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Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (190 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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El circo: La alegre cabalgata del Gran Circo Estrella desfila por el pueblo donde Cantinflas ejerce de zapatero remendón. Al pasar el cortejo por delante de la zapatería, Cantinflas queda prendado por la belleza de Rosalinda y decide entrar en el circo, de gorrón porque no tiene un centavo, para volver a verla. Tan grande es su amor que Cantinflas termina trabajando en el circo como mozo de pista. ¡A volar joven!: Aprovechando un permiso de...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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xv, 270 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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Continues the author's accounts after she left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, describing her struggles with her daughter's return to the cult and her own discoveries about how to achieve healthy change.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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162 pages ; 22 cm
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"Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"--
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Three graces trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
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376 p. ; 17 cm.
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Ordered by the Tudor king to seduce Scottish loyalist Ross Dunbar, Lady Catherine Milton is torn between duty and passion after an uprising forces them to marry in order to solidify northern alliances.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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277 pages ; 22 cm
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This reimagining of the "Twelve Dancing Princesses" traces the story of a family of flappers who work in a 1920s speakeasy until their suspicious father decides to marry them off, prompting a confrontation with a bootlegger from the eldest sister's past.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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473 pages ; 22 cm.
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Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Princess Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape--and even less of being together--as the foundations of Lia's deeply-held beliefs crumble beneath her while she wrestles with her upbringing, her gift, and her very sense of self to make powerful choices that affect her country, her people, and her own destiny.
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Pub. Date
2021
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"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI, and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage to a dangerous...
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Egyptian chronicles volume 1
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"Before she is Potiphar's wife, Zuleika is the daughter of a king and the wife of a prince. She rules the isle of Crete alongside her mother in the absence of their seafaring husbands. But when tragedy nearly destroys Crete, Zuleika must sacrifice her future to save the Minoan people she loves. Zuleika's father believes his robust trade with Egypt will ensure Pharaoh's obligation to marry his daughter, including a bride price hefty enough to save...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous...
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Yukon quest volume 1
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Driven by desperation, Grace Hawkins must forsake the affluent comfort of her upbringing to save herself from an arranged marriage. Disillusioned by her father's insistence, she forges a daring plan to escape the sinister hand of her intended. Peter Colton sees the Alaskan gold rush as an opportunity to establish his family's fledgling shipping business. An unexpected partnership enables him to pursue those dreams and opens the door to an acquaintance...
13) The heir
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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346 pages ; 22 cm
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Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story ... but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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357 pages ; 24 cm.
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Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to earn the respect and protection of the crew. The brutal life of a pirate is about survival: don't trust, don't stick out, don't feel. When the pirates prepare to sell their unsuspecting passengers into slavery, Flora is drawn to the Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, who is en route to a dreaded arranged marriage with her own casket in tow. The pair set into motion a wild escape...
15) Cruel beauty
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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346 pages ; 22 cm
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Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
16) Fill the void
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A devout 18-year-old Israeli is pressured to marry the husband of her late sister. Declaring her independence is not an option in Tel Aviv's ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, where religious law, tradition and the rabbi's word are absolute.
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