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1) Undiscovered
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Language
English
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"An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her stunning English breakthrough in an autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless...
3) Mujercitas
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Language
Español
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Chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.
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Language
Español
Description
"Based on author-illustrator John Parra's own experience helping with his father's landscape architecture business and how it inspired him to become an artist, this deceptively simple story celebrates hard work, the bond between a father and son, and the profound links between nature and art, creativity and autonomy. Today is a big day: it's the first time Juanito gets to help his papi on the job as a landscape architect. Juanito never goes anywhere...