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4821) El bumbún
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In an inhospitable rural area in northwestern Argentina, the machismo, misery, and repression of the last military dictatorship frames the tragedy of Bumbún, the daughter of an alcoholic and violent axman who forces her to assume the identity of a man from birth. Her life will be torn between resigning herself to his destiny for her or fighting to change it.
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What exactly does food reflect about Asian Pacific Americans? Viewers will journey from Texas to New York and from Wisconsin to Hawaii using an obsession with food as a launching point to delve into a wealth of stories, traditions, and unexpected characters that help nourish this nation of immigrants.
4823) Una mujer fantástica
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"Una Mujer Fantástica es la historia de Marina, una mesera y cantante, y Orlando, un hombre mayor, que estan enamorados y planean un futuro juntos. Despues de que Orlando enferma repentinamente y muere, Marina se ve obligada a enfrentar a su familia y a la socidad, y luchar para demostrarles quien es: una mujer fuerte, pasional...fantástica."--provided by container.
Marina and Orlando are in love and planning their future, when one night Orlando...
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"In this collection of three essays, internationally renowned tenor Ian Bostridge explores his relation to the performance of Western classical vocal music through the lens of gender, politics, or the ultimate paradoxical grounding of identity, death. As a performer who needs to negotiate between his own identity and that of the musical text he delivers on stage or in the concert hall, Bostridge asks questions about how the complex identity of a piece...
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"This book challenges Mexican narratives of the partriarchal gender binary by looking at the Muxes, a gender fluid indigenous group readily accepted by their community"--Provided by publisher.
"The image of biologically male people dancing while dressed in traditional, colorful female Zapotec, Juchiteca attire stands in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of Mexico as the land of charros, machismo, and unbridled ranchero masculinity. These indigenous...
4827) Wyśnione szczęście
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Polish
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Joy, zdradzona przez męża bibliotekarka z małego miasteczka, ma w perspektywie pierwsze od lat samotne Święta. W odruchu desperacji jedzie na lotnisko i wybiera daleki lot do nieznanej sobie miejscowości o nazwie Hope, ponieważ jak nigdy potrzebuje nadziei. Nieoczekiwany bieg wypadków sprawi, że jej życie znajdzie się w niebezpieczeństwie, lecz i nabierze nowych barw i sensu...
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Harlequin romance volume 4892
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"Event planner Shelby needs to borrow Mountain Waters Ranch to help put her business on the map, proving herself to her family. But her visit to the notoriously private owner, billionaire Sam, goes awry when he mistakes her for his daughter's new nanny! Seeing an opportunity to win the brooding widower over, Shelby doesn't immediately correct him-- But as she grows closer to Sam, it's time to reveal the truth-- even if it means risking everything--"--back...
4830) Destierros
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Un secreto ancestral, la vida de dos mujeres que se entrecruzan, la historia de un país y sus guerras. Desde la oscuridad del desierto, una mujer rarámuri anuncia a Helena que su hija, desaparecida años atrás, regresará. Por otro lado, esa misma mañana Julia, absorta en una serie de destierros personales, sufre un accidente automovilístico sobre la carretera. Mientras su esposo recibe los restos de quien cree que es su mujer, Julia es escondida...
4831) Psychopomps
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In 2010, Alex DiFrancesco had a different name and was a missing person. Alone in a mental hospital, they began to have fantasies of running away permanently, changing their name, growing a beard. In their journey to coming out as transgender, DiFrancesco moved from New York City to the Midwest. Psychopomps follows them on the search for family, marriage, relationships with other trans people, attempts to build community, and for the elusive link...
4832) Rockbuster
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In 1915, after being asked to sing at the funeral of executed songwriter and member of the international union, Industrial Workers of the World, Joe Hill, eighteen-year-old Utah coal miner Tommy Quinlan begins to accept his past and make decisions about his future.
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DIVERGENT (2 hrs. 19 min.): Divergent is a thrilling action-adventure set in a future world where society has been divided into five distinct factions. Not fitting into any group, Tris (Shailene Woodley), a Divergent, is targeted by a faction leader determined to eliminate all Divergents.
INSURGENT (1 hr. 59 min.): Tris searches for answers and allies in this action-packed second adventure. On the run and targeted by ruthless faction leader Jeanine...
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"Living in the Ottoman Realm brings the Ottoman Empire to life in all of its ethnic, religious, linguistic, and geographic diversity. The contributors explore the development and transformation of identity over the long span of the empire's existence. They offer engaging accounts of individuals, groups, and communities by drawing on a rich array of primary sources, some available in English translation for the first time. These materials are examined...
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Devil in the flesh: Debbie Strand is the new girl in class ... and what Debbie wants, Debbie gets, no matter what's standing in her way. As a checkered past of unsolved murders catches up with her, Debbie's games threaten to turn deadly again.
Devil in the flesh 2: After escaping from a mental institution, Debbie Strong steals the car, money and identity of a college co-ed and heads off to college where she becomes obsessed with Sam, a handsome writing...
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"Eva y Minerva, su mamá, viajan solas por la carretera. Bueno, no completamente solas: las acompaña Hugo, el Oso. Van a visitar a la bisabuela, que está muy enferma. En el camino, se encuentran con Nicte, una niña que también viaja sola. Bueno, no completamente sola: la acompaña Perro. Nicte se dirige a la casa de su abuelo, y Eva y Minerva ofrecen llevarla hasta allá. Pero Nicte guarda un gran secreto, y sólo la carretera, con sus maizales...
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"Margarita sospecha que su marido tiene un amorío con una de sus estudiantes. Elizabeth intenta escapar del vacío de una vida de privilegios en la Nueva York de los años cincuenta. Doris Dana, amor y albacea de Gabriela Mistral, vive una noche de alcohol y sexo con una amiga de infancia. Juliana, una pastelera octogenaria, ansía encontrar la identidad de una mujer que cambió el rumbo de su vida. Anne, conserje de un edificio, huye en busca de...
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