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481) Oddity
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind in an alternate nineteenth century where a failed Louisiana Purchase has locked a young Unified States into conflict with France"--Publisher marketing
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement. Now, this novel is reborn for a new age as a graphic novel. Scout, Gem, Boo Radley, Atticus Finch, and the small town of Maycomb, Alabama,...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2000], c1997
Language
English
Description
A sweeping novel of world war, migration, and the search for new beginnings in a new land, The Sound of One Hand Clapping was both critically acclaimed and a bestseller in Australia. It now introduces to an international readership a young Australian who is emerging as one of our most talented new storytellers. In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years...
484) Notes on grief
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Expanding on her original New Yorker piece, Adichie shares how this loss shook her to her core. She writes about being one of the millions of people grieving this year; about the familial and cultural dimensions of grief and also about the loneliness and anger that are unavoidable in it. With signature precision of language, and glittering, devastating detail on the page--and never without touches of rich, honest humor--Adichie weaves together her...
485) Mango moon
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Maricela, her brother Manuel, and mother face many challenges when her father is taken away to face deportation, but love binds them close.
486) Love & gelato
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"--
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Sophisticated and unique, this comedy centers on novelist Hank Moody (David Duchovny) who struggles to raise his 13-year-old daughter, while still carrying a torch for his ex-girlfriend. His obsession with truth-telling and self destructive behavior -- drinks drugs and relationships -- are both destroying and enriching to his career.
Author
Series
Hangman's daughter tales volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The seventh installment of Oliver Potzsch's bestselling Hangman's Daughter series"--
489) Ponyo
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embark on a fantastic journey of friendship before Ponyo's father forces her to return to the sea. Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the balance of nature and only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.
490) Human capital
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
With a lavish home and beautiful wife, hedge-fund manager Giovanni Bernaschi seemingly has it all Meanwhile, real-estate agent Dino Ossola struggles to maintain his family's middle-class existance and faces even worse financial straits when his wife announces that she is pregnant with twins. Leveraging his daughter's relationships with Giovanni's son, Dino deceives the bank and manipulates his way into the Bernaschie hedge fund. As the destinies of...
491) Dan in real life
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An advice columnist trying to raise his daughters on his own falls in love with a woman who is dating his brother.
492) Synecdoche, New York
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast in a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off track. His daughter, Olive, is growing up under questionable guidance. He's helplessly driving...
Author
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Tea se rompió el brazo y tiene que quedarse en casa unos días, sin ir a la escuela, para acostumbrarse al yeso. No le gusta sentir que se pierde lo que pasa en la escuela, así que a su papá se le ocurre un plan genial: ¡van a hacer todo lo que ella y sus amigos harían normalmente en el colegio, pero en casa! Juntos, Tea, Papi y su perra Rosita llenan el día con lecciones, juegos, un almuerzo y hasta una siesta. No es lo mismo que suele hacer...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Años después de lo ocurrido en Independencia, Melchor Marín ya no es policía: trabaja como bibliotecario y vive con su hija Cosette, convertida en una adolescente. Un día, Cosette descubre que su padre le ha ocultado cómo murió su madre, y este hecho la confunde y la subleva. Poco después parte de vacaciones a Mallorca, pero no regresa; tampoco contesta los mensajes ni las llamadas de Melchor, quien, convencido de que algo malo ha ocurrido,...
Author
Series
Uptown girls volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In serving the wealthy power brokers of New York society, Frank Tripp has finally gained the respectability and security his own upbringing lacked. There's no issue he cannot fix...except for one: the beautiful and reckless daughter of an important client who doesn't seem to understand the word danger. Excitement lay just below Forty-Second Street and Mamie Greene is determined to explore all of it-while playing a modern-day Robin Hood along the way....
497) Never look away
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Deutsch
Description
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
498) Mina
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Mina the mouse is very upset when her father brings home a pet "squirrel" that she is certain is a cat.
499) Las alumbradas
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
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Description
"Las hermanas Fernández tienen distintos anhelos, pero vivirán y sufrirán juntas las hazañas y desventuras que conlleva encontrar el propio camino y, sobre todo, la felicidad. Guerrero, principios del siglo xx. Una tragedia cambiará para siempre el destino de la familia Fernández. Tras la muerte de la señora Micaela y la pequeña Milena, don Ismael tendrá que seguir adelante con sus cuatro hijas, quienes entran en la madurez de manera forzada....
500) Tender mercies
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
An alcoholic drifter comes into the life of a lonely widow and her young son in the barren flatlands of Texas. But when Mac is revealed to be a once-famous country singer, he must confront a painful past that includes his bitter superstar ex-wife. Bonus features include a documentary.
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