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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lee Israel who made her living in the '70s and '80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. An adaptation of the memoir, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats).
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
80L
Language
Español
Description
By admiring her finer points and showing that she can take care of herself and have fun even when there's no one else around, a charming pig proves the best friend you can have is yourself.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken stories of the barrio -- even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea...
5) Malinche
Author
Language
Español
Description
When Malinalli met Cortez she assumed that he was her god Quetzalcoatl returned to free her people. The two fell passionately in love, but this love was soon destroyed by Cortez's thirst for conquest, power, and riches. Though some have considered her a traitor to her people, this book pictures her more as a mediator between two cultures during the fall of the Aztec Empire and the birth of the mestiza culture.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
All of your burning questions are finally answered in the electrifying final season of the emotionally gripping and darkly humorous show. Grace Hanadarko is the hard-living detective with an angel on her shoulder. As she continues her relentless search for the truth she faces homicides, bombings, a mysterious girl in a coma, and a miraculous near-death experience.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Confronting the most challenging case of her illustrious career, Patty and trusted lieutenant Tom Shayes meet their match against the matipulative Tobin family empire - matriarch Marilyn, son Joe and the clan's loyal attorney Leonard Winstone. When former protégée Ellen Parsons is also pulled into the malestrom, she discovers she hasn't escaped Patty Hewes after all."--Container.
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"This is a riotous romp taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of Mrs. China Iron, Martín Fierro's abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon to become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their...
Publisher
Hal Leonard
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
"All arrangements feature melody, lyrics and ukulele chord grids in uke-friendly keys, perfect for groups of one or one hundred. This collection includes popular songs of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, right up to today. Also features a "ukulele 101" section, a chord chart, and vintage ukulele-themed photos."--from publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love-self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural-is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a promise kept," as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions...
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
September 2018.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably linked to her parents' homeland and Honduran culture. Speaking Spanish at home, having Saturday-morning-salsa-dance-parties in the kitchen, and eating tamales...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Lorelai and Rory are a mother and daughter who are sharing life's ups and downs in a small town in Connecticut. This heartfelt, humorous drama appeals to young and old alike with it's blend of traditional family issues and hip attitude.
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