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"Cuando �scar desaparece de repente, nadie sabe de el por siete d�as y siete noches. En la Barcelona de 1980 �scar Drai sue�a despierto, deslumbrado por los palacetes modernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus escapadas conoce a Marina, una chica delicada de salud. Ella lo lleva a un cementerio donde juntos son testigos de un macabro ritual que sucede el �ltimo domingo de cada mes sin falta. A las diez...

Titanic tells the story of that terrible night through the eyes of Eva Hart, a seven-year-old girl who survived the sinking. Young scientists can examine the technology of the ship, and differing eyewitness accounts encourage readers to think about how history is created out of facts and opinions. Titanic narra la historia de esa terrible noche a travš de los ojos de Eva Hart, una nią de siete aǫs que sobrevivi a̤l hundimiento. Jv̤enes cientf̕icos...

En su lecho de muerte, el anciano y enfermo Artemio Cruz recuerda que no siempre fue ese triste saco de huesos y fermentos corporales; alguna vez fue joven, osado, vigoroso. Y tuvo ideales, sueños, revolución extinguieron su fuego y aniquilaron su esperanza. Tal vez por ello perdió a la única mujer que de verdad lo amó. An imaginative portrait of an unscrupulous individual, the story also serves as commentary on Mexican society, most notably...

Profiles the civil rights leader, discussing his career as a pastor, his fight for African American rights, and his legacy.

Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known.

Musical concerning the romance between a teenage gang leader and his naive girlfriend, set in the 1950's.

El joven Frankie Presto es un huérfano de guerra criado por un profesor de música ciego en un pequeño pueblo español. A los nueve años, Frankie es enviado a Estados Unidos en el fondo de un bote. Su única posesión es una guitarra vieja. El talento de Frankie es tocado por los dioses, y su increíble viaje lo lleva a través del paisaje musical del siglo XX, desde el clásico hasta el jazz y el rock and roll, con su impresionante talento que...

In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated by news accounts of the great white shark said to be attacking people along the New Jersey shore not far from his home, but when he goes swimming in Matawan Creek he discovers the truth of the stories.

Ireland, 1939: Much has changed for the Deverill family, and a new generation is waiting in the wings. In Dublin, Martha Wallace has returned home from America, desperate to track down her birth mother. But instead she has lost her heart to the impossibly charming JP, scion of the Deverill family ... Bridie Doyle has come a long way from her humble roots. Now Countess di Marcantonio and mistress of Castle Deverill, she is determined to make the splendid...

After fourteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns to Valparaíso from Maine, she decides to uncover the truth about what happened in Cerro Mariposa during the dictatorship and find her missing friend, Lucila.