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Cuando llegó a Estados Unidos, en 1921, Pura traía los cuentos folclóricos de su querido Puerto Rico. Al encontrar un nuevo hogar en la Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York como asistente bilingüe, convirtió sus historias populares en libros y esparció semillas de historias por todo el país.

There's been hundreds or thousands of people who have tapped into one or more of these passive-income methods and quit their traditional jobs and were able to live the life they truly wanted. Now it's your turn!

This inspiring biography tells the story of New York City's first Puerto Rican librarian, a woman who championed bilingual literature. When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpré carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public Library as a bilingual assistant, she turned her popular retellings into libros and spread story seeds across the land. Today, these seeds have grown into a lush landscape as generations of children and storytellers continue to share her tales and celebrate Pura’s legacy.

A deeply moving story of the beauty and brutality of life, and death, on the world's most unpredictable and perilous mountain. Sitting just lower than Everest at 8,611 meters above sea level on the China-Pakistan border, the Savage Mountain claims the lives of even the most experienced climbers. Alongside severe altitude, the weather is notoriously volatile and the climb relentlessly steep. A staggering one in four attempts result in death on the mountain.

It's a good problem to have: more business than they can comfortably handle on their own. But with resources already overstretched, the last thing former DSS agents and newbie security consultants Will Brandt and Taylor MacAllister need is another client. And the last thing Will needs is for that client to turn out to be an old boyfriend of Taylor's.

Mientras un asesino en serie, sospechoso de estar utilizando una caravana, atrae y mata a mujeres en todo el país, el FBI debe romper el protocolo y recurrir a su brillante recluta de academia de 22 años de edad, Riley Paige.

Lilly has no choice but to trust the tough, sexy ex-special forces operative to guide her out of the Afghan mountains to safety. As Grant leads her across the unforgiving terrain, risking his life to protect her, Lilly can’t deny her growing feelings or the intense physical attraction between them. Grant feels it too, but giving in to his desire would mean betraying his best mate’s memory, and that’s not something he’s prepared to do. Not even for the girl of his dreams.

Z pszczołami ma się sprawa podobnie jak z wieloma rzeczami tego świata. Dostrzegamy różne fakty, śledzimy obyczaje, powiadamy: robią to a to, pracują w ten a ten sposób, królowa tak przychodzi na świat, robotnice są dziewicami, rój następuje w tym a tym czasie. Wydaje nam się, że poznaliśmy wszystko, i nie pytamy o więcej. Widzimy, jak śpieszą z kwiatu na kwiat, obserwujemy rozgwar i ruch ula, a egzystencję tę uważamy za bardzo prostą, wyznaczając jej granice od instynktownego szukania karmy do również instynktownego rozmnażania się.

Historia nauki dowodzi, że wiek XIX był czasem chemii, XX fizyki, a XXI prawdopodobnie będzie wiekiem biologii. Nauki biologiczne należą do tych, które w coraz szybszym tempie spektakularnie wyjaśniają skomplikowane mechanizmy rządzące między innymi światem roślin. W świetle dzisiejszej wiedzy śmiało możemy mówić o inteligentnych zachowaniach roślin.

International Emmy nominated writer Mark Boutros offers a guide to creating characters who are engaging, emotionally driven, and memorable. With experience writing comedy, drama, and novels, Mark shares a mixture of theory, exercises, and pitfalls, getting you thinking about the questions you should always have in your mind during character creation. This is an invaluable tool for beginner and experienced writers.

10 Tourist Attractions in Klagenfurt & Easy Day Trips.

On the night his criminal accomplice is released from prison, Freddie Galloway dies in a blazing inferno at his country mansion. But with Mildenheath’s criminal underworld unwilling to talk, Knight and Culverhouse are left fighting against the odds. Someone has a dark, disturbing secret — and they’re prepared to kill to keep it.

"The Thirty Nine Steps" is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.

Ten top tourist attractions in Salzburg.

What be these fragile bodies we live inside? Transports of forgotten and lost souls eternally enslaved by restless spirits, dammed and tormented in an endless search for peace, happiness, and joy. Each soul in a constant and hectic pursuit to reconnect with something grand, lost a long time ago.

Leslie Landis' Chendell: A Natural Warrior is the first book in the Chendell series. It is a realistic fantasy adventure story told in an unusual and captivating style with wit and humor. Take a fun and exciting trip with Robin Dell and Jamie Chen as they search for a way to save Earth from environmental destruction. Robin can control insects and Jamie can communicate with trees and plants! Their powers are a game to them until they go on a research trip to the Peruvian rainforest. Then, everything is transformed in ways they could have never imagined.

A girl seeks to find her long lost father by always wearing his tattered old hockey sweater. Also Jenny wants to play shinny hockey with the boys on the outdoor rink, but is stopped by the bully boys on the rink. A young Chinese boy is also stopped from playing. The Chinese boy and Jenny decide to play hockey by themselves down on the river. And in doing so they form a warm friendship that allows Jenny to find her father again.

Memories and Scenes: Shtetl, Childhood, Writers is the first English translation of 11 autobiographical short stories by the beloved and successful 19th century Eastern European Yiddish writer Jacob Dinezon (1852 -1919). Friend and mentor to almost every major Jewish literary figure of his day, including Sholem Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher Sforim), I.L. Peretz, Sholem Aleichem, S. An-ski, and Abraham Goldfaden, Dinezon played a central role in the development of Yiddish as a modern literary language.

In this haiku love poems audiobook, I am delivering an underlying message that is not only about romance and romantic love, but even more, about the sacred feelings, perceptions and sophisticated moods that deeper love creates, when the partners are very much in love with each other. The audiobook itself is created in such a way, that it sets an almost meditative mood, where you can dwell in its simple message and its wonderful verses. Written in the spiritually-inspired Rumi style, you can easily contemplate this out-of-this-world atmosphere.

"No one ever reads just one of Trigiani’s wonderfully quirky tales. Once you pick up the first, you are hooked.” —BookPage New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani shares a treasure trove of insight and guidance from her two grandmothers: time-tested, common sense advice on the...