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On the Border of a Dream is an eye-opening and uplifting memoir that tells the true story of a boy from rural Mexico who, at a young age, sets his mind to becoming a pioneering surgeon in the USA. The memoir follows Edgar Hernandez, first with his tight-knit family as an adolescent in Mexico and then as he journeys to the USA to pursue his dream.

Erle Dardick opina que la industria de los restaurantes de multi-unidades están dejando a un lado miles de millones de dólares, así que en su nuevo libro “Adopta el Catering e Incrementa tus Ventas” expone una clara solución para los negocios de comida con problemas para manternese a flote o para crecer durante la recesión. Una perspectiva estratégica para los ejecutivos de restaurantes de multi-unidades. “Creo que la fuente más rápida para aumentar los ingresos de un restaurante es el catering.” Afirma Dardick, un empresario en serie.

Vivimos una época de logros y avances que deberian permitir a los seres humanos alcanzar la felicidad; sin embargo, persiste una insatisfacción, una carencia espiritual en nuestra vida que nos ocasiona sensaciones incómodas, pensamientos dolorosos y una grave tensión. Este libro es una guía accesible para comprender los principales conceptos de la práctica espiritual que significa amarse primero uno, para poder ser una mejor persona en su relación con los demás.

VS Grenier is back with another SugarPaw tale from her childhood: Whistle Beans! Children have a hard time learning to whistle. However, there is a secret and VS Grenier shares it in this fun SugarPaw adventure. But how can vegetables help and what do they have to do with whistling? Only SugarPaw and Bonnie Whiskers can tell you in their new adventure as they chase Bonnie Whiskers' pet parrot Cesar all over town.

Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade. After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children - until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to members of a new task force being formed by the DEA.

On July 26, 2003, the 50th anniversary of the Moncada Army Barracks raid in Santiago de Cuba, something unexpected happens. When Fidel Prez and his brother accidentally tumble to their deaths from their Havana balcony, the neighbors’ outcry, "Fidel has fallen," is misinterpreted by those who hear it. The misinformation quickly ripples outward, and it reawakens the city.

Imagine seeing hundreds of the same type of animal gathered at the same place at the same time! Right here in North America, many animals gather in huge numbers at predictable times and locations. Not all migrations are tied to seasonal food changes - some are tied to life cycles. Certain birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, fish, and even insects migrate during spring, summer, fall, or winter. Travel along with them as you learn about what puts these animals on the move.

From sea urchins in the Atlantic Ocean to bandicoots on the Australian savanna, animals recycle all over the world. Explore how different animals in different habitats use recycled material to build homes, protect themselves, and get food. This fascinating collection of animal facts will teach listeners about the importance of recycling and inspire them to take part in protecting and conserving the environment by recycling in their own way.

Spring has arrived, and pollen is in the air. Baby Bear does not like the pollen - it sticks to his fur and makes him itchy and sneezy. He's allergic! Achoo! He just wishes the pollen were gone. When his friends gather to tell him why they need pollen, Baby Bear learns that pollen is good for the forest and provides food for many animals, including him! Pollen might be something we all love to hate, but can we really live without it? This story explains why we need it.

An old fiddler and a discarded rocking horse discover their true worth on Christmas Eve. A miracle occurs for both of them when they experience the Lord's birth. Written to the hymn "O Holy Night", the fiddler and the rocking horse find hope and love on the most holy night of the year.

A generation of Americans came of age boycotting grapes, swept up in a movement that vanquished California's most powerful industry and accomplished the unthinkable: dignity and contracts for farm workers. Four decades later, Cesar Chavez's likeness graces postage stamps, and dozens of schools and streets have been renamed in his honor. But the real story of Chavez's farm workers' movement - both its historic triumphs and its tragic disintegration - has remained buried beneath the hagiography.

El Audiolibro que te proponemos te acercará con todo detalle a Leo Messi, el ídolo de masas del fútbol mundial. Sus gestas futbolísiticas, su esfuerzo para llegar a ellas, su origen y primeros pasos en el fútbol desde bien pequeñito, cómo superar la enfermedad de adolescente y las lesiones en el campo.Su pasión por el trabajo bien hecho y su fidelidad a personas clave en su vida.En definitiva descubrirás lo que siempre habías querido saber de este pequeño gran futbolista, Leo Messi.

Science isn't exactly Maeve's favorite subject, but she’s still excited to be going to the Sally Ride Science Festival at MIT with her hunky tutor, Matt. Sure, the BSG and her annoyingly brilliant younger brother are going as well, but it’s still almost kind of a date, isn’t it? The festival gives the BSG a super idea - an environmental science fair at Abigail Adams Junior High. But plans for a bubble gum factory nearby put Avery and Katani on opposite sides of an environmental issue - and Avery finds herself in a bubble gum war with the Queens of Mean!

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before.

I throw back my tumble of black hair, roll one bare shoulder forward, then the other. The stack of bangles on each wrist shimmies and slides as my hands rise like birds in flight..Set during the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, sixteen-year-old Drina yearns to dance Flamenco. When she dances, she forgets who she is. She forgets what seems to be her legacy: I am nothing. I belong nowhere. Why does her mother forbid her to dance, the very thing that makes her feel alive?

Esta obra es importante no porque sus reflexiones sean una invitacion a practicar la guerra, sino porque para Sun Tzu la guerra es algo mas que la simple fuerza bruta y la irracionalidad de la destruccion. Se trata del arte de evitar los conflictos; requiere de una sabiduria mayor, pero sobre todo, exige de nuestra parte una gran sensibilidad para detectar cuales son las exigencias que nos demanda la armonia universal. Please Note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Por mi cumpleaños hago una lista con todo lo que quiero que me regalen. Pero este año mis padres han hecho trampa y me han pedido que solo escriba cosas que no se pueden guardar. Lo que no saben es que tengo un montón de ideas chulísimas para mi nueva lista. A veces los mejores regalos no se encuentran en las tiendas sino en la imaginación.

From an O. Henry Prize-winner, this dazzling novel in stories marks the arrival of a powerfully original and beguiling new voice in American fiction. The linked stories that make up this spare and beautifully written novel follow the life of Ayela, the illegitimate daughter of a Mexican dressmaker, and create a portrait, composite yet intriguingly incomplete, that captures the complexity of who she was.

A little bear named SugarPaw hopes to get rid of his babysitter, Bonnie Whiskes, by getting her into trouble after making changes to his rules chart. As the story unfolds SugarPaw learns about honesty and friendship, in this fun loving story.

Ryan Biddulph shares tips for writing successful ebooks quickly in this value-laden, fast listen. He published 84 ebooks in 10 months during a prolific stretch and wants to share his practical tips with you to boost your passive income.