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December2023 / January 2024
December2023 / January 2024
Inteligencia Artificial
Inteligencia Artificial
Cómo cambiará el mundo (y tu vida).
Cómo cambiará el mundo (y tu vida).
by Pablo Rodríguez.
by Pablo Rodríguez.
(Language: Spanish)
Book for young adults and adults.
Data is the fuel of artificial intelligence. They say so much about our behavior and interactions and how we relate to others. The environment that, with the help of powerful computers and sophisticated statistical techniques, and in conjunction with artificial intelligence, can transform the lives of millions of people for better. Wherever there is a big data base, there is probably an algorithm of artificial intelligence working to learn what info can get from them. And this data can help prevent diseases, epidemics and disasters, allows people with disabilities to enjoy a better life, optimize scarce resources and work for inclusion,
security and equity.
This fascinating book presents a journey through the history of data, an extraordinary look at its operation, a mapping of the networks, the portrait of big data gurus and the future of the internet of things and artificial intelligence. In this book, Pablo Rodríguez develops what perhaps be the most complete analysis of the next great revolution that humans are going to experience.
You can borrow this book in Spanish at the library with the call number: (HS 006.3 Rod Sp).
You can read this book in kindle format in Spanish for free at:
Red Scar Girl
Red Scar Girl
A memoir of The Cultural Revolution.
A memoir of The Cultural Revolution.
by Ji-Li Jiang.
by Ji-Li Jiang.
(Language: English)
Book for ages 10-14 years old.
Moving, honest, and deeply personal, Red Scarf Girl is the incredible true story of one girl’s courage and determination during one of the most terrifying eras of the twentieth century. It's 1966, and twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has everything a girl could want: brain, popularity, and a bright future in Communist China. But it's also the year that China's leader, Mao Ze-dong, launches the Cultural Revolution and Ji-Li's world begins to fall apart. Over the next few years, people who were once her friends and neighbors turn on her and her family, forcing them to live in constant terror of arrest. And when Ji-Li's father is finally imprisoned, she faces the most difficult dilemma of her life.
You can borrow this book in English from the Library with the call number: LRC MS B 92 JI.
You can listen this story in audiobook format in English for free at:
Danza!
Danza!
by Amalia Hernández and Duncan Tonatiuh.
by Amalia Hernández and Duncan Tonatiuh.
(Language: Spanish)
Book for young adults and adults.
As a child, Amalia saw a pair of dancers in the town square. The way they stomped and swayed to the rhythm of the beat inspired her. She knew one day she would become a dancer. Amalia studied ballet and modern dance under the direction of skilled teachers who had performed in world-renowned dance companies but she never forgot the Mexican folk dances she had seen years earlier. She began traveling through the Mexican countryside, witnessing the dances of many regions, and she used her knowledge of ballet and modern dance to adapt the traditional dances to the stage. She founded her own dance company, a group tha became known as El Ballet Folklórico de México. Using his signature illustration style, inspired by the ancient art of the Mixtecs, Tonatiuh tells the story of Amalia Hernández and the formation of one of the most famous and successful dance companies in the world. This is a celebration of Mexican heritage, culture, and dance.
You can get this book in English from the Library with the call number: (B 92 Her)
You can watch a video in English for free at:
Una Suerte Pequeña
Una Suerte Pequeña
by Claudia Piñeiro.
by Claudia Piñeiro.
(Language: Spanish)
Book for adults.
Una Suerte Pequeña (A Little Luck) by Claudia Piñeiro.
After twenty years a woman returns to Argentina, where she left escaping from misfortune. But the one that comes back is different: she doesn't look the same, her voice is different and she doesn't even have the same name. Will the people who knew her then could recognize her? Will he recognize her?
Back in the suburb where she has lived, she must face the actors of the drama that made her flee as much as her own capacity to change her present into a healing future. Mary Lohan still doesn't understand why she agreed to return to the past that he had decided to forget forever. Between expected encounters and unexpected revelations she will also understand that sometimes life is neither destiny nor coincidence: such thing maybe revealing that her return is nothing more than a bit of luck.
You can borrow this title in Spanish at the Library with the call number: (HS F Piñ Sp)
El ciclo del Eterno Emperador by Laura Gallego García.
(Language: Spanish. New Book!)
Review by Susana Tovar.
By one of the most outstanding Spanish authors within her genre, Laura surprises us again with another fantastic universe full of mysteries and magic. This time, we will meet Vintanelalandali, a young woman who is the Akidavia Eternal Emperor's seventeenth incarnation. But also, this is the story of Kelan, a provincial young man who works exhaustively every day. Each one lives with their respective problems, without knowing that their destinies are connected from the moment they were born and whose lives and the kingdom itself will change enormously since the moment they met.
Recommended for middle school students.
You will find this book in our library with the call number: MS F Gal Sp.
October / November 2023
October / November 2023
Crazy Horse and Custer
Crazy Horse and Custer
by S. D. Nelson
by S. D. Nelson
(Language: English)
Book for teenagers (14 to 17 years old)
With photographs and stunning illustrations from acclaimed author/ artist S.D. Nelson, this thrilling double biography juxtaposes the lives of two enemies whose conflict changed American history: Crazy Horse and George Armstrong Custer.
