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1721) The marvelous mud house
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George and his mother live in a mud hut in Kenya and are thankful for what they have while Ben and his family live in a big house in Oklahoma but always want more, until they fly to Kenya and learn a lesson in fullness and joy from the marvelous mud hut.
1723) Synapsy Marii H
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Polish
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Nowa książka najwybitniejszej polskiej reporterki Nikt nie umie zgłębić tajemnic ludzkiego istnienia lepiej niż Hanna Krall Co łączy przedwojenny żydowski Muranów, stan wojenny i World Trade Center? Synapsy - mosty w mózgu między przeszłością i dniem dzisiejszym. Maria Twardokęs-Hrabowska, polska opozycjonistka więziona w 1981 roku za wspieranie strajku, zmaga się z trudną teraźniejszością. W społeczeństwie nieczułym na inność...
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Book club discussion kit featuring the title, Remarkably bright creatures: "For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus. After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up. Keeping busy has always helped her cope, which she's...
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"Soggy Red Confetti is the story of a family and those who continually bisect their faltering world as lives are dominated by addiction and mental illness. This true story, told as it was endured, will resonate with those who are and those who love, someone trapped in desperate, relentless, endless and largely hidden pain, that binds them -- hand and foot. It does not take long for these sojourners to jettison the idea of a magic bullet cure. Indeed,...
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Español
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En El Arte, Juanjo Saez nos cuenta, a traves de dialogos imaginarios con su madre, como el entiende el complejo mundo del arte. Para Saez, el arte es emocion, sentir, ademas de una forma de evadirse de uno mismo y fundirse con el mundo. Segun su vision, no se le deberia dar mas importancia que la que tiene, ni enaltecer a los artistas como si fuesen seres superiores. Ademas, para el, el arte debe ser libre para evolucionar y llegar a otros lugares....
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Ukrainian
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"Unexpectedly, real winter comes for everyone: it gets colder, snow falls, and ice appears on the lake. To have some fun, Rex's mom decides to organize an ice fishing competition. The main prize is a can of mackerel in tomato. But various scary creatures can hide under the ice! And so, Rasmus and Timmy are in for a few surprises." --
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"When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way to bring her back was through reading. Reading My Mother Back is a genre-bending memoir that explores a life marked by trauma, illness, religion, and abuse through a focus on the books Baker and his mother shared. The book combines accounts of rereading childhood classics with true and apocryphal stories...
1734) Un gran día de nada
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"Un niño llega con su madre a la misma casa de vacaciones de un lugar solitario y aparentemente sin atractivos al que van cada año. ¿Qué puede hacer allí, solo, aburrido, mientras su madre trabaja? Pero aquella tarde, después de perder su máquina de matar marcianos, se adentra en el bosque, donde descubrirá un mundo maravilloso."--Casadellibro.
1738) Murder by moonlight
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"What's a nice, proper dame like Joan Parker doing in a place like Dick Moonlight's office? The scar running down her face-- from the business end of an axe-- has something to do with it. Shortly after the attack that killed her husband and left her for dead, she pointed the finger at her son Christopher, who now sits in jail. But the woman insists the police have it all wrong-- Christopher didn't do it-- and she just needs the private eye to prove...
1739) Espiritismo
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Español
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In compliance with a deep desire, a mother wants her dead son to come back to life.
1740) Assassinistas
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When a kidnapping hits too close for home for former hit-woman Octavia, she is forced out of retirement and back into the bounty-hunting business. With her former partners unavailable, she recruits her son and his boyfriend to aid and abet her in a semester of murder-based work study, where she'll teach them everything she knows--if she can get them to put down the video games and stop making out long enough to concentrate on the mission.