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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"A Juan le gustaba pintarse las uñas y cuando se rieron de él en el colegio, su padre decidió apoyarle y pintárselas él también. Esta es una historia inspirada en hechos reales."--Casadellibro.
Ben loves painting his nails with lots of bright colors because it matches his cheery personality. But one day at school when some boys start calling him a 'girly girl', Ben loses his cheer and stops painting his nails. But the story doesn't stop there....
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Instead of entering the world crying like other babies, Júbilo was born with a smile on his face. He had a gift for hearing what was in people's hearts, for listening to sand dunes sing and insects whisper. Even as a young boy, acting as an interpreter between his warring Mayan grandmother and his Spanish-speaking mother, he would translate words of spite into words of respect, so that their mutual hatred turned to love. When he grew up, he put his...
4) Courageous
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
When a tragedy strikes close to home, four police officers struggle with their faith and their roles as husbands and fathers. Together they make a decision that will change all of their lives.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense...
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Ray Bradstone has been released from prison after serving seven years for driving the get-away car in an attempted bank heist. Rehabilitated, Ray only wants to win back the respect and love of his fifteen-year-old daughter. His first opportunity comes when hes asked to be a chaperone on a weekend-long school trip with Sallys ̀class. However, when characters from Rays ̀criminal past show up, Ray will do whatever it takes to fend them off and keep...
7) Mary Poppins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Two banker's children lose their nanny due to her frustration with them. A change in the wind blows in a magical nanny who matches the qualifications of the children, but not the very proper father. As she helps the children magically explore the world around them, the father grows increasingly disapproving of her methods, and he must eventually deal with his own distance from his children.
8) Savages
Description
Jon and Wendy Savage (Hoffman and Linney) are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from their abusive father, Lenny (Bosco). Suddenly, a call comes in that Lenny's girlfriend has died and he cannot care for himself. Lenny suffers from dementia and her family dumps Lenny on his children. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel...
11) City by the sea
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A New York Police officer struggles with his past as a murder investigation brings him to his home town of Long Beach, Long Island.
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Crusading newspaper publisher Matt Drayton's liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey, announces her engagement to John Prentice, an internationally renowned African-American physician. While Matt's wife, Christina, readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.
14) Hide and seek
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
After his wife is found dead, David decides to take his child, Emily, to live in a house upstate. She finds a weird imaginary friend named Charlie. He likes to play games, and is jealous of anyone who tries to come between Emily and her dad.
16) Two weeks
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Four siblings, now adults, gather together in North Carolina at their dying mother's house. What is expected to be a quick, last goodbye turns into being trapped together for two weeks.
17) El Vendido
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Después de que su padre sea asesinado por la policía, nuestro protagonista, un agricultor urbano y fumador habitual de marihuana, se embarca en un controvertido experimento social: reintroducir la esclavitud en una comunidad afroamericana de la California contempor⡮ea. Decide tambi⥮ abrazar la causa de reubicar en el mapa Dickens, su ciudad natal, un villorrio de mala muerte del que no se conserva rastro alguno en ning mapa de la regi⯮...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Marco tiene la vida ideal -muchos seguidores, medallas deportivas y una novia extraordinaria- hasta que una mala jugada de su padre lo expone frente a todos como un fraude. Y se rinde. La música y el amor de una mujer querrán rescatarlo. El rencor y un padre ausente amenazarán con hundirlo. Descalabrados es una novela intensa. Familiar. Unica. Necesaria. Donde el perdón es el protagonista. Uno de los libros más conmovedores del autor."
19) Affliction
Pub. Date
2003?1999
Description
When events shatter the quiet of his small town, Wade Whitehouse, with the aid of his new girlfriend, is forced to confront his past and reexamine his life.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Nick Naylor is a sexy, smart and charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who will fight to protect American's right to smoke. At the same time he is trying to maintain the idea of a perfect role model for his 12-year-old son. When Nick incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.