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Language
English
Description
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloé, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic...
3) The notebook
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie must now...
4) Alabardas
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Months before his death, José Saramago felt once again the vital impulse from fiction to reflect on one of its major concerns: violence against persons and societies, which makes them victims and prevents them from owning their absolute lives. The result of this impulse is Halberds, halberds, muskets, shotguns, an exciting footprint inexhaustible fighting spirit of José Saramago and his last narrative will. The unfinished story has a moral conflict...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Alexander has just moved into Stermont, but the elementary school is being torn down, his new classroom is located in the hospital morgue, a notebook he finds is full of information about monsters--and everywhere he turns there are spooky balloon men determined to attack him.
Alejandro Bopp se acaba de mudar a Montalbán y ya está convencido de que es una ciudad espeluznante. Primero, encuentra un cuaderno lleno de dibujos de monstruos. Luego, empieza...
6) The prestige
Author
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Magicians in turn-of-the-century London engage in a fierce rivalry determined to out do each other leading to dire consequences.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Sofía está muy entusiasmada porque van a comprar los materiales escolares, pero el entusiasmo se convierte en pánico cuando su primo Manuel se pierde. ¿Dónde estará Manuel?
The whole Martinez family is shopping for back-to-school supplies, and Sofia is excited by the colorful backpacks and fancy notebooks--but excitement turns to alarm when four-year-old Manuel disappears.
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo, Penguin Random House Groupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Set in Lima, Don Rigoberto fills pages with notes, comments, and fantasies to protect himself from ordinariness. He also uses them to escape the longing he feels for Lucrecia, his wife, from whom he is separated as a result of something that transpired between her and his son. The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto is, in many ways, much more than mere erotic novel, it is a testament to reality and desire, a testimony of the myriad ways imagination can compensate...
Author
Series
Big Nate volume 4
Publisher
Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Big Nate Wright is president of P.S. 38, the after school cartooning club. When he doodles his observations in his cartoon notebook: "Mighty Jefferson Middle School always wins," Nate decides it's time to go from zeroes to heroes! Will Nate crack under the pressure of the "Ultimate Snowdown"? Or lead P.S. 38 to its biggest victory ever?
"Nate no soporta que la escuela Jefferson SIEMPRE les gane. Ya está bien de ser un cero a la izquierda, ¡hay...
Author
Publisher
Rayo/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006, c2001
Language
Español
Description
A mysterious stranger carrying a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars arrives in the remote mountain village of Viscos, searching for the answer to a question that torments him: are human beings, in essence, good or evil?
11) Hot fuzz
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
London-based officer Nicholas Angel is transferred to a rural village where he teams up with PC Danny Butterman and they investigate a series murders deemed "accidents" by the locals.
12) Cada suspiro
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
En la tradición romántica de El cuaderno de Noah y Noches de tormenta, el autor numero uno del New York Times, Nicholas Sparks, vuelve con una historia sobre un encuentro casual que se convierte en la base firme de dos individuos muy diferentes, trascendiendo décadas, continentes y la función agridulce del destino.
In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared, a curious, adventurous boy, quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His twin brother Simon is calm and reserved but is rapidly drawn...
Author
Series
No te enamores volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"LO SUPO DESDE EL PRIMER DÍA. NO DEBÍA PERDERSE EN SUS OJOS NI EN SU VOZ. Y, AUN ASÍ, SE ENAMORÓ DE MIA. La vida de Nika ha sido un infierno desde que tiene uso de razón. Cuando llega a Soleil huyendo de sus demonios, no espera demasiado de ese pueblucho en medio de la nada. Sin embargo, allí conoce a la persona que le cambiará la vida. Dividido entre el amor, la lujuria y el terror de sucumbir a su lado más oscuro, Nika debe decidir si puede...
Series
Publisher
ARTPIX
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Disc 1 features Trisha Brown, a choreographer of contemporary dance, who is instrumental in changing the limits of modern dance. In the 1960s Brown created works which attempted to defy gravity and challenge dancers to experiment with the dynamics of stability. Her search for her own style in dance and the formation of her own company in 1970 showcase her unique ideas of movement. This DVD presents of Brown's major performances -- Disc 2. presents...
Series
Criterion collection volume 666
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
"One of the most personal film by Guillermo del Toro ... is also among his most frightening and emotionally layered. Set during the final week of the Spanish Civil War, it tells the tale of a twelve-year-old boy who, after his freedom-fighting father is killed, is sent to a haunted rural orphanage full of terrible secrets. Del Toro expertly combines gothic ghost story, murder mystery, and historical melodrama in a stylish melange that, like his later...
17) Araby
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Portuguese
Description
Andre, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go to Cristiano’s house to pick up clothes and documents, Andre stumbles on a notebook. It’s here that Araby begins, or rather, transforms. As Andre reads from the journal entries, we are plunged into Cristiano’s life, into stories of his wanderings, adventures and loves. ARABY is a fable-like...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Cuando su mejor amiga se muda de repente, Saraí tiene que arreglárselas sola en la escuela y hacerle frente a las chicas antipáticas en la cafetería. Luego, una nueva estudiante, Cristina, llega a la escuela y la maestra le pide a Saraí que le sirva de guía. Saraí cree que la chica nueva y ella no se parecen en nada. Cristina nunca quiere jugar en el recreo, siempre tiene la cabeza metida en un cuaderno ¡y es muy callada! Pero cuando le escribe...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Picard and his loyal crew revolt against the high command when that ruling body's scheme to take over a fountain-of-youth-like planet violates Starfleet's Prime Directive: non-interference with other civilizations. Packed with hours of special features.
20) Poet X
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo, about Afro-Latina Xiomara Batista who turns to journalling poetry.
Xiomara Batista se siente ignorada e incapaz de ocultarse en Harlem. Desde que su cuerpo se volvió curvilíneo, aprendió a dejar que sus puños y su fiereza hablaran por ella. Pero X tiene mucho para decir, por eso descarga su frustración en las páginas de un cuaderno y recita las palabras para sí misma como si fueran...
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