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Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
Español
Description
Dos hermanos viajan de la ciudad de México, hacia las Vegas a participar en el abierto de Motocross, embarcándose en la aventura más grande de sus vidas.
Two brothers from Mexico City travel to Las Vegas to catch the U.S. Motocross Open and embark on the journey of their lives.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
At Grandma's house, where Julia is staying without her parents for the first time, the breeze is sweet like jasmine. Mornings begin with sugared bread, and the most magnificent hot chocolate cures all homesickness. There's something about this place and about Grandma. Like how she can tell when Julia has been quietly picking limes from the garden. Or that she can see the future--and knows when Julia is about to fall off her bike. Or how she can journey...
Author
Publisher
Diana
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Era la mitad de los años veinte en la Ciudad de México. En la Plaza de la Constitución confluían todas y cada una de las líneas de tranvías y carros de pasajeros, el Zócalo era el centro del comercio, y la ciudad hervía con la apertura cultural y artística. En el epicentro de este nuevo México despertaba un testigo silencioso que albergaría la vida social, política y cultural del país los próximos setenta años: el icónico Hotel Regis....
24) A new home
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Moving to a new city can be exciting. But what if your new home isn't anything at all like your old home? Will you make friends? What will you eat? Where will you play? In a shared voice, a boy moving from New York City to Mexico City and a girl moving from Mexico City to New York City express their fears about leaving home to live in a new and unfamiliar place. Tania de Regil offers a heart-warming story about finding home wherever you go.
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"Jardineras en la plancha del Zocalo, una mujer remando sobre las aguas del canal de la Viga, una inmensa cancha de futbol llanero en la Zona Rosa, una estacion de ferrocarril en la esquina de Insurgentes y Reforma. Estas fotografias, como dice Rafael Perez Gay, (S0(Bocupan el pasado y abren una puerta misteriosa hacia el presente. Sin estas imagenes no existiriamos, o seriamos sombras que deambulan sin historia(S1(B. Hay infinitas maneras de recorrer...
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Español
Description
A poor young woman reinvents herself to get revenge on the family of the man she loves. Maricruz fell in love with Octavio; however his snobbish family mistreated her and forced her to run away to Mexico City. A rich man takes her under his wing and transforms her into a successful business woman. Now, with her new identity, wealth and power, Maricruz returns for revenge. Will the love she shared with Octavio be rekindled, and can it tame her vengeful...
Author
Publisher
Larousse
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"En este libro encontrara interesante informacion nutricional y cultural respecto a la ingesta de insectos. La autora es la chef Beverly Ramos, especialista en la cocina con insectos, impulsora y divulgadora del tema. La obra cuenta con informacion detallada de los diferentes insectos mas consumidos en Mexico, asi como fascinantes fotografias de cada uno. Recetas con insectos cuenta con 60 exclusivas recetas que incluyen: entradas, sopas, cremas,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads readers on an exhilarating and fast-paced journey. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Here in the city, heavily policed to keep the creatures of the night at bay, Domingo is another trash-picking street kid, just hoping to make enough to survive. Then he meets Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers. Domingo is smitten. He clings...
29) Quiero amarte
Publisher
Televisa
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Mauro is the owner of the coffee plantation. Said property he inherited from his dead wife, Elena, with whom he procreated a daughter, Juliana. As time goes by, he falls in love again with Florencia, the young owner of some coffee lands next to his. However, the love between Mauro and Florencia is impossible because when they are about to marry, Mauro discovers that Lucrecia, an old friend of his, is pregnant with his child. Mauro and Florencia must...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
Español
Description
When Lizzie and Gael share an irresistible challenge, to find the peacock ring that once belonged to artist Frida Kahlo, Paloma decides it is the perfect way to honor her father.
¡Una novela en español de Angela Cervantes! Paloma Márquez viaja a la Ciudad de México, de donde era su padre. Tiene la esperanza de que eso la ayudará a recordar el tiempo que pasaron juntos. Mientras está allí, conoce a unos hermanos que buscan un valioso anillo...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
A chambermaid at a high-end Mexico City hotel, into a beautifully observed film of rich detail. Set entirely in this alienating environment, with extended scenes taking place in the guest rooms, hallways, and cleaning facilities, this minimalist yet sumptuous movie brings to the fore Eve's hopes, dreams, and desires.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"La mas importante revelacion arqueologica se ha descubierto durante las excavaciones para el Metro en la Ciudad de Mexico. Un monolito que encierra el misterio que compartieron las antiguas civilizaciones: la gran serpiente emplumada. Pero ademas, marca la migracion que transformo a Quetzalcoatl en Kukulean. Este es el inicio de la profecia que siglos atras advirtio la caida del hombre. Pero el monolito desaparece misteriosamente antes de ser estudiado;...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"La Ciudad de Mexico es un lugar caotico, bullicioso y siempre en movimiento. El punto de encuentro culinario de las gastronomias de todo el pais, donde cocinar -- y comer -- forma parte integral del modo de vivir. Por capitulos divididos segun las partes del dia, en Ciudad de Mexico, Edson Diaz-Fuentes nos acompana por un torbellino de hitos culinarios: desayunos dulces y picantes, comida callejera, antojitos para almorzar y platos fuertes para...
35) Martha
Publisher
ZatMeni Distribución
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Language
Español
Description
"Martha es una mujer de 70 años que vive sola en La Ciudad de México. La monotonía que marca su vida rutinaria cambia cuando un día es despedida debido a que su trabajo será desempañado por una computadora. Impulsada por las circunstancias decide suicidarse, iniciando un intenso viaje hacia la muerte que sorpresivamente la llevará por primera vez a la vida."
Martha is a woman of 70 who lives alone in Mexico City. The monotony of her routine...
36) Güeros
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
Description
Two unexpectedly idle university students and one younger kid brother set out to find a now-obscure folk-rock singer-songwriter who's now hospitalized, well, somewhere. This journey unfolds in a singularly unlinear fashion--but they're used to roundabout experiences.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A highly readable narrative of the causes, course, and consequences of the Spanish Conquest, incorporating the perspectives of many Native groups, Black slaves, and the conquistadors. Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian faith, everyone involved knew that it was primarily...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Mientras Carlos viaja a Madrid en busca de su mejor amigo, Javier, para que esté presente en su boda, Lucía, su prometida, atropella por accidente a León, y de este encuentro nacerá "el amor a primera vista", aunque Lucía no sospecha que él está por casarse en una semana con Ana, la que hasta ese momento era "el amor de su vida".
Lucía and Carlos are about to be married, but when Carlos' best friend doesn't respond to the wedding invitation,...
Author
Publisher
Neo Person
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Los sabores, el colorido y el estilo culinario y cultural de Ciuad de Mexico estan presentes en cada uno de los platos de Gabriela Camara. Su libro, un ejemplo de autentica gastronomia de vanguardia fi el a sus raices, nos presenta 150 recetas de basicos, desayunos, primeros platos, platos fuertes (o principales) y postres. Los amantes de la cocina descubriran en estas paginas algunas de las creaciones mas emblematicas de Mexico, como los chilaquiles,...
Publisher
Distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
Español
Description
"Biutiful" takes place in grimy and crowded parts of Barcelona that are a world away from that city's tourist attractions. Uxbal is a midlevel mobster, in charge of Chinese sweatshop workers making counterfeit watches and bags, and the African vendors who sell them. He collects and dispenses money, and runs interference with the cops. He also has two young children, a mentally unstable former wife, and a terminal illness. He is trying, despite his...
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