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A Cuban girl transforms her long and unruly hair into a garden.

Con Pollo: A Bilingual Playtime Adventure is an engaging and hilarious picture book that serves young readers as an introduction to basic Spanish vocabulary, brought to life by superstar team-up Jimmy Fallon and Jennifer Lopez. Meet Pollo, a friendly little chicken who just wants to play. And play, and play, and play all day! Pollo makes any activity more fun. Why just go to the beach when you could go to la playa con Pollo? Do you want to play soccer,...

Presente a sus pequenos lectores a San Salvador, la magnifica capital de El Salvador. Los ninos aprenderan sobre las caracteristicas unicas y vibrantes de esta incomparable ciudad centroamericana. Podran caminar hasta el gigante de la naturaleza, El Boqueron, alimentar a las palomas un domingo y ver el vapor de las sabrosas pupusas. "Introduce your little readers to San Salvador, the magnificent capital of El Salvador. Children will learn about the...

Maxy the dog survives Hurricane Maria, and like many who go through natural disasters, he is later terrified of storms and rain. La perrita Maxy sobrevive al huracan Maria pero despues esta aterrorizada de tormentas y lluvia.

Una biografia ilustrada de Julio C. Tello, considerado el fundador de la arqueologia peruana moderna y quien llego a ser el cientifico social indigena mas distinguido del siglo XX. "A picture biography of Julio C. Tello, considered to be the founder of modern Peruvian archaeology, that traces his life from an early interest in Peru's ancient cultures to his rise as the most distinguished Indigenous social scientist of the twentieth century. A map...

An elite military unit, comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, has been set up to take the fall for a terrible crime they didn't commit. Now, Roadblock, Duke, and the others must once again face their mortal enemy, COBRA, as well as dangerous new threats operating within the government. When all else fails, one option remains: Retaliation.

Special Agent Gibbs and company are tested like never before with a flurry of high-stakes cases involving international espionage, al Qaeda plots, brutal serial killings and double agents.

Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos, but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

When the arrogant warrior Thor is banished to Earth from his homeworld of Asgard, he must fight to reclaim his lost powers. Pursued by an invasion force sent to destroy him, the fallen God of Thunder must rise to the battle and learn what it takes to become a true hero.

Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...