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This is an easy-reading book that tells about Columbus's first voyage to America. A simple account of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to America. Youngsters can celebrate the 500th anniversary of Columbus's fateful voyage with this dramatic, easy-to-read account of a pivotal moment in American history.
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Offers insight into the historical events that prompted Columbus' efforts to establish new trade routes to the Indies, his struggles to obtain financial support for his voyages, and the important discoveries that caused him to become known as the "Great Admiral of the Seas."
3) Copper sun
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Two fifteen-year-old girls--one a slave and the other an indentured servant--escape their Carolina plantation and try to make their way to Fort Moses, Florida, a Spanish colony that gives sanctuary to slaves.
4) Mujercitas
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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Indispensable learning aid includes definitions of common Spanish words arranged by such categories as foods, numbers, days of the week, months, colors, seasons and family. At the book's heart is a dictionary, from a to zapato, where each word is used in a Spanish sentence (with English translation) demonstrating its proper use.
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Before going to sleep, a little rabbit says goodnight to many different things. In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room--to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one--he says goodnight. In this classic of modern children's literature, beloved...
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The Rough Riders was written immediately after Roosevelt returned from his volunteer service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Published in 1899, the Book offers Roosevelt's unique viewpoint of the campaign in Cuba, including the famous charge up San Juan Hill.
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Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous,...
10) The invasion
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Animorphs. Main volume 1
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Jake, an average suburban kid, is confronted one night by a creature from space who teaches him how to morph into the forms of other creatures. This fantastic, unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat series can best be described as an "X-Files" for kids--plus a whole lot more! Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco are the Animorphs--five kids who can change into any animal they touch. The bottom of each page is animated with "flip-book" images, so as kids...
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The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being a liar, a secret Jew, and a foreigner who sought to steal the riches of the New World for himself.
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13) Aura
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This eBook edition of Carlos Fuentes' novel includes only the English translation by Lysander Kemp. The Spanish text is not included.
Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordinary conclusion.
14) Niebla
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Con Niebla estamos ante una novela que se lee con placer. En ella, Unamuno exhibe la vida indecisa y la incapacidad amorosa de un hombre, y entonces expone su objetivo como narrador: poner el alma de sus personajes bajo una lupa que desnuda sus intimidades, y escarbar en ellas hasta configurar todo un cuadro de la condición humana en el que podemos vernos retratados. No es casual que sea la novela que más pronto y más veces se tradujo a las otras...
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Do you know what studies have shown to improve the outcome of patient care? To deliver quality care in the patient's language! The Spanish-speaking population growing rapidly and the number of people who need your help is only going to increase.
Providing world-class medical care is challenging enough without the language barrier, not to mention all the stress involved in emergency situations.
We understand you-There's no worse feeling than embarrassing...
16) La Celestina
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Letras hispánicas volume 4
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La presente versión teatral de La Celestina ha sido estimada como la primera versión dramática castellana que mantiene el sentido y estilo del antiguo teatro clásico, tanto en los caracteres como en el lenguaje. En muchos países de América la crítica, así como el público, apreció la medida en que la palabra y los personajes se corresponden cabalmente, como debe suceder en esta extraordinaria obra. La vitalidad del personaje central –la...
17) Cars 2
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Star race car Lightning McQueen and the incomparable tow truck Mater take their friendship on the road from Radiator Springs to exciting new places when they head overseas to compete in the first-ever World Grand Prix to determine the world's fastest car. But the road to the championship is filled with plenty of potholes, detours, and hilarious surprises when Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage!