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Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
In 1976, a military coup in Argentina triggered the mass persecution of political dissidents, and tens of thousands of people were killed or disappeared. Two decades later, children of the disappeared created an organization called HIJOS-an acronym that, in English, translates as Daughters and Sons for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence. This program focuses on HIJOS member Lucia Garcia as it chronicles her 15-year-long struggle for...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"An epic portrayal of Pablo Neruda's exhile . In 1948 Chile's corrupt President deprives Neruda of his Senate seat and orders his arrest. In great peril, the poet moves from place to place in Chile, finally escaping across the Andes to Argentina. His fugitive adventures lead to the south of Chile where Neruda lived during his formative years. Here childhood experiences, his first love, links with his father, the memory of an absent mother, and the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Publisher Annotation: Bestselling author John Grisham delivers a classic legal thriller--with a twist. (English edition: The Guardians / 9780593129982 / [Bantam Dell, 6/16/2020]) In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues. There were no witnesses, no one with a motive. But the police soon came to suspect Quincy Miller, a young black man who...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Captain Orellana, a former police investigator now working on his own solving the most impossible mysteries, has been tapped for the wackiest, most dangerous case of his long career. He's hired by the department of health to examine the strange occurrences in a remote village in which many of the villages seem to be ... POSSESSED! With 007-like swagger Orellana takes on the challenge. --
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
Español
Description
A courageous young journalist takes his readers deep inside the hunt for the most powerful, feared, and charismatic drug lord in the world--Mexico's Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman--and tells the full story of the drug trade over the past thirty years.
El sábado 11 de julio de 2015, poco antes de las nueve de la noche, Joaquín Loera Guzmán, mejor conocido como el Chapo, escapó por segunda vez de una prisión de máxima seguridad mexicana. El narcotraficante...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
In December 2005 Toño Zuniga was picked up off the street in Mexico City, Mexico, and sentenced to 20 years for a murder he knew nothing about. A friend of Toño's contacted two young lawyers, Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete, who gained prominence in Mexico when they helped bring about the release of another innocent man from prison. Looking into Toño's case, Roberto and Layda managed to get a retrial--on camera--and enlisted the help of filmmaker...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
In this autobiographical memoir of the first woman, African American, and South Asian American to become attorney general of the State of California, the second black woman ever elected to the United States Senate, and first woman to be elected Vice President of the U.S., Harris discusses the impact that her family and community had on her life, and how she came to discover her own sense of self and purpose.
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