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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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A mysterious map sets Smurfette and her best friends Brainy, Clumsy, and Hefty on an exciting and thrilling race through the Forbidden Forest filled with magical creatures to find a mysterious lost village before the evil wizard Gargamel does. Embarking on a roller-coaster journey full of action and danger, the Smurfs are on a course that leads to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history!
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Language
English
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Ariel is a fun-loving and mischievous mermaid who is enchanted with all things human. Disregarding her father's order to stay away from the world above the sea, she swims to the surface and, in a raging storm, rescues Prince Eric, the man of her dreams. Determined to be human, she strikes a bargain with the devious seawitch, Ursula, and trades her fins and beautiful voice for legs. With her best friend Flounder, and her reluctant chaperone Sebastian...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
The Roman Catholic Church combats a global rise in demonic possessions by reopening schools to train priests to perform exorcisms. Although nuns are forbidden to perform this ritual, a professor recognizes Sister Ann's gifts and agrees to train her. Thrust onto the spiritual frontline, she soon finds herself in a battle for the soul of a young girl who's possessed by the same demon that tormented her own mother years earlier.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans-- though no one calls them that anymore. First an infectious virus made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the "Transition." Now, eating "special meat" is legal. Then one day he is given a live specimen of the finest quality. Though aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little Marcos starts...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
"Finalmente liberada de su cruel y depravado marido, Serena Riverton ha decidido no volver a caer jamás en las redes del matrimonio. Pero, para su desgracia, sus hermanos tienen otros planes para ella. Con el objeto de cubrir sus deudas de juego, han decidido desposarla con un noble rico. Serena huye en medio de una noche tormentosa y termina topándose con lord Francis Middlethorpe, un hombre en apariencia aburrido y completamente inexperimentado...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
La historia sigue a una novia complicada en un triángulo de amor estado en desacuerdo lleno de engaño y pasiones prohibidas, que en última instancia dan lugar a repercusiones trágicas.
The story follows a bride involved in a conflicