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3) Insomnia
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Marina Benjamin's Insomnia is part memoir and part philosophical inquiry. An intense and lyrical personal narrative into a condition that is on the rise, it treats insomnia as an experience, not a disorder, drawing on its influences on the arts and sciences throughout history, as well as on Benjamin's own life.
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes I think that carrying―other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday―is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin’s new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed “women’s work”. From cooking and cleaning to caring for an aging relative, A Little Give depicts domestic life anew: as a site of paradox and conflict, but also of solace...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of a South American 4-year-old who after being abducted and abandoned in the Colombian jungle miraculously survived by imitating a troop of capuchin monkeys among whom she lived a feral existence for five years before being discovered and sold into prostitution by unscrupulous hunters, where she soon planned her escape.
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This singular autobiography unfurls from author Marina Jarre's native Latvia during the 1920s and 30s and expands southward to the Italian countryside. Jarre depicts an exceptionally multinational and complicated family : her elusive, handsome father, her severe, cultured mother, and her sister and Latvian grandparents."
7) El mar
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Text and illustrations present such ocean creatures as the manta ray, dolphin, and octopus, explaining their physical structures and how they work.
8) Peces
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
"Descubre el asombroso mundo de los peces: su evolución, cómo viven y sus extraños y maravillosos hábitos"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito's regime in postwar Yugoslavia, Marina Abramović was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, she lived at home under her mother's abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor -- all of which informs her...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Lady Georgiana Rannoch won't deny that being thirty-fifth in line for the British throne has its advantages. Unfortunately, money isn't one of them. And sometimes making ends meet requires her to investigate a little royal wrongdoing.
While on royal assignment at the allegedly haunted Kensington Palace, Lady Georgiana's services to the Greek princess betrothed to Prince George are complicated by the untimely murder of a society beauty rumored to...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
The inside story of Lee Harvey Oswald's path to killing John. F. Kennedy. Reissued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, Marina and Lee is an indispensable account of one of America's most traumatic events, and a classic work of narrative history. In her meticulous, at times even moment by moment, account of Oswald's progress toward the assassination, Priscilla Johnson McMillan takes us inside Oswald's fevered mind and his manic...
15) Malinche
Author
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Español
Description
Un recuento del trágico y apasionado amor entre el conquistador Hernán Cortés y la india Malinalli, su intérprete durante la conquista del imperio azteca. Cuando Malinalli conoce a Cortés, asume que se trata del propio Dios Quetzalcóatl que regresa a liberar a su pueblo. Los dos se enamoran apasionadamente, pero este amor pronto es destruido por la desmedida sed de conquista, poder y riqueza de Cortés. A lo largo de la historia de México Malinalli/Malinche...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and legacy of Princess Malinali, a Nahuatl princess from the coast lands of Tabasco who used her knowledge of Maya, Nahuatl, and Spanish languages to act as an interpreter when her kingdom was at war with the Aztec Empire.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a cure for the Red Virus and the goal to save the human race, Navy Captain Tom Chandler and his crew return to the States unsure of what they will find. As the crew seeks to find survivors and their families, they encounter a new, emerging enemy who's vying for control and may hinder the mass production of the cure.
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