In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces were Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At the height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time.
You can get this book from the Library with the Call Number:
MS
973
NEL
You can acquire this book in hardcover at Amazon
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Dinosaur Lady
Dinosaur Lady
by Linda Skeers
by Linda Skeers
(Language: English)
Book for children (ages 4 to 10 years old)
A beautifully illustrated picture book biography of Mary Anning that will enlighten children about the discovery of the dinosaurs and the importance of female scientists.
Mary Anning loved scouring the beach near her home in England for shells and fossils. She fearlessly climbed over crumbling cliffs and rocky peaks, searching for new specimens. One day, something caught Mary's eye. Mary's discoveries rocked the world of science and helped create a brand-new field of study: paleontology. But many people believed women couldn't be scientists, so Mary wasn't given the credit she deserved.
Nevertheless, Mary kept looking and learning more, making discoveries that reshaped scientific beliefs about the natural world.
You can watch the video for free at this link
You can get this book from the Library with the Call Number:
B
92
Ann
Fever 1793
Fever 1793
by Laurie Halse Anderson
by Laurie Halse Anderson
(Language: English)
Book for children (ages 10 to 14 years old)
During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out.
Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence, Mattie flees the city with her grandfather. But she soon discovers that the sickness is everywhere, and Mattie must learn quickly how to survive in a city turned frantic with disease.
You can get this book from the Library with the Call Number:
LRC
MS
F
AND
There is a ghost in this house
There is a ghost in this house
by Oliver Jeffers
by Oliver Jeffers
(Language: English)
Book for children (ages 5 to 8 years old)
Have you ever seen a ghost? No? Neither does the girl who is the protagonist of this short story. She lives in a haunted house but she has never seen a ghost. So, she is wondering: what do they look like? Are they white? Do they only come out at night? Where do they hide? Let’s help this girl to find if there is a ghost in her house. Maybe you can see one!
Once again, the author Oliver Jeffers surprises us with another of his original stories. This book also has an original design and simple language that allows the little ones to enjoy a fascinating ghost story.
You can find this book in our library with the call number:
E
Jef
History's most Haunted
History's most Haunted
(Language: English)
Books for children (ages 7 to 10 years old)
If you are looking for something scary for this Halloween, we recommend you our new chilling collection "History's Most Haunted". These books compile information from different sites that are said to be haunted, or have presented supernatural events. Each book invites you to learn about important characters and facts in History related to mysterious events.
You will find this book in our library with the call number:
133.1
Nag
Feelings serie
Feelings serie
(Language: English)
It is well known that children with higher emotional intelligence build better and stronger relationships, are more engaged in school, and are more empathic. Come and check out these brand-new books to help your kids develop their Emotional Intelligence.
New Collection of Traditional Short Stories Retold
New Collection of Traditional Short Stories Retold
IB Program
(Language: English)
(Language: English)
Ten stories, ten cultures, ten teachings. We invite you to know this new collection of traditional stories from different countries, whose innovative characteristics are their fun plots, refreshing narrations and beautiful illustrations. Furthermore, these books were published and retold by the International Baccalaureate, so some represent one or more attributes the IB program promotes.
Recommended for primary school students and teachers.
You will find this book in our library with the call number:
398.2
Pet
March / April 2023
March / April 2023
Pablo el Artista
Pablo el Artista
by Satoshi Kitamura
by Satoshi Kitamura
(Language: Spanish)
Book for children (ages 7 to 10 years old)
Have you ever felt intimidated by the sight of "the blank page"? Such is the case of Pablo, a talented elephant artist who, frustrated because he can't think of anything good to paint, decides to go for a walk to look for ideas. However, in the attempt he falls asleep and during that time, something happens that will change everything.
Pablo the Artist is an excellent text to reflect in a friendly way about the artistic process, the inspiration and the search and the birth of new and great ideas.
You can get this book in Spanish from the Library with the Call Number:
E
Kit
Sp
¿Yo y mi gato?
by Satoshi Kitamura
(Language: Spanish)
Recommended for children ages 5 to 10 years old
One peaceful night Nicolás went to sleep accompanied by Leonardo, his cat when suddenly, a witch entered through the window. She said strange words to him and left as suddenly as she arrived. That was chilling for Nicolas, but he didn't imagine that something much weirder would happen to him the next day. Do you want to know what happened? We recommend you to read one of the funniest stories by the author Satoshi Kitamura, where with mastery, good humor, and hilarious illustrations, he offers us a reading to delight us with fun.
You can read this book in English from the Library with the Call Number:
E
Kit
Sp
The Cambodian Dancer
by Jan Brett
Through straightforward language and colorful illustrations, this multicultural children's story communicates to children a sense of the joy, sadness, injustice, and triumph that lives on in young Cambodian Americans. It shows that it is possible to overcome great hardship and that a single decision can do much to heal oneself and others.
This touching multicultural children's book brings a message of positivity to a true story of human hope and resilience.
