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- Santitos [videorecording] by Bichir, Demián,1963-(CARDINAL)344822; Escandón, María Amparo.; Estrella, Alberto.; Heredia, Dolores.; Springall, Alejandro.;
Director of photography, Xavier Perez Grobet ; editor, Carol Dysinger ; original music, Carlo Nicolau, Rosino Serrano ; executive producer, John Sayles ; produced by Alejandro Springall and Claudia Florescano ; written by María Amparo Escandón (based on her novel, Esperanza's box of saints) ; directed by Alejandro Springall.Dolores Heredia, Demián Bichir, Alberto Estrella.Videocassette release of the 1997 theatrical motion picture.Seriocomic road movie with elements of magic realism. Guided by saintly visitations following the disappearance of her only daughter, Esperanza (Dolores Heredia) embarks on a pilgrimage from her home village in Veracruz to Tijuana and Los Angeles.VHS format.- Subjects: Comedy films.; Road films.; Apparitions; Mothers and daughters; Saints; Apariciones; Madres e hijas; Santos;
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- Santitos [videorecording] by Bichir, Demian,1963-(CARDINAL)344822; Escandón, María Amparo.Esperanza's box of saints.Spanish.(CARDINAL)657389; Espín, Ana Bertha.; Estrella, Alberto.; Heredia, Delores.; Orozco, Regina.; Springall, Alejandro.; Torre Lapham, Fernando.; Tovar, Luis Felipe.; C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures (Firm); Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica (Firm); Goldheart Pictures (Firm); Mact Productions.; Tabasco Films (Firm); Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.(CARDINAL)340075;
Director of photography, Xavier Perez Grobet ; editor, Carol Dysinger ; original music, Carlo Nicolau, Rosino Serrano.Delores Heredia, Demián Bichir, Alberto Estrella, Fernando Torre Lapham, Ana Bertha Espín, Luis Felipe Tovar, Dario T. Pié.After the widowed Esperanza loses her daughter to a rare virus, she searches her faith for an explanation. When St. Jude appears to her and tells her that her daughter is still alive, Esperanza becomes convinced her daughter was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave. Becoming a prostitute, she sets out to find her daughter in Tijuana. She eventually finds her way to Los Angeles where she unexpectedly finds true love.MPAA rating: RDVD ; region 1 ; widescreen (2.20:1) presentation.Sundance Film Festival Latin American Cinema Award ; Cartagena Film Festival, 2000: Golden India Catalina - Best Actress (Dolores Heredia); Best Production Design (Eugenio Caballero, Salvador Parra).- Subjects: Feature films.; Foreign films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; St. Jude; Children; Prostitution;
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- Angel's kite / La estrella de Angel / escrito por Alberto Blanco ; ilustrado por Rodolfo Morales ; traducido al ingles por Dan Bellm. by Blanco, Alberto,1951-(CARDINAL)725837; Morales, Rodolfo,1925-2001,illustrator.(CARDINAL)372912;
A young boy makes a kite that mysteriously restores a long-missing bell to the town church.Accelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Fiction.;
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- Angel's kite / by Blanco, Alberto,1951-(CARDINAL)725837; Morales, Rodolfo,1925-2001,illustrator.(CARDINAL)372912; Bellm, Dan.(CARDINAL)773073; Morales de la Mora, Rodolfo M.,illustrator.(CARDINAL)545337; Bellm, Dan,translator.(CARDINAL)773073;
A young boy makes a kite that mysteriously restores a long-missing bell to the town church.Accelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Fiction.; Kites; Bells; Spanish language materials;
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- Underground America : narratives of undocumented lives / by Andes, Tom,interviewer,editor.(CARDINAL)832759; Holmes, Annie,editor.(CARDINAL)593909; Menon, Jaykumar,editor.(CARDINAL)832284; Orner, Peter,editor.(CARDINAL)663063;
Includes bibliographical references.Diana -- Mr. Lai -- Saleem -- Roberto -- Liso -- Hector -- Olga -- Abel -- Polo -- Dixie -- El Curita -- Julio -- Lorena -- El Mojado -- Yogesh -- Jose Garcia -- Elizabeth -- Nsombo -- Desiree -- Farid -- Rose -- Adela -- Estrella -- Enrique.Millions of immigrants risk deportation and imprisonment by living in the US without legal status. They are living underground, with little protection from exploitation at the hands of human smugglers, employers, or law enforcement. Underground America presents the remarkable oral histories of men and women living without legal status and struggling to carve lives for themselves in the U.S.- Subjects: Interviews.; Noncitizens;
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- Estrella distante [sound recording] / by Bolaño, Roberto,1953-2003,author.(CARDINAL)515857; Krochmal, Walter,narrator.;
Narrated by Walter Krochmal.Set in Chile in the early 1970s, when Allende was still president, this novel traces the divergent paths of three young Chilean poets enrolled in a poetry workshop at university. Suffused with "the melancholy folklore of exile," the work explores poetry and politics in the years following Pinochet's coup.En el Chile de inicios de los setentas, antes del golpe militar a Salvador Allende. Un hombre de apariencia tímida y distante atrae a las mujeres a su taller de poesía para explorar con ellas su sádica concepción de la literatura. Alberto Ruiz-Tagle o Carlos Wieder, es el centro alrededor del cual se desarrolla la novela: todos lo buscan, lo recuerdan de una u otro modo, se preguntan quién fue, qué quiso, dónde está. Por qué hizo lo que hizo.- Subjects: Political fiction.; Audiobooks.; Poets; Poetas; Grabaciones sonoras.; Discos compactos.;
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- El sol y otras estrellas / by Wilberforce, Bert,author.(CARDINAL)788980;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Our sun, our star -- Ball of gases -- The sun's size -- So hot! -- Solar wind -- Star sizes, star colors -- Our star is born -- Supernova! -- Recycling stars -- The Life cycles of stars."Many young learners are astonished to discover that the sun is a star. As the sole star of our solar system, all life on Earth depends on the sun. The most amazing and engrossing facts about the sun are found in this stellar volume, including its structure, temperature, age, and more. Readers will also learn about the twinkling lights they see in the night sky-other stars light-years away! This motivating book, with its incredible images, is a must for every space science collection"--- Subjects: Spanish language materials.; Stars;
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- Sin un adiós / by Coben, Harlan,1962-author.(CARDINAL)346011; Coscarelli, Alberto,translator.(CARDINAL)558584;
Era un matrimonio bendecido por el cielo de los tabloides, pero en cuanto la supermodelo Laura Ayars y la estrella de los Boston Celtics David Baskin se dan el sí quiero, les alcanza la tragedia. Durante su luna de miel en la Gran Barrera de Coral australiana, David sale a nadar y ya no vuelve. A Laura solo le quedan el dolor de la pérdida y las incógnitas que la desaparición de David le ha dejado. Pero lo sorprendente es que esas preguntas sin respuesta pueden ser mucho más peligrosas de lo que Laura hubiera podido imaginar jamás. --- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Spanish language materials.; Novels.; Boston Celtics (Basketball team); Impostors and imposture; Basketball stories.;
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