Buarque, Chico
Summary: Ao concluir a autobiografia romanceada O ginógrafo , a pedido de um bizarro executivo alemão que fez carreira no Rio de Janeiro, José Costa, um ghost-writer de talento fora do comum, se vê diante de um impasse criativo e existencial. Escriba exímio, "gênio", nas palavras do sócio, que o explora na "agência cultural" que dividem em Copacabana, Costa, meio sem querer, de mera escrita sob...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Companhia das Letras 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 469.3 FIC BUAMurakami, Haruki
Summary: A clerk in a Tokyo of the near future works in an organization that controls the flow of information to society--employing electronic brainwashing and other insidious techniques--a job that contributes to his increasing sense of dehumanization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha International 1991
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Summary: The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie on a mission to the Ice Age where they encounter Cro-Magnons, cave bears, sabertooth tigers, and woolly mammoths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2024
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Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALERoss, Rebecca (Rebecca J.)
Summary: "Tras permanecer dormidos durante siglos, los dioses vuelven a la guerra... Lo único que la joven periodista Iris Winnow desea es mantener unida a su familia. Con un hermano obligado a luchar en el bando de los dioses y desaparecido del frente de batalla y una madre que se ahoga en su pena, la mejor opción de Iris es obtener el ascenso a columnista del Oath Gazette. Pero cuando las cartas de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck
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Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BENJackson, Holly
Summary: "Seis amigos, un viaje y un único objetivo: sobrevivir. En las vacaciones de primavera, seis amigos deciden hacer un viaje por carretera. Ellos, una casa rodante y kilómetros por delante. Este va a ser el viaje de sus vidas. Pero cuando su vehículo sufre una avería en medio de la nada, en una zona sin señal y alejada de cualquier lugar habitado, descubrirán que no fue algo fortuito. Alguien los...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta
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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FIC JACBowles, David (David O.)
Summary: "México. 1418. Les presentamos al príncipe Acolmiztli. Puma de la gente Acolhua. Heredero al trono de su padre. Mitad Acolhua, mitad Mexica. Cantante. Guerrero. Poeta. Dieciséis años de edad. Y ahora, traicionado. Una conspiración en el palacio, planeada por el letal imperio Tepaneca, mata a su madre y hermanos, pone al ejército de su padre en retirada, y manda al príncipe Acolmiztli a un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones LQ
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH BOWBoothby, Ian
Summary: "Charlie and August, the two cats that control the mechanical superhero dog, Sparks, are keeping the city safe. But when a second, evil Sparks shows up and starts causing trouble around town, everybody blames the real Sparks. Determined to prove that Sparks is still the hero everyone can count on, Charlie and August set out to uncover the shocking truth about who is responsible for all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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Summary: When Martin and Tawny's children disappeared, the couple barreled into the desert to track them down at any cost. Instead, they ran afoul of another group of rovers who claimed to be saving the world by traveling through a cave portal to the year 1492 to prevent the creation of America-an idea that defied belief until the grieving parents were lured into the cave and vanished in time and space....
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 EARMartin, Pedro
Summary: "Pedro/Peter Martín es un Mexikid, o un niño que nació en Estados Unidos de padres mexicanos: un niño que no pertenece a ninguno de los dos lugares. Así que no sabe qué pensar cuando su padre anuncia que toda la familia (¡11 personas!) se apretará dentro del Winnebago para manejar 2,000 millas hasta México con una misión: traer a su misterioso abuelito de la era de la Revolución Mexicana a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2023
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Summary: "¿Quieres jugar? Nueva York, 2011. Una chica de quince años aparece crucificada en una iglesia en un suburbio a las afueras. Miren Triggs, periodista de investigación del Manhattan Press, recibe de manera inesperada un extraño sobre. En su interior, la polaroid de una chica amordazada y maniatada, con una sola anotación: 'Gina Pebbles, 2002.' Miren Triggs y Jim Schmoer, su antiguo profesor de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Suma 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH CASWeaver, Dustin
Summary: By day, Detective Blank is a cop on the trail of a vicious serial killer in the year 1949. But when she sleeps, Blank lives a different life-- two hundred years in the future. Is Detective Blank next on the killer's list? Her dreams may hold the key to the case, if only she can remember them in time. The danger mounts and the suspense builds as the detective closes in, in this genre-bending sci...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics, Inc. 2024
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Summary: Dog Man is still learning a few tricks of the trade. Petey the cat is out of the bag, and his criminal curiosity is taking the city by storm. Something fishy is going on! Can Dog Man unleash justice on this ruffian in time to save the city, or will Petey get away with the purr-fect crime?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, un sello editorial de Scholastic 2018
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Summary: "Hernán Cortés entra en Mehxicoh-Tenoxtitlan con sus nueve capitanes, sus dos traductores -el fraile Aguilar y Malinalli, intérprete y amante-, su tropa y sus caballos. Allí los agasaja con una comida la princesa Atotoxtli, hermana y esposa de Moctezuma, acompañada por los sacerdotes, y más adelante el propio emperador Moctezuma recibirá al caudillo Cortés. Unos no han visto jamás en su vida...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Anagrama 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC ENRHenríquez, Cristina
Summary: "Dicen que la construcción del canal será la hazaña más grande en la historia de la ingeniería. Pero ¿quién va a construirlo? Para Francisco, un pescador lugareño que no tolera que las potencias extranjeras saqueen a pedazos su país, nada es más desagradable que la decisión de su hijo, Omar, de trabajar como excavador en la zona de perforación. Pero para Omar, cuya crianza fue tranquila y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HENWillems, Mo
Summary: Gerald the elephant has a big decision to make, but will he make it in time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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Summary: "Becca, Zack, Cam, and Thomas are best friends who may seem like an unlikely group on the surface but who have something very important in common: a love of history! Together, they make up their school's history club that has an all-important secret mission: stop the villainous History Twister's plot to destroy the past, forever altering the future. Knowledge of history is their superpower as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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Summary: "BRIAN K. VAUGHAN, New York Times bestselling writer of SAGA, and CLIFF CHIANG, legendary artist of WONDER WOMAN, this oversized DELUXE HARDCOVER collects the emotional final adventures of four time traveling newspaper delivery girls, risking everything in the hopes of making it back home to 1988. Collects PAPER GIRLS #21-30, along with EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIAL!"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020
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Summary: A variation of the Easter song, "Here comes Peter Cottontail," featuring Peter Cottontail delivering Easter treats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2023
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Summary: Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CARBuehner, Caralyn
Summary: Retelling of the classic Christmas carol with a snowmen twist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "Level 2 of complete self-study English-language course that combines easy-to-use visual learning with crstyal-clear grammar explanations, practice exercises, and free audio."--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2016
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Summary: An aspiring nature photographer. Kenzie Reed can't get her family of optometrists to take her art seriously. Resigned to putting aside her dreams and join the family business, She makes up Jacob, a fake, boring boyfriend, to get her parents off her back. When the Reeds arrive in Hawaii for spring break, "Jacob" shows up at the airport-- and joins their vacation! -- adapted from back cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023