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Publisher
[Distributed by] CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Dexter is forced to confront his greatest fear, as Debra witnesses his insatiable, ritualistic slaying of a killer. Deb knows the secret of his Dark Passenger, his undeniable thirst for blood, and the Code that their father Harry instilled in him as a young boy. But as Deb tries to reconcile the unfathomable idea that her beloved, mild-mannered brother is Miami's most notorious serial killer, Dexter is still pulled by his impulses to seek out the...
4) Ray
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by his mother who insisted he make his own way, he found his calling at the keyboard. 'Ray' follows as he overcomes drug addiction while becoming one of the country's most beloved performers.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts--escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi--and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
1585: Philip II's Catholic Spain is the most powerful empire in the world. Only England, ruled by Protestant Elizabeth, stands against him. The Queen is threatened by a depleted treasury, constant threats of assassination, and plots by Philip to install her cousin, Queen Mary of Scotland, on her throne. To which end a great armada is poised to invade England--as punishment for the capture of his treasure-ships, and to make Europe safe for Catholicism--even...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thematic material and violence/disturbing images.
A young lawyer is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client's papers. While he works alone in the client's isolated house, he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman who is terrorizing the locals. This leads him on a desperate race against time when he discovers her true intent.
Author
Publisher
Children's Books Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Family Pictures is the story of Carmen Lomas Garza's girlhood: celebrating birthdays, making tamales, finding a hammerhead shark on the beach, picking cactus, going to a fair in Mexico, and confiding to her sister her dreams of becoming an artist. These day-to-day experiences are told through fourteen vignettes of art and a descriptive narrative, each focusing on a different aspect of traditional Mexican American culture. The English-Spanish text...
13) Laughing tomatoes and other spring poems =: Jitomates risueños y otros poemas de primavera : poems
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A bilingual collection of humorous and serious poems about family, nature, and celebrations by a renowned Mexican American poet.
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
2005, ©2000
Language
Español
Description
A colorful picture-and-word book all about the body and the things it can do -- from eating breakfast to running and dancing.
Un colorido libro de imágenes y palabras sobre el cuerpo y lo que puede hacer: desayunar, correr, bailar y todo lo demás.
15) Family pictures
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press
Pub. Date
[c1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in a Hispanic community in Texas.
17) In my family
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press/Libros Para Niños
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author describes, in bilingual text and illustrations, her experiences growing up in an Hispanic community in Texas.
18) 5 flights up
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A married couple's attempts at selling their New York apartment don't quite go as planned over the course of one crazy weekend.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A.Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Si yo fuera una oveja, tú serías un cordero. Si yo fuera una osa, tú serías un osenzo. Con su niño en brazos, una madre contempla cómo sería elamorentre ellos si fueran diferentes animales. Pero por mucho que cambien,no importa. Siempre serán "nosotros". Este cuento bilingüe es una oda eterna al lazo irrompibleentre madre e hijo.
A moving bilingual ode to the unshakeable bond between a parent and child in the tradition of Runaway Bunny and...
20) Gravity
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...
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