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Pub. Date
[2013], p2013
Description
Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.
"...Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy steal so many laughs..."--Los Angeles Times.
"McCarthy...She's a big, ballsy star."--Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Melissa McCarthy proves she's got what it takes?"--Variety.
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris's family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past and...
3) The verdict
Description
An alcoholic, failed attorney is reduced to ambulance chasing. A friend gives him a supposedly easy malpractice case which becomes a last chance to redeem himself and his career.
4) Albert Nobbs
Description
A woman passes as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.
5) Nadarin
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A clever little fish named Nadarn̕, the only black fish in a school of red ones, devises a way to protect them all from their natural enemies.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Tom is a loving, well-respected family man from a small Indiana town. When two criminals show up at his diner, Tom is forced to take action and thwart the robbery attempt. Suddenly heralded as a local hero who took the courage to stand up to crime, people look up to Tom as a man of high moral regard. But all the media attention attracts the likes of the mob, who show up at Tom's doorstep. Is it a case of mistaken identity or does Tom have a history...
7) The net 2.0
Description
When computer programmer Hope Cassidy arrives in Istanbul to begin her new job, her life is thrown into chaos. Her credit cards no longer work, all of the money is gone from her bank account, and her identity is stolen. Now Hope has to use all her skills in order to steal back her name and unravel the mystery. Thanks to some help from a cab driver and flight attendant, she will be able to uncover the truth about what is happening to her. Can she take...
Description
California awakens one day to discover that one third of its population has vanished. A peculiar pink fog surrounds the state and communication outside its boundaries has completely shut down. As the day progresses, it becomes apparent the sole characteristic linking the missing 14 million is their Hispanic heritage.
10) Boulder
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"La protagonista de Boulder se gana la vida como cocinera en un viejo barco mercante. Es la situación perfecta: soledad, una cabina, el océano, algún puerto en el que conocer mujeres y horas para encarar el vacío, para sentir la fuerza de la provisionalidad. Hasta que un día una de ellas consigue que abandone el mar, acceda a vivir entre cuatro paredes y se implique en la gestación asistida y en la educación de un hijo. ¿Qué ha hecho la maternidad...
11) Glory Road
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Based on the story of Don Haskins, basketball coach of tiny Texas Western College, which in 1966 upset the University of Kentucky to win the NCAA national championship by starting the best players, the first all-African American lineup
13) El blanco
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
After the death of her aunt, Emily finds that her life has been a lie and she has to search for the truth about where she came from and who she is.
14) Identificación
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Chris, who is in trouble at home and at school, finds a wallet on the street and attempts to do the correct thing by returning it to its owner, but as his life continues to worsen, he notices that he looks a lot like the person who owns the wallet, and wonders if he could switch identities.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Los jóvenes latinos en los Estados Unidos están redefiniendo su identidad, rompiendo moldes establecidos, y despertando políticamente de maneras sorprendentes y poderosas. Muchos de ellos--afrolatinos, indígenas, musulmanes, queer e indocumentados tanto en zonas urbanas como rurales--representan voces históricamente ignoradas en el modo en que la diversa población de casi seis millones de latinos en los Estados Unidos ha sido representada. Hasta...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Este libro presenta un intercambio entre dos personajes que no se dan cuenta de que ambos estan haciendose las mismas preguntas. Una hermosa celebracion a la diversidad que invita a los lectores de todas las edades a imaginar un mundo donde no hay tu o yo, solo nosotros."--booktopia.com.au
Presented as a thoughtful, poetic exchange between two characters -- who don't realize they are thinking and asking the very same questions -- this beautiful...
18) Glory road
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.
Pub. Date
[2009], ©2009
Description
From Joss Whedon comes a new groundbreaking show. Echo is an "Active," an unwitting participant in the Dollhouse, an illegal underground organization that provides its elite clients with hired personas for various missions. Actives receive temporarily personality imprints to suit the client's needs. But now Echo is facing the FBI, her own shadowy past, and a rogue Active who wants to bring the Dollhouse down.
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