You can get this book in English from the Library with the Call Number:
WL
Khm
959.604
Rei
Or watch the video on You Tube clicking here
Roll with it
Roll with it
by Jamie Sumner
Recommended for children ages 10 to 14 years old
Ellie’s a girl who surprises people, who see a kid in a wheelchair and think she’s going to be all sunshine and cuddles. The thing is, Ellie has big dreams: She might be eating Stouffer’s for dinner, but one day she’s going to be a professional baker.
If she’s not writing fan letters to her favorite celebrity chefs, she’s practicing recipes on her well-meaning, if overworked, mother.
But when Ellie and her mom move so they can help take care of her ailing grandpa, Ellie has to start all over again in a new town at a new school. Except she’s not just the new kid—she’s the new kid in the Wheelchair who lives in the trailer park on the wrong side of town.
You can get this book in English from the Library with the Call Number:
MS
F
Sum
Or you can purchase this book in a Kindle format on Amazon
Bone Gap
Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
by Laura Ruby
Recommended for teenagers ages 14 to 18 years old
Everyone knows Bone Gap is full of gaps—gaps to trip you up, gaps to slide through so you can disappear forever. So when young, beautiful Roza went missing, the people of Bone Gap weren’t surprised. After all, it wasn’t the first time that someone had slipped away.
Finn knows that’s not what happened with Roza. He knows she was kidnapped, ripped from the cornfields by a dangerous man whose face he cannot remember.
You can get this book in English from the Library with the Call Number:
MS
F
Rub
Or You can hear this book in Audible by clicking here.
Mujeres
by Eduardo Galeano
Recommended for young adults and adults
In this anthology, Galeano tells of the intensity of female characters traversed by the weight of a cause, such as Joan of Arc, Rosa Luxemburg or Rigoberta Menchú; for their own beauty or talent, like Marilyn Monroe or Rita Hayworth, Frida Kahlo, or Marie Curie, Camile Claudel, and Josephine Baker. But it also recounts the collective exploits of anonymous women: those who fought in the Paris Commune, the warriors of the Mexican Revolution, those who- in a brothel in Argentine Patagonia - refused to serve the soldiers who had repressed the workers.
You can get this book in English from the Library with the Call Number:
HS
864
Gal
Sp
Or You can hear this book in Audible by clicking here.
January / February 2023
January / February 2023
Annie and the Wild animals
Jan Brett
Annie and the Wild animals
Jan Brett
Recommended for children 3 to 7 years old
Something is wrong with Taffy the cat. She's stopped playing with Annie and sleeps all day long. One day, Taffy disappears. Annie is very lonely and tries to make friends with the woodland creatures, but none of them are as soft and friendly as Taffy. When Taffy finally returns, she brings back something unexpected.
Jan Brett's distinctive illustration style uses the borders of the pages to foretell the emergence of spring and the birth of kittens.
You can read this book in English from the library with beautiful photos or watch the video on You Tube by clicking here.
The beauty that remains
Ashley Woodfolk
The beauty that remains
Ashley Woodfolk
Recommended for teenagers, ages 14 to 18 years old
Told from three diverse points of view, this story of life and love after loss is one Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give, believes "will stay with you long after you put it down." Haunting and powerful, this book will remind you to hold fast to those you love, share your heart while you have timeand find the music that makes this wild ride of life better music.
You can borrow this title from the Library with the classification: HS F Woo
Or you can purchase this book in electronic format by clicking here.
Stratford Zoo: Midnight Revue Presents: Macbeth
Ian Lendler y Zack Giallongo.
Stratford Zoo: Midnight Revue Presents: Macbeth
Ian Lendler y Zack Giallongo.
Suggested for children 9 to 14 years old
Suggested for children 9 to 14 years old
The Stratford Zoo looks like a normal zoo... until the gates shut at night. That's when the animals come out of their cages to stage elaborate performances of Shakespeare's greatest works. They might not be the most accomplished thespians, but they've got what counts: heart, also fangs, feathers, scales, and tails. Ian Lendler's hilarious tale of after-hours animal stagecraft is perfectly paired with the adorable, accessible artwork of Zack Giallongo (Broxo, Ewoks).
This is an amazing graphic novel for young readers.
You can find it in printed format in our Library with the classification: MS GN F Len
Or purchase it in digital format by clicking here.
Narraciones para leer con la luz apagada
Valentín Chantaca
Narraciones para leer con la luz apagada
Valentín Chantaca
Suggested for children 12 to 15 years old
Suggested for children 12 to 15 years old
(Language: Spanish)
What would you do if you found out that one of your closest relatives is a supernatural creature that commits the vilest acts? What would happen if a cursed object wanted to stole your face? Or what if you got lost in the most ominous dream? If you are not scared of these terrifying situations, this is the perfect book for you who are brave enough to face the dark.
You can find this book in the library with the call number: MS SC Cha Sp
Las niñas van donde quieren
Irene Cívico & Sergio Parra
Las niñas van donde quieren
Irene Cívico & Sergio Parra
Recommended for teenagers, ages 7 to 15 years old
(Language: Spanish)
To start the year with a new reading, we recommend the book Las niñas Van donde quieren. The book contains 25 adventurous women’s stories who changed the world: Junko Tabei, the first woman to reach the summit of Everest; Osa Johnson, the pioneer in the filming of travel documentaries; Katia Krafft, the pioneer in studying volcanoes in eruption, Rosie Swale-Pope, the first person to run around the world; Edurne Pasaban, the first woman to climb the fourteen highest peaks in the world; These are just a few examples of these true stories. Ideal for those children who enjoy travel, great adventures, knowledge and inspiration.
