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2) Plainsong
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Depicts the interwoven lives of a community in Colorado where the characters include two cattle farmers who take in a girl, thrown out of her house for becoming pregnant. The novel describes the girl's impact on their lives, both men being bachelors.
9) Loba
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Una loba que quiere ser libre, ¿podrá sobrevivir sin su manada? Lucy quiere escapar del territorio de su padre, un poderoso y temible político, que es también un prominente capo del crimen organizado en el norte de México. Su intento de escape no tiene un plan bien definido, por lo cual es capturada por Treviño, fiel esbirro del padre. Lucy no desiste, y en su ruta de huida va perdiendo casi todo: su cómoda vida, sus escasos amigos, sus...
11) Cedar Rapids
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A small-town, naive Midwestern insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big city experience.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Nayeli, a taqueria worker in a poor coastal Mexican town, spends her time serving tacos and tries to help her aunt Irma get elected as mayor, but as drug gangsters take over the town, which is largely devoid of men, Nayeli travels north to find seven Mexican men to protect the community.
"Nayeli es una chica de diecinueve años que trabaja en una taquería de tres Camarones, un poblado mexicano. Ve en sueños a su padre, que emigró al norte cuando...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Frankie and Mike Heck are frazzled parents trying to stretch their patience and paychecks around three brilliantly true-to-life kids: Axl, whose latest dream girl has tattoos, body piercings, and pink hair; Sue, who's thrilled to come in eighth (out of eight) in Square Dancing with the Stars; and Brick, the only kid who has his birthday party at the public library.
17) Red Hook summer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn series, the film tells the story of Flik Royale, a young boy from Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook, New York. Between his grandfather's preaching and the culture shock of city life, Flik's summer appears to be a total disaster, until he meets Chazz Morningstar, a girl his age, who shows Flik the brighter...