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"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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Tundra
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"After having her heart broken, seventeen-year-old Nora Nichols decides to escape her hometown and take a summer job as an arts and crafts counsellor at an all-girls' camp in the mountains of West Virginia. There, she meets girls and women from all walks of life with their own heartaches and triumphs. But when a letter from home comes bearing unexpected news, Nora finds inner strength in her devastation with the healing power of female friendship....
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"Set against a high-society Shanghai wedding, a heartfelt, funny, dazzling novel about a reluctant bride and her two best friends, each with their own motives and fed up with the way society treats women, who forge a plan to steal all the gift money on the big day."--Provided by publisher.
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La veterinaria volume 1
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Corre el año 1912 y, para poder trabajar como veterinaria, Nellie se casa con su amigo Phipps, quien va a heredar la consulta de su padre. Aunque no está enamorada de él, los une desde la infancia una estrecha amistad y Nellie le promete liberarlo del matrimonio en cuanto surja la oportunidad de que él haga realidad su verdadera vocación de músico. La ocasión se presenta al finalizar la Primera Guerra Mundial y Phipps desaparece de repente...
5) Memory piece
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
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Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Español
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"La historia de amor entre Maddie e Ian comenzó en un encuentro casual durante una fiesta en el extranjero. Casi dos décadas después, casados y con un hermoso hijo, tienen una vida perfecta a las afueras de la ciudad. Pero cuando un accidente en un camping deja a Maddie gravemente herida, poco a poco ella irá revelando sus temores y sus preocupaciones por la seguridad de su hijo Charlie y por el complicado pasado de la pareja. Desde los Balcanes...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Español
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Leah ha vivido con akinetopsia, o ceguera al movimiento, desde que era niña. Durante los últimos veinte años, no ha podido percibir el movimiento. Mientras pasea por su vecindario en Upper Manhattan con su bastón blanco guiando el camino, la mayoría de la gente asume que es ciega. Pero la verdad es que Leah ve mucho, y con sus agudos sentidos del olfato y la audición, muy poco escapa a su atención.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots's darkest hour, when she was held hostage in a remote Scottish castle with a handful of loyal women while plotting a daring escape to reclaim her country and her freedom"--
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Sex and the city volume season 6, part 1
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Carrie Bradshaw and friends Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte offered us their hilarious, outspoken and outrageous look at dating, mating and relating in New York City.
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Sex and the city volume season 6, part 2
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Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Carrie Bradshaw and friends Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte offered us their hilarious, outspoken and outrageous look at dating, mating and relating in New York City.
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Sex and the city volume season 3
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Carrie Bradshaw and friends Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte offered us their hilarious, outspoken and outrageous look at dating, mating and relating in New York City.
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Lumen
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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Dos niñas son obligadas a compartir habitación en un centro de acogida. Una blanca y otra negra. Ambas se rechazan de inmediato, pero poco a poco se dan cuenta de que tienen en común más de lo que esperaban. «La sal y la pimienta», como las empiezan a llamar los demás, se vuelven inseparables, y con el paso del tiempo se van encontrando en distintos lugares: un restaurante, un supermercado, una manifestación, siempre en lados opuestos de los...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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In their familiar North Carolina beach town, Callie and her friends, Talia and Cleo, are joined by the enigmatic Polly, who introduces the idea of learning how to make themselves invisible, a plan that initially seems impossible but eventually works, leading to a recklessness that makes it increasingly difficult for the girls to return to their former selves.
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Hollis Beckwith isn't trying to get a girl--she's just trying to get by. For a fat, broke girl with anxiety, the start of senior year brings enough to worry about. And besides, she already has a boyfriend: Chris. Their relationship isn't particularly exciting, but it's comfortable and familiar, and Hollis wants it to survive beyond senior year. To prove she's a girlfriend worth keeping, Hollis decides to learn Chris's favorite tabletop roleplaying...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"At the turn of the twentieth century, in a time of great change, two women--separated by societal status and culture but bound by their expected roles as the daughters of famed statesmen--forged a lifelong friendship. Portia Washington's father Booker T. Washington was formerly enslaved and spent his life championing the empowerment of Black Americans through his school, known popularly as Tuskegee Institute, as well as his political connections....
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2 broke girls volume Season 1
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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A lot of girls move to New York City to 'make it'. Max and Caroline are just trying to make their rent. Two girls from very different background, Max, poor from birth, and Caroline, born wealthy but down on her luck, wind up as waitresses in the same colorful Brooklyn diner and strike up an unlikely friendship that could lead to a successful business venture. All they need to do is come up with $250,000 in start-up expenses.
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Hallmark channel , Cineverse
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Aloha Heart: A conservationist travels to Hawaii for her best friend's wedding and instead of a relaxing vacation, finds herself in wedding prep and helping the new hotel manager make changes to his family hotel.
Making Waves: When a music label executive goes to a festival on the Outer Banks to beat out the competition for an elusive new band, she discovers that the group is fronted by her childhood summer sweetheart.
Napa ever after: After inheriting...
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2 broke girls volume season 3
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Max and Caroline, continue to dish up sarcasm and smarts. They've got a new cupcake business at the diner₂s back walk-up window, and Caroline and Max negotiate a work-study program at the Manhattan School of Pastry: Caroline works in the office so Max can study professional baking. Plus, love and the aroma of freshly cooked tarts, is in the air! Caroline has the hots for the school₂s hunky master chef and Max falls head over sticky buns for the...
20) The me list
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Publisher
Black Rose Writing
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Ziplining despite being scared of heights. Learning yoga when you're afraid of downward anything. Facing your strained relationship with your mother... When Olivia writes a ME List, she picks 10 things to get her out of her suburban mom funk. But what she really needs is to figure out how to deal with her next-door neighbor, nemesis, and new boss - Patricia. Patricia is the top realtor in their town and has the perfect life. But when Olivia agrees...
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