Some of our April 2021 favorites Algunos de nuestros favoritos de abril 2021
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Backroads of the Great American West: Your Guide to Great Day Trips & Weekend Getaways by Motorbooks
Filled with full-color photography, instructive commissioned maps, and advice from regional travel experts. From the dizzying snow-capped heights of the Rocky Mountains to the vast expanses of the desert Southwest, from the lush Pacific Northwest to sunny Southern California and the California coast, the great western American road trip is perhaps the most quintessential of American road trips. |
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
Deciding to create her own dictionary — the Dictionary of Lost Words — Esme, who has collected “objectionable” words a team of male scholars omit from the first Oxford English Dictionary, leaves her sheltered world behind to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.
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I'm Waiting for You : And Other Stories
by Bo-young Kim
Four tales of speculative fiction includes the story of an engaged couple trying to fight time and space to get married and a story featuring godlike beings who created Earth and humanity and pass judgement on them.
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The End of Men
by Christina Sweeney-baird
The women survivors of a near-future pandemic that has killed most of the world’s men struggle to document victim stories, rebuild society and develop a vaccine.
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Hana Khan carries on
by Uzma Jalaluddin
A young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street, in this sparkling new rom-com by the author of Ayesha at Last.
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Leonora in the Morning Light
by Michaela Carter
A novel inspired by the life of Leonora Carrington follows the experiences of a rising artist who accompanies her lover to 1937 London before the masters of the Surrealist movement are denounced by occupying forces.
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We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Acts of Resistance During World War II by Frank AbeBased upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present. Three voices, three acts of defiance, one mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight.
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The Smile Shop
by Satoshi Kitamura
Visiting the street market with high expectations after saving all his pocket money, a small boy is devastated by the loss of his money before entering a mysterious Smile Shop, where he discovers the power of independence, self-worth and kindness.
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Finding Junie Kim
by Ellen Oh
A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents’ experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
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Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory
by Julie Abery
When the children of workers on a 1930s Maui sugar plantation were chased away from playing in the nearby irrigation ditches, local science teacher Soichi Sakamoto had an idea. He offered to take responsibility for the children --- and then he began training them how to swim. They formed a swim club and began to dominate in swimming events around the world. And then one day, the proud Sakamoto saw an impossible dream come true - Olympic gold!
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In this sparkling and romantic YA debut, a reserved Bangladeshi teenager has twenty-eight days to make the biggest decision of her life after agreeing to fake date her school's resident bad boy. How do you make one month last a lifetime?
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Pulpo Guisado por Eric VelasquezEste libro bellamente ilustrado, extraído de los recuerdos de la infancia del autor, celebra la creatividad, el heroísmo, la familia, las abuelas, los nietos, la comida puertorriqueña, la cultura latinx y más. ¡Con una nota de autor y la receta de la familia Velásquez para el estofado de pulpo!
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Un trineo para Gabo por Emma Otheguy¡Está nevando! Por eso, ponte tus medias más calentitas, acordónate esas botas y no te olvides de tu gorro, que nos vamos a montar en trineo. Pero espera...oh no. ¡Gabo no tiene trineo! ¿Qué va a hacer? Con un poco de ayuda de sus cálidos y acogedores vecinos, ¡Gabo encuentra un modo de resolver el problema!
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Vincent Ventura and the Diabolical Duendes = Vincent Ventura y los duendes diabólicos por Xavier GarzaLibro bilingüe Cuando Sayer Cantú se muda al vecindario, Vicente Ventura ve una criatura extraña aterrorizar al niño, así que recluta a sus primos y reúne a sus herramientas de monstruos luchando para otro enfrentamiento.
When Sayer Cantú moves into the neighborhood, Vincent Ventura sees a weird creature terrorizing the boy, so he recruits his cousins and gathers his monster-fighting tools for another showdown.
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Dune por Frank HerbertEdición española.
Mezcla fascinante de aventura, misticismo, intrigas políticas y ecologismo, Dune se convirtió, desde el momento de su publicación, en un fenómeno de culto y en la mayor epopeya de ciencia-ficción de todos los tiempos.
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Una tierra prometida por Barack ObamaUn relato cautivador y personal de la historia según se va forjando, del presidente que nos ha inspirado a creer en el poder de la democracia. En este extraordinario primer volumen de sus esperadas memorias presidenciales, Barack Obama narra la historia de su sorprendente evolución de ser un joven en busca de su identidad a convertirse en líder del mundo occidental, describiendo con increíble detalle tanto su formación política como los momentos cumbre del primer período de su histórica presidencia, una época de una gran conmoción y de profunda transformación.
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El consentimiento por Vanessa SpringoraCon trece años, Vanessa Springora conoce a Gabriel Matzneff, un apasionado escritor treinta y seis años mayor que ella, tras cuyo prestigio y carisma se esconde un depredador. Después de un meticuloso cortejo, la adolescente se entrega a él en cuerpo y alma, cegada por el amor e ignorante de que sus relaciones con menores llevan años nutriendo su producción literaria. Más de treinta años después de los hechos, Springora narra de forma lúcida y fulgurante esta historia de amor y perversión, y la ambigüedad de su propio consentimiento.
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Anoche cuando dormía por Antonio MachadoEsta selección contiene algunos de sus versos más emblemáticos, influenciados por la lírica popular y conjunción de una extrema sobriedad y sencillez formal con la emoción más sincera y humana. En esta antología destacan sus poemas dedicados a un paisaje que linda con el sueño y el amor.
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The lost village
by Camilla Sten
Obsessed with the vanishing residents of an old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt and her crew set up camp and are soon plagued by strange events that makes them realize they are not alone.
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Kg a to Z
by Kevin Garnett
The NBA champion, 15-time All Star and Hall of Fame inductee chronicles his prestigious, multi-decade career in professional basketball, describing his South Carolina upbringing, high school draft and work with such fellow notables as Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.
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I Think I Love You
by Auriane Desombre
Competing for a first-prize trip to a Los Angeles film festival, die-hard romantic Emma and her archnemesis, the practical-minded Sophia, find their frequent clashes turning into something more.
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