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A young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s, learns of injustice and violence when her father, a widowed lawyer, defends a black man falsely accused of rape.

Superstar quarterback Joe Kingman is living the ultimate fantasy: he's rich, famous, and the life of the party. He's getting ready for a big championship game when the 8-year-old daughter he never knew existed shows up at his bachelor pad.

Jerry is ecstatic that a woman he met on the road is coming to stay with him in New York. Jerry tries to break up with his obnoxious childhood friend. Jerry meets an attractive woman at a party but by the time she leaves, he has only learned where she works. Jerry is robbed after Kramer fails to close the apartment door. After George receives a stock tip, he and Jerry take the financial plunge.

In this book, the renowned Mexican journalist, Le©đn Krauze presents a charming Mosaic: fifty stories of people, fifty lives that portray the experience of migrating to the United States and the battle to achieve a better life. Inspired by conversations, spontaneous and candid, in the successful television segment 'La Mesa,' which has broken ratings on Univisi©đn records, Krauze revives the tales of those who have had the courage to emigrate,...

When Dave Drayton notices a stange mist on the lake, he does not think much of it. When his son, Billy, his neighbor Brent Norton, and himself travel to the grocery store, strange things begin to happen. On their way to the market, they see the army, the local firefighters and police, heading toward the mist. When he sees this, Brent mentions something about "Project Arrowhead," a secret military plan that no one knows about. All of the store's shoppers...

Moving at warp speed, dodging asteroids and more, the Buddies and their new friends must summon their courage and ingenuity to launch plans for a moon landing and a rocketing trip back home. Will they have the right stuff?

The former president looks back on his life and career, discussing his youth and education, his early public service, his years as governor of Arkansas, and his accomplishments during two terms in the White House. Bill Clinton será, sin duda alguna, uno de los personajes políticos más polémico y complejo de todos los tiempos, en su país. El cuadragésimo segundo presidente de los Estados Unidos de América lideró un período de bonanza económica,...

Introduces Thanksgiving, discussing common foods eaten and the first celebration of Thanksgiving in 1621.

Kate is a successful and single businesswoman who has long put her career ahead of a personal life. At 37, she's finally determined to have a child on her own. Unable to get pregnant, a driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. After learning that Angie is pregnant, Kate goes into precision nesting mode. She reads childcare books, baby-proofs the apartment and researches top pre-schools. But Kate's...

There's music in the wind and sky. Can you hear it? And there's hope. Can you feel it? The boy called August Rush can. The music mysteriously draws him penniless and alone to New York City in a quest to find - somehow someway - the parents separated from him years earlier. And along the way he may also find the musical genius hidden within him. Experience the magic of this rhapsodic epic of the heart starring Freddie Highmore (as August) Keri Russell...