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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $12.40
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Manufacturer: Alfaguara
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Luis Leante
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Publisher: Alfaguara
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Dewey Decimal Number: 863.64
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Publication Date: 2007-04-01
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Reading Level: 372
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Description: The unexpected finding of an old photograph will make Montse Cambra, a forty-four year old doctor, leave her native Barcelona in search for her first love. Thus a trip begins that will take her all the way to the Sahara. The need for survival and the passion to live in a forgotten town in the desert will help her discover her true destiny. Mira si yo te querré is a love story that extends through time; the story of two periods and two cultures joined by a secret. It is the adventure of a woman who, in the solitude of the desert, discovers what is truly important. Description in Spanish: Montse Cambra emprende un viaje al antiguo Sahara español en busca de Santiago San Román, su primer novio, un joven mecánico que la deslumbró con un coche y su desparpajo. Se hicieron novios, pelearon y él tuvo que marcharse al servicio militar pensando que estaba embarazada y que ya no lo querÃa porque no contestaba a sus llamadas. Montse tiene ahora 44 años, es médica, ha perdido a una hija adolescente y su marido, un brillante colega, que la ha dejado por una radióloga de gimnasio y peluquerÃa . Entre las cosas de una magrebà ingresada en urgencias, encuentra una foto de Santiago. Le dijeron que habÃa muerto, pero gracias a la foto descubre que está vivo, que se casó en Ãfrica y que su mujer murió. Sin nada que la ate a la Barcelona donde nació, marcha en su busca.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $9.84
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Manufacturer: Oveja Negra
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gustavo Bolivar Moreno
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Publisher: Oveja Negra
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Dewey Decimal Number: 863.7
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Publication Date: 2007-10-02
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Reading Level: 228
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $14.93
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jaime Bayly
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813
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Publication Date: 2008-12-15
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Reading Level: 416
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Price: $6.99
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Sale: $3.42
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Manufacturer: Signet
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ramon Garcia Palayo y Gross
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Publisher: Signet
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Dewey Decimal Number: 463
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Publication Date: 1983-06-07
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Reading Level: 640
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.25
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Manufacturer: Rayo
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jorge Luis Borges
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Publisher: Rayo
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Dewey Decimal Number: 863.62
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Publication Date: 2008-05-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again. Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself. It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $9.12
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Octavio Paz
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.86872
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Publication Date: 1997-11-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature and past recipient of the Jerusalem Prize, the Frankfurt Peace Prize, and the Neustadt Prize, Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. "Essential to an understanding of Mexico and, by extension, Latin America and the third world".--THE VILLAGE VOICE .
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Price: $15.99
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Sale: $9.64
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Manufacturer: Aguilar
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter
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Publisher: Aguilar
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Dewey Decimal Number: 332
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Publication Date: 2008-02-01
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: A #1 New York Times bestseller, Rich Dad, Poor Dad is a true story on the lessons about money that Robert Kiyosaki learned from his two dads. One dad, a Ph.D. and superintendent of education, never had enough money at the end of the month and died broke. His other dad dropped out of school at age 13 and went on to become one of the wealthiest men in Hawaii. Rich Dad, Poor Dad will: Explode the myth that you need to earn a high income to become rich; Challenge the belief that your house is an asset; Show parents why they can't rely on the school system to teach their kids about money; and teach you what to teach your kids about money for their future financial success. This Bestseller is changing how the world views money by shifting your context to that of a rich person. If you are like many - dependent on your paychecks to cover your monthly expenses - then you don t think like the rich. The rich don t accumulate cash; they accumulate assets that generate cash