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1) Black Dju
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the sea and sun of the Cape Verde Island, it's a very big step to rainy, gloomy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that's the journey 20-year-old Dju Dele Dibonga must take to track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly guest worker checks have stopped. But it's not just the weather that's not welcoming, Dju also has to face overzealous immigration cops.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Praïa, Cape verde. Laura, Flavia and Bela are childhood friends. Each leads her own life and they sometimes meet to dance, dine and have fun. But one day the calm rivers of their lives break their banks and become wild torrents: Ricardo, Flavia's husband, rapes his pupil Indira, Laura's 13-year old eldest daughter. A film that takes a critical look at the lives of women in Cape Verde.
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Portuguese
Description
A Cape Verdean woman travels to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange, forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Amilcar Cabral was the leader of the Liberation Movement of Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau and the founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC). Regarded as a true icon of African history, this documentary provides considerable background to this revolutionary giant and reveals Cabral in several dimensions: as a man, a father, politician, humanist and poet.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is the true story of how El Chapo built the world's wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking operation, based on months' worth of trial testimony and dozens of interviews with cartel gunmen, Mexican journalists and political figures, Chapo's family members, and the DEA agents who brought him down. Over the course of three decades, El Chapo was responsible for smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, marijuana, heroin, meth, and fentanyl...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Low-lying island nations are least responsible for global warming, but they are already suffering its impacts severely and disproportionately. According to the International Panel on Climate Change, island nations are responsible for 0.03% of global emissions. A weave of essays, maps, poems and illustrations, Sea Change presents the impacts of and solutions to sea level rise. An essay, drawing on interviews, scientific reports, academic scholarship...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A Nigerian storyteller explores the continent of Africa country by country: its geography, peoples, animals, history, resources, and cultural diversity. The book is divided into five distinct sections--South, East, West, Central, and North--and each country is showcased on its own bright, energetic page brimming with friendly facts on science, industry, food, sports, music, wildlife, landscape features, even snippets of local languages"--
8) Cantoras
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find each other as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family. In 1977 Uruguay, a military government has crushed political dissent with ruthless force. In an environment where citizens are kidnapped, raped, and tortured, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Ryland Grace es el único superviviente en una misión desesperada. Es la última oportunidad y, si fracasa, la humanidad y la Tierra misma perecerán. Claro que, de momento, él no lo sabe. Ni siquiera puede recordar su propio nombre, y mucho menos la naturaleza de su misión o cómo llevarla a cabo. Lo único que sabe es que ha estado en coma inducido durante mucho mucho tiempo. Acaba de despertar y se encuentra a millones de kilómetros de su hogar,...
Series
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This encyclopedia covers LGBTQ topics in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East, as well as North America, and takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, using film, literature, human rights, politics, landmark legislation, activism, the arts, language, sports, and historical events as points of entry into the content.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"En el Uruguay de 1977, el gobierno militar oprime a los disidentes con una fuerza brutal. En este ambiente opresivo donde los derechos personales están suspendidos, la homosexualidad es una transgresión peligrosa que debe ser castigada. Aun así, Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus", Paz, y Malena--cinco cantoras--se encuentran milagrosamente en Cabo Polonio, un lugar aislado que reclaman como su santuario secreto. Y este despertar se contrapone al...
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 6
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
Vuelve Percy Jackson, el protagonista estrella de Rick Riordan Por una vez, Percy Jackson no debe preocuparse por salvar el mundo. En esta ocasión tiene una tarea mucho más difícil: entrar en la universidad. La Universidad de Nueva Roma pide cartas de recomendación de tres dioses para acceder, así que... sí: Percy tendrá que llevar a cabo nuevas misiones para conseguirlas. Primera misión: el copero de los dioses, Ganimedes, ha perdido su cáliz,...
13) Mexico 2023
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Mexico is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Discover the ancient Maya world at Palenque, explore the world-class diving reef at Cabo Pulmo, and tour the most important works of Mexico's top muralists around Mexico City; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Mexico and begin your journey now.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
"Wilson sueña con todas las reparaciones que hay que hacerle a la casa de su amiga Gigi para que la anciana viva más cómodamente. Wilson les presenta su idea a varios miembros de su comunidad, entre ellos el bibliotecario, el heladero y el maestro. Finalmente, la casa de Gigi es seleccionada para participar en un proyecto de renovación de la comunidad, y todo el vecindario se junta para llevar a cabo un generoso acto de servicio comunitario."--...
15) La muerte es mía
Author
Publisher
Roca
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
"Claudia ha sido la primera mujer tanatopractora del país y es una autoridad mundial en el ámbito funerario, aunque su profesión no le ha facilitado las relaciones personales. Firme defensora de la eutanasia, el hastagh #LaMuerteEsMía le servirá para orquestar una campaña de inesperadas consecuencias. Y lamentará que sus deseos se hayan hecho realidad... Rita es una mujer espectacular acostumbrada a los retos, por eso, cuando le ofrecen la...
Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Llamarse Lizzy apellidándose Bennet fue una casualidad, pero esta anécdota ha marcado su vida desde niña, desde el momento en que decidió guiar su conducta por el código moral de la protagonista de Orgullo y prejuicio, la otra Lizzy Bennet: honor, libertad, coherencia. Pero algo tuvo que salir muy mal, porque con treinta años recién cumplidos, esos tres principios se han volatilizado: la prensa la considera un monstruo, la policía la persigue,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Viktor Orlov tenía una cita con la muerte desed hace tiempo. El una vez hombre más rico de Rusia, vive ahora en un espléndido exilio en Londres, donde ha llevado a cabo una incasnable cruzada contra el autoritario cleptócrata que ha tomado control del Kremlin. Su mansíon en el exclusivo Cheyne Walk en Chelsea es una de las viviendas londienese más fuertemente protegidas, y aun así, es una tarde lluviosa, en medio de una pandemia global, en...
18) Mexico 2021
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Mexico is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Discover the ancient Maya world at Palenque, explore the world-class diving reef at Cabo Pulmo, and tour the most important works of Mexico's top muralists around Mexico City; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Mexico and begin your journey now!
19) Desesperación
Author
Series
Colección compactos volume 194
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
Description
"Desesperación es una impagable joya literaria, una originalísima variación sobre el tema del doble en la que la inveterada astucia narrativa de su autor se combina con su diabólico sentido del humor. La historia empieza el día en que un fabricante de chocolate tropieza con un vagabundo que es, a sus ojos, su doble perfecto. Cuando, más adelante, su negocio comience a hundirse, decidirá llevar a cabo un crimen perfecto que le permitira cobrar...
Publisher
Tycoon Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Para Lola la vida no es siempre facil. Tener 12 anos, vivir en un barrio corriente, cuidar de dos hermanos mocosos, vestir de rebajas y soportar a unas amigas locas de atar, no es tarea facil. Pero Lola lo lleva bien. Ella siempre se ha creido la reina del barrio, hasta que irrumpe en su vida Virginia, una pija que lo tiene todo. Pronto su relacion desarrollara estrategias, alianzas, competiciones.. El juego sumergira al jugador en el mundo de Lola,...
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