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Author
Language
English
Description
A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority.
Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative.
Dubcovsky reconstructs the lives of Native women-Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and...
2) Company N12
Author
Language
English
Description
Francisco Angulo's thrilling new novel Company No. 12 offers readers a riveting glimpse into the mysterious inner workings of an elite Spanish military unit. Blending elements of psychological drama, paranormal suspense, and military fiction, Angulo has crafted a profound meditation on fear, authority, and the darkness potentially lurking within mankind. Company No. 12 follows the journey of an unnamed 19-year-old protagonist who joins this secretive...
3) Gran turismo
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs, a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive. Together, they risk it all to take on the most elite sport in the world. It is an inspiring, thrilling, and action-packed story that proves that nothing is impossible when you're fueled from within.
4) The creator
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war and mankind itself. Joshua and his team of elite operatives journey across enemy lines, into the dark heart of AI-occupied territory...
5) Devotion
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Elite fighter pilots Jesse Brown and Tom Hudner become the U.S. Navy's most celebrated wingmen during the Korean War.
6) Mean girls
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic. New student Cady Heron is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called "The Plastics," ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George and her minions Gretchen and Karen. However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels, she finds herself prey in Regina's crosshairs. As Cady sets out to...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
El misterioso libro azul de Talbott Reynolds pasa de mano en mano en la clandestinidad y una sociedad sedienta de la sangre de la elite se prepara para seguir sus instrucciones: el Día del Ajuste esta aquí. Cuando llegue, los Mas Odiados de América serán ejecutados y un nuevo orden se instaurara. Y los Estados Unidos se reunificación en tres nuevos estados separados según la raza y las preferencias sexuales. Chuck Palahniuk muestra sin tapujos...
9) Fantasma
Author
Series
Track volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Correr. Eso es lo único que Fantasma --cuyo nombre real es Castle Cranshaw-- ha conocido toda su vida. Pero nunca para un equipo de atletismo. Nones, lo suyo siempre ha sido el básquet. Pero cuando Fantasma, en una fanfarronada, reta a un velocista de élite a una competencia --y la gana--, el medallista olíimpico que es entrenador del equipo ve que él tiene algo: un talento natural que es una lacura."-- Provided by publisher.
"Ghost, a naturally...
10) La reina roja
Author
Series
Red queen volume 1
Language
Español
Description
"Ambientada en un reino imaginario, esta novela nos muestra a una sociedad dividida por el color de la sangre. Por un lado esta la gente comun que tiene sangre roja; por el otro tenemos a aquellos que poseen sangre plateada y que tienen habilidades sobrenaturales. Estos ultimos forman una elite cerrada y llena de privilegios. La protagonista es Mare, una chica de sangre roja que sobrevive en medio de la pobreza realizando pequenos robos. Cierto dia,...
Author
Series
Spy school volume vol 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.
Publisher
On Screen Films
Pub. Date
p 2008, 2004
Language
Español
Description
Follow an elite band of men and women charged with guarding the American President. Witness the measures employed to protect the President, his family and other American leaders, and get an agent's view of the day-to-day challenges faced by Secret Service veterans serving Bush back to Truman and earlier presidents.
"Sigue a un grupo élite de hombres y mujeres motivados por el impresionante grupo de seguridad del presidente de Estados Unidos. Para...
Series
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Turbo F.A.S.T., the high-speed animated series that takes comedy, action, and excitement to the extreme. The world's fastest snail and his Fast Action Stunt Team put their elite skills to the test against all-new opponents on and off the track.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
When Fire Superintendent Jake Carson and his elite team of expert firefighters come to the rescue of three siblings during a wildfire, they quickly realize that no amount of training could prepare them for their most challenging job yet: babysitting. Unable to locate the children's parents, the firefighters have their lives, jobs, and even their head firehouse turned upside down and quickly learn that children, like fires, are wild and unpredictable....
16) Boogie
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Alfred "Boogie" Chin, a basketball phenom living in Queens, N.Y., dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite college, Boogie must find a way to navigate a new girlfriend, high school, on-court rivals, and the burden of expectation.
Author
Series
Alguien esta mintiendo volume 1
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Una nueva app está acorralando a la élite del instituto Bayview para estudiantes de perfil elevado. Las filtraciones de la vida privada de los estudiantes corren como la pólvora por la nueva red social creada por Simon Kelleher, alumno de la misma institución. Pero la cosa se pone muy seria cuando Simon es asesinado justo delante de sus víctimas. Los cuatro cabecillas de la "crème de la crème" estudiantil se convierten en sospechosos directos...
18) Patina
Author
Series
Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
Fantasma. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Cuatro jóvenes de familias completamente diferentes, con personalidades que se vuelven explosivas al chocar. Pero son también cuatro jóvenes de secundaria que fueron escogidos para un equipo de élite de atletismo... un equipo que los podría ayudar a clasificarse para las Olimpiadas Juveniles. Todos tienen mucho que perder, pero también tienen mucho que demostrar, no solo a sus compañeros sino a sí mismos. Patina...
20) The contractor
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Involuntarily discharged from the Army, a special forces sergeant lands a contract with a private underground military force. When his very first assignment goes awry, the elite soldier finds himself hunted and on the run, caught in a dangerous conspiracy and fighting to stay alive long enough to get home and uncover the true motives of those who betrayed him.
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