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Josey Aimes needs a job and goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage. The male miners are resentful of women taking their jobs, so the men verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. After being physically assaulted by a coworker, Josey tries to fight against the harassment, but none of the other women will join her case for fear...
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2001
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Elizabeth George comparte su punto de vista de como seguir las prioridades de Dios con respecto a: Tu esposo, tus hijos, tu hogar, tu andar diario y tu ministerio. Deja que Dios lleve a cabo su mas grandioso deseo par ti. Deja que El te transforme preparando tu corazon y tu mente para abrazar su increible obra. Encontraras alegria duradera y paz en una vida de oracion, una vida con prioridades en consonancia con - Una mujer conforme al corazon de...
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"A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisi©đn de un mecanismo de relojer©Ưa, Jane Austen perfila una galer©Ưa de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de ©♭poca: las peripecias de una dama empe©łada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la regi©đn, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un cl©♭rigo adulador...--
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The fantastic journey of Belle, a bright and independent young woman who takes her father's place as the prisoner of a beast in his castle. As Belle befriends the castle's enchanted staff, she and the Beast slowly begin to look beyond their initial reactions to each other and see who they truly are. But back in Belle's village, her father's fears for her safety drive him to rally the villagers to free Belle from the castle--a plan that goes awry,...
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Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father's restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world ... forever.
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2009.
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Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to...
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[2006]
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Three women, widows of a gang of outlaw brothers recently hanged, find themselves running for their lives from corrupt vigilantes and a group of villains seeking the wherabouts of their dead husbands' buried treasure. They must find the courage to trust, care and kill for one another along the way.
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Pub. Date
c2010
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"Sin salud emocional, no hay salud fisica. Bajo esta premisa, la doctora Northrup nos habla en este libro de la anatomía femenina y de las funciones naturales del cuerpo; de los problemas de salud más comunes, de cómo prevenirlos y de cómo sanar y mantenerse sana; de los criterios a tener en cuenta para elegir el tratamiento adecuado, provenga éste de la medicina convencional o de la alternativa. Christiane Northrup aporta una visión revolucionaria...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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Narrada en la voz de una joven mujer, esta es una magnifica novela historica situada a finales del siglo XIX en Chile, y una portentosa saga familiar en la que reencontramos algunos personajes de Hija de la fortuna y de La casa de los espiritus, novelas cumbres en la obra de Isabel Allende.
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2008.
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Joe is a professional hit man, who, during his missions, picks someone off the street to do his errands and after he is finished kills that person. His next assignment takes him to Bangkok where he will be for a month, and as usual, he finds a street kid named Kong to help him. After Kong has a close call and learns who Joe is, he asks Joe to train him. Needing a few medical supplies, Joe stops at a local pharmacy and meets a local girl who is deaf...
13) El gran Gatsby
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"El gran Gatsby es un retarto de la Jazz Age que captura el espÃrtu de la generaciÃçn de Scott Fitzgerald y le concede un trono permanente en el Olimpo de la literature norteamericana. El millonario hecho a sà mismo., Jay Gatsby, personaliza una de las obsesiones del autor y de la sociedad de su paÃs: la combinaciÃçn de dinero, ambiciÃçn y lujuria como promesa de nuevos comienzos. Una extraordinaria fábula--y como tal, no exenta...
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Inseparables desde sus dias en la Universidad de Boston, hac aproximadamente diez anos, seis amigas formaron el club social de las chicas temerarias, na pequena sociedad de apoyo moral y admiracion. Se encuentran regularmente para chismear, comer juntas, y camparar notas en el complicado eamino de la vida y el amor.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
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"Discover 25 women who were trailblazers in science, technology, architecture, engineering, and more. Learn about some of the women who defied expectations and introduced the world to new ideas and creations big and small. Fully translated Spanish text."--
17) Vanity Fair
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c. 2004.
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Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
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After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little too perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
19) The other man
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[2009]
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Suspecting Lisa, his wife, of adultery, Peter tries to figure out why his wife had disappeared. When Lisa found out that she has cancer, she decides to leave him clues so that he could discover the affair and the secret life she had been leading and that he never knew existed. Peter sets out to track down the other man in her life.
20) Paradise Road
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Fact-based recounting of a group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II and used music as a relief to their misery.
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