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Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Joy is dumped by her boyfriend and her friends recommend she take a vacation to Las Vegas to get him out of her mind. After Jack gets fired by his dad from the family business, he ends up in Vegas too. After a night of drinking, the two wake up the following morning to discover they have gotten married. One of them wins a $3 million jackpot - using the quarter of the other. Both want to end the marriage and keep the money. The unhappy pair tries to...
Description
"The original and grandest version of this well-known tale paints an exotic world of primitive peasant villages, dense, dark jungles, and alluring lagoons--all of which compose the surroundings of Mowgli (Sabu), a boy raised by wolves. Although Mowgli loves his world and is able to communicate with his animal companions, somewhere within himself he harbors a longing to return to his human roots and to the village of his birth. Once there, however,...
85) 16 wishes
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Abby Jensen has been dreaming about her 'sweet 16' since she was a little girl, but it starts out anything but sweet. Then she receives a box of mysteriously magical birthday candles. And suddenly, Abby's every wish is instantly granted: the cherry-red sports car, the way-cool clothes, the uber-popularity at school. But when Abby makes a wish that turns her perfect new life totally upside down, she and her best friend Jay have just one chance to make...
87) La cabra glotona
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Goat is greedy. She's had enough of eating grass. But when she decides to try something different she gets more than she bargained for, in this hilarious, cautionary farmyard tale.
"La cabra ya esta harta de comer solo hierba y decide probar cosas nuevas. Pero es una glotona y se zampa todo lo que encuentra sin pensar en las consecuencias"--Page 4 of cover.
88) Robin Hood
Pub. Date
c2013
Description
Join Robin Hood, his trusted companion Little John, and his hilarious band of Merry Men as they outfox greedy Prince John to save the good people of Nottingham. Dashing from one daring deed to the next, Robin won2t rest until he wins the hand of Maid Marian and restores King Richard to the throne.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Kweku has grown up hearing stories about the mischievous spider Anansi. He is given the nickname Anansi by his father because of his similarly cheeky ways. On a holiday to visit his beloved Grandma in Ghana, Anansi the spider and Anansi the boy meet, and discover a magical pot that can be filled with whatever they want. Anansi fills it again and again with his favorite red-red stew, and eats so much that he feels sick. Will he learn to share this...
90) Elmer Gantry
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
A drama about a hard-drinking, woman-chasing opportunist who is making a meager living as a traveling salesman in the Middle West in the 1920's, portraying his rise in power in a revivalist group and his influence on the dedicated young woman who is victimized by his charm.
91) The vanishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After three lighthouse keepers arrive for work on a remote Scottish isle, they make a fateful discovery: a wrecked rowboat, with a chest full of gold. As a mysterious boat heads toward the island, the three men make a choice that will change their lives forever, ensnaring them in a web of greed, paranoia, and murder.
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Callie and son : Callie has just become a teenage mother. Unprepared, she gives up her child for black-market adoption. When Callie becomes discontent in later years, she decides to find her son. Treasure of Jamaica Reef : A group of divers are on the hunt for a Spanish galleon that sank over 200 years ago carrying hoads of treasure. Greed inhibits teamwork to reclaim the treasure.
93) Greed
Author
Series
Seven deadly sins (Robin Wasserman) volume 7
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Six high school seniors prepare for graduation and prom and face tough decisions about what to do next.
94) Wall Street
Description
Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way into the tutelage of Gordon Gekko, the best of the best, Fox is soon rubbing shoulders with friends in the highest places. But in a world that values high-risk greed over low-yied ethics, Fox will soon find himself in a most precarious position.
95) Ten canoes
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a story from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong. Narrated by veteran Aborigine actor David Gulpilil.
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