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Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great...

A six-year-old boy loves nothing more than spending time with Luis, his immigrant grandfather, who teaches the boy about birds, plants, and the natural world.

There are important differences between constituent units of federal or quasi-federal states in OECD countries with respect to both powers for taxation of personal income and the use made of such powers, if any. Subnational Tax Autonomy in OECD Federations examines tax autonomy as a powerful tool in setting tax rates. Two key issues are examined in detail : first, why proposals giving more power to set tax rates have been implemented (Spain), put...

"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht--the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...

Six eerie tales featuring owls, told in English and Spanish, reveal superstitions about these unusual birds, as well as the culture of the barrio and Mexican Americans who live there.

"Violeta and Eva live in California with their mother, but in the summers they travel to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to visit their loving but unpredictable father, Vicente. Over the course of four formative summers spanning adolescence to adulthood, Violeta and Eva learn to appreciate their father as a person with flaws and limitations inseparable from his passion and tenderness. An emotional time capsule of growing up within a fragmented family and...

After school, children find a rainbow of colors in their Bronx neighborhood, from Yadi's red balloon to Angeliz's violet bubble wand. Después de la escuela, los niños encuentran un arco iris de colores en su vecindario del Bronx, desde el globo rojo de Yadi hasta la varita de burbujas violeta de Angeliz. "A new bilingual board book that introduces the youngest of readers to the colors of the Bronx! Where can you find your best friend playing...

"Es una verdad mundialmente reconocida que un hombre soltero dueño de una gran fortuna siente un día u otro la necesidad de encontrar esposa.O así lo cree Mrs. Bennet, la madre de cinco hijas solteras a las que está decidida a desposar con un caballero acaudalado cueste lo que cueste. Pero no todas ellas están por la labor, especialmente, la joven Lizzy, que preferiría casarse por amor y no por conveniencia. Ni siquiera si su pretendiente es...

Hadrosaurs--also known as duck-billed dinosaurs--are abundant in the fossil record. With their unique complex jaws and teeth perfectly suited to shred and chew plants, they flourished on Earth in remarkable diversity during the Late Cretaceous. So ubiquitous are their remains that we have learned more about dinosaurian paleobiology and paleoecology from hadrosaurs than we have from any other group. In recent years, hadrosaurs have been in the spotlight....

"Cuando Violeta, una nueva estudiante, llega a la clase del Sr. García, todos le dan una calurosa bienvenida, especialmente Mandy. Las dos se hacen buenas amigos. Mandy admira a Violeta, sobre todo su confianza al hablar delante de toda la clase, incluso cuando lo hace de manera distinta a los demás (Violet tiene apraxia y tiene que usar una tablet para ayudarla a hablar). De modo que cuando a Mandy le toca el turno de hablar delante de la clase...