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1) New order
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In this riveting, suspenseful dystopian drama, a lavish upper-class wedding goes awry in an unexpected uprising of class warfare that gives way to a violent coup d’état. As seen through the eyes of the sympathetic young bride and the servants who work for—and against—her wealthy family, NEW ORDER breathlessly traces the collapse of one political system as a more harrowing replacement springs up in its wake. Winner of the Silver Lion at the...
2) Divergente
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In a future Chicago, Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she does not fit into any one group.
3) Insurgente
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Tris Prior's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable--and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries,...
4) Cinder
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Lunar chronicles volume 1
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As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
5) La selección
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Para treinta y cinco chicas, La Selecciónes una oportunidad que solo se presenta una vez en la vida. La oportunidad de escapar de la vida que les ha tocado por nacer en una determinada familia. La oportunidad de que las trasladen a un mundo de trajes preciosos y joyas que no tienen precio. La oportunidad de vivir en un palacio y de competir por el corazón del guapísimo príncipe Maxon. Sin embargo, para America Singer, ser seleccionada es una pesadilla...
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"New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the curb and in the blink of an eye, five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, just a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain the strange series of events that led to this crime. Nor can he foresee the dark drama that is about to unfold. Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story...
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Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this romantic tale of English country family life as Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters are encouraged to marry well in order to keep the Bennet estate in their family.
"A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de época: las peripecias de una dama...
8) La elegida
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La situación en palacio es cada vez más peligrosa. Los rebeldes atacan tanto por el norte como por el sur y America, as chicas que siguen en la Selección y Maxon se encuentran en verdadero peligro. Mientras todo esto sucede, la disyuntiva en la que se encuentra America tampoco es mucho mejor: debe escoger entre su primer amor, Aspen, y el príncipe Maxon, quien poco a poco ha ido conquistándola. Eso sin tener en cuenta tambien que el príncipe...
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En la década de 1950, las tensiones en la ciudad de La Frontera son palpables. Las camisas de boliche y las chaquetas de cuero compiten con las guayaberas y los huaraches. Los convertibles corren al lado de las motocicletas. Sin embargo, en medio de la discordia, el amor joven florece a primera vista entre Fulgencio Ramírez, hijo de inmigrantes empobrecidos, y Carolina Mendelssohn, la hija del farmacéutico local. Pero como pronto descubrirán,...
11) Leal
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La conclusión a la trilogía revela los secretos del mundo distópico y las consecuencias de una decisión fatídica.
12) Jamón jamón
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Traces the romantic entanglements of the beautiful and pregnant underwear factory worker Silvia; Jose Luis, the father of her child and heir to the factory fortune; Raul, underwear model, seducer, and would-be-bullfighter; and Conchita, Jose Luis' doting mother, family matriarch, and Raul's lover.
13) Gente normal
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"Marianna y Connell son compa?eros de instituto pero no se cruzan palabra. ?l es uno de los populares, y ella, una chica solitaria que ha aprendido a mantenerse alejada del resto de la gente. Todos saben que Marianne vive en una mansi?n y que la madre de Connell se encarga de su limpieza, pero nadie imagina que cada tarde los dos j?venes coinciden. Uno de esos d?as, una conversaci?n torpe dar? comienzo a una relaci?n que podr?a cambiar su vida. Gente...
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Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from...
15) Viva Cuba
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Film Movement volume 5, film 5
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In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet, " the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength...
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A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
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For soccer games Sierra rides a bus out of the city to fields that are nicer than the "lot" in her neighborhood, but so her auntie can be at her last game, she asks Coach Marco if the team might play in her neighborhood on a day her aunt does not work.
"Nada hace tan feliz a Sierra como el fútbol. Sobre todo, cuando sus zapatillas con llamas hacen que el balón ruede por el inmenso mar de grama limpia. Pero, al mismo tiempo, nada la pone tan triste...
18) Destilando amor
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When Gaviota, a humble field hand, meets Rodrigo, the handsome grandson of her employer, the fire of true and deep love is sparked, pure and strong as the name of the region where the elixir is produced.
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Colección Pedro Infante volume 20
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Conmovedora historia de una familia humilde de México. Pepe, un carpintero honesto y trabajador, sufre la desgracia de perder a su hijo cuando su vivienda es incendiada por un asesino que desea vengarse.
Pepe el Toro hits Manuel's car with his truck. Manuel, an affluent gentleman with secret and dark ties to Pepe's family, then decides to meddle in Pepe's life and threaten those he loves. The second in the Pepe el Toro Trilogy.
20) Amarte duele
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Ulises, un joven de extracción humilde un día se topa con Renata. Aunque Renata es una chava "fresa" de la alta sociedad, ella y Ulises quedan enamorados. Ellos siguen sus corazones, pero la intolerancia de sus familias y amigos los deja aislados, en el centro de un torbellino de problemas. --Envase.
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