Book for children (ages 7 to 15 years old)
You will find this book in our library with the Call Number: B 920 Civ Sp
Give and Take. A Revolutionary Approach to Success Adam Grant.
Give and Take. A Revolutionary Approach to Success Adam Grant.
Suggested for young and adults
Suggested for young and adults
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return.
You can borrow this book the library with the grade: PD 158.2 Gra
You can also purchase this book in English in electronic format by clicking here.
November / December 2022
November / December 2022
Tales of the Unexpected
Tales of the Unexpected
by Roald Dahl (Spanish Version)
by Roald Dahl (Spanish Version)
Recommended for High School and Adults.
Recommended for High School and Adults.
The renowned author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches and Matilda surprises us with this exquisite collection of stories for adult readers. In this facet, Rohal Dahl, in the tradition of authors such as Poe or Hawthorne, presents ingenious stories with tension situations: bets, revenge and intrigues. The peculiar detail about these stories is the end. In each story it is always unforeseen and accurate. Ideal for those readers who enjoy black humor and irony as aesthetic material.
You will find this book in our Library with the Cal Number: HS SC Dah Sp
Day of the Dead
by Tony Johnston and Janette Winter
Day of the Dead
by Tony Johnston and Janette Winter
Book for children ages 4 through 8 years old
Above a small town in Mexico, the sun rises like a great
marigold, and one family begins preparations for the
annual celebration of the Day of the Dead. Soon they will
go out into the night, join their neighbors, and walk to the
graveyard to welcome the spirits of their loved ones that
come home again. Day of the Dead is a glorious introduction
for children to a fascinating celebration.
You can get this book in English from the Library with hard
cover and lovely pictures or watch the video.
High Conflict
by Amanda Ripley
Book for young adults and adults
Conflict among people is inevitable and often valuable. But only healthy conflict leads humanity to a better future.
In this engaging text, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley explores the toxic landscape of “high conflict” – disputes that reach an intractable state of binary opposition.
You can get hold of this title in a full text book format in English from the library.
You can get this book in English in kindle format at:
Star Horse
by Jane Smiley
Star Horse
by Jane Smiley
Book for children (ages 10 to 14 years old)
Book for children (ages 10 to 14 years old)
Another beautiful, thoughtful book from Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley about Abby's adventures with her beloved horses.
Gee Whiz is a striking horse, and only part of that is because of his size. He is tall, but also graceful. He keeps his eye on things, not as if he's suspicious, but as if he's curious. Abby is curious, too, about just how little of the world she has seen compared to those around her.
You can get this book from the Library in English.
You can get this book in a Kindle format at:
Windfall
by Jennifer E. Smith
Windfall
by Jennifer E. Smith
Book for teenagers
Book for teenagers
Alice doesn’t believe in luck—at least, not the good kind. But she does believe in love, and for some time now, she’s been pining for her best friend, Teddy.
On his eighteenth birthday—just when it seems they might be on the brink of something—she buys him a lottery ticket on a lark. To their astonishment, he wins $140 million, and in an instant, everything changes.
You can get hold of this title in a full text book format in English from the Library.
You can listen to this book for free at:
The twelve Days of Christmas Safari
The twelve Days of Christmas Safari
By Wakanyi Hoffman
By Wakanyi Hoffman
Book for all family members
Book for all family members
Wakanyi is a global nomad (with strong African roots). Together with her husband, they raise their four multicultural and mixed-race children as world citizens of Kenyan and American heritage in different parts of the world.
This book recreates a safari drive experience, showing readers the magic in touring Kenya’s national parks. The story is intended to steer children away from only expecting presents on Christmas Day and to appreciate the gift of nature and all the animals that live on our planet.
This safari edition is both an adventure story and an environmental awareness lesson intended to inspire readers of all ages to rethink the meaning of Christmas.
Find de ebook in this link https://www.12daysofchristmassafari.com
September / October 2022
September / October 2022
Wild about books
Wild about books
by Judy Sierra
by Judy Sierra
Book for children (ages to 5)
It started the summer of 2002, when the Springfield librarian, Molly McGrew, by mistake drove her bookmobile into the zoo. In this rollicking rhymed story, Molly introduces birds and beasts to this new something called reading.
She finds the perfect book for every animal--tall books for giraffes, tiny ones for crickets. She even found waterproof
books for the otter.
You can get this book from the Library with the Call Number E Sie
You can also listen to it as an audible for free at: YouTube
La bodega
by Noah Gordon
Book for teenagers and young adults
From the author of The Physician and Shaman now comes this story of a young man—the grapes he grows, the wine he fashions, the women he loves, and his struggle against an evil that seeks to destroy him. Already an international bestseller.
