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4) Paddington
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Language
English
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The story of the comic misadventures of a young Peruvian bear that travels to the city in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone, he begins to realize that city life is not all he had imagined; until he meets the kindly Brown family who read the label around his neck that says "Please look after this bear. Thank you," and offer him a temporary haven. It looks as though his luck has changed until this rarest of bears catches the eye of a...
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Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
Español
Description
Sumario en español: La niñita Trixie, su papá y el conejito Knuffle van a la lavandería del barrio. Cuando se van del negocio, la aventura da un vuelco dramático cuando Trixie se da cuenta de que el conejito se ha quedado atrás. Trixie todavía no sabe hablar y es difícil comunicarse el problema a su padre. Al encontrar el conejito, Trixie dice sus primeras palabras.
Trixie, Daddy and the toy Knuffle Bunny take a trip to the neighborhood laundromat,...
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"No importa lo que comas ni cuánto ejercicio hagas. Tu salud depende esencialmente de la manera en que respiras. Y lo estás haciendo mal. ¿Sabías que de las 5,400 especies de mamíferos somos la única que tiene los dientes torcidos? Hace 150 años el ser humano dejó de masticar tanto, y con ello no solo se inició un proceso de deformación de nuestras mandíbulas, sino que empezamos a respirar por la boca en lugar de por la nariz. En este...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society. Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America's marginalized voices. Now, in Independence Lost, she recounts an untold story as rich and significant as that of the Founding Fathers : the history of the Revolutionary...
Author
Publisher
Grupo Nelson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
"Las palabras del antigo himno resuenan a través de generaciones. Son un recordatorio de que estamos perdidos antes de poder ser hallados. Son una promesa de que cuando somos lo primero, podeoms llegar a ser lo segundo. La Biblia está llena de un elenco de gente común que estaba perdida. El paralítico en la puerta la Hermosa del templo. El leproso. Y hasta el rey David, cuyo colapso monumental lo convirtió en un mentiroso y un asesino. Estos...
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English
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In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave on the edge of town, there is a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room." This is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets--usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a Spanish cheesemaker as he spun an odd and compelling tale about a piece of cheese. Made...
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Language
Español
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While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
From one of the world's most expert art critics, the incredible true story--part art history and part mystery--of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century bookseller determined to prove he had found it. When John Snare, a nineteenth-century provincial bookseller, traveled to a liquidation auction, he stumbled on a vivid portrait of King Charles I that defied any explanation. The Charles of the painting was young--too...
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English
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"A humorous book about history's worst plagues from the Antonine Plague, to leprosy, to polio and the heroes who fought them In 1518, in a small town in France, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced herself to her death six days later, and soon thirty-four more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had died from the mysterious dancing plague. In late-nineteenth-century England an eccentric gentleman founded...
15) Fool's gold
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Finn is looking for a lost Spanish galleon in the Caribbean. He believes he has found the galleon and has marked the location with his own sunken boat. He enlists the help of his ex-wife, Tess, who is intrigued until she finds he has no real proof of the Spanish ship's location. Fate has put the two together again, this time onboard the boat of multi-millionaire Nigel Honeycutt and his daughter, Gemma. Nigel is fascinated by Finn's story and wants...
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Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Christopher Columbus's 1492 voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in search of a trading route to China, and his unexpected landfall in the Americas, is a watershed event in world history. Yet Columbus made three more voyages within the span of only a decade, each designed to demonstrate that he could sail to China within a matter of weeks and convert those he found there to Christianity. These later voyages were even more adventurous, violent, and ambiguous,...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Meet Clark Kent. Sent to Earth as an infant from the dying planet Krypton, he arrived with as many questions as the number of light-years he traveled. Now a young man, he makes his living in Metropolis as an intern at the Daily Planet, alongside reporter Lois Lane, while secretly wielding his alien powers of flight, super-strength, and x-ray vision in the battle for good. Follow the fledgling hero as he engages in bloody battles with intergalactic...
20) The sea of trees
Publisher
A24 / Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Powerful story of love and redemption of an American professor, Arthur, who travels to Japan. He embarks on a spiritual and life-changing journey with Takumi, whom he found lost near the base of Mount Fuji. Takumi had gotten lost after attempting to commit suicide, now they fight for their survival while they are on their journey of reflection. Arthur's will to live reconnects him to his love for his wife.
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