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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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A sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship.
Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free
...2) El hobbit
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Minotauro
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Español
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Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to share in an adventure from which he may never return.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Español
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Fahrenheit 451: la temperatura a la que el papel arde. Guy Montag es un bombero, y el trabajo de un bombero es quemar libros, que están prohibidos porque son causa de discordia y sufrimiento. El Sabueso Mecánico del Departamento de Incendios, armado con una letal inyección hipodérmica y escoltado por helicópteros, está preparado para rastrear a los disidentes que aún conservan y leen libros. La visión de Bradbury es asombrosamente profética:...
5) Mujercitas
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 16
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Español
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Mujercitas de Louisa May Alcott es un emotivo relato muy femenino con personajes y situaciones memorables. Enamoramientos, aspiraciones intelectuales, complicaciones, vicisitudes en la vida de las jovencitas. La escritora utiliza una fina descripción de caracteres, que muestra el paso de la niñez a la juventud, pone énfasis en el espíritu de la libertad individual, algo no usual para la época. Las March demuestran sus aptitudes sociales tocando...
6) Brida
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Una novella sober la sorprendente historian de Bride Offer, una de las más ovens maestros en la Tradition de las Hechiceras, done la mafia hale toads las leagues del Corazon del hombre Seta es la historian de Bride, una Niña islands, y su seed de conocimiento. Siempre se ha interesado en diversos aspectos de la mafia, pero ahora está en busca de algo más. Su búsqueda la lleva a conocer gente de gran sabiduría, que comienza a enseñarle acerca...
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"Nineteen-year-old Leah Jones is struggling to cope after she and her twenty-nine-year-old brother Oliver lose their parents in a horrific car accident. Leah was in the car and is plagued by nightmares, intense grief and numbness-her life as she knew it is over. Oliver hates leaving Leah at a time like this, but the only way he can support them both is if he transfers to Sydney for work. He implores his best friend Axel Nguyen to let her move in with...
11) Imminence
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English
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We're alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would. A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her. Disoriented, she trails her taciturn partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Little by little, everything begins to unravel. Taking place over the course of an...
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Harlequin Bianca volume 652
Publisher
Harlequin Ibérica
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
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Español
15) Exemplary novels
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English
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The twelve novellas gathered together in this volume reveal the extraordinary breadth of Cervantes's imagination: his nearly limitless ability to create characters, invent plots, and entertain readers across continents and centuries. Cervantes published his book in Spain in 1613. The assemblage of unique characters (eloquent witches, talking dogs, Gypsy orphans, and an array of others), the twisting plots, and the moral heart at the core of each tale...
16) Ficciones
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The most popular collection of short stories by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges, often considered the best introduction to his work.
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Spanish Language Edition of The Dirty Girls Social Club
A vibrant, can't-put-it-down novel of six friends--each one an unforgettable Latina woman in her late '20s--and the complications and triumphs in their lives
Inseparable since their days at Boston University almost ten years before, six friends form the Dirty Girls Social Club, a mutual support and (mostly) admiration society that no matter what happens to each of them (and a lot does), meets...
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FonoLibro les trae el audiolibro en español del bestseller "El Rey de Los Pleitos" de John Grisham, uno de los mas famosos escritores internacionales de novelas en la actualidad y autor de los bestsellers "La Firma", "El Informe Pelicano", "Tiempo para Matar", "El Intermediario," "El Cliente" y otros éxitos llevados al cine. "El Rey de los Pleitos,"� llega a usted en una magnifica producción, con la calidad reconocida de Fonolibro, líder de...
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IDW
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Después del espantoso asesinato de su padre en una violenta invasión a su hogar, los niños Locke regresan a la casa de su infancia llamada Keyhouse en el pueblo aislado de Lovecraft, Massachusetts. Su madre, Nina, está demasiado atrapada en su dolor, además de una botella de vino, para darse cuenta de que todo en Keyhouse no es lo que parece: demasiadas puertas cerradas, demasiadas preguntas sin respuesta. Los niños mayores Tyler y Kinsey no...
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Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
Español
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Weaves three stories about 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement park. Eddie meets 5 individuals in heaven each with a story to share, a secret to reveal and a lesson. The have profound meanings for Eddie on the real purpose of his life.