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1) Accident
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A car accident involving two teenage girls leads to a romance between the mother of one and the father of the other. Page Clark, the mother, is unhappily married, while Trygve Thorensen, the father, is divorced. The hospital vigil brings them together.
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"A thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate--the first automobile any of them have seen--and a stranger arrives. In this...
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"If Rika's life seems like the beginning of a familiar fairy tale--being an orphan with two bossy cousins and working away in her aunts' business--she would be the first to reject that foolish notion. After all, she loves her family (even if her cousins were named after Disney characters), and with her biracial background, amazing judo skills and red-hot temper, she doesn't quite fit the princess mold. All that changes the instant she locks eyes with...
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"The youngest of three brothers, K just wants to be an all-American boy--shooting hoops with his buddies and riding his Huffy around the San Fernando Valley. But K understands there's something different about himself, a longing that draws him closer to his friends while making him feel more and more alienated. At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the faithful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to survive in the United States....
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For thirteen days in 1976, teenage murderers April Cooper and Gabriel LeRoy terrorized Southern California's Inland Empire, killing a dozen victims before perishing themselves in a fire... or did they? More than 40 years later, twentysomething podcast producer Quentin Garrison blames his troubled upbringing on the murders. And after a shocking message from a source, he has reason to believe April Cooper may still be alive. Meanwhile, New York City...
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Inspired by actual events, The Bling Ring tells the story of a group of fame-obsessed teenagers living in the suburbs of Los Angeles who use the internet to track celebrities, whereabouts in order to rob their empty homes. Ringleader Rebecca leads the group of misfits including Marc, Nicki, Sam and Chloe on the ultimate heist for designer clothes and jewelry; and what starts out as teenage fun quickly spins out of control.
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Donner Lake is famous for its dazzling waters, dramatic mountains, and the travelers trapped there long ago who did unspeakable things to survive. But for lonely Nora Sharpe, Donner was where a girl named Grace glided into her life one night and exploded her world. After that, every summer, winter, and spring break, Nora, her brother, Wesley, the enigmatic Grace, and their friend Rand left behind their real lives and reunited at Donner Lake. There,...
9) Accidente
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La autora más leída del mundo nos regala una historia de sentimientos extremos, de decisiones irreversibles y de personajes de excepcional entereza ante la adversidad.
Page considera que su vida es perfecta: es madre de dos hijos encantadores y lleva dieciséis años casada con un hombre afectuoso, atractivo y con éxito profesional. Pero todo cambia la noche en que le comunican que su hija ha sufrido un grave accidente. El mundo de Page se derrumba...
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"Copeland Cane V, the child who fell outta Colored People Time and into America is a fugitive...He is also just a regular teenager coming up in a terrifying world. A slightly eccentric, flip-phone loving kid with analog tendencies and a sideline hustling sneakers, the boundaries of Copeland's life are demarcated from the jump by urban toxicity, an educational apparatus with confounding intentions, and a police state that has merged with media conglomerates--the...
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Miley Stewart might seem like your average girl, but she isn't. She has recently moved from Tennessee to Malibu, California and is trying to adapt to her new lifestyle. Miley has a huge secret only known by her dad and manager Robbie Ray Stewart, her weird brother Jackson Stewart and her two best friends Lilly Truscott and Oliver Oken. Miley big secret is that she leads a double life as the famous pop singer Hannah Montana.
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A product of beige California suburbs, Mandel was overlooked and unexceptional. When her father ships her off on a youth group tour of Israel, he inadvertently catapults his seventeen-year-old daughter into a world of angry European backpackers, seize-the-day Israelis, and the fall out of cold war-era politics. Border violence hadn't been on the birthright tour agenda. But then neither had domestic violence, going broke, getting wasted, getting sick,...
13) Boyz 'n the hood
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For three young men growing up in South Central Los Angeles, the "hood" is a place of drive-by shootings, unemployment, drugs and pain. But their reactions to the world around them vary-- one is an unambitious drug dealer, his brother is a college-bound teenage father, and the brother's best friend is guided by a strong father who hopes for a better life for his son.
14) Lords of Dogtown
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Based on the true story of the legendary Z-Boys, this film is a fictionalized take on a brilliant group of young skateboarders who perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport.
15) The lost boys
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"Sam and his older brother Michael are all-American teens with all-American interests. But after they move with their mother to peaceful Santa Clara, California, things mysteriously begin to change. Michael's not himself lately. And Mom's not going to like what he's turning into"--Container.
18) Crazy/beautiful
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The spoiled daughter of a prominent California congressman is a willful, self-destructive girl who masks her insecurity by treating life as one big party staged solely for her benefit. A barrio boy, Carlos, from the wrong side of town, but goes to school with weathly Nicole, has a chance encounter with her that leads to romance -- a romance that threatens his future when her reckless behavior nearly costs him an appointment to Annapolis.
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