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39 clues volume 1
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"¿Qué pasaría si descubrieras que tu familia es una de las más poderosas de toda del historia de la humanidad? ¿Y si te dijeran que la fuente de poder de la familia está escondida por todo el mundo en forma de 39 pistas? ¿Y si, además, te dieran a elegir entre tener un millón de dolares... o conseguir la primera de las pistas? Si fueras Amy y Dan Cahill, ¡escogerías la pista y emperazarías una carrera muy peligrosa!" --From publisher's...
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After befriending American Tommy Randall in Shanghai, tiny Chinese orphan Ching-Ching falls asleep in Tommy's car, which soon becomes cargo on a ship bound for San Francisco. Along the way, Ching-Ching plays matchmaker to Tommy and Susan Parker, who eventually marry and adopt her. But when the couple's clashing personalities lead them to divorce court, the one-time orphan must again work her magic to try to keep her new family together.
65) Contar de 7 en 7
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"Willow tiene doce años, es superdotada y su gran pasión son las plantas, las enfermedades y el número siete. Sus padres adoptivos son su única familia y sus verdaderos amigos, pero cuando éstos mueren en un accidente se da cuenta de que está sola en un mundo con el que no es capaz de relacionarse. A partir de ese momento, la vida de Willow se convierte en un viaje transformador en el que gracias a sus manías y a su extraordinaria sensibilidad,...
67) Battle hymn
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"As a WWII fighter pilot, Colonel Dean Hess accidentally bombed a German orphanage, killing thirty-seven children. After entering the ministry to atone for the tragedy, Hess eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea, while devoting his spare time to building a shelter for orphans. But now, to protect these children in a territory fraught with danger, he must fight ... and face the past once again!"--Container.
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Series of unfortunate events volume 6
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The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
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"In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
70) Huérfano X
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Evan Smoak es el Huerfano X: un heroe como nunca se vio antes. Entrenado en secreto desde la ninez para ser un asesino eficiente y despiadado, ahora utiliza sus habilidades para ayudar a personas en situaciones desesperadas y eliminar a los abusadores de sus vidas. A cambio, solo pide una cosa: que den su numero de telefono a otras personas que necesiten su ayuda. Pese a que oficialmente no existe, su pasado le ha generado algunos poderosos enemigos...
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Nora, una huérfana coja es llevado por el poderoso Consejo de Guardianes a vivir en su palacio a practicar sus talentos de tejer y bordar. Ellas se da cuenta de que está rodeada de misterios y secretos.
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Nora is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
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Series of unfortunate events volume 4
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Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.
73) Ladrones
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After spending his childhood in an orphanage, Alex is starting a new life as an adult. But it only takes him a few days to remember what his mother taught him before vanishing: how to make a life as a pickpocket. Sara is a college student with a happy life, who occasionally commits petty theft. The morning Alex discovers Sara stealing in a supermarket, his life changes.
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Carlota vive en un orfanato. Un día la directora le dice que una familia la ha adoptado. Carlota pasa la noche pensando en cómo sería la familia perfecta para ella.
Carlota is an orphan. One day the director tells her that a family has adopted her. Carlota spends the night thinking about what a perfect family for her would be like.
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After learning that humans are headed toward his hidden home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, is joined by a brownie and an orphan boy in a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven, encountering friendly and unfriendly creatures along the way, and struggling to evade the relentless pursuit of an old enemy.
"El dragón Jung, la duende Piel de Azufre y el pequeño Ben buscan un lugar mítico en el que los dragones puedan vivir en paz....
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Cenicienta trabaja como una esclava bajo el mando de su madrastra y de sus hermanastras crueles. Su madrina, una hada, le ayuda a asistir a una fiesta muy importante en el castillo del príncipe.
Cinderella works like a slave under the command of her stepmother and her cruel stepsisters. Her godmother, a fairy, helps her to attend a very important party at the prince's castle.
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39 clues volume 7
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La búsqueda de las 39 pistas que abren la puerta a un poder inimaginable está a punto de descubrirles a Amy y a Dan la terrible verdad sobre los Cahill, su propia rama.
Shaken by a shocking loss, Amy and Dan flee to an exotic land and trace the footsteps of their most formidable ancestor yet: a military leader of mythic proportions.
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Series of unfortunate events volume 2
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After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Conde Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetoligist with whom they life happily for an all-too-brief time.
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Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at San Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to turn the situation to her advantage.
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