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Libros en español para adultos y adolescentes / Books in Spanish for Adults & Teens
Libros para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Latina: Adultos
Libros en español para adultos y adolescentes / Books in Spanish for Adults & Teens
Libros para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Latina: Adultos
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La primera novela para adultos en casi 15 años de la autora internacionalmente superventas de In the Time of the Butterflies y How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. Antonia Vega, la escritora inmigrante en el centro de Afterlife, ha sacado la alfombra de debajo de ella. Acaba de retirarse de la universidad donde enseñó inglés cuando su amado esposo, Sam, muere repentinamente. Y luego más sacudidas: su hermana de gran corazón pero inestable...
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From one of the great creative teams in picture books, On the Other Side of the Garden is about a city girl learning to accept the change brought about by her parents' separation when she is taken to her grandmother's house in the country and befriended by an owl, a frog and a mouse. When her father leaves her at her grandmother's house, the young girl at the center of this story feels abandoned and lonely. Her mother has moved to another country,...
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Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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[2006]
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English
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The Addams family returns for more creepy capers and hair-raising hilarity, terrifying their neighbors and delighting viewers like never before. Volume 2 features the ghoulish gang in fine form: Gomez runs for mayor, Lurch becomes a pop star, Uncle Fester turns Pugsley into a chimp, and Cousin Itt loses his hair.
4) Abyss
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By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner
"An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling events in this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life from Colombian writer Quintana (The Bitch). Readers will be dazzled." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around...
5) Paula
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Ashland Books @ Noon March 2020 Picks
Banned Books Week: Books First Published in Spanish
Virtual Books @ Noon April 2020 Picks
Banned Books Week: Books First Published in Spanish
Virtual Books @ Noon April 2020 Picks
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The autobiography of Isabel Allende written for her daughter, Paula, who has slipped into a coma.
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MGM DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Brace yourself for more macabre mayhem and monstrous madness as television's creepiest clan wreaks hilarious havoc on their unsuspecting victims. This time, love is in the air, and it seems that everyone--Pugsley, Ophelia, Uncle Fester, and even Lurch--is being bitten by the bug. Gomez, meanwhile, is burglarizing houses in his sleep, and it's curtains for the new neighbors when Morticia tries her hand at decorating.
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Adult Books for Latinx/a/o Heritage Month 2022
Banned Books Week: Books Banned in Other Countries
Banned Books Week: Books First Published in Spanish
Banned Books Week: Books Banned in Other Countries
Banned Books Week: Books First Published in Spanish
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"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...
8) Roots
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Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
9) My old lady
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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When Mathias Gold arrives at the sumptuous Parisian apartment he inherited from his father, he's surprised that the property comes with two stubborn live-in tenants who are not required to leave according to an ancient French real estate law. Unable to sell the place, Mathias moves in with the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde and her daughter, Chloe. But as Mathias and Chloe draw increasingly closer, Mathilde unveils a complex labyrinth of secrets that...
10) Violeta: a novel
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This sweeping novel from the author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred years and bears witness to the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.
“An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.”—People
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Real Simple, Reader’s Digest
Violeta...
“An immersive saga about a passion-filled life.”—People
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Real Simple, Reader’s Digest
Violeta...
11) Night crossing
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Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Based on a true story, Night Crossing chronicles the perils of two East German families as they attempt to cross over the Berlin Wall and escape to the freedom of the West in a hot-air balloon.
12) Crooked house
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet...
In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet...
14) Knives out
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth...
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Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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Español
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Paloma es una joven que tras la muerte de sus padres, se ve obligada a vivir en casa de sus tías, Macarena y Carlota. La primera es cariñosa y solidaria, mientras que la segunda es represiva, autoritaria y cruel. Un secreto de familia es guardado celosamente por ellas, el cual, si se descubriera, cambiaría la vida de Paloma. Emiliano, un encantador muchacho, llegará a la vida de la joven. Pero éste no sólo es novio de Romina, su mejor amiga,...
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
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A choir of creatures introduces a world delicately constructed by fantasy, mystery, and magical realism in Francisca Alegra̕2s poignant and stunning debut feature. It begins in a river in the south of Chile where fish are dying due to pollution from a nearby factory. Amid their floating bodies, long-deceased Magdalena bubbles up to the surface gasping for air, bringing with her old wounds and a wave of family secrets. The shocking return sends her...
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Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with "scream time." To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element and into hilarious run-ins with their iconic cousin,...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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In this sequel to the 2001 cult favorite, the return of the mullet-wearing, rock and roll loving, down on his luck white-trash-hero who embarks on another epic journey, this time through the recent past, the heartland of America, and his own mind, to get back to his loved ones.
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Based on Agathe von Trapp's Memories Before and After the Sound of Music, this unforgettable movie follows the von Trapp family's incredible journey from the perspective of Agathe, the eldest daughter. As war encroached upon her family and friends, Agathe embarked on an adventure filled with remarkable twists and turns, joys and disappointments. But despite the struggles through the dark times, there was always the saving grace of music.
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