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4481) Sóng tình phương nam
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Vietnamese
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Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
4482) Landslide: true stories
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English
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"Minna Zallman Proctor's Landslide is a captivating collection of interconnected personal essays. These "true stories" explore the author's complicated relationship with her mother--who was diagnosed with cancer at age fifty-seven and died fifteen years later--and the ways in which their connection was long the "prime mover" of Proctor's life, the subtle force coursing beneath her adulthood. As such, these vibrant essays also narrate the trials and...
4483) Siostra słońca
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Seven sisters volume 6
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Polish
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"Wydawać by się mogło, iż Elektra D`Apliese posiada absolutnie wszystko, o czym człowiek może marzyć. Przytłaczająco piękna modelka, ciesząca się międzynarodową sławą, a do tego niewyobrażalnie bogata. Jednak wszystko jest jedynie grą pozorów. Kobieta w rzeczywistości znajduje się na granicy załamania nerwowego. Nagła śmierć jej adopcyjnego ojca tylko pogłębia pustkę, w której się znajduje. Zapomnienie w całej tej beznadziei...
4485) Possessing Jessie
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English
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High school senior Jessie, blaming herself for her selfish, manipulative brother Jason's death, tries to comfort her bereft mother by dressing and talking like him, but soon his spirit is taking over her life, while Jessie's best friend Alisha desperately tries to save her.
4486) Clytemnestra's last day
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English
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"A psychological-historical novel that re-tells of the story fo the House of Atreus from Aeschylus' trilogy 'The Oresteia.' As the story unfolds, contemporary themes are struck about mothers and daughters, feminity and masculinity, intergenerational transmission of trauma, the Oedipus complex, and the Electra complex, These are other themes emerge naturally in the narrative relevant to contemporary feminism, gener studies, psychology, classical studies...
4489) Mujeres en el frente
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Español
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Sometida al yugo de una madre dominante, Cecily ansía que su prometido vuelva de la Gran Guerra para dejar la casa familiar, pero sus planes se ven truncados cuando él desaparece en alta mar. La tragedia, sin embargo, no apaga su anhelo de independencia y Cecily decide entonces trasladarse a Francia para actuar ante las tropas. Allí, la vida resulta peligrosa y violenta, pero a la vez satisfactoria y activa. Los problemas reaparecen justamente...
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English
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Hope floats (1998 ; 114 min.): "Birdee Pruitt has a life most people would envy. But when her cheating husband reveals his infidelity to her on a national TV talk show, her perfect life comes crashing down. Devastated, Birdee and her young daughter head home to the small town she left behind. As mother and daughter struggle to adjust to their new lives, Birdee slowly gains the strength to open her heart and find hope again"--Container.
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4492) Love and friendship
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English
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An illustrated adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel - at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages!
4494) Lane 1974
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English
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"Thirteen-year-old Lane lives on a beautiful Northern California commune, wild and free, until her mother, a rebel and iconoclast, rejects the security and safety of the community land. They begin moving from one unlikely situation to another, leaving normal life far behind. Scrounging for food and hitchhiking while her mother cadges cash and begs favors, Lane struggles to keep her family together in an increasingly desolate and isolated emotional...
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"A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron's marriage and the untold story of her complex life as a single mother and progressive force. Far from a victim or an obstacle to Lord Byron's work, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of her class, founding the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England. A poet and a talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognized...
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Español
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"El feminismo empieza en la educación. Con su voz cálida y directa, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie dirige esta emotiva carta a una joven madre que acaba de dar a luz. En sus quince consejos, reivindica la formación de nuestros hijos en la igualdad y el respeto, el amor por los orígenes y la cultura. Una invitación a rechazar estereotipos, a abrazar el fracaso y a luchar por una sociedad más justa. Una bella misiva con reflexiones tan honestas como...
4498) Mourner's bench
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English
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"At the First Baptist Church of Maeby, Arkansas, the sins of the child belonged to the parents until the child turned thirteen. Sarah Jones was only eight years old in the summer of 1964, but with her mother Esther Mae on eight prayer lists and flipping around town with the generally mistrusted civil rights organizers, Sarah believed it was time to get baptized and take responsibility for her own sins. That would mean sitting on the mourners bench...
4499) Una canción para ti
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Español
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Raised by a mother who has had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
"La regla de oro de Remy es no enamorarse nunca, jamás, bajo ninguna circunstancia. Es una chica inteligente y muy popular, pero teme involucrarse en una relación y siempre decide cortar antes de que la cosa se ponga seria. Sin pretenderlo, es una rompe-corazones, como su madre, una...
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