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1) Cats
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It's the night of the Jellicle Ball and all these tinier-than-usual cats present themselves to Old Deuteronomy in hopes of being chosen to make the journey to the Heaviside Layer where they will be reborn, to live a new -- and hopefully better -- life. But someone is trying to eliminate the competition. Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper transforms Andrew Lloyd Webber's record-shattering stage musical into a breakthrough cinematic event. The film reimagines...
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Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when...
5) Displacement
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"In the next installment of her graphic memoir series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book's watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their younger and older selves. She is aided in her quest by her grandfather's WWII memoir, which...
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"The Careers Making A Difference series provides information on nine important and interesting careers that make a difference in and improve the whole of society and each title describes the careers available in the field, plus valuable information on education, training, salaries, job outlook, and job satisfaction"--
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"A celebrated send-up of gothic literature, beautifully adapted into a dark, brooding, and oddly comical graphic novel. Somewhere in the night, a raven caws, an author's pen scratches, and thunder claps. The author wants to write nonfiction: stories about frail women in white nightgowns, mysterious bumps in the night, and the undead rising to collect old debts. But he keeps getting interrupted by the everyday annoyances of talking ravens, duels to...
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Un hombre tiene un cuaderno viejo, traído y llevado mil veces, en su regazo. Una mujer a su lado escucha lo que él le lee cada mañana, aunque no acaba de entender. Muchos años antes, Noah Calhoun, vuelve a casa, a Carolina del Norte, después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Noah, de 31 años, intenta que la plantación de la que procede vuelva a su antigua gloria, pero las imágenes de la preciosa joven que conoció catorce años antes?una mujer...
10) Deidades menores
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Raymundo "Ray" Rey vive aburrido en un pueblo alejado del mundo, perdido entre los maizales. Su padre trabaja en una ferretería, su madre es ama de casa, su hermana es la chica más popular de la escuela y él se dedica a soñar despierto leyendo novelas de aventuras. Mas un día esa vida cambia totalmente con la llegada de los "extraños", un grupo de ancianos que viajan en una caravana y se asientan en un escampado en las afueras de la ciudad....
13) Golden
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"Traveling to Canada to work as a tour guide was supposed to help Lewis figure out what to do with his life. But hitting gold rush trail with a group of seniors goes from a chore to dangerous when a girl without a past joins in and brings trouble in her wake. Soon, he's confronted with a tangled mess of lies, accusations, and feelings he was totally unprepared for."--Page [4] cover.
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