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21) Better off dead
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"After Beth, the girl of his dreams, dumps him for the school's arrogant ski-team captain, Lane's prolific and dark imagination runs overtime. He wavers between bungling attempts to kill himself and inept efforts to win his ex-girlfriend back. All the while, Lane's also dealing with his quirky family, dodging a relentless paperboy who's out to collect, amd meeting the charming French exchange student next door who just might be the unexpected key...
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The idea for this novel was born in the year 2000. The actual manuscript was started on August 13, 2001, almost a month to the day before 9/11/2001. This book is prophetic. Recently, when the Gainesville, Florida, pastor Terry Jones burned a Koran, it was as if Pastor Clayton Harris, Daniel's father in the novel, had come alive. In the ten years since this book was published, despite several wars and the deaths of tens of thousands of people, almost...
23) Breathe in
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"Father Keith, mother Megan and 17-year-old daughter Lauren live a comfortable life but there is something missing. Megan is never quite satisfied with the way things are. Keith has given up his dreams of being a musician for the steady paycheck of a music teacher. When a beautiful foreign exchange student, Sophie, comes into their lives, Keith is soon drawn to her. She's mature beyond her years and yearns for someone to make her feel safe and loved....
24) Laid in America
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Can a pair of exchange students with one night left in America finally get laid? They have to crash the campus bully's house party to make their fantasies come true in time to catch their flights home.
25) Come home
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"It's Samorn's first week at Brenton College in the US, and she already wants to leave. She misses Thailand, her family, and most of all, her boyfriend Lek. So when Lek asks her to come home, Samorn knows she has to make a hard decision..." --Publisher description.
26) The illegal
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When a student from India is accepted to a prestigious university, he leaves his home, country, and family behind to pursue the American Dream. Due to an unfortunate turn of events, he's forced to work in a restaurant to survive and the struggle of living inside a system set up for his failure challenge him to look within to find inner strength, overcome obstacles, and never give up.
28) Chaos: a fable
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"Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help fulfill the destiny of his son Abdelkrim. It could also unwittingly draw both men into irreversible events already in motion on distant shores. In America, Abdelkrim, a brilliant aspiring astronaut deemed "too Muslim" for citizenship,...
38) Puzzled love
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Español
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"Sun...and Lucas...are exchange students in Barcelona. When they fall head over heels in love, they realize their romance will have an expiration date, and in one year it will all come to an end. It's a wild story of sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, told from the perspectives of thirteen up-and-coming young filmmakers--each who wrote and directed their own chapter/month in this unprecedented film"--Container.
"...[N]arra la historia de Lucas...y Sun...dos...
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Mile 46 unveils the intimate lives of a traditional Maasai family through the revealing photographs and journal entries of a young American woman who lived with them in a dung hut on the rugged outskirts of Kenya in 1988. More than a quarter of a century later, that same woman revisits the journals she wrote and the photographs she took and connects her young voice with her twenty-first century worldview. Poignant, revealing, optimistic, and thought-provoking,...
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Un estudiante llega a una universidad de Colorado, en los Estados Unidos, en busca del sueño americano en su versión académica. La promesa del campus como un santuario en cuyas fronteras se han resuelto los problemas de Occidente --origen, raza, clase-- sucumbe ante la realidad nocturna: los alumnos deambulan por los extramuros de la ciudad, a la caza de todo aquello que el día les niega: luz, compañía, ternura, certezas. La mirada del protagonista...