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Publisher
FiGa Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Bianca is an excellent actress, but theater doesn’t pay the bills yet. In order to make a living, she impersonates movie divas and promotes events. Bianca auditions for a big international production and gets the part. The director of the film, inspired by her work, changes the character he wrote into a version of Bianca. Is this the chance of a lifetime?
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Vivien and Chloe have just inherited their Aunt's bakery, a boulangerie that has been a cornerstone of the neighborhood for years. Chloe wants a new image and product, while Vivien wants to make sure nothing changes. Their clash of ideas leads to a peculiar solution; they split the shop in half. But Vivien and Chloe will have to learn to overcome their differences in order to save the bakery and everything that truly matters in their lives.
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Octavio Espejo leads an ordinary life in multiethnic 1967 El Paso: he is raising three children with his wife, Lourdes. Octavio was brought to the U.S. from revolutionary Mexico as a child and talks about the family's roots across the border, but on the whole the family has silently Americanized. The Vietnam War and the counterculture, however, begin to change how his children conceive of themselves and their lives-teenaged twins Gustavo and Xochil...
Publisher
Euro Arts
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Venezuela has a unique system of music education, taking children from violent slums of Caracas and turns some of them into world-class musicians. Shows how Venezuelan visionary Jose Antonio Abreu has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children over the past three decades. Children from streets dominated by the gun battles of gang warfare are taken into music schools, given access to music, and taught how to build a better society.
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On October 1, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada suffered the worst mass shooting in modern American history, resulting in 58 deaths and over 500 injured. It broke my heart. Las Vegas is my home. I felt like something needed to be done to help in a unique way."--JH WILLIAMS III, Artist and Curating Editor This "unique way" was the genesis of the WHERE WE LIVE anthology--a riveting collection of both fictional stories and actual eye-witness accounts told by...