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Despues de que se rechazo la solicitud de visa de su hija a visitar a sus abuelos en los Estados Unidos, un solo padre y su leal mejor amiga hacen todo lo que se necesita para ganar sobre el trabajador de la embajada que la rechazo. After his daughter's Visa request to visit her grandparents in America is rejected, a single father and his loyal best friend do everything it takes to win over the Embassy worker who turned her down.

Gato lives with his teenage daughter Emma and a small group of people, including Sombra, on an isolated farm without telephones or internet. But Emma, tempted by curiosity, runs away into town one day to attend a carnival, and gets her hands on a mobile phone. After she uploads a video of herself to the internet, Emma is contacted by a mysterious woman named Celia who claims to be her long-lost mother. What follows is a mystical tale of family, identity--and...

"En esta novela hay veranos, cigarrillos, piscinas, hospitales, caballos, azulejos, cemento, arena, cartas, plantas, fuego, vacaciones, amores, mentiras, verdades, vergüenzas... y también alcohol, que lo impregna todo, estropeándolo y deformándolo. Porque el padre es alcohólico. Y ella, la hija de un alcohólico. Pero ¿qué más hay detrás de ese hombre que vendía materiales de construcción y fabricaba muebles reciclando palés? A pesar de...

Stella Starflake Pearl anticipa ansiosamente su próxima expedición. De repente ocurre un desastre cuando el padre de Stella, Félix, es arrebatado por una temible bruja. ¡Stella debe llevar su tiara mágica de princesa de hielo a Witch Mountain o nunca volverá a ver a Felix! Pero nadie regresa de Witch Mountain ... Stella, Ethan, Shay, Beanie y el reticente explorador de Jungle Cat, Percival, se lanzan a lo desconocido. Se enfrentarán a terroríficas...

El pelo de Zuri le permite ser ella misma. Se enrolla o se riza para convertirse en una corona de princesa o una capa de superh�eroe. �Pero un d�ia s�uperespecial necesita un peinado s�uperespecial! Peine en mano, pap�a le ayuda a Zuri a encontrar el look perfecto. Amor de pelo celebra los rizos que son solo tuyos, el lazo entre padres e hijas y la alegr�ia que te llena cuando puedes expresarte libremente. Zuri's hair lets her be herself....

Ben Crane is a Kentucky horse trainer who watches in horror as a championship filly breaks a leg during a practice run. Ordinarily the horse would have to be put down, but today Ben's daughter, Cale, is at the track. Ben impulsively buys the horse, which causes him to lose his job. The rehabilitation process of the horse is almost too much for a farm that's already struggling to survive in a modern economy, but the horse turns out to be a much-needed...

After his wife leaves him for another man, Hugues Martin's life revolves solely around two things: the celebrated five-star hotel he owns and manages in New York City and his daughter Heloise. But their little world is transformed forever when Heloise moves to France for hotel school and Hugues meets his match in Natalie Peterson, a woman who understands him and his love for the Vendôme. Heredero de una familia de banqueros suizos, Hugues Martin...

Cath struggles to survive on her own in her first year of college while avoiding a surly roommate, bonding with a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words, and worrying about her fragile father.

Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus--who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat--refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickey, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.

Mistaken for a famous archaeologist and entrusted with a sacred Incan relic, a Chicago construction worker helps an absentminded professor and his beautiful daughter find an ancient lost city before a group of evil treasure hunters find it first.