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1) Sleuth
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Remake of the 1972 film in which a mystery novelist invites his wife's lover to his house and plays diabolical and deadly tricks on him, only to have the games returned in revenge.
2) El tesoro
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 34
Language
Español
Description
Harry Potter, a fourth-year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, longs to escape his hateful relatives, the Dursleys, and live as a normal fourteen-year-old wizard, but what Harry does not yet realize is that he is not a normal wizard, and in his case, different can be deadly.
Series
Language
English
Description
Lucy Pevenise, along with her older brothers Edmund and Peter, and her older sister, Susan, are in London during the initial bombing raids of WW II. Like many families, their parents decide to send them to the country for safer keeping. Peter, the oldest, is told to watch over the children and make sure they stay safe. This simple request will test Peter's ability to protect his siblings, especially after Lucy discovers an amazing secret. The children...
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
The people who know the woman who calls herself "Athena" and is known as "the Witch of Portobello Road" in London--including a reporter, an actress, her mother, her ex-husband, and others--recount their experiences with a remarkable individual.
8) From Hell
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 1888 London's Whitechapel slums, poor women like Mary Kelly and her friends walk the streets for a living. When the streetwalkers begin to be murdered one by one, it attracts the attention of Inspector Abberline, who takes a personal interest in the case, and Mary Kelly. Now he must use his psychic abilities to stop the most notorious serial killer in history--Jack the Ripper--before Mary is killed.
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
Español
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
Author
Language
Español
Description
"A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisi©đn de un mecanismo de relojer©Ưa, Jane Austen perfila una galer©Ưa de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de ©♭poca: las peripecias de una dama empe©łada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la regi©đn, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un cl©♭rigo adulador...--
11) Tengo tu numero
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Language
Español
Description
"Poppy Wyatt casi no se lo cree. Nunca en la vida ha tenido tanta suerte! Pero, justo cuando está a punto de casarse con el maravilloso Magnus Tavish, su final feliz empieza a desmoronarse. No solamente ha perdido el valioso anillo de compromiso durante un simulacro de incendio en un hotel, sino que también le han robado el móvil. Aturdida, desesperada, mira a su alrededor y ve un teléfono tirado en una papelera. "Perfecto, para mi!", piensa "Ahora...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Espaǫl
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
Español
Description
After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.
Author
Language
Español
Description
Amity Doncaster es una viajera experimentada acostumbrada al peligro y Benedict Stanbridge es un hombre de ciencia y espia al servicio de la Corona britanica. Pero ambos estan a punto de enfrentarse a una amenaza en su propio territorio. Una mujer no espera que la secuestren en una calle londinense a plena luz del dia. No obstante, Amity Doncaster consigue salir indemne tras verse atrapada en un carruaje con un hombre que oculta su rostro tras una...
16) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
17) Time
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"In this first paperback edition of his enormously successful Time, internationally acclaimed artist Andy Goldsworthy presents a wealth of work that uses time itself as a medium: on a Scottish hillside a huge rectangle of compacted snow becomes ever more visible as the surrounding snowfall melts away; clay walls dry out and crack, revealing new forms embedded within them; a sculpture of re-formed icicles catches the morning sunshine. This spectacular...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...
Author
Series
Narrativa) volume 231
Publisher
Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra, S.A
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"En un Londres devastado por las bombas y que empieza a recuperarse de las terribles heridas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Juliet Ashton, una joven escritora en busca de inspiración novelsca, recibe la carta de un desconocido llamado Dawsey Adams. El hombre, que vive en la isla de Guernsey, un pequeño enclave en el canal de la Mancha, está leyendo un libro de Charles Lamb que había pertenecido con anterioridad a Juliet. ¿Cómo ha llegado ese...
20) Army of darkness
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Language
English
Description
"Forced to lead a makeshift Dark Ages army against the demonic Deadites, who posses all the deadly magic of Hell, the shot-gun toting, chainsaw-armed, reluctant 20th century time traveler Ash must save the living from the dead, rescue his medieval girlfriend, and get back to his own time"--Container.