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681) Ponyboy: a novel
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Ponyboy is a trans man in Paris struggling to be the person that his girlfriend, Baby, wants him to be. He goes to Berlin and sinks deeper into drugs while going from one crumbling relationship to the next. After overdosing, he enters rehab back home in Iowa.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Perteneciente a la segunda generación de alemanes nacidos tras el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Nora Krug creció luchando contra la profunda ambivalencia que le provocaba el pasado reciente de su país. Durante sus viajes de joven, su acento sólo suscitaba reacciones desagradables, una rabia que entendía y compartía. Tras casi veinte años en Estados Unidos, Nora Krug decidió que nunca sabría quién era si no se enfrentaba a su lugar...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Diez años después del extraordinario éxito que supuso en todo el mundo la publicación de Suite francesa, rescatada milagrosamente del olvido, Emmanuel Moynot se adueña de la primera de las dos partes de la novela para ofrecer, con su afilada pluma, una dimensión visual de este clásico de Irène Némirovsky. Como en una película de Renoir o Robert Altman, los personajes, sus trayectorias y sus destinos colisionan y se entrelazan en las carreteras...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels-poets, novelists, philosophers-who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time. When did we begin to be as self-centered as we are today? At what point did we expect to have the right...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Continuum
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the Closet of the Vatican is a book that reveals these secrets and penetrates this enigma. It derives from a system founded on a clerical culture of secrecy which starts in junior seminaries and continues right up to the Vatican itself. It is based on the double lives of priests and on extreme homophobia. The resulting schizophrenia in the Church is hard to fathom. But the more a prelate is homophobic, the more likely it is that he is himself...
687) Fox and his friends
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Deutsch
Description
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation. A suggestible working-class innocent lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery. It is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in...
689) Mamma mia!
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
20-year-old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancee, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
691) Alex Morgan
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The second book in a middle-grade nonfiction sports series that focuses on today's superstars and up-and-comers"--
692) The exception
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
While trying to determine if a Dutch spy has infiltrated the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, a German soldier falls for a young Jewish woman.
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"It tells the gripping story of a young German soldier on the Western Front of World War I. Paul and his comrades experience first-hand how the initial euphoria of war turns into desperation and fear as they fight for their lives, and each other, in the trenches. The film from director Edward Berger is based on the world-renowned bestseller of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque." --
694) Information hunters: when librarians, soldiers, and spies banded together in World War II Europe
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Information Hunters examines the unprecedented American effort to acquire foreign publications and information in World War II Europe. An unlikely band of librarians, scholars, soldiers, and spies went to Europe to collect books and documents to aid the Allies' cause. They travelled to neutral cities to find enemy publications for intelligence analysis and followed advancing armies to capture records in a massive program of confiscation. After the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First St. Martin's Griffin edition.
Language
English
Description
""In the pursuit of authenticity, of accurate history and undeniable courage, no words matter more than, 'I was there.' Read Luck of the Draw and the life of Frank Murphy and ponder this: how did those boys do such things?" -Tom Hanks The epic true story of an American hero who flew during WWII, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air. Beginning on August 17, 1942, American heavy bomber crews...
697) Paris, Texas
Series
Criterion collection volume 501
Language
English
Formats
Description
An amnesiac man found wandering in the Texas desert works to reconstruct his past with the help of his wife and family who have not seen him in four years.
698) À la vie
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
Français
Description
Inspired by a true story. Helene, Lili and Rose met in Auschwitz, where the three twenty-year-old Jewish girls were deported. Thanks to German-speaking Dutch Lili, who was working in the camp kitchen, the two French girls survived. However, after the liberation of the camp, they lost touch. Lili went back to the Netherlands. Rose married a former deportee and settled down in Canada. Helene returned home to France, where she met an old childhood sweetheart,...
699) Lacombe Lucien
Series
Criterion collection volume 329
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Français
Description
Traces a young peasant's journey from potential Resistance member to Gestapo recruit. At once the story of a nation and one troubled boy's horrific coming of age, the disquieting portrait of lost innocence and guilt.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Adapted for young adults from the New York Times best-seller, this gripping true account of a WWII American tank gunner, who met his destiny in an armor duel and forged an enduring bond with his enemy, brings to life the perils of war.
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