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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Benjamin Ramirez, Miles Turner

The Adventures of Gerard is a compilation of short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote regarding a French Brigadier named Etienne Gerard who thinks very highly of himself as can be reflected in how he told his stories. The book is divided into chapters containing different segments of his life as a soldier under the leadership of Napoleon together with his personal exploits and the romance that swept his way in between.

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Benjamin Alejandro Luna Ramirez

Abelardo is a young and sad man who lost the woman he loves and, although it has been a year since she died, he insists on sinking into his melancholy, his memories, her personal possessions and pretending that she still talk to him. But then, on a cold October night, Abelardo receives the unexpected visit of a beautiful woman who claims to be Death, and who wakes him at midnight only to inform him that he has died, that time has stopped and that it will advance only when he has resigned h...

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Strickler, Benjamin

El rey de Inglaterra ha muerto y los aspirantes al trono siguen compitiendo. Para designar a un nuevo rey, se organiza un gran torneo en Londres. Kay, hermano de Arthur, compite en su intento por ganar la corona. Todos están listos, pero Kay se da cuenta de que dejó su espada en la posada, así que le pide a Arthur que vaya a buscarla. De camino a la posada, Arthur descubre algo que cambiará su vida a partir de ese momento...

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Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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Robert Ramirez

Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults, 2005–Young Adult Library Services AssociationA young adult novel Latino-style–the year is 1969. America is at war, “Hollywood” is a dirt-poor Chicano barrio in small town America, and Sammy and Juliana, about to head into their senior year, are in love.Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood is a Chicano ode to survival. In so many ways, in so many of the characters’ lives, I see images of riding out the storms of youth, of a cultur...

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Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

Now a major motion picture starring Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, and Eva Longoria!A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)The award-winning, internationally renowned book that is a “tender, honest exploration of identity” (Publishers Weekly) and distills lyrical truths about family and friendship through the unlikely connection between two teens.Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dant...

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O-O Happiness

Remember trying to learn a language at school? Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that's right, it was all mind numbing. Language is not about perfect grammar. Language is about communication. Why not try our system.

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O-O Happiness

The companion to our Languages Fast and Easy ~ Portuguese ebook, this Phrasebook provides you with a collection of the most common phrases as well as specialist phrases for when you are at the hotel/ restaurant, travelling and out and about.

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O-O Happiness

Remember trying to learn a language at school? Remember trying to get your head around conjugating verbs? Past tense, present tense, present participle, imperfect subjunctive? Yes, that's right, it was all mind numbing. Language is not about perfect grammar. Language is about communication. Why not try our system. Learn to communicate quickly and easily in another language.

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Emma Reyes

**“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York TimesA literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood**This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by Gabriel García Márquez. Comprised of letters written...

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Diana Rosie

A little boy and his grandfather embark on a quest to find the old man's missing birthday in Diana Rosie's debut novel, Alberto's Lost Birthday.Alberto is an old man. But he doesn't know how old - he remembers nothing before his arrival at an orphanage during the Spanish civil war.He rarely thinks about his missing childhood, but when seven-year-old Tino discovers his grandfather has never had a birthday party, never blown out candles on a birthday cake, never rece...

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Sobaca

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Jump Into Languages

It’s a great feeling to know you can be who you are without fear or embarrassment. This Spanish language course is designed to be FUN AND EASY to follow. In this eBook we have covered all of the most likely situations you may face and have prepared you with the KEY WORDS AND PHRASES most commonly used. In this modern age you will most likely have a cell phone and wear a watch - consequently we have avoided tedious chapters on telling the time, counting and things you can point to. Instead,...

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Ursula Dubosarsky, Terry Denton

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CRYPTIC CASEBOOK OF COCO CARLOMAGNO (AND ALBERTA)

Perplexing puzzles, mind-boggling mazes and cracking codes feature in this series of stories about a pair of guinea-pig detectives - Coco Carlomagno, the easily-startled Chief of Police, and his more sensible cousin, Alberta.Ursula Dubosarsky is the Australian Children's Laureate for 2020 - 2021Buenos Aires' Chief of Police, Coco Carlomagno, is sure his office high in the Obelisco is haunted. Every day at the same time he sees a floating pineapple and every...