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Evelyn Del Rey es la mejor amiga de Daniela. Hacen todo juntos e incluso viven en apartamentos gemelos frente al otro: Daniela con su mami y h?mster, y Evelyn con su mami, papi y gato. Pero no despu?s de hoy, no despu?s de que Evelyn se mude. Hasta entonces, las ni?as juegan entre las cajas de mudanzas hasta que llega el momento de despedirse, haciendo promesas de mantenerse en contacto, porque saben que su amistad siempre ser? especial.
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2) Influence
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Influence (Carl Weber) volume 1
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Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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316 pages ; 24 cm
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When he graduates with his law degree, handsome and charismatic Langston Hudson is ready to hit the ground running as a lawyer with his family's firm, but a routine traffic stop during a night out with his friends quickly derails his plans and turns his world upside down. Langston and his friends are arrested after officers find half a million dollars' worth of drugs in his car. When Jacqueline Hudson learns of her son's arrest, she immediately begins...
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"Celeste knows she should be excited to spend two weeks at her grandparents' lake house with her brother, Owen, and their cousins Capri and Daisy, but she's not. Bugs, bad cell reception, and the dark waters of the lake... no thanks. On top of that, she just failed her swim test and hates being in the water-it's terrifying. But her grandparents are strong believers in their family knowing how to swim, especially having grown up during a time of segregation...
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2018.
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"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
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Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
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Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
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""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...
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"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
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From the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son, Toussaint, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter's squalid conditions: their cockroach-infested room, the barely edible food, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them...
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Allblk, RLJ Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
c2021.
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2 DVDs (5 hrs., 32 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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With a long legacy that has brought them from slavery to the heights of wealth and power in Los Angeles, the Sanders family is now at a crossroads. Their world is turned upside down when matriarch Pamela Sanders suddenly and mysteriously dies, leaving her husband Cameran desperately trying to keep the family united. His daughter Theresa's scandalous affair, young Torrance's potential NBA career and Cameran Jr.s' out of control lifestyle all threaten...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (788 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three months have passed since Lucious Lyon's shocking arrest. Now, released from prison, he and Cookie enter a hostile competition to dominate the music industry. Despite an ongoing feud between their sons Jamal and Hakeem, a stunning betrayal may unite the family against an outside takeover of Empire Records. Meanwhile, Cookie learns a frightening truth about her new lover, and tragedy tests Andre's newfound faith.
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