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Lucy Pevenise, along with her older brothers Edmund and Peter, and her older sister, Susan, are in London during the initial bombing raids of WW II. Like many families, their parents decide to send them to the country for safer keeping. Peter, the oldest, is told to watch over the children and make sure they stay safe. This simple request will test Peter's ability to protect his siblings, especially after Lucy discovers an amazing secret. The children...
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 7
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1a. ed.
Description
Harry Potter, a fourth-year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, longs to escape his hateful relatives, the Dursleys, and live as a normal fourteen-year-old wizard, but what Harry does not yet realize is that he is not a normal wizard, and in his case, different can be deadly.
Author
Description
"A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisi©đn de un mecanismo de relojer©Ưa, Jane Austen perfila una galer©Ưa de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de ©♭poca: las peripecias de una dama empe©łada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la regi©đn, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un cl©♭rigo adulador...--
6) Atonement
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In 1935, thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony's vivid imagination. Robbie Turner, the educated son of the family's housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony's headstrong older sister Cecilia. He hopes that Cecilia has comparable feelings. All it will take...
7) Sleuth
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Remake of the 1972 film in which a mystery novelist invites his wife's lover to his house and plays diabolical and deadly tricks on him, only to have the games returned in revenge.
8) El tesoro
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1991
Description
A retelling of the traditional English tale in which a poor man follows the advice of his dream and is eventually led to a treasure.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Espaǫl
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1. edicin̤ Vintage Espaǫl
Description
After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.
11) Flecha negra
Author
Publisher
Gaviota
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
A young Englishman, seeking to avenge the death of his father, becomes involved in the band of the Black Arrow and the events of the War of the Roses.
12) Beetlejuice
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Twentieth anniversary deluxe edition.
Formats
Description
A couple of likable ghosts contact the afterlife's bio-exorcist to rid their home of a trendy New York family that moves in.
Author
Description
Amity Doncaster es una viajera experimentada acostumbrada al peligro y Benedict Stanbridge es un hombre de ciencia y espia al servicio de la Corona britanica. Pero ambos estan a punto de enfrentarse a una amenaza en su propio territorio. Una mujer no espera que la secuestren en una calle londinense a plena luz del dia. No obstante, Amity Doncaster consigue salir indemne tras verse atrapada en un carruaje con un hombre que oculta su rostro tras una...
14) Mary Poppins
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
40th anniversary edition.
Description
Two banker's children lose their nanny due to her frustration with them. A change in the wind blows in a magical nanny who matches the qualifications of the children, but not the very proper father. As she helps the children magically explore the world around them, the father grows increasingly disapproving of her methods, and he must eventually deal with his own distance from his children.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Now she must seize the day if she wants a job. She does this by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level as social secretary. Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia...
18) From Hell
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
In 1888 London's Whitechapel slums, poor women like Mary Kelly and her friends walk the streets for a living. When the streetwalkers begin to be murdered one by one, it attracts the attention of Inspector Abberline, who takes a personal interest in the case, and Mary Kelly. Now he must use his psychic abilities to stop the most notorious serial killer in history--Jack the Ripper--before Mary is killed.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1. ed. Rayo en pasta blanda.
Description
The people who know the woman who calls herself "Athena" and is known as "the Witch of Portobello Road" in London--including a reporter, an actress, her mother, her ex-husband, and others--recount their experiences with a remarkable individual.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Sherlock Holmes is known as the greatest detective who never lived. All the classic tales are here, as the great detective and his faithful companion, Dr. Watson, tangle with the terrifying hound of the Baskervilles, the beautiful adventuress Irene Adler, and the dastardly villains Colonel Sebastian Moran, Charles Augustus Milverton, and the Napoleon of crime himself, Professor James Moriarty.
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