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41) Vanity fair
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Becky is determined to make something of herself. She accepts a job as a nanny for the children of Sir Pitt Crawley. Becky catches the eye of Crawley's son Rawdon. Becky is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle, where she becomes re-acquainted with Amelia. Becky weds Rawdon, but the social and economic stability she dreamed of begins to collapse when he begins drowning his troubles, and soon she turns to the powerful Marquess of Steyne...
42) The help
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In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer but turns her friends' lives and a small Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
43) Anna Karenina
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"At the twilight of an empire, Anna Karenina ... the beautiful high-ranking wife of one of imperial Russia's most esteemed men ... has it all. But when she meets the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky ... there is a mutual spark of instant attraction that cannot be ignored. She's immediately swept up in a passionate affair that will shock a nation and change the lives of everyone around her"--Container.
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During her family's annual car trip from Chicago to Mexico City, Lala Reyes listens to stories about her family, including her grandmother, the descendant of famous shawl makers, one of which has come into Lala's possession.
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Tom Stark is a train engineer unable to face his wife's illness. Then a terrifying railway collision leaves a little boy orphaned. Tom takes the boy into his home and - step by step, moment by moment - learns how to bond with the wife he adores by opening up his heart to a boy who desperately needs the security of a devoted family.
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En La mujer que lo tiene todo, Marcus Buckingham revela la poderosa clave para ayudar a las mujeres a sacar suficiente fuerza de la vida para sentirse realizadas, amadas, exitosas y con dominio propio. Es mas, el ayuda a las mujeres a reconectarse con su proposito y ofrece un punto de partida para el cambio. Un mensaje basado en investigaciones que se aplican al trabajo y la vida, La mujer que lo tiene todo muestra a las mujeres una "teoria unificada"...
48) Clara sola
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Se cree que CLARA, de 40 años, tiene una conexión especial con Dios. Como "sanadora", sostiene a una familia y un pueblo necesitados de esperanza, mientras encuentra consuelo en su relación con la naturaleza. Después de años de ser controlada por el cuidado represivo de su madre, los deseos sexuales de Clara se ven avivados por su atracción hacia el nuevo novio de su sobrina. Esta nueva fuerza lleva a Clara a un territorio inexplorado, lo que...
49) Flowers
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Three women's lives intertwine when a tragic event jolts their lives into a new reality, and brings with it the delivery of anonymous flowers.
51) Anna Karenina
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León Tolstói (1828-1910) es reconocido como uno de los escritores más importantes de la novela rusa y de la literatura mundial. Nacido en una antigua familia de la nobleza, sus obras constituyen un fiel reflejo de la sociedad rusa de la época, convirtiéndolo en uno de los representantes más reconocidos del realismo.
En "Anna Karenina" (que empezó a publicarse como un folletín en 1875, y se publicaría por primera vez entera en 1877), Tolstói...
52) Amor en la nieve
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Era lo último que deseaba, pero el multimillonario griego Ares Kourakis iba a ser padre. Estaba dispuesto a cumplir con su deber y a mantener a Ruby a su lado, incluso a casarse con ella. Lo único que podía ofrecerle era una intensa pasión y una gran fortuna, ¿era suficiente para que Ruby accediera a subir al altar?
53) Gloria
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A story about a middle aged woman who gets caught up in a passionate whirlwind romance with a retired naval officer, whom she meets at a dance club for singles. But when she discovers the truth of their relationship, she takes matters into her own hands and sets forth to change her life.
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El ascenso de Miranda Courteney como influencer en las redes sociales terminó después de que fracasara un controvertido producto que ella promocionaba. Ella recibe una carta de un joven primo en Inglaterra sobre el libro de Tessa Summer La casa de las novias, que sigue a las notorias mujeres que se casaron con la infame familia Summers. Barnsley House, la finca de la familia, es ahora un destino culinario y hotel exclusivo. Tessa Summer era la madre...
55) Misery
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Paul Sheldon is a best-selling novelist who is on his way home from his Colorado retreat after completing his latest book. He doesn't remember the blinding blizzard that sent his car spinning off the road. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, who happens to be Paul's 'number one fan.' Annie takes Paul back to her house in the mountains, and he finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy. Unfortunately for Paul,...
56) Trick 'r treat
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Intertwines four tales together. A high school principal moonlights as a vicious serial killer; the quest for that special someone by a young virgin takes a gruesome turn; a group of teens carries out a cruel prank with disastrous consequences; and a cantankerous old man battles a mischievous trick-or-treating demon.
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"Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una persona distinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante estilo de García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos es un canto a la vida, a la resistencia del goce pese al paso del tiempo y al deseo femenino....
58) Management
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Mike Cranshaw has a chance meeting with Sue Claussen when she checks into the roadside motel owned by Mike's parents in Arizona. A bottle of wine 'compliments of management' jump starts a cross-country journey and unique courtship between two different kinds of people who are both ultimately looking for the same thing: a sense of happiness. Mike sees something special in button downed Sue that inspires him to take a chance and hit the road to go after...
59) Mujercitas
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El señor March se ha marchado a la guerra y sus cuatro hijas deben quedarse en casa con su madre, su tiacutea y sus amigos, en medio del bullicio de la vida burguesa de Nueva Inglaterra.
Chronicles the joys and sorrow of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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¿Queridas Carys, Zoe y Andrea, Me gustaría que os unieseis a mí en un fin de semana de aventura por mi cuarenta cumpleaños. Estará lleno de sorpresas y misterios que no os podéis ni imaginar". Las amigas de Joanne aceptan, a regañadientes, la invitación a su cumpleaños. Pronto se verá que hay mucho más de lo esperado detrás de este fin de semana. Una de ellas esconde un secreto. Y Joanne planea revelarlo. Un fin de semana en una casa en...
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