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2) Ray
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Flashing back intermittently to dream-like scenes from his hardscrabble rural childhood, "Ray" chronicles Ray Charles' remarkable rise from sideman and Chitlin Circuit fixture to innovator, icon, and international superstar. Yet even as Charles ascends to the heights of the musical and cultural elite, he remains hobbled by heroin addiction and compulsive womanizing, a prisoner to his own insatiable needs. Through it all, Ray Charles possessed a rock-solid...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Cuando el mundo se hunde, o cedes a la desesperación o encuentras otro motivo por el que vivir. En un mundo destinado a sufrir una inundación épica, solo unos pocos elegidos tienen garantizado un pasaje seguro a un nuevo mundo en cuanto las aguas retrocedan. La corte real kostroviana se salvará, por supuesto, y también sus guardias. Sin embargo, el destino de las Bailarinas Reales, una admirada compañía de danza aérea, no está tan claro....
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Larry Rhodes is a hobo with a powerful personality and a mean streak as wide as the Mississippi River. He is 'discovered' by Marcia Jeffries, who christens him "Lonesome" Rhodes, and makes him the star of her morning radio show, "A Face in the Crowd." Listeners are enthralled by his down-home, folksy charm, and after developing a large following, Rhodes begins a journey to national fame and TV stardom. A powerful business tycoon realizes that he can...
6) Candyman
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oscar® winner Jordan Peele and filmmaker Nia DaCosta unleashes a fresh take on the blood-chilling urban legend: Candyman. For decades the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green neighborhood were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural killer summoned by repeating his name five times into a mirror. In the present day, artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) moves into the neighborhood, now gentrified beyond recognition. Anxious...
7) House of D
Language
English
Description
By working through challenges stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Tracks the overnight celebrity of Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. Then the bubble burst. When a 2005 profile by '60 minutes' suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight, her family is ensnared in a web of accusation and denial...
11) Selena
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The Grammy Award-winning singer whose life tragically ended just as she was reaching her dreams. Includes the never-before-released extended/director's cut version, new interviews with Selena's family and Jennifer Lopez, and more.
12) For the boys
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A USO singer teams up with a song and dance man to entertain the troops, and For The Boys follows them through three wars and 50 years of music and memories.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Jerome goes to art school in the hopes of having his genuine ability recognized. Instead he finds that his teachers are self-obsessed has-beens and his peers are jaded and floundering. To make matters worse, Jerome finds himself being investigated for a series of gruesome stranglings. He becomes obsessed with a lovely student named Audrey, but she is more interested in the hunky Jonah, whose crude yet acclaimed paintings of cars and tanks make Jerome...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Clifford and his friends are ready for some fun. At the same time they teach Emily Elizabeth and her friends valuable things about growing up. When Emily Elizabeth gives up being an artist, she discovers the joy of practicing, and when Clifford's friends have their own worries, Clifford is there to help them get through.
16) Victor Victoria
Pub. Date
[2002?]
Language
English
Description
A woman singer working on the cabaret circuit pretends to be a man pretending to be a woman. Things get even more complicated when she meets the man of her dreams. Set in Paris, France, in 1934.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
El galardonado artista John Parra nos trae un conmovedor y engañosamente simple cuento infantil ilustrado inspirado por su propia niñez, sobre el lazo entre padre e hijo, el valor de trabajar duro y los vínculos que existen entre la naturaleza, el arte y la creatividad.Hoy es el gran día: ¡la primera vez que su papá lleva a Juanito a ayudarlo en su trabajo de contratista de jardinería! A lo largo del día, Juanito dibuja todo lo que le llama...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
Español
Description
"Nuevo instituto. Típica niña odiosa. Flechazo a la vista. Nuevo diario en el que Nikki le da vueltas y más vueltas a todo... "--Back cover.
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes in her diary of her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, then of finding her place after she gives up on being part of the elite group.
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