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The story weaves a vivid and engrossing tale of one man's search for love and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and neglect. As he journeys from the Hispanic barrio in Los Angeles to the killing fields of Vietnam to the frenetic life of a lawyer in San Francisco, Gregory Reeves loses himself in an illusory and wrongheaded quest. Only when he circles back to his roots does he find the love and acceptance he has been looking...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 26
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"Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and in cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 17
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"Not many months have passed since teenager Alexander Cold followed his bold grandmother into the heart of the Amazon to uncover its legendary Beast. This time, reporter Kate Cold escorts her grandson and his closest friend, Nadia, along with the photographers from International Geographic, on a journey to another location far from home. Entering a forbidden sovereignty tucked in the frosty peaks of the Himalayas, the team's task is to locate a sacred...
5) La novena
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�2016.
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"Producto de un accidente absurdo Miguel Flores, un estudiante universitario, es detenido en una protesta contra la dictadura de Pinochet. Tras unos d?as en el calabozo del cuartel policial es enviado a una zona agr?cola cercana a la capital, pero aislada de toda actividad pol?tica. Su presencia genera temor u odio entre los lugare?os, salvo en Amelia, una mujer de mediana edad, viuda y due?a del fundo La Novena. Ella le abre las puertas de su casa...
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Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 20
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Desarrollada en un pai;s latinamericano sin nombre que vive bajo el dominio de una dictadura militar, la segunda, hipnotizante, novela de Allende cuenta la historia de una mujer y un hombre que están destinados, bajo las circunstancias más espeluzantes, a compartir un amor excepcional.Irene Beltrán es fruto de la clase alta, una bien intencionada, aunque algo ingenua, reportera en una revista para mujeres. Francisco Leal, hijo de exiliados españoles,...
8) Eva Luna
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Pub. Date
2001.
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The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence.
9) 2666
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2009, c2004
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An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared.
Cuatro academicos tras la pista de un enigmatico escritor aleman; un periodista de Nueva York en su primer trabajo en Mexico; un filosofo viudo; un detective de policia enamorado de una esquiva mujer estos son algunos de los personajes arrastrados hasta la ciudad...
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