You can find this book from the Library with the Call Number HS F Gor Sp
Or
You can get this book in English in an ebook format at: Gandhi
The someday birds
The someday birds
by Sally J. Pla
by Sally J. Pla
Book for teenagers
Winner of the 2018 Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award.
The Someday Birds is a debut middle grade novel perfect for fans of Counting by 7s and Fish in a Tree, filled with humor, heart, and chicken nuggets.
Charlie’s perfectly ordinary life has been unraveling ever since his war journalist father was injured in Afghanistan.
You can find this title in our Library with the Call Number MS F Pla
You can listen to this book for free at:
The girl with the silver eyes
by Willo Davis Roberts
Book for children (ages 9 to 12 years old)
A 10-year-old girl, who has always looked different from other children, discovers that she not only
has unusual powers but that there are others like her. Katie, who has supernatural powers, attempts to start a new life in another town with he mother. The attempt succeeds until Mr. Cooper asks Katie too many questions.
You find get this book from the Library with the Call Number F Rob.
You can also get this book in a Kindle format at:
Libba: the magnificent muscal life of Elizabeth Cotten
Libba: the magnificent muscal life of Elizabeth Cotten
by Laura Veirs
by Laura Veirs
Book for children (ages 6 to 10)
Libba heard music everywhere she went, she found a way to get her hands on a guitar and started playing secretly and backwards with her left hand. With a lot of hard work, she saved enough to get her own guitar. She played all the time and started composing songs before her thirteen birthday.
Even though she stopped playing for a while she found her path back to music and got to share her voice with the world in the most famous stages.
You find get this book from the Library with the Call Number: 782.421 Vei
Ocean meets sky
by Fan Brothers
Book for children (ages 6 to 10 years old)
A beautiful story about happy memories and imagination. It is about a boy who builds a small boat in honor of his grandfather. Once the little boy starts working on his project, everything becomes magical and spectacular. He travels on his boat through huge oceans inhabited by wonderful sea creatures, visits an island made of books and another made of giant snails. And he reaches that place where the sea meets the sky, and in that place, he finds someone very special to him.
The illustrations in this book are amazing and they reinforce the comforting feeling that the story has for us: those we love will always live in our hearts and our memories
You will find this book in our Libraru with the Cal Number:
E Fan
May / June 2022
May / June 2022
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
by Thornton W. Burgess
by Thornton W. Burgess
Audiobook for children (ages 8 to 12)
Adventures of Johnny Chuck is another in the long list of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this story, it is spring time and a young chuck's fancy turns to thoughts of … traveling, protecting one's turf, finding a new home, and yes, love. Along the way, you learn little lessons about life such as there are good and bad kinds of pride and the importance of keeping secrets.
You can listen to this story in English at:
https://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-johnny-chuck-by-thornton-burgess/https://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-johnny-chuck-by-thornton-burgess/
Bogo Quierelotodo
by Susanna Isern
Book for children (ages 5 to 8 years old)
Bogo watched many animals around him. Some of them were so incredible that they made him feel less special. One day he decided to invent amazing things so that he could have everything he wanted.
You can get this book in a full text format in Spanish at the LMC with the Call Number:
E Ise Sp
So you want to be a wizard
by Diane Duane
A book from the Library and kindle (for teenagers)
Nita Callahan is at the end of her rope because of the bullies who've been hounding her at school... until she discovers a mysterious library book that promises her the chance to become a wizard. But she has no idea of the difference that taking the Wizard's Oath is going to make in her life. Shortly, in company with fellow beginner-wizard Kit Rodriguez, Nita's catapulted into what will be the adventure of a lifetime—if she and Kit can both live through it. Only with the dangerous power of the wizardly Book do they have a chance to save not just their own lives, but their world.
You can get this book in our Library Media Center with the Call Number:
MS F Dua
You can get this book in English in an Epub3 format from Gandhi Bookstore here.
El pato enfurruñado
El pato enfurruñado
by Joyce Dunbar
by Joyce Dunbar
Ages 3 to 7.
This book is one of the newest additions to our collection. It is a short story of a duck who is never happy. He visits his friends without realizing that a black cloud starts following him, getting bigger and bigger as he goes. What will happen to the poor duck? Will the dark cloud stop following him? Will he stop being grumpy?
It is an excellent story that, through its simple language and clean images, helps to understand how emotions can affect the people around us.
You can find this book in Spanish in our LMC wtih the Call Number:
152.4 Dun Sp
I know why the caged birds sings
by Maya Angelou
A book from the Library for young adults and adults.
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide.
You can find this book in Spanish in our LMC wtih the Call Number:
HS B 92 Ang
Also, you can get it in full text format in Spanish Gandhi bookstore here.
Desert Flower
by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller
A book from the Library and kindle (young adults and adults)
Waris Dirie ran away from her oppressive life in the African desert when she was barely in her teens, illiterate and impoverished, with nothing to her name but a tattered shawl. She traveled alone across the dangerous Somali desert to Mogadishu to London, where she worked as a house servant; then to nearly every corner of the globe as an internationally renowned fashion model; and ultimately to New York City, where she became a human rights ambassador for the U.N. Desert Flower is her extraordinary story.
