Elvira
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good....
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four hours: that's how long fourteen-year-old Elvira Gonzalez is given to come up with the $40,000 she needs to save her kidnapped mother from a drug cartel. It's 2006 and Elvira's hometown of Laredo, Texas, has become engulfed by the Mexican Drug War. Elvira's life is unraveling around her―setting her on a harrowing path that leads her to being locked up in one of South Texas's worst juvenile detention centers. After Elvira's released from...
5) Bobbi Jene
Publisher
Oscilloscope Pictures
Language
English
Description
After a decade of stardom in Israel, American dancer Bobbi Jene decides to leave behind her prominent position at the world-famous Batsheva Dance Company, as well as the love of her life, to return to the U.S. to create her own boundary breaking art.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a backyard campout, ten-year-old Matt and four other children find themselves transported back into the time of George Washington and the American Revolution, where they begin to live out American history firsthand and learn the sober realities of war.
10) The Tenth Man
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Language
Español
Description
Award-winning director Daniel Burman returns with this well-observed comedy that wrestles with notions of identity, home and the intricacies of the father-son relationship. After years away, Ariel returns to Buenos Aires seeking to reconnect with his father Usher, who has founded a charity foundation in Once, the city's bustling Jewish district where Ariel spent his youth. In the process of trying to meet his father and getting entangled in his charitable...
12) Mother
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Language
Español
Description
Diana Prieto is pregnant and taking care of her autistic son Martin has become overwhelming. She hires Luz, a gifted caregiver from the Philippines and Martin quickly begins improving under Luz's supervision, but Diana's worried that he's only being taught to speak Filipino. Diana begins to suspect that Luz is using the language barrier and voodoo to turn Martin against Diana and into something far more sinister... Official Selection at the **SXSW...
13) Un día nuevo
Author
Publisher
Celebra, publicado por Penguin Group
Language
Español
Description
"Siendo una de los primeros artistas latinos en cruzar fronteras culturales en este país, Jon Secada dominó las listas de música pop al inicio de los años noventa lanzando títulos como Otro día más sin verte y Ángel y ganó varios premios Grammy. Como cubano en el exilio, Jon entiende que vivir significa comenzar de nuevo cada vez y aceptar las oportunidades que se presenten, algo que nunca perdió de vista mientras alcanzaba su sueño de...
Publisher
Venevision International
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
Español
Description
Andrés, un joven fotógrafo comprometido para casarse, es atracado en medio de la noche por dos bellas mujeres. En busca de una explicación de tal acto de violencia, conoce a una de las atracadoras. Este hecho dará un cambio radical a la vida de Andrés.
Andrés, a young photographer, has a steady job and is about to marry his longtime girlfriend, Alicia. But Isabel, a woman with a mental disorder, totally changes Andrés's life.
Series
Publisher
[distributed by] Winstar TV & Video
Language
Español
Description
An extravagant road movie set on New Year's eve, 1999 in a Madrid suburb where the highways seem to lead nowhere. It begins with a simple invitation to dinner for Manuel and his very pregnant wife, Paloma. Soon, the night becomes a succession of misunderstandings, hitchhiking, lost cars, mistaken identities, small accidents, and petty disputes. Beggars, thieves, tourists, taxi drivers, and police officers all come together at the crucial moment when...
16) Everybody knows
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Español
Description
Laura and her children travel from Buenos Aires to the small Spanish village where she was born to attend her sister's wedding. Unexpected events soon lead to a crisis that exposes the family's hidden past. Suspicions mount, loved ones begin to turn on one another, and dark secrets long hidden threaten to come to light, revealing shocking truths.
Laura y sus hijos viajan desde Buenos Aires hasta su pueblo natal en Espąa para festejar una boda de...
17) Moana
Author
Publisher
BuzzPop
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Acompaña a Moana en su viaje por los mares para salvar su isla en este cuento bilingüe basado en Moana de los Estudios de Animación Walt Disney. ¡El libro en inglés y español es perfecto para los fans de la película!
Set sail with Moana as she teams up with the demigod Maui to save her village and find her true calling. How far will Moana go?
18) Todo es mentira
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Edition
Primera edición en México.
Language
Español
Description
Told through flashbacks, this is the story of best friends Jule and Imogen, orphaned outcasts who'll do almost anything to attain a happy, wealthy life.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
Español
Description
Mexicanos al grito de guerra: Drama patriótico e histórico, Napoleón III está planeando invadir México, el cual se prepara para repeler el ataque. Al mismo tiempo es lanzada una convocatoria para realizar el Himno Nacional. Este concurso es ganado por el poeta Francisco González Bocanegra y el músico catalán Jaime Nuno. Sea testigo de todos los acontecimientos y actos heróicos que rodearon la creación de nuestro glorioso Himno Nacional que...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Distribuidora Virtual Digital de M?exico S.A. de C.V
Edition
El Cine de Oro Mexicano.
Language
Español
Description
France's planned invasion of Mexico provides the backdrop for the writing of the Mexican national anthem.
"Luis se enlista en el ej?ercito para defender a M?exico del ataque de los franceses, paralelamente se enamora de una chica que es sobrina del embajador de Francia. Cuando el ej?ercito mexicano se ve mermado en fuerzas Luis los alienta tocando con su corneta el Himno Nacional de M?exico haciendo que los soldados se recuperen y venzan a los franceses,...