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February 2023The Middle Sister
by Fabiola Hablützel
In March 2017, Fabiola is about to celebrate her 50th birthday and the 27th anniversary of her marriage to Alfredo. To make her joy complete for these special occasions, her beloved aunt Nélida returns from the United States to visit her sister, Fabiola's mother, and participate in her niece‘s celebrations. Shortly before, Fabiola’s mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, which affects her ability to speak. She cannot complete most of her sentences, so her daughter, husband, and other relatives help her to express herself. The three women go to a swimming pool and have a delicious lunch on a sunny afternoon. Afterward, Fabiola’s mother wants to chat with her daughter and sister. Thanks to the signs and sounds made by her mother, Fabiola discovers that she was adopted after her mother had a miscarriage. The desperate daughter immediately visits another aunt and asks her for more details about her adoption: indeed, Fabiola and Luis (the protagonist’s adoptive parents) were visited by a Chilean social worker who helped the couple with all the official paperwork to adopt a Chilean baby girl. Fabiola wants to find out more about her biological family in Chile: she knows only that she has a Chilean step-sister and the possible name of her birth mother: Elena. What family secrets will she discover and how will they affect Fabiola’s relationship with her adoptive mother?
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Animals like you
The most beautiful stories of Fundación Santuario Gaia
by Ismael López Dobarganes
They are Samuel, Olga, Fabiola, Tina or Freser, animals like you.Their lives inspire and amaze us with stories of overcoming, friendship, hope, tenderness and love. These are the stories of the Fundación Gaia Santuario, where animal sciences have been rescued thanks to the dedication and immense love of Ismael and Coque, the founders of this little oasis to protect and defend animals. Births, reunions, adversities, loyalties... unforgivable moments we remember we all have one of the animals: the ability to love.
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Biography & True StoriesSix women who changed the world. The great scientists who revolutionized physics
Le grandi scienziate della fisica del XX secolo
by Gabriella Greison
Six lives in a compelling narration Six extraordinary women Six short novels you’ll be happy to get lost inMarie Curie (1867-1934), Lise Meitner (1878-1968), Emmy Noether (1882-1935), RosalindFranklin (1920-1958), Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), Mileva Marić (1875-1948). These are the magnificent six. Except for Marie Curie their names are essentially unknown to the general reading public. They are just ordinary women names. These women were all born within a lapse of fifty years and they worked through the most crucial and roaring years of the twentieth century, years of atrocious wars (which they experienced first-hand), and of great advancement in sciences. These women advanced sciences. There’s a Polish chemist who could not attend university, the Jewish physicist whom the Nazis hated, the German mathematician whom nobody loved, the English crystallographer whose discoveries were snatched, the Hollywood star who became a military engineer and the Serbian theorist overshadowed by her husband. So what about Hedy Lamarr? Wasn’t she an actress?Yes, she was an actress. The Hollywood diva, the first full nudity in the history of cinema (1929), defined by all sides the most beautiful woman in the world before Marilyn Monroe. But she was also an engineer, and a talented one. She invented modern wireless communication, the very one we use with our phones. Of course, the six heroines presented by Gabriella Greison are not the only six women in sciences, but, with their will, their skills, their talent and hard work, they paved the way for fellow women scientists to come in an all-men world. They gave us their discoveries. But they also made us aware of the fact that women could, in fact had to, be allowed to choose science as their career. Their centuries-long banishment has already come at a very high price for humankind. Six terrific stories, with a touch of fairytale. They are not always cheerful stories, they do not always have a happy ending, because they are real stories, of achievements and failures. We laugh and cry, as should be. Still, thanks to these six icons of twentieth-century science and to their example it was less hard for other women to find their way and to give us the fruits of their knowledge and imagination.To name but some of them: Amalia Ercoli Finzi, Fabiola Gianotti, Barrè Sinoussi, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, Barbara McClintock, Wu Chieng-Shiung, Vera Rubin, Jocelyn Bell, Lisa Randall, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier…These names might not ring a bell to the general reading public, but for the first time these women were the principal investigators of huge research teams, carrying out cutting-edge research. More and more women are following in their wake: they love sciences, they graduate in sciences, they take a Ph.D. in sciences and they’ll be free to give us the fruits of their brilliant minds.For all this we have to thank our six magnificent women: Marie, Lise, Emmy, Rosalind, Hedy e Mileva.
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School stories (Children's/YA)2022JARS
by CRISTINA GOMEZ / FABIOLA CORREAS
Jars of feelings, moments and glitter
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Children's & YACELIA, THE GIRL WHO SANG WITH HER HANDS
by Text: Juan Francisco Bascuñán / Illustrations: Valeria Cis
Celia is a girl like many others her age, but she has something special: she can speak with her hands and hear with her eyes, because her ears don’t function - she is deaf. The story is told through the letters that the girl writes to her mother. Celia arrived in Santiago de Chile to live with her aunt and uncle, while her family remains in Colombia. She writes to her mother about her difficult experiences at school, where no one knows how to speak in sign language. However, thanks to the commitment of the director, she achieves important changes in the school, which is enriched by opening up to the world of deaf people and getting to know, through her, the culture of another country. The book has two attached resources, which help to bring deaf and hearing children closer together: a manual of the alphabet of the Chilean sign language included in the book, as well as a video that shows the pages in the sign language transcription and the reading version in off on the publisher’s website.
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GlobalizationJuly 2022Making a Global Impact
by Dona Herweck Rice
Examine the never-ending quest for human rights! Learn about the organizations and people dedicated to helping others with their human rights. This 32-page nonfiction book covers important topics like equality and freedom. Perfect for use in the classroom or at-home learning about food, education, safety, and other human rights. Includes a short fiction piece to help students relate to the topic and engaging text features such as a glossary, useful discussion questions, and a “Civics in Action” activity designed to get students thinking and talking about social issues.
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GlobalizationApril 2022Citizens of Planet Earth
by Monika Davies
Explore Earth’s challenges and learn how you can help! Analyzes major issues that affect communities around the world. This 32-page nonfiction book covers important concepts like global citizenship and discrimination. Perfect for use in the classroom or at-home learning to explore hunger, climate change, and helping others. Includes a short fiction piece to help students relate to the topic and engaging text features such as a glossary, useful discussion questions, and a “Civics in Action” activity designed to get students thinking and talking about social issues.
