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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
Español
Description
Un magnífico retrato de heroicidad en un mundo decadente. Esta es la historia del millonario hecho a sí mismo, Jay Gatsby, a quien sólo le mueve una obsesión: recuperar un amor de juventud. Pero Daisy es hoy una muchacha que forma parte de una sociedad frívola y aburrida de sí misma, una criatura encantadora y también dañina. Un magnífico retrato de heroicidad en un mundo decadente. -- Goodreads
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
Todo lo que un inmigrante debe conocer para vivir legalmente en Estados Unidos...Inmigrar a Estados Unidos tiene nuevas reglas: Un gobierno que quiere imponer leyes más estrictas, amenaza de deportación, falsa información, estafas, miedo. Todo ha complicado la situación del inmigrante. Por eso Univision te brinda los recursos y los consejos para que puedas enfrentar la nueva realidad que estamos viviendo. En esta guía, los expertos en inmigración...
3) Prohibition
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight....
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.
5) Lincoln
Language
English
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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English
Description
In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from the effects of the brutal Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two New Zealander friends experience life, love, friendship, all the usual stuff, while trying to make their lives as a rock band. Unfortunately, they're a rock band that can only schedule a performance at the local aquarium, and they have only one fan.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
83 pages : maps ; 23 cm + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
Español
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"¡El examen de ciudadanía cambió! Ya no son solamente las 100 preguntas típicas de historia, el nuevo examen de naturalización contiene preguntas sobre temas como: Sistema de gobierno ; Cívica integrada ; La historia de los Estados Unidos ; Preguntas de la aplicacíon N-400 ; Nuevas preguntas personales ; Oraciones del examen de lectura y escritura; Esta guía contiene las preguntas y respuestas en inglés y español, e incluye un CD para aprender...
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English
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Description
Join Spirit, a young wild mustang, as he sets out against impossible odds to regain his freedom and save his homeland. On his courageous journey across the American frontier, Spirit forms a remarkable friendship with a Lakota brave, outwits a squadron of soldiers, and falls for a paint mare named Rain.
10) Jarhead
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Language
English
Description
Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they...
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Series
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Español
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"Entérese cómo elegir la mejor escuela para sus chicos. Aprenda paso por paso cómo funciona el sistema educativo en los Estados Unidos. Aprenda cómo involucrarse en el proceso de aprendizaje de sus hijos. Sepa cuáles son sus derechos y responsabilidades como padre o madre."--P. [4] of cover.
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English
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Edward is the only witness to his father's suicide and is a member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion. These are the qualities that help him become recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (CIA). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes...
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 674 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Season one of the Netflix original series House of Cards. Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
19) A better life
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the U.S. But when his wife left him, Carlos's only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had. A story that follows father and son as they embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover that family is the most important part of the American dream.
20) Amanecer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
Español
Description
Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.
A pesar de que Bella, dieciocho años de edad, ingrese en el mundo sombrío pero seductor de los inmortales por casarse con el vampiro Edward, ella sigue sin romper con el poderoso hombre lobo Jacob.
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