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41) Fugas
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
1.a edición.
Physical Desc
251 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Fugas seduce por la calidad musical de su fraseo y por una conmovedora historia que se reparte entre una crónica de Cuba y la evocación de un exiliado que mira hacia atrás --o sueña-- y encuentra magnificencia en la conga que, como la propia vida, se desarrolla y desaparece en las calles. La Sombra, Jota Uve, De Chirico, la Garcilasa y el Solenodon viven como cualquiera el acontecer cotidiano de un país incapaz de ofrecerle mejores perspectivas...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
226 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Rider heads for Ashland, Alabama, to uncover the truth about his parents, and discovers a bizarre place whose fate is intertwined with that of their watermelon crop as well as the mysteries of his own identity.
Author
Series
Heaven official's blessing novels volume 5
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ghosts are converging on the cursed Mount Tonglu for a massive battle royale, the sole survivor of which may become a Ghost King, a being of unimaginable power. Xie Lian is sent to secretly infiltrate and try to prevent this--by destroying any ghosts strong enough to stand a chance. His heavenly powers are weakened near the cursed mountain, but he has one trump card on his side--Hua Cheng, who has survived Mount Tonglu before. As they struggle against...
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 519
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
133 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Author
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st Vintage International ed.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Philip Roth's bestselling novel, which takes the form of a monologue featuring the confession of a comic character who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet at the same time held back by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
47) The dog
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, a young man leaves New York to take an unusual job in the strange desert metropolis of Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la where he struggles with his new position as the "family officer" of the capricious and very rich Batros family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really, it's a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship,...
49) Black Buck
Author
Language
English
Description
"An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of...
50) Martin Eden
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy's history, MARTIN EDEN is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university...
Author
Series
Heaven official's blessing novels volume 6
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
English edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Body in abyss, heart in paradise. White No-Face, Xie Lian's greatest fear and most hated enemy, has arrived...or so it seems. While the ghost with the half-crying, half-smiling mask is somewhere nearby, the creature is elusive as always, taunting Xie Lian from just out of reach and promising the total destruction of everything he holds dear. As Xie Lian confronts the trauma of his last encounter with the terrifying ghost, Hua Cheng will do anything...
52) Clerks
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys who brave a nonstop parade of unpredictable shoppers, while managing to play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and straighten out their offbeat love lives.
53) Real: Vol. 4
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
210 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Kiyoharu Togawa is selected to compete for a coveted spot on Japan's National Wheelchair Basketball Team. But with the prospects of this upcoming challenge weighing heavy on his mind, he reflects upon the demons of his past--his battle with cancer and rehabilitation as well as his bitter conflicts with his father. Togawa's passion for his sport is just about the only thing in life that can give him the strength to pull through. Publisher description....
54) Real: Vol. 5
Author
Series
Real volume 5
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
©2009
Edition
Viz signature ed.
Physical Desc
208 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A motorcycle accident, bone cancer, a speeding truck crashing into a boy on a stolen bicycle--tragic, life-changing events turn the worlds of three young men upside-down. These three very different personalities have only one thing in common--their passion for basketball."
55) The Pirogue
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 85 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In Moussa Toure's powerful epic fiction film, a group of 30 men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the many pirogues that...
56) The end of Eddy
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. "Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again. Today I'm really gonna be a tough guy." Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different -- "girlish," intellectually precocious, and attracted to other...
58) The bone hacker
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Young men-tourists-have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos for years. Seven years ago, the first victim was found in a strange location with both hands cut off; the other visitors vanished without a trace. But, recently, tantalizing leads have emerged and only Tempe can unravel them. Maddeningly, the victims seem to have nothing in common-other than the strange locations where their bodies are eventually found, and the fact that...
59) Indignation
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
233 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1951, Marcus Messner, a studious young man from Newark, New Jersey, escapes his butcher father's fears about the potential dangers facing his beloved son, by attending college at Ohio's pastoral, conservative Winesburg College.
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