flow for them. In reading Rich Dad Poor Dad, you ll better understand the power that thinking can have on your life. Description in Spanish: Un plan integral para consolidar e incrementar la bonanza financiera. La inteligencia resuelve problemas y produce dinero; el dinero sin inteligencia financiera es dinero que pronto se pierde. Con esta sentencia, Robert T. Kiyosaki nos descubre un panorama excepcional para hacer que el dinero trabaje para nosotros y como lograr el anhelado crecimiento financiero. Padre rico, padre pobre cuenta la propia experiencia de Robert T. Kiyosaki cuando descubrió en la ninez la tenacidad al servicio de la inteligencia y la forma calculadora y firme en que se deben tomar las decisiones. Gracias a los consejos de su padre real, el superintendente de educacion de Hawai, el padre pobre, y el ejemplo de su padre rico en realidad padre de su mejor amigo de la infancia , hombre de negocios sagaz, de perspectivas amplias y agudeza financiera a toda prueba, Kiyosaki pudo elegir el exito y el crecimiento economico y rechazo la realizacion profesional incierta, la prosperidad convencional llena de ataduras. La obra esta estructurada en 6 lecciones basicas sobre el dinero, extraidas de la sabiduria del padre rico; en ellas se revela lo siguiente: el rico no trabaja por dinero, el dinero trabaja intensamente para el; es indispensable aprender alfabetizacion financiera, luchar por la consolidacion de nuestros propios negocios; se explica la historia de los impuestos y el poder de las corporaciones; la destreza de los ricos para multiplicar el dinero: ¡inventarlo!; la importancia de trabajar para dominar y producir. El autor expone a su vez las razones por las que las personas no logran ser financieramente competentes para gozar la vida que siempre han sonado, estas son: el miedo, el cinismo, la pereza, los malos habitos y la arrogancia. Padre rico, padre pobre ha cautivado a millones de personas con sus formulas originales y asombrosas para hacer que nuestro dinero se multiplique en forma extraordinaria. Las lecciones de Kiyosaki sin duda cambiaran nuestra vision de los negocios y las inversiones, y haran que unicamente nosotros determinemos el destino de nuestro dinero.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.27
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Manufacturer: Rayo
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Zoe Valdes
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Publisher: Rayo
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Dewey Decimal Number: 972.91064
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Publication Date: 2008-11-01
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Zoé Valdés, La reconocida escritora cubana, traza una apasionada declaración contra el régimen comunista cubano . . . Un retrato de Fidel Castro contado desde su punto de vista desenfrenado y tenaz "A veces pienso que todo esto ha sido una pesadilla, o una película mala, o una novela mediocre, o una pésima telenovela, un chiste pesado". Así comienza La ficción Fidel, el libro en el que la escritora exiliada expresa su rechazo al régimen de Fidel Castro, quien nos dice ha logrado hipnotizar tanto a amigos como a enemigos del régimen, manipulando y distorsionando la realidad. "Fidel Castro ha sido el más grande especialista de marketing que ha dado la historia contemporánea. Creó un producto—la revolución—y todo el mundo se lo compró". Zoé Valdés es reconocida por su ficción, la cual la ha consagrado internacionalmente. Sin embargo, en este nuevo libro la autora deja de lado todo componente ficticio para expresar fervientemente su repudio al régimen de Fidel Castro, combinando fluidamente diferentes géneros (ensayo, historia, memoria) dentro de una obra totalmente original. Con entrevistas secretas, documentos ocultos y su propia experiencia profesional, Valdés devela un gobierno turbio, lleno de contradicciones, guiado por uno de los hombres más manipuladores y carismáticos del mundo.
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $4.53
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Manufacturer: Plaza y Janes
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Publisher: Plaza y Janes
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Dewey Decimal Number: 863.64
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Publication Date: 2006-02-07
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Published in Spanish, a new short novel, set against the lush tropical backdrop of colonial eighteenth-century Colombia, narrates the story of two doomed lovers.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $6.48
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Manufacturer: Hippocrene Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Daniel Joelson
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Publisher: Hippocrene Books
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Edition: Bilingual
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Dewey Decimal Number: 467.0983
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Publication Date: 2005-05-25
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Reading Level: 185
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Description: Although Castilian Spanish is the official language of Chile, this South American nation is known for having a great number of words and phrases that are distinct from other Spanish-speaking countries. In fact, the Spanish spoken in Chile is often indecipherable even to native speakers of Castilian Spanish. For example, only in Chile would you say: "Están cayendo los patos asados" (Roast ducks are falling) when the weather is hot. This dictionary and phrasebook prepares tourists, businesspeople, and anyone spending time in Chile for such idiosyncrasies. - Historical and cultural information on the Chilean "dialect"
- An explanation of grammar and distinctive speech patterns
- Useful sections on Anglicisms, food & dining, and travel
- More than 1,500 Chilenismos words and expressions
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