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1) The Notebook
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie's parents who disapprove of Noah's unwealthy family, and move Allie away. When Allie doesn't hear from Noah after several years, she meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, with her love still alive for Noah, stops by Noah's home to check on him. Seeing that their reunion has rekindled a passionate romance, Allie must now...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
If you work with people from poverty, some understanding of how different their world is from yours will be invaluable. Whether you're an educator--or a social, health, or legal services professional--this breakthrough book gives you practical, real-world support and guidance to improve your effectiveness in working with people from all socioeconomic backgrounds... Carefully researched and packed with charts, tables, and questionaires, Framework not...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Obsesionado por demostrarle a su padre que ya es todo un hombre, Amir se propone ganar la competición anual de cometas. Amir se aprovecha de la fidelidad sin límites de su amigo, Hassan, y comete una traición que los separará de forma definitiva.
Amir left Afghanistan as a boy and migrated to America, where he has become a successful novelist ; haunted by memories of his betrayal of a childhood friend, Hassan, Amir discovers that Hassan has been...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
En el siglo XIV, la ciudad de Barcelona se encuentra en su momento de mayor prosperidad. Ha crecido hacia la Ribera, el humilde barrio de los pescadores, cuyos habitantes deciden construir, con el dinero de unos y el esfuerzo de otros, el mayor templo mariano jamás conocido: Santa María del Mar. Una construcción que es paralela a la azarosa historia de Arnau, un siervo de la tierra que huye de los abusos de su señor feudal y se refugia en Barcelona,...
7) La elite
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection--but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
La recien divorciada Jasmine Mistry esta intentando rehacer su vida cuando recibe una llamada inesperada que la devolvera al lugar en el que se crio, la isla de Shelter, donde regentara temporalmente la estrafalaria libreria de su tia Ruma, un espacio fascinante del que siempre se ha dicho que estaba encantado. Sola y deseando comenzar de nuevo, la joven desembarca en el polvoriento y desordenado local y no tarda en descubrir que tiene compania. Los...
9) Insurgente
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tris Prior tries to save those she loves and herself while grappling with haunting questions and choosing a faction.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016].
Description
For soccer games Sierra rides a bus out of the city to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.
"Nada hace tan feliz a Sierra como el fútbol. Sobre todo, cuando sus zapatillas con llamas hacen que el balón ruede por el inmenso mar de grama limpia. Pero, al mismo tiempo, nada la pone tan triste...
11) Arthur
Description
Lovable billionaire Arthur Bach has always relied on his limitless fortune and nanny Hobson to keep him out of trouble. Now he faces his biggest challenge. He must choose between an arranged marriage that will ensure his lavish lifestyle or an uncertain future with the one thing money can't buy, Naomi, the only woman he has ever loved. With Naomi's inspiration and some unconventional help from Hobson, Arthur will finally learn what it means to become...
12) La corona
Author
Series
Selection novel volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series has captured the hearts of readers from its very first page. Now the end of the journey is here. Prepare to be swept off your feet by The Crown; the eagerly awaited, wonderfully romantic fifth and final book in the Selection series. In The heir, a new era dawned in the world of The Selection. Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter...
13) La reina roja
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
When her supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and superhumans, is forced to assume the role of lost princess before risking everything to help a growing rebellion.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Here comes Cookie: A wealthy retiree surprises everyone by deeding his entire fortune to his ditzy daughter. But when the newly rich young woman becomes convinced the family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy, complications abound -- Six of a kind: Sharing a car on a drive to California with another couple turns into a comedy marathon -- Love in bloom: Lighthearted story of a young woman on the run from her past. just when she thinks she's escaped...
16) Peeples
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Sparks fly when Wade Walker crashes the preppy Peeples annual reunion in the Hamptons to ask for their precious daughter Grace's hand in marriage
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder sister Nora, a law student, gets a job as a legal intern...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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Description
"Marina, una mujer casada, con tres hijos, con una vida familiar resuelta, coreógrafa de cierto prestigio, se ve involucrada en un amorío improbable con un hombre impensable. Salvar el fuego retrata dos Méxicos completamente escondidos uno del otro, en los que Marina, que pertenece a la clase social más alta, se vincula con un hombre al extremo de la sociedad. Esta es una novela que retrata las contradicciones de un país y las contradicciones...
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Nights in Rodanthe: A middle-aged woman retreats to her friend's hotel for a weekend and forms a romance with a guest during a storm.
The notebook: A wealthy young woman must choose between true love and a match her parents approve of.
Message in a bottle: A reporter traces a lonely widower who wrote a heart-felt message, put it in a bottle, and threw it into the sea.
A walk to remember: A popular high school student forms a special relationship...
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