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Author
Series
Cedar Hollow novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Beth Sloan has spent the majority of her life trying to escape the memories of a difficult childhood. Born into the infamous Pritchett family of Cedar Hollow, West Virginia, she grew up hard, surrounded not only by homemade stills and corn liquor, but by an impoverished family that more often than not preferred life on the wrong side of the law. After the mysterious death of her brother Luke at the age of thirteen, seventeen year old Beth and her...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Jo Devereux returns to Ireland for her mother's funeral, the last person she expects to meet there is Rory O'Donovan. The secrets and silences between Jo's family and Rory's was the one constant of their childhood — and erupted into bitter conflict when they fell in love. Now, 20 years on, Jo is back in village where they both grew up, and he's urging her to stay on. To her own surprise, she's tempted. Is it because her life in San Francisco...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Middle-aged Magdalena has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him, and to know whether or not he's even alive, she embarks on an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous journey to discover the truth. At the same time, a young man named Miguel has returned to Mexico after being deported from the U.S.,...
5) Stardust
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It chronicles the young David Bowie₂s first visit to the US in 1971, a trip that inspired the invention of his iconic alter ego Ziggy Stardust.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
It's 1966, and it's a testing time for the midwives. But there's excitement, too, as the women's rights movement intensifies. With Trixie's help, Sister Julienne is determined to steer Nonnatus House of its financial quandary. Dr. Turner deals with an array of difficult cases including a former soldier involved in nuclear test explosion. Meanwhile, Sister Monica Joan experiences a crisis of faith, and Sister Frances realizes she needs to be a little...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent,...
9) Infidel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped while attending a religious conference in the Middle East, American journalist Doug Rawlins is a hostage of the Iranian regime on trial for trumped-up charges of espionage. With no help from her State Department connections, Doug's wife Liz decides to take matters into her own hands to find her husband and bring him home. Inspired by true events and, Infidel casts light on the plight of the Americans currently held captive in Iran.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of the Mighty Mites, the football team of a Fort Worth orphanage who, during the Great Depression, went from playing without shoes, or even a football, to playing for the Texas state championships. Over the course of their winning season, these underdogs and their resilient spirit became an inspiration to their city, state, and an entire nation in need of a rebound, even catching the attention of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The...
11) Akira
Series
Pub. Date
2001, c1987
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful psychic force known only as Akira resurfaces in Neo-Tokyo in the 21st century. Tetsuo, a young, inexperienced motorcycle biker driven beyond the boundaries of sanity by the power of Akira, is forced to conjure up demons lying dormant within his subconscious.
13) Vịt kêu đồng
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Sáu Hà, Năm Na and Hai Hên are from poor peasant families. They earn their living from raising ducks in open fields. One day, Hai Hên saves Thắm, Năm Na's daughter, and they fall in love. But Năm Na wants his daughter to get married with Út Chót who is the son of a rich egg dealer. When the H5N1 Influenza epidemic breaks out, the duck raisers are at risk of bankcruptcy and they become dissatisfied with one another and are unhappy with the...
14) About my father
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sebastian is encouraged by his fianc�e to bring his Italian hairdresser father Salvo to a weekend get-together to meet her wealthy and eccentric family. As the weekend turns into an outrageous clash of cultures, Sebastian and Salvo discover that the great thing about family is everything about family.
16) Book of days
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Danny receives a mysterious book with names and corresponding dates of death! Danny must decide whether to use this book of days for his own gain, or to protect his loved ones from their fate and lose years off his own life.
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
To escape the edict that condemned all first-born Hebrew males by Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri. He also gains the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out...
Series
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Language
Español
Description
France's planned invasion of Mexico provides the backdrop for the writing of the Mexican national anthem.
"Luis se enlista en el ej?ercito para defender a M?exico del ataque de los franceses, paralelamente se enamora de una chica que es sobrina del embajador de Francia. Cuando el ej?ercito mexicano se ve mermado en fuerzas Luis los alienta tocando con su corneta el Himno Nacional de M?exico haciendo que los soldados se recuperen y venzan a los franceses,...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sam and Dean fight demons. Real demons, like Lucifer, who tortures Sam with visions of Hell. Private demons, as the brothers face a traumatic personal loss when Bobby is cut down by alien forces. And as Sam and Dean travel the back roads of America, hunting monsters who wreak havoc on the innocent, a new and more terrible foe hunts them: Leviathans, freed from Purgatory and immune to the brothers' arsenal of weapons and cunning. With Bobby gone, all...
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