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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As Lola helps her mother at the family's hotel, she learns about compassion, social injustice, and how one voice can lead to change. Includes author's note on Dolores Huerta, a labor organizer who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Matthew Henson's destiny was set when he met naval officer Robert Edwin Peary in 1887. An African-American son of poor farmers, Henson shared Peary's desire to be the first person to reach the North Pole. In 1909, the men set out one of their many voyages together. They battled sub-zero temperatures, deadly ice formations, and bone-chilling winds. Many times it was Henson who saved the expedition with his knowledge of Inuit language and culture. But...
Author
Series
Step-up books volume 35
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1984]
Language
English
Description
Discusses natural and embalmed mummies, the ancient Egyptian mummification process, and what the study of mummies has revealed about ancient cultures.
8) Paulina
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion program. One night, after the second week working there, she's brutally assaulted by a gang. With the disapproval of the people around her, she decides to go back to work, in the neighborhood where she was...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
This playful yet heartfelt take on the rom-com genre follows a world-weary Buenos Aires film critic who eschews romantic clichés until a chance meeting with a gorgeous thrill-seeker leads him to question his old views about life and love. Nominated for Best New Actress (Telma Crisanti), Best Screenplay - Original, and Best First Work at the **Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina**.
12) La Soledad
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Handyman José lives with his family in La Soledad, a dilapidated villa located in what used to be one of Caracas’ most affluent neighborhoods. After learning that the villa’s owners are planning to sell the estate, José seeks any solution that might keep his six-year-old daughter from growing up in Caracas’ crime-sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure supposedly hidden in La Soledad’s walls offer José’s family a chance at a better life?...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Award-winning filmmaker Sandra Luckow unflinchingly turns her camera on her own family as they attempt to navigate the broken mental health system in an effort to save their brother, whose iPhone video diary ultimately becomes an unfiltered look at the mind of a man with untreated schizophrenia as well as an indictment of how the system failed. Winner of the Special Jury Award at the **Richmond International Film Festival**. "*That Way Madness Lies...
14) Truman
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Julián (Ricardo Darin) has decided to forgo treatment and spend his final days tying up loose ends. When childhood friend Tomás (Javier Cámara) pays his ailing friend an unexpected visit, he quickly realizes he won’t be able to change Julián's mind. In what will be their final reunion, the two friends set out to finalize Julián’s funeral arrangements, settle his accounts and, most importantly, find a home for...
15) Bird of paradise
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From legendary Oscar-winning director King Vidor (The crowd, Duel in the sun) comes an exotic tale of romance set in gorgeous Polynesia: Bird of paradise. Johnny (Joel McCrea) is an intrepid young sailor traveling the South Seas who falls in love with Luana (Dolores del Rio), the beautiful daughter of an island chief. But Luana is betrothed to a neighboring native prince, and is soon to be married. With little thought to the future, Johnny and Luana...
Author
Publisher
Harper Select
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Known to millions as simply "Sister Jean," the Loyola Chicago matriarch and college basketball icon invites you into her remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond. As Sister Jean wisely says, "I've seen so many changes in the last 102 years, but the important things remain the same."
Part life story, part philosophy text, and part spiritual guide, Sister Jean's wit,
...Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking...
Author
Series
Andy Shane volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Andy Shane, with help from Grandma Webb and some marbles, tricks the people who keep stealing his friend Dolores Starbuckle's Halloween pumpkinches.
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