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2721) The lion king
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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A young lion leaves his family and friends after he is tricked by his evil uncle into thinking that he killed his father, the Lion King.
2723) My Hands Hold My Story
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English
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"My world became one of silence when I was six years old." In 1874, Ivy Steele's deafness is more than a handicap. It's a disease. Surrounded by a family that doesn't understand her, she's learned to cope and find solace where she can. Then, the unexpected happens. Her aunt dies, and her uncle sends her away to rejoin her father's family in Montana. Left to fend for herself, after the companion hired to escort her abandons her, sixteen-year-old Ivy...
2725) Copper: Season one
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Copper is BBC America's first original scripted series. Set in 1860s New York City, the drama is centered on Kevin Corcoran, an intense, rugged, Irish-American cop working in the city's notorious Five Points neighborhood. He struggles to maintain his moral compass while embarking on a quest to learn the truth about the disappearance of his wife and the death of his daughter.
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
2727) Con cuba en el bolsillo
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
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In 1961 Cuba, with the threat of military service for children looming, twelve-year-old Cumba's parents send him to Miami, where he lives with a new family and misses his homeland.
2728) Caleb's story
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Sequel to: Skylark.
The stranger lurking on the Witting family's prairie farm turns out to be their long-lost grandfather, whose presence plus prodding from Sarah forces Jacob to deal with his past.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
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La vida se acaba en un instante para Finn Miller, de dieciséis años, cuando un accidente la arroja a ella y a otras diez personas por la ladera de una montaña. Suspendida entre dos mundos, observa impotente cómo aquellos a quienes ama luchan por sobrevivir. Ellos toman decisiones imposibles que los dejan atormentados por el dolor y el arrepentimiento. Incapaz de dejarlos ir, Finn se mantiene alerta mientras luchan por recuperar sus vidas destrozadas....
2730) Hey, kiddo
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English
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"In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict, in and out of rehab, and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery--Jarrett doesn't know where to find him, or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents--two very loud, very loving, very opinionated people who had thought they were through with...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The coolest spy kids anywhere are back for a huge new adventure! Carmen and Juni are on a mission to recover a device that threatens the entire world. They enlist the skills of Mom and Dad, and even their spy grandparents, in a thrilling show of family teamwork! With even more cool gadgets, imaginative creatures, and awesome special effects, it's a nonstop high-tech adventure for everyone!
2732) Tomb of sand: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic about a family--especially its inimitable octogenarian matriarch--in northern India. An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
2734) Minding Frankie
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When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she's born; but as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can't do it alone. He has a caring network of friends and family, but a social worker is convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home.
2736) Creation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Gives viewers a unique inside look at Charles Darwin, his family, and his love for his deeply religious wife, as he is torn between faith and science. Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book, On the Origin of Species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
2737) I will send rain
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2016.
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English
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Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come,...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back at the times of greatest humanitarian need. After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the twenty-first century American dream, having won...
2739) An appetite for miracles
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Young Adults
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading List 2024
Tayshas List 2024 (Gr. 9+ )
National Poetry Month - Young Adults
Spirit of Texas (SPOT) Reading List 2024
Tayshas List 2024 (Gr. 9+ )
Description
With the help of her cousin and their friends, Danna scours the city, searching for her grandfather's favorite foods and hoping the remembered flavors will bring back his memories.
2740) Spaceheadz
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[2010]
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English
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On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
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