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61) Going north
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young African American girl and her family leave their home in Alabama and head for Lincoln, Nebraska, where they hope to escape segregation and find a better life.
64) The kept girl
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1929: a glittering metropolis on the crest of an epic crash. A mysterious prophetess and her alluring daughter have relieved an oil tycoon's nephew of his fortune. But the kid won't talk. To find the money, the old man calls on a trusted executive, Raymond Chandler, who in turn enlists the aid of his devoted secretary/mistress Muriel Fischer, and their idealistic patrolman friend Tom James. Soon the nephew is revealed as a high-ranking...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Crews's first novel published in 1968, a gifted, idolized singer returns to his poor hometown and a life and family he is so far removed from he now holds in contempt. The Gospel Singer reveals the absurdity of blind religious faith and idol worship, and the hypocrisy that results with the offering of money or sex. Crews grapples with race, gender, religion and place, and steps back to divulge the secrets of his characters including a dead girl...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Bloodthirsty killer Emil Grass abducts teen Tracy Collins from an Eden Highlands, Calif., pizza parlor, after shooting dead a high school friend of hers. Jack Sothern, a world-weary journalist, recognizes a link between Tracy's kidnapping and Tracy's mother, Maggie, who may be privy to the secrets contained in the missing diary of the late Erich Mielke, the notorious head of East Germany's Ministry of State Security. Years earlier, Maggie was married...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The basis for the major motion picture starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning, and directed by Sofia Coppola "[A] mad gothic tale. The reader is mesmerized with horror by what goes on in that forgotten school for young ladies." --Stephen King, in Danse Macabre Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Ivy (Zoe Kazan, *The Big Sick*) heads home with a fresh romance in her heart when an old friendship expectantly strengthens. Distressed about her conflicting feelings, Ivy must stay resilient in the face of her epilepsy, lest her emotions become something she can't control. Zoe Kazan won the Jury Award for Best Actress in a Narrative Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the **Film Independent Spirit...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
Sebastian Rudd no es el típico abogado: lleva arma y su oficina es una camioneta a prueba de balas conducida por su guardaespaldas, que a su vez es su asistente legal y único amigo. Difiende a quienes otros no querrían ni ver: un drogadicto, un chico tautado que supuestamente forma parte de un culto satánico acusado de acosar y matar a dos niñas pequeñas, un criminal en el corredor de la muerte, un hombre arrestado por disparar a unos...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi. Now, ten years later, in 1955, Betty Jewel is dying of cancer and looking for someone to care for Billie when she's gone. With no one she can count on, Betty Jewel does the unthinkable: she takes out a want ad seeking a loving mother...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It's senior year for the Upper East Siders. Applying for college is only one small part of the story, as new romances (and not-so-new ) bloom and fade, scandals erupt at every turn, and alliances shift even faster than Gossip Girl can send an update. Families and reputations are destroyed and made; so are fortunes. And even the strongest friendships are tested. Good thing Gossip Girl is always there to provide the latest and juiciest info.
75) Eve's bayou
Series
Criterion collection volume 1154
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old" "So begins Kasi Lemmons's spellbinding feature debut, an evocative journey into the maze of memory steeped in a fragrant southern-gothic atmosphere. In 1960s Louisiana, a young girl sees her well-to-do family unravel in the wake of the infidelities of her charming father setting in motion a series of deceptions and betrayals that will upend her world and challenge her understanding of reality. Rooted...
76) The beguiled
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Blu-ray].
Language
English
Description
At a girls' school in Virginia during the Civil War, where the young women have been sheltered from the outside world, a wounded Union soldier is taken in. Soon, the house is taken over with sexual tensions, rivalries, and an unexpected turn of events.
77) Sea change
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl makes a startling discovery about her connection to the Seawalkers, legendary beings who are half-human, half-sea creature.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"These 12 essays consider Caldwell from many angles. They discuss him as humorist, social commentator, modernist, and revolutionary novelist. They examine his themes and tropes and his use of artistic devices. A bibliography includes not only books on Caldwell but also chapters and forewords, journal articles, essays, news items and obituaries"--Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Defense attorney Ben Matlock is a Harvard-educated, fiery Southerner who charges $100,000 a case to brilliantly defend his clients by finding the real killer. Includes 22 episodes such as: The Mother; The Personal Trainer; The Man of the Year; The Arsonist; The Accident; The Celebrity; and many more.
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