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1) Stella Maris
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Passenger novels volume 2
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The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
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¿Alguna vez nos preguntamos por ese otro que vemos a diario? ¿Qué marca la diferencia entre unos y otros?
¿En quién tenemos puesta nuestra confianza? ¿Nos atrevemos a cuestionar nuestra Fe?
Estas son solo algunas de las preguntas que la autora se plantea para llevar a la reflexión.
Página tras página, a través de un estilo sencillo, iremos descubriendo las respuestas a estas y a otras preguntas. Se trata de esos interrogantes que muchas...
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Este libro propone un viaje al pasado de Carmen de Patagones y Viedma a fines del siglo XIX.
Empieza con un recorrido por el espacio urbano de ambos pueblos (sus calles, veredas, viviendas, plazas, cementerio, etc.) tal como lo veían y vivían sus protagonistas. Luego, identifica a los actores que vivieron en él. Los trabajos que realizaban tanto hombres como mujeres. Las formas que adoptaron las alianzas matrimoniales, las casas en las moraron...
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El tema de la corrección de los textos escritos es una deuda en la formación de los docentes de Lengua y Literatura: parece una cuestión menor, supeditada a la evaluación, y dejada de lado hasta que la práctica cotidiana enfrenta a los profesores con esta realidad de su trabajo. En ese momento, las correcciones previas y las experiencias operan como modelo del actuar profesional. La investigación que aquí se presenta, inscripta en el interaccionismo...
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When Cuban fisherman first spotted the Key West lighthouse floating in Florida waters, they called her Stella Maris, Star of the Sea. It's a beacon that draws people from everywhere seeking the end-of-the-line bohemian oasis that can still be found amidst the condo share towers, chain stores, and Redneck Riviera clientele. And it's a mecca for gay men and the women who love them. Sue Kaufman Prize- winning author Michael Carroll knows the territory...
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Este libro constituye un aporte para la elaboración de diseños curriculares de tecnicaturas superiores y su desarrollo curricular, proceso complejo, entendido como dispositivo de la política educativa en la formación de técnicos superiores en áreas ocupacionales específicas. Por medio de innovadoras metodologías de trabajo pluralistas, democráticas y participativas todas las personas involucradas en el proceso de diseño y desarrollo curricular,...
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25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Based...
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Based...
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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Set in 1949, this is the story of John Grady Cole, who, at the age of sixteen, finds himself at the losing end of a long generation of ranchers. His grandfather's death has just cut him off from the only life he has ever imagined wanting. Abandoned by his parents troubles, heading over the border seems the only way out of a society moving in all of the wrong directions so, with his friend Rawlins, he rides away. Soon enough, they acquire a hapless...
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Daysy Maria del Pozo and Stella Maris Morales-Quinn both came to the United States as part of the 1980 Mariel Boatlift--Daysy settling in South Florida with her family and Stella starting a new life with her mother and step-father in Pittsburgh. Over time, they each find themselves haunted by their families' complicated and painful Cuban pasts. As Stella deals with her mother's suicide and it slowly dawns on Daysy that there are family secrets she...
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