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Hope floats (1998 ; 114 min.): "Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again"--Container.
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4483) Love and friendship
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An illustrated adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages!
4484) Lane 1974
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"Thirteen-year-old Lane lives on a beautiful Northern California commune, wild and free, until her mother, a rebel and iconoclast, rejects the security and safety of the community land. They begin moving from one unlikely situation to another, leaving normal life far behind. Scrounging for food and hitchhiking while her mother cadges cash and begs favors, Lane struggles to keep her family together in an increasingly desolate and isolated emotional...
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"El feminismo empieza en la educación. Con su voz cálida y directa, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie dirige esta emotiva carta a una joven madre que acaba de dar a luz. En sus quince consejos, reivindica la formación de nuestros hijos en la igualdad y el respeto, el amor por los orígenes y la cultura. Una invitación a rechazar estereotipos, a abrazar el fracaso y a luchar por una sociedad más justa. Una bella misiva con reflexiones tan honestas como...
4490) Mourner's bench
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"At the First Baptist Church of Maeby, Arkansas, the sins of the child belonged to the parents until the child turned thirteen. Sarah Jones was only eight years old in the summer of 1964, but with her mother Esther Mae on eight prayer lists and flipping around town with the generally mistrusted civil rights organizers, Sarah believed it was time to get baptized and take responsibility for her own sins. That would mean sitting on the mourners bench...
4491) Una canción para ti
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Raised by a mother who has had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
"La regla de oro de Remy es no enamorarse nunca, jamás, bajo ninguna circunstancia. Es una chica inteligente y muy popular, pero teme involucrarse en una relación y siempre decide cortar antes de que la cosa se ponga seria. Sin pretenderlo, es una rompe-corazones, como su madre, una...
4492) Brutal
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Forced to leave Los Angeles for life in a quiet California wine town with a father she has never known, rebellious sixteen-year-old Poe Holly rails against a high school system that allows elite students special privileges and tolerates bullying of those who are different.
4493) Nice girls endure
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Sixteen-year-old Chelsea has always been overweight, and now in high school she is being unmercifully teased by other students, and even her mother gives her no support, despite her beautiful singing voice--but in film class she is assigned work on a film with Melody and for the first time she finds someone other than her father who does not criticize her, and finally finds the confidence to try out for the school choir.
4494) Captive
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The star of the the 1980s television series Dynasty tells of her struggles to free her daughter from NXIVM, the controversial organization that many consider to be a cult.
4496) Apple y rain
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When her imagined perfect life with her estranged mother begins to unravel, fourteen-year-old Apple find comfort in reading and writing poetry.
4497) H Mat'ŭ esŏ ulda
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From the indie rock star of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Korean edition translated by Jeong Hye Yoon.
4498) Hamnstad =: Port of Call
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Berit, a suicidal young woman living in a working-class port town, unexpectedly falls for Gösta, a sailor on leave. Haunted by a troubled past and held in a vice grip by her domineering mother, Berit begins to hope that her relationship with Gösta might save her from self-destruction.
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All her life, 13-year old Anna has helped her sister fight leukemia. Anna has provided platelets, bone marrow, and even stem cells to ensure Kate's survival. But when their parents ask her to donate a kidney, Anna has had enough. She enlists the aid of a lawyer and announces her intention to sue for control of her own body.
"Anna ha nacido con un propósito muy específico. Nació porque un científico manipuló la conexión entre el óvulo de su...
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