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1) Matilda
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English
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Matilda is a super-smart little girl who is woefully ignored and ridiculed by her self-centered parents. They send her to a school with a mean, bullying principal, where she learns she has special powers that can help her, her friends, and her kind and gentle teacher.
2) Nanny McPhee
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English
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Nanny McPhee can tame even the most unruly children with a tap of her magic walking stick. Her latest challenge is the bratty brood of a recent widower, Mr. Brown. He is under pressure to find a new wife or lose his much-needed allowance from wealthy Aunt Adelaide. His love for scullery maid Evangeline remains unspoken as he wincingly woos the eagerly merry widow Mrs. Quickly; but Brown's raucous rugrats have a plan to make things right, especially...
3) Rings
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A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen until now.
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When Nanny McPhee appears at the farmhouse door of a busy young mother Isabel Green, she discovers that Mrs. Green's children are in an all-out household war with their two spoiled city cousins. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and an elephant that turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to show the children five valuable lessons, the most important of which...
5) Matilda
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Español
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Follows the story of an exceptional little girl whose lazy parents dismiss her as a nuisance and who discovers in the wake of a cruel headmistress's bullying that she has a remarkable power with which to avenge herself.
8) Zone 414
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Set in the near future in a colony of state-of-the-art humanoid robots. When its creator's daughter goes missing, he hires private investigator David Carmichael, to bring her home. David teams up with Jane, a highly advanced and self-aware A.I., to track down the missing daughter.
9) Matilda
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English
Description
See the world from a kid's-eye view with MATILDA, a modern fairytale that mixes hilarious humor with the magical message of love. Matilda, a super-smart little girl who's woefully misunderstood by her parents, her brother, and an evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even.
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Español
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Illustrations and simple text expose Matilda's attempts to learn what her cat likes best, as well as the real answer.
Matilda está convencida de que a ella y a su gato les gustan las mismas cosas: montar en bicicleta, dibujar, jugar con cajas de cartón... pero, ¿y a su gato? ¿Qué le gusta al gato de Matilda?
13) Rings
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English
Description
A young woman becomes worried about her boyfriend when he explores a dark subculture surrounding a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after he has viewed it. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen until now.
14) Matilda
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English
Description
Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
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Aunt Nora gets sucked into Jumnanji and is captured by Van Pelt. It's up to Judy, Peter and Alan to save her. Aunt Nora finds out that adults do not always know more than kids The chimps show up to torment Nora for a while.
A high-flying adventure from the magic of Steven Spielberg, Hook stars Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Captain Hook. Joining the fun is Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, Bob Hoskins as the...
16) Cosas de bruja
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Español
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Esta bruja quiere robar un niño. Son el tipo de cosas que hacen las brujas. Volando con su escoba llega al parque y allí encuentra a Nicolás jugando con unas muñecas. Se llevará una gran sorpresa.
This witch is very angry. Her hair has turned blue, like the blue fairy! She wants to be a witchy witch so she decides she's going to kidnap a kid at the park. She's in for a big surprise when she starts to kidnap Nicolás.
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Español
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Las hadas de la moda usan sus objetors mágicos para mantener la moda fresca y divertida en todo el mundo. Pero cuando Jack Escarcha se los roba, la moda es un desastre.
The fashion fairies use their magic accessories to make sure fashion everythwere is fun and fresh. But when jealous Jack Frost steals their magic away, it could lead to a fashion flop!
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NERDS volume 3
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Español
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When a former member of NERDS turns into a villainous cheerleader, Matilda "Wheezer" Choi and the rest of the NERDS must infiltrate the cheerleader squad and save the world from a machine that wreaks havoc by entering other dimensions.
Un ex miembro de los Nerds ha tenido la cirugía plástica con el fin de convertirse en una animadora. Genio criminal Simon ha creado un dispositivo que permite a los animadores para visitar otros mundos y saquean...
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English
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"This book and accompanying audio offer a variety of fingerstyle solos for the ukulele. The music stretches across several sytles, including Hawaiian, ragtime, bossa nova, and classical. The solos progress in difficulty, and tips on technique are included along the way. More advanced arrangements introduce chord inversions and different rhythmic approaches for the right hand. Thirty-three arrangements are presented in standard notation and tablature....
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