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"Unexpectedly, real winter comes for everyone: it gets colder, snow falls, and ice appears on the lake. To have some fun, Rex's mom decides to organize an ice fishing competition. The main prize is a can of mackerel in tomato. But various scary creatures can hide under the ice! And so, Rasmus and Timmy are in for a few surprises." --
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"When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way to bring her back was through reading. Reading My Mother Back is a genre-bending memoir that explores a life marked by trauma, illness, religion, and abuse through a focus on the books Baker and his mother shared. The book combines accounts of rereading childhood classics with true and apocryphal stories...
1727) Un gran día de nada
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"Un niño llega con su madre a la misma casa de vacaciones de un lugar solitario y aparentemente sin atractivos al que van cada año. ¿Qué puede hacer allí, solo, aburrido, mientras su madre trabaja? Pero aquella tarde, después de perder su máquina de matar marcianos, se adentra en el bosque, donde descubrirá un mundo maravilloso."--Casadellibro.
1728) Hamlet
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"Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a spectre from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge."--Provided by publisher.
1732) Murder by moonlight
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"What's a nice, proper dame like Joan Parker doing in a place like Dick Moonlight's office? The scar running down her face-- from the business end of an axe-- has something to do with it. Shortly after the attack that killed her husband and left her for dead, she pointed the finger at her son Christopher, who now sits in jail. But the woman insists the police have it all wrong-- Christopher didn't do it-- and she just needs the private eye to prove...
1733) Espiritismo
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In compliance with a deep desire, a mother wants her dead son to come back to life.
1734) Assassinistas
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When a kidnapping hits too close for home for former hit-woman Octavia, she is forced out of retirement and back into the bounty-hunting business. With her former partners unavailable, she recruits her son and his boyfriend to aid and abet her in a semester of murder-based work study, where she'll teach them everything she knows--if she can get them to put down the video games and stop making out long enough to concentrate on the mission.
1735) It. goes. so. fast
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Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly that is destined to become a classic--about the year before her son goes to college -- and the joys, losses and surprises that happen along the way. The time for do-overs is over. Ever since she became a parent, Mary Louise Kelly has said "next year." Next year will be the year she makes it to her son Jamess soccer games (which are on weekdays at 4...
1736) Imagina que no hay cielo
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Tres millones de dólares bien valen una misa. En el México de los años noventa, buena parte de la población enfrenta la mayor crisis financiera que el país ha visto en la historia reciente. Entre las víctimas están los hermanos Oroprieto Laguna, dos muchachos que huyeron de su pueblo --y de su tiránica madre-- antes de cumplir la mayoría de edad. Pero ahora la tremenda inflación y la caída del peso los llevarán de vuelta a sus raíces,...
1737) Creeboy
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"Set in the 2000s on the fictional reserve of Ṕ-ko-sey-i-mo-min, 16-year-old Josh "Creeboy" navigates the world of Indigenous gang life. His dad, the leader of one of the gangs on his reserve, is in jail, and his older brother Darion has taken his place. Josh is unsure whether gang life is for him -- that is until Darion is killed during a run-in with a rival gang. Angry, hurt and frustrated by systemic racism against Indigenous peoples, Josh, now...
1739) Surface tension
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After witnessing an act of domestic terrorism, Jake experiences memory loss and is targeted by the terrorist leader's teenage daughter, bullied by an FBI agent, doubted by his mother, but aided by his girlfriend, Laurissa, through it all.
1740) In Mike we trust
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As fifteen-year-old Garth is wrestling with the promise he made his mother to wait a while before coming out, his somewhat secretive uncle shows up unexpectedly for an extended visit.
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