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic's often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage,...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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When the young Victoria returns to Madrid after a few years in Vienna, she faces the corseted social life of the women of the Spanish gentry. The time when she frequented the Viennese literary salons and cultivated her fondness for writing seems to have been left behind, but she is not willing to resign herself to it. Meanwhile, in the most popular area of the capital, Diego works in the family printer while struggling to open a gap as a reporter....
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2020.
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Los jóvenes latinos en los Estados Unidos están redefiniendo su identidad, rompiendo moldes establecidos, y despertando políticamente de maneras sorprendentes y poderosas. Muchos de ellos--afrolatinos, indígenas, musulmanes, queer e indocumentados tanto en zonas urbanas como rurales--representan voces históricamente ignoradas en el modo en que la diversa población de casi seis millones de latinos en los Estados Unidos ha sido representada. Hasta...
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[2023]
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Español
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"Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen-- A unique collection of 44 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers-including award-winning writers, artists, and activists-that illuminate what it is like living undocumented today. A unique collection of 44 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and Dreamers-including award-winning writers, artists, and activists-that illuminate...
12) A plena luz
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2019.
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Español
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A fictionalized account of Willie Sutton, one of the most notorious criminals in American history, traces his life, his doomed romance with his first love, and his surprise pardon on Christmas Eve in 1969.
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2021.
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Español
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"In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener -- stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial -- left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination,...
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2020.
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Español
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En un dramático relato de violencia y espionaje, el periodista de investigación y ganador de un Premio Pulitzer Ronan Farrow expone los poderosos intereses de los depredadores sexuales, empeñados en cubrir la verdad a cualquier precio. En 2017, una investigación rutinaria para la televisión llevó a Ronan Farrow a una historia de la que hasta entonces solo había rumores: uno de los productores más poderosos de Hollywood era un depredador sexual,...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Renegados: Born in the USA es un diálogo sincero, revelador y entretenido entre el presidente Barack Obama y el legendario músico Bruce Springsteen, en el que se tratan toda una serie de temas --desde los orígenes de cada uno de sus protagonistas y los momentos que definieron sus carreras hasta la polarización política de su país y la abismal brecha entre el sueño americano y la cruda realidad estadounidense. Esta edición profusamente ilustrada...
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[2017]
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Español
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"En este revolucionario trabajo que ha permanecido por mas de dos anos en la lista de los libros mas vendidos del New York Times, Michelle Alexander argumenta que 'no hemos erradicado las castas raciales en Estados Unidos; las hemos meramente redisenado.' Al apuntar a hombres negros por medio de la Guerra contra las Drogas y diezmando las comunidades de gente de color, el sistema de justicia criminal de Estados Unidos funciona como un sistema contemporaneo...
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2022
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Español
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El doctor Mukwege, galardonado con el Premio Nobel de la Paz en 2018, ha sido testigo de una destrucción inimaginable, de un dolor que nadie debería sentir jamás, y ha salvado incontables vidas aun a riesgo de perder la suya en varios atentados. Su incansable labor para curar a las supervivientes de la violencia sexual en su país, el Congo, asolado por las guerras, le ha hecho merecedor del reconocimiento como defensor mundial de los derechos...
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