You can find this book in our Library with the Call Number:
HS F Dir
Also, you can get it in full text format in Spansh at Gandhi bookstore here.
Test your brain with these tricky teasers! Searches and secret codes, word and number puzzles, and shape and logic problems provide hours of fun!
Click here to check this book!
Grandpa Green
by Lane Smith
A book from the Library for ages 5 to 7.
Ages: 5 -7 years old
This story is about a kid´s great grandfather through a garden where memories and adventures are drawn in the shapes of the trees, plants and flowers.
The story and references can be enjoyed by all family members, it has endearing pictures that open up the readers imagination. The author and illustrator has work in books by Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, Jack Prelutsky, and others. For this book he received a Caldecott Honor Award.
You can find this book in our Library with the Call Number:
E Smi
Tractatus Lógico-Philosophicus
By Ludwig Wittegnstein
A printed book for the Library for ages 17 and olders
The Tractatus is undoubtedly one of the most significant events in the world of philosophy of the 20th century. This book offers a logical-mathematical conception of the world, where all the states of affairs present to our senses and all the linguistic predicates that we can express about them, have clear rules. If we know these rules, they will allow us not only to participate in the construction of knowledge but to properly own the world around us.
You can find this book in our Library with the Call Number:
HS 192 Wit Sp
Teatro Nahuatl
by Miguel Leon Portilla
A book from the Library for ages 5 to 7.
This is a beautiful compilation of plays written in Nahuatl with their translation into Spanish. It is presented in a beautiful style and illustrated with significant images that make this book a bibliographical jewel. This anthology allows us to explore early representations found in ancient codices, works that record part of history, as well as passages of deep cultural nature, and other important pieces.
This book also offers other forms of theatrical production: works composed in the 20th and 21st centuries that were translated into Nahuatl. And original and contemporary works in that language.
It is a journey in which we can delight and recognize our history.
You can find this book in our Library with the Call Number:
HS 972.014 Leo Sp
March / April 2022
March / April 2022
Kat Kong
Kat Kong
by Dav Pilkey
by Dav Pilkey
Para todas las edades
Para todas las edades
This is a humorous adaptation of the King Kong movie: a group of exploring mice find a huge wild cat that they take out of the jungle to take to the city. How will the monstrous cat react in a civilization full of mice? Will the mice be able to protect themselves against a creature like that? With humorous images, simple language, Kat Kong is a clever and fun adaptation that children and adults will enjoy. This story also has an unexpected moral that perhaps we should remember.
You can find it in our collection at the library. It is recommended for all public. (Language: English)
Very Short Stories and Verses for Children is a children's book compiling stories and poems informing the little ones about important morals across many traits; hard work, love, friendship, honesty, and loyalty.
You can listen to the audiobook in English here.
It is said that one day, a publisher was visited by a mysterious man named Harris Burdick; an author who had written fourteen stories with an illustration for each one. The editor reviewed his work and he was fascinated. He wanted to read all the stories, and then publish them. So, he asked Harris to bring the entire book the next day. But the writer did not return that day nor the following week. In fact, no one ever heard from him again. The publisher searched for him for many years, but he never found out anything more about Harris Burdick, and to this day his disappearance remains a mystery. However, the author´s work was published: the beautiful black and white illustrations and some words, which are the titles of the stories accompanied by a suggestive epigraph for each one. Perhaps it is possible that, between its pages, some clue is hidden about the meaning of those mysterious stories and their enigmatic author. It is a book that, due to its singular elements, invites the reader to observe, question, interpret and, why not? to create. It is an excellent exercise for the imagination and most likely a great enhancer for literary creation.
This book is in our collection at the library. It is recommended for all public. (Language: Spanish)
Old Rosa
by Reinaldo Arenas
Age recommended: 16 years or older
Reinaldo Arenas was a writer and a subversive citizen, the rebellion of his moral principles to the totalitarian regime that lived in Cuba is reflected in the content and form of his works.
In our Library you can find a copy of Old Rosa, a novel told in two exciting stories about individual affirmation and civil liberties, endearing themes for the author, since he himself suffered social and state discrimination because of his sexual orientation.
The City We Lost
by Fernando Benítez
In these chronicles, the enduring interests of the author are found: the indigenous world, the colonial past, the 19th century, the Mexican capital. This work constitutes a narrative journey into the history of México city and is also one of the important moments of literature in México.
You can get hold of this title in a full text book format in Spanish from the Library.
Call #: HS 972 Ben
Los Indios de México.
Los Indios de México.
Antología de Fernando Benítez
Antología de Fernando Benítez
Mexico is a country of tumultuous geography, of mountains that isolate and generate diverse cultures. There were at least ten or fifteen outstanding cultures, endowed with a genius of their own. Twenty thousand archaeological sites remain, and six million Indians speak more than fifty languages apart from each other. Fernando Benítez
devoted twenty years to the study of the indigenous people and wrote five voluminous books, some of them translated into various languages. This volume brings together eight of the most important essays by Fernando Benítez on the Indians of Mexico: those that refer to the Huicholes, the Tarahumaras, the Tepehuanes and Nahuas, the Coras, the Otomíes, the Tzeltals, the Tzotzils, the Mixtecs and the the Mazatecs.
