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Series
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
In a big American city, a boy and his family discover a story about a prince in a land of miracles. But the miracle becomes real when Tibetan monks appear, searching for their leader's reincarnation -- who they believe has been reborn in the boy. Suddenly, their worlds meet, leading the Americans on an extraordinary adventure.
4) Mrs. Brown
Series
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
A true-life story of the forbidden love and passion between Queen Victoria and her lowly servant, John Brown.
Series
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
No one ever paid much attention to Muriel and her humdrum small town life, so she and her best friend Rhonda decide to leave it behind and head for the big city ... where they end up having the exciting adventure of their lives! What's more, soon everyone takes notice when Muriel becomes engaged to a handsome and popular sports hero!
Language
English
Description
When her husband ran off with another woman, Roberta Gaspari, a talented violinist was left with two young sons to care for. She was encouraged to teach, and decided to take her skills to underpriveleged East Harlem children. But when school funding for the project was cut, Roberta took on the system, culminating in a student performance that exceeded expectations, playing with the world's greatest violinists at Carnegie Hall.
7) Sirens
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
An idealistic young minister on a mission, must tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist whose nude paintings of his beautiful models scandalize the nation. Intent on delivering salvation, the repressed reverend and his wife instead are lead into temptation by their playfully seductive hosts and sensuous surroundings.
Series
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Daisy is a well-to-do but bookish Manhattan teenager attending an exclusive prep school. Daisy has a secret; not only does she have a crush on the school's star athlete, but she feels she must suppress her Jewish identity. The only person in Daily's life that she feels comfortable opening up to is her grandmother, Nana, a Holocaust survivor who shares with her granddaughter an affinity for flowers. As Nana relates tragic stories of the horros experienced...
14) Cinema paradiso
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Italiano
Description
A filmmaker returns to his Sicilian hometown for the first time in thirty years and looks back on his life. As a young boy he was befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As he grew up, he learned to love films, and was encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies.
16) King of the wind
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion--known as the Godolphin Arabian--brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed-- and the mute Moroccan stable boy who tends him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
17) My life so far
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate. When the elder woman's son arrives with his French maid, everything gets thrown into turmoil.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The prophecy: The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
The prophecy II: Gabriel returns to try to destroy the human race he despises so much, with the help of a suicidal teen and the opposition of the angel Daniel.
The prophecy III: the ascent: As the war in Heaven and on Earth rages on, Pyriel, the Angel of Genocide, rises to power, intending...
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
The prophecy: The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
The prophecy II: Gabriel returns to try to destroy the human race he despises so much, with the help of a suicidal teen and the opposition of the angel Daniel.
The prophecy III: the ascent: As the war in Heaven and on Earth rages on, Pyriel, the Angel of Genocide, rises to power, intending...
20) Smoke signals
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
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