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Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
"Diana O'Toole tiene la vida calculada al milímetro: se casará a los treinta, tendrá hijos a los treinta y cinco y se mudará a los suburbios de la ciudad de Nueva York. Todavía no está comprometida, pero sabe que su novio, Finn, un residente de cirugía, está a punto de proponerle matrimonio en su próxima escapada romántica a las islas Galápagos. ¡Justo antes de su trigésimo cumpleaños! Sin embargo, la vida le tiene reservado otro destino...
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Leaving home brings together three previously published short pieces, each dealing with a variation on the theme of leaving home. The first, "Weights and measures," deals with the tragic loss of a child; the second is a non-fiction letter Picoult wrote to her eldest son as he left for college; and "Ritz" tells the story of a mother who takes the vacation all mothers need sometime.
27) The tenth circle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After a married couple's daughter accuses her ex-boyfriend of rape, he turns up dead after an apparent suicide attempt and the girl's family finds themselves at the center of the investigation.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
Español
Description
All her life, 13-year old Anna has helped her sister fight leukemiea. Anna has provided platelets, bone marrow, and even stem cells to ensure Kate's survival. But when their parents ask her to donate a kidney, Anna has had enough. She enlist the aid of a lawyer and announces her intention to sue for control of her own body.
"Anna ha nacido con un propósito muy espefíco. Nació porque un científico manipuló la conexión entre el óvulo de su madre...
29) Mermaid
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Once, Hope Payne was a mermaid, performing at the local theme park and captivating audiences young and old. Today, she's married to a pragmatic marine biologist who has filled the pool in their backyard with flounder for a special study. Before he begins, the fish vanish--echoing a loss Hope alone can understand. She senses there's something underwater, something alive and hungry for more, but is she in too deep to ever resurface?
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Features essays from such authors and celebrities as James Franco, Carrie Fisher, Stephen King, Jodi Picoult, and Emily Gould, which are filled with heartbreak, humiliation, and hilarity as each shares their first celebrity crush.
31) Plain truth
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A high-profile lawyer from the city leaves for rural Pennsylvania to defend an eighteen year-old Amish girl who is accused of killing her baby.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
After his reputation is ruined by the false accusations of a female student at an all-girl prep school, a teacher tries to start over in a small town, but finds himself accused of rape; a high-profile criminal attorney defends a teenage Amish girl who is on trial for murdering her baby; two families must pick up the pieces when their teenage children decide to commit suicide together, but only one of them dies.
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Not just for a young adult audience, this incredibly impactful collection will appeal to readers of all ages who are feeling adrift and looking for guidance.