You can find the kindle format in this link from Amazon.
Also, you can get it from our Library:
Call # HS 972.004
The Sun is Also a Star
The Sun is Also a Star
by Nicola Yoon
by Nicola Yoon
This is a book about how the smallest gestures can form the biggest pictures, how the smallest actions can change the course of a life. Nicola Yoon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything. She is a National Book Award finalist, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book recipient and a Coretta Scott King New Talent Award winner.
You can get this book in English from our Library:
Call #: MS F Yoo
January/February 2022
January/February 2022
The Psychic penguin
The Psychic penguin
by Victoria Hurtado
Recommended for children 4-8 years old
In this story we meet Serafín, a psychic penguin who is able to find out with certainty which group each animal belongs to amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds, no matter how difficult the characteristics of each one may be, this special penguin can guess. Until he meets the strangest animal. How will the guessing penguin respond to this difficult challenge?
It is an entertaining story with very colorful illustrations, where children can reinforce their knowledge about animal species, while they are enjoying the language because this book is written in rhyme; in both languages: English and Spanish.
Highly recommended for its plot, the way it is written, and for the beautiful message that it offers us: although we are different, each individual is unique and special.
You can find this book in our library, with the Call Number: E Hur Spa
Coco Bolo: King of Floating Island
Coco Bolo: King of Floating Island
By Sidford Frederick Hamp
By Sidford Frederick Hamp
Ages: 6 to 9 years old.
Sisters Margaret and Frances wait for their younger brother Edward to go for a nap before embarking on the adventure of trying to stand on the heads of their shadows. Daddy sees them and encourages them to chase further adventures of childhood, little suspecting where they will take them.
To hear this book click here!
The digital cretin factory
The digital cretin factory
By Michel Desmurget
Ages: for teenagers, young adults, and adults.
A must-read for every parent and educator.
The use of technology —smartphones, computers, tablets— by the new generations is absolutely disproportionate. With only two years of age, the average consumption is around three hours. From eight to twelve, the average is close to five hours. In adolescence, the figure shoots up to almost seven hours, which means more than two thousand four hundred hours a year in full intellectual development. Contrary to what the press and the industry have spread until now, the use of technology, far from helping the development of children and students, produces serious complications of all kinds: on the body (obesity, cardiovascular problems, reduction of life expectancy), on emotions (aggressiveness, depression, risk behaviors) and on intellectual development (impairment of language, concentration, memory...). This is an essential denunciation work for parents and educators concerned about the development of their children and students. The prestigious neuroscience expert Michel Desmurget proposes the first summary of the real dangers of screens and alerts us to the serious consequences of continuing to uncritically promote the use of these technologies.
You can get it in Gandhi Bookstore here. (Spanish language)
To kill a mockingbird
To kill a mockingbird
By Harper Lee
By Harper Lee
Ages: for teenagers, young adults, and adults.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.
You can get hold of this title in a full text book format, in a graphic novel format or in a DVD from our Library!
Full text format in English
Call #: HS 813.54
Sublocation HS
Graphic novel format in Spanish and English
Call #: MS GN 813 Lee Sp
Sublocation: MS
DVD in English
Call #: DVD F To HS
Sublocation: HS
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
Ages: for teenagers, young adults, and adults.
Pride and Prejudice has consistently appeared near the top of lists of "most-loved books" among literary scholars and the reading public. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature, with over 20 million copies sold, and has inspired many derivatives in modern literature.
Though it is mostly called a romantic novel, it is also a satire. The novel follows the character development of Elizabeth Bennet, the dynamic protagonist of the book who learns about the repercussions of hasty judgments and comes to appreciate the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.
You can find this title in different digital formats to read in English here.
We have it in DVD from our collections with the Call Number: DVD ORG Sp HS and printed in Spanish with Call Number HS F Aus Sp
A short History of Nearly Everything
A short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson
by Bill Bryson
Ages: for teenagers, young adults, and adults.
This book is a quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bag to the rise of civilization. The author makes the study of science very friendly and accessible for all those, who are usually scared of science writing.
He takes the reader in a very discipline matter to subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics to understand the evolution of our own home, the natural world.
His interest is not simply to discover what we know but to find out how we know it. How do we know what is in the center of the earth, thousands of miles beneath the surface? How can we know the extent and the composition of the universe, or what a black hole is? How can we know where the continents were 600 million years ago?
This is a reading that will open a new friendship between the reader and Science and scientific explanations, in order to comprehend better ourselves and where do we come from.
Book in our collection with Call Number: HS 501 Bry
November/December 2021
November/December 2021
A Little bit of Winter
A Little bit of Winter
By Paul Stewart
Ages: 3 to 7
Find this book in our LMC Collection (Follett Online Catalog)
Call #: E Ste
As Hedgehog prepares to hibernate, he asks his dear friend Rabbit to save him a bit of winter so that when he awakens, he'll know what he's missed. It's a tough winter for Rabbit, lonely, hungry and cold, but he makes a huge snowball and covers it with leaves to save for his friend. When Hedgehog wakes up, he hugs Rabbit, then unwraps the now tiny snowball and discovers what winter looks like, smells like, and feels like. Riddell's engaging line drawings, washed with watercolors in woodland hues, lovingly define the story's characters and gentle humor.
