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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
It chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The series follows the lives of the villagers during the war as their lives become irrevocably changed by the German occupation and its aftermath. The Germans arrive in June 1940; the occupation will go on for five years and will reveal the strengths, weaknesses and secrets of the characters as they come under the pressures of war.
Author
Publisher
[Distributed in the United States by] Publishers Group West
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Napi, una niña mazateca, recuerda el tiempo en que su familia y otras familias tuvieron que abandonar el pueblo, debido a la construcción por el gobierno de una presa que inundaría todas las casas. Lo que Napi recuerda con mas intensidad es el roce que su papá tuvo con la muerte al momento de la cosecha.
When the government builds a dam that will flood Napi's Mazatec village, the people must move to a new site far away, where they burn the jungle...
106) Hot fuzz
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Nicholas Angel is the finest cop London has to offer. He has an arrest record that is higher than any other officer on the force. As a result, Angel's superiors send him to a place where his talents won't be quite so obvious. They send him to the sleepy and seemingly crime-free village of Sandford. He is partnered with the well-meaning but overeager police officer Danny Butterman, who is the son of the police chief. Danny is a huge action movie fan...
107) La música del mar
Author
Publisher
Cuento De Luz
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Tras la despiadada tormenta que azota una pequeña aldea costera, solamente un pescador y su hija deciden permanecer allí. Una noche Daniel sale de casa a escondidas para darle una sorpresa a Marina. La incréible música del mar empieza a sonar para cambiar el rumbo de sus vidas. Una historia sobre el poder de la esperanza y el lenguaje universal de la música. -- Publisher description.
A story about the power of hope, and the universal language...
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews...
110) El río y la muerte
Publisher
On Screen Films
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
A story of a small town located on the banks of a deep dark river that is caught up in a cycle of revenge and a violent way of life. Blood feuding has become the code of honor here.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
The blockbuster French drama, chronicles the impact of World War II on a small village in central France. The German occupation changes the life of the village of Villeneuve forever, and as its residents come under the pressures of war, they make choices that are inspiring and heartbreaking. In this gripping drama, ordinary citizens become patriots, traitors, Nazi employees or activists.
112) A tangle of spells
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"It should have been a fresh start for the Widdershins, finally free from the misty gloom of Crowstone and beginning a new life. But all is not as it seems in their postcard-pretty village ... The Widdershins sisters have their own secret: a set of enchanted nesting dolls with the power to render their user invisible. The sisters must use their wits--and their magic--if they're to break the dark hold over the village, and save one of their own ......
113) Rickshaw girl
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In her Bangladesh village, ten-year-old Naimi excels at painting designs called alpanas, but to help her impoverished family financially she would have to be a boy--or disguise herself as one.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dracula: A vampire terrorizes the countryside in his search for human blood.
Frankenstein: Tampering with life and death, Dr. Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to create a human monster.
The Mummy: An Egyptian priest who was buried alive comes back to life after an archaeological dig and searches for his lost love.
The Invisible Man: A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible but can't reverse the process. He realizes with...
115) A test of wills
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Inspector Ian Rutledge left a brilliant career in Britain's Scotland Yard to fight World War I. Now back home, his first case is the murder of a retired army colonel. Unhappily for Rutledge, the chief suspect is a decorated war hero and a friend of the prince of Wales. A first novel.
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