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681) Emma
Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Alma
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Emma fue la última novela que Jane Austen publicó en vida. En ella nos cuenta las peripecias de Emma Woodhouse, una joven inglesa criada en el seno de una familia acomodada que no sólo no tiene la menor intención de contraer matrimonio, sino que además se empeña en hacer de casamentera para su círculo de amigas, para desgracia de éstas, y en particular para su protegida Harriet Smith. Los consejos de Emma producen todo tipo de equívocos y...
682) A SINGLE THREAD
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Language
English
Description
1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Dolls: red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight -- for Anne, Neely, and Jennifer, it doesn't matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three women become best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City and then climb to the top of the entertainment industry -- only to find that there is no place left to go but down -- into the Valley of the Dolls
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Earth's new Green Lantern, Jessica Cruz, learns that she must report to Oa and introduce herself to the Green Lantern Corps. Luckily, some of her new friends accompany Jessica. While the spacefaring girls take on an intergalactic threat, the Earthbound students are faced with pet-sitting Krypto!"--Provided by publisher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Ariana Ruiz wants to be noticed. But as an autistic girl who never talks, she goes largely ignored by her peers--despite her bold fashion choices. So when cute, popular Luis starts to pay attention to her, Ari finally feels seen. Luis's attention soon turns to something more, and they have sex at a party--while Ari didn't say no, she definitely didn't say yes. Before she has a chance to process what happened and decide if she even has the right to...
686) THE WHISPERS OF WAR
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Language
English
Description
"August, 1939, Britain watches the headlines in fear of another devastating war with Germany and three childhood friends must choose between friendship or country. Socialite Nora is determined to find her place in the Home Office's Air Raid Precautions Department, while matchmaker, Hazel, tries to mask two closely guarded secrets with irrepressible optimism, and German ex-pat Marie worries that she and her family might face imprisonment in an internment...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"An important debut work of narrative nonfiction: the timely, never-before-told story of five brilliant, passionate women who, in the early 1960s, converged at the newly founded Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study, stepping outside the domestic sphere and shaping the course of feminism in ways that still resonate today. In 1960, at the height of an era that expected women to focus solely on raising families, Radcliffe College announced the founding...
688) A train in winter: an extraordinary story of women, friendship, and resistance in occupied France
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In January 1943, the Gestapo hunted down 230 women of the French Resistance and sent them to Auschwitz. This is their story, told in full for the first time--a searing and unforgettable chronicle of terror, courage, defiance, survival, and the power of friendship to transcend evil that is an essential addition to the history of World War II
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
A powerful novel of family, race, faith, sex, and disaster that moves between Puerto Rico and The Bronx, revealing the lives and loves of five women and the secret that binds them together--Provided by publisher
Se hacen llamar "Las Madres", un grupo muy cercano de mujeres que, junto con sus hijas, han creado una familia basada en la amistad y los lazos de sangre. Su historia comienza en Puerto Rico, en 1975, cuando Luz, de quince años, la niña...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As Marilyn's visit unfolds, Alice is forced into a reckoning...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"Dos amigas se acercan a la treintena en ciudades distintas y tras mucho tiempo sin verse. Alice, novelista, conoce a Felix, que trabaja en un almacén, y le pide que la acompañe a Roma para promocionar su último libro. En Dublín, su mejor amiga, Eileen, está superando una ruptura y empieza a flirtear con Simon, un chico al que conoce desde que eran niños. Mientras el verano se acerca, las dos chicas se envían correos electrónicos en los que...
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English
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"Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did, taking stands for justice and freedom, "--NoveList
693) Wash day diaries
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Language
English
Description
"In expanding the story of Kim and her friends, the authors pay tribute to Black sisterhood through portraits of shared, yet deeply personal experiences of Black hair care. From self-care to spilling the tea at an hours-long salon appointment to healing family rifts, the stories are brought to life through beautifully drawn characters and different color palettes reflecting the mood in each story."--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road and Meet Me at the Museum, this witty and tender novel follows two women in 1960s America as they discover that food really does connect us all, and that friendship and laughter are the best medicine"--
When twenty-seven-year-old Joan Bergstrom sends a fan letter--as well as a gift of saffron--to fifty-nine-year-old Imogen Fortier, a life-changing friendship begins. Joan lives in Los Angeles and...
695) Greta
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A sweet, naive young woman trying to make it on her own in New York City, Frances doesn't think twice about returning the handbag she finds on the subway to its rightful owner. That owner is an eccentric French piano teacher with a love for classical music and an aching loneliness. Having recently lost her mother, Frances quickly grows closer to the widowed Greta. The two become fast friends, but the older woman's maternal charms begin to dissolve...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
The further adventures of 12-year-old Betsy, Tacy, and Tib as they explore the world beyond their neighborhood and discover the public library, see a real play, and make friends with the owners of the downtown hotel
Growing Up Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are twelve--old enough to do lots of things...even go downtown on their own. There they see their first horseless carriage, discover the joys of the public library, and see a real play at the Opera House....
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn
The best little whorehouse in Texas: The town sheriff and regular patron attempts to save the legendary Chicken Ranch from a television preacher
Smokey and the bandit: A trucker takes on a runaway bride and a trailer full of beer with a sheriff in hot pursuit
Fried green tomatoes: An unhappy housewife befriends an elderly woman in a nursing home and hears her remarkable story
698) Emma
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A manga adaptation of the classic literary novel by Jane Austen about a well-meaning, but bumbling young matchmaker
699) Emma
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town, In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along
700) Terror de estado
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra Ediciones
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Después de un período tumultuoso en la política estadounidense, una nueva administración acaba de prestar juramento y, para sorpresa de todos, el presidente elige a un enemigo político para el puesto vital de Secretario de Estado. No hay amor perdido entre el Presidente de los Estados Unidos y Ellen Adams, su nueva Secretaria de Estado. Pero es un movimiento astuto por parte del presidente. Con este nombramiento, silencia a uno de sus más duros...
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