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1461) From Prada to nada
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder sister Nora, a law student, gets a job as a legal intern...
1462) Sin Nombre
Pub. Date
c. 2009
Description
Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates
1463) Healed by Grace
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When an accident brings an end to a young woman's dream of becoming a professional dancer, she begins equine therapy in the hopes of regaining full mobility.
1464) Nana: vol. 6
Author
Series
Nana volume 1
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Nana Osaki's band Blast is taking off in a big way.
1465) Nana: vol. 4
Author
Series
Nana volume 4
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
With her own life falling apart around her, Nana K. seizes onto a juicy piece of gossip about Nana O.'s past love life to keep her mind off her own problems. Will playing cupid for her friend get her any closer to her own happy ending?
1466) Vei: Volume 1
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"She trained her whole life to become the strongest warrior of Jotunheim and the beloved champion of her gods. But nothing prepared her for betrayal. Exiled from Jotunheim, Vei is forced to strike a deal with treacherous Vikings from Midgard. She returns home looking for answers, only to find herself caught in the Meistarileikir, a bloody game played between the giants of Jotunheim and the gods of Asgard to determine who has the right to rule Midgard....
1467) Wings like a dove
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In 1933, Anna Leibowicz is convinced that the American dream that brought her Jewish family here from Poland is nothing but an illusion. Her father has vanished. Her dreams of college can't make it past the sweat-shop door. And when she discovers to her shame and horror that she's with child, her mother gives her little choice but to leave her family. Deciding her best course of action is to try to find her father, she strikes out . . . hoping against...
1468) Postwar Kurosawa
Pub. Date
2007
Description
No Regrets For Our Youth. Yukie, the spoiled bourgeois daughter of a university professor, begins a soul-searching journey that takes her from the elegance of Kyoto to the peasant farms of impoverished rural Japan, the rise and fall of ultranationalism corresponding with her own moral awakening.
One Wonderful Sunday. Yuzo and Masako, a middle-class couple suffering from economic postwar decline, meet on Sunday in Tokyo with only thirty-five yen to...
1469) As you like it
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, placed in a setting inspired by nineteenth-century Japan, in which exiled royals--including a duke's daughter disguised as a man--and country folk, learn lessons about class and gender through a series of love triangles in the Forest of Arden.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston has lived a life of luxury in her cosmopolitan, turn-of-the-century hometown. Determined to reach beyond her sheltered world to help others, the headstrong schoolteacher heads for the impoverished Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee to teach in a remote schoolhouse. As she grapples with the ignorance and poverty of the members of her new community, she strives to make a difference in the lives of the children she...
1473) Our town
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Stage production of Wilder's play; a study of life, love, and death in a New England town at the turn of the 20th century.
1474) Carol
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in a loveless,...
1475) Sense & sensibility
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve when she falls in love with the charming but unsuitable John Willoughby, ignoring her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Elinor, sensitive to social convention, struggles to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Will the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness...
1476) Sin Nombre
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.
1477) Is love the answer?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A poignant coming-of-age story about a young woman coming into her own as she discovers her identity as aromantic asexual. When it comes to love, high schooler Chika wonders if she might be an alien. She's never fallen for or even had a crush on anyone, and she has no desire for physical intimacy. Her friends tell her that she just 'hasn't met the one yet,' but Chika has doubts...It's only when Chika enters college and meets peers like herself that...
1478) Persepolis
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
In 1970s Iran, Marjane "Marji" Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family. Their long dream is realized when the hated Shah is defeated in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, Marji grows up to witness first hand how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. With Marji dangerously refusing to remain silent at this injustice, her parents send her abroad to Vienna to study....
Author
Series
Passenger novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
"Told entirely through the transcripts of the narrator's psychiatric sessions, this intimate portrait of grief and longing follows twenty-year-old Alicia Western as she, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, contemplates the nature of madness, her hallucinations and her own existence in 1972 Black River Falls, Wisconsin"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
An impoverished nineteenth-century woman's coming of age and struggles against injustice are placed against a backdrop of the growing influence of Charles Dickens and shaped by an enamored young man, a scheming coal baron, a friendly dwarf, and an unconventional philanthropist.
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