By Beatrix Potter
Ages: 3 to 7
Peter is far more adventurous than his siblings Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail, and almost as soon as their mother has told them to avoid Mr. McGregor’s garden, he crawls under the garden gate to gorge himself on Mr. McGregor’s vegetables. Follow the adventures of Peter here.
By Elena Poniatovska, Magda Montiel and Antonio Esparza
(Book in spanish)
Ages: 9 to 12
We recommend this endearing story of true friendship, simplicity and the joy that simple things can give us, especially in nature.
Many times we feel bored or alone, but we are never alone if we allow ourselves to be accompanied by the beauty of nature and we indulge in the adventures that our imagination can offer us, this is how the girl who stars in this story did, when one morning she woke up and her dream it had come true.
Walking in the moonlight among the surrounding fields of London, Walter Hartright has an accidental encounter with an almost ghostly looking woman, dressed entirely in white. She asks him for help to get to London, the young artist intrigued by the mystery that surrounds that woman offers help. But he never suspected that such an encounter would have implications for his immediate future: In his new job as a drawing teacher, he meets the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie with whom he falls in love. However, both are involved in a series of refined and evil intrigues devised by Sir Percival, Laura's future husband, and his loyal accomplice: Count Fosco, whose objective is nothing more than to seize the young woman's fortune. Hartright and Laura's sister work together to unravel the deceptions and defend Laura, but only the Woman in white has the key to save her life.
Combining mystery, and romance, The Woman in White is one of Wilkie Collins' most important novels and considered even today one of the best works of mystery in Literature.
One of the greatest classics of literature; it tells the story of Edmund Dantes, a decent and honorable man, a rising sailor, with the promise of a future happy marriage, who suddenly sees all his aspirations frustrated when he is unjustly accused of being the author of serious crimes and he is imprisoned in the sinister Castle of “If”. After a while, Edmund finds out the real causes of his arrest, and knowing that such accusations involve the betrayal of his best friend and other accomplices of his, Edmund devises an intelligent plan of escape and revenge against anyone who betrayed him.
With powerful and deep reflections of life, with a flawless and masterfully woven plot, full of twists, endearing characters, and the perfect combination of adventure, romance, and intrigue, this masterpiece stands as one of the best novels of all the ages.
By Lafcadio Hearn
Ages 8 and older
The water-clock marks the hour in the Ta-chung sz',—in the Tower of the Great Bell: now the mallet is lifted to smite the lips of the metal monster, the vast lips inscribed with Buddhist texts from the sacred Fa-hwa-King, from the chapters of the holy Ling-yen-King! Hear the great bell responding! how mighty her voice, though tongueless! —KO-NGAI! All the little dragons on the high-tilted eaves of the green roofs shiver to the tips of their gilded tails under that deep wave of sound; all the porcelain gargoyles tremble on their carven perches; all the hundred little bells of the pagodas quiver with desire to speak. KO-NGAI!—all the green-and-gold tiles of the temple are vibrating; the wooden goldfish above them are writhing against the sky; the uplifted finger of Fo shakes high over the heads of the worshippers through the blue fog of incense! KO-NGAI!— What a thunder tone was that! All the lacquered goblins on the palace cornices wriggle their fire-colored tongues! And after each huge shock, how wondrous the multiple echo and the great golden moan and, at last,
the sudden sibilant sobbing in the ears when the immense tone faints away in broken whispers of silver,—as though a woman should whisper, "Hiai!" Even so the great bell hath sounded every day for well-nigh five hundred years,—Ko-Ngai: first with stupendous clang, then with immeasurable moan of gold, then with silver murmuring of "Hiai!" And there is not a child in all the many-colored ways of the old Chinese city who does not know the story of the great bell,—who cannot tell you why the great bell says Ko-Ngai and Hiai! Now, this is the story of the great bell in the Ta-chung sz', as the same is related in the Pe-Hiao-Tou-Choue, written by the learned Yu-Pao-Tchen, of the City of Kwang-tchau-fu.
Nearly five hundred years ago the Celestially August, the Son of Heaven, Yong-Lo, of the "Illustrious," or Ming, dynasty, commanded the worthy official Kouan-Yu that he should have a bell made of such size that the sound thereof might be heard for one hundred li. And he further ordained that the voice of the bell...
The Library Book
The Library Book
By Susan Orlean
For young adults & adults
“The Library Book” tells the true story of the fire that nearly destroyed the Los Angeles Public Library on April 28, 1986. The fire burned for more than seven hours, consuming 400,000 books and damaging 700,000 more. More than thirty years later, the mystery surrounding how the fire began remains. This book has spent six months on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list to date.
You can get this book in ebook format in English at:
The Orchid Thief
The Orchid Thief
By Susan Orlean
For young adults & adults
"The Orchid Thief" is a 1998 non-fiction book by American journalist Susan Orlean, based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of horticulturist John Laroche and a group of Seminoles in south Florida for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve.
You can get this book in ebook format in English :
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