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Modern history unearthed as a boy becomes an innocent victim of corruption in Bolivia's crime world, where the power of family is both a prison and a means of survival.
It's 1999 in Bolivia and Francisco's life consists of school, soccer, and trying to find space for himself in his family's cramped yet boisterous home. But when his father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system that targets the uneducated, the...
It's 1999 in Bolivia and Francisco's life consists of school, soccer, and trying to find space for himself in his family's cramped yet boisterous home. But when his father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system that targets the uneducated, the...
9) Mazie
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Mazie Butterfield leaves her family and boyfriend behind in small-town Nebraska to find fame on 1950s Broadway, but when her big break comes it means going back to the Corn Belt and facing her past.
11) Tobie Girl
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English
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Tobie Girl follows a little girl's life in the inner city 1950's under the watchful eye of her gaurdian angel Ma'ki'al.
13) Jumper
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Viking
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2022.
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English
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"Blair Scott is in her second season as a wildland firefighter when the Forest Service puts out a call for an additional class of smokejumpers. She and her best friend Jason both apply, though neither expects to get in since they’re only nineteen. But it’s been a devastating fire season, and they are both accepted. But going to training camp is only the first step—everyone expects the teenage rookies will wash out in the first...
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En el 2010 toda España quedó conmocionada cuando se supo que los once ancianos fallecidos durante el último año y medio en el geriátrico La Caritat no habían muerto por enfermedad o causas naturales, como aparecía en sus certificados de defunción. Habían sido asesinados por Joan Vila, también conocido desde entonces como «el Ángel de la Muerte».
El caso levantó de inmediato un revuelo mediático que puso en entredicho algunas de las...
15) Mary Day Orchard
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The author wants the reader to know he is into LOVE - whether affecting his heart or someone else's - as is the main character in this book - who dispenses love freely - never condemning the actions of those who know nothing of its existence and the want to understand its absence. Love conquers insecurities, respect for one-self and others, fears and bullying. To exist without it is unacceptable. After the author drove away from an orphanage while...
16) A God Who Saves
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The culmination of world events all seems to be leading in one direction. Christ himself outlined all these events and stated "these events will happen in a generation" prior to his return. Theologians commonly refer to the coming of Christ with the term parousia or (appearance). The Old Testament prophets foretold that the Messiah would appear to bring salvation and judgment. While the Old Testament messianic prophecies do not specifically distinguish...
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La serie de relatos de Un jardín para nosotros parece cuadrar con aquel lema de "sexo, drogas y rock and roll", al que sólo habría que agregarle aquella soledad tan propia de la época actual que parece perseguir a sus protagonistas, aquella falta de "sentido". La obra se convierte así en una búsqueda, un "aprendizaje curtido", un encuentro con el desencuentro vivido.
Piezas cambiables de la mayor fuerza que mueve el mundo, el amor, toda la serie...
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Lisa Montgomery would meet Bobbie Joe Stinnett in an on-line chatroom called "Ratter Chatter" under the pretext that she wanted to purchase a rat terrier puppy from her. But what she really wanted from the pregnant Bobbie Joe was her baby. Lisa would arrive at the Stinnett home and strangle the young woman into unconscious before cutting out the baby from her stomach with a kitchen knife. She would then show case the baby around her small town, introducing...
19) Oilpatch
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English
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It's a story about a hillbilly family sitting on top of a secret gold mine of oil that only a few people are aware of. The family members and oilmen jockeying for position to own the mineral rights to the vast fortune explodes into a small war, and an unlikely hero materializes to change the course of history. A man's search for the truth inside a powder keg of confusion and the resulting bloodbath of greedy businessmen refusing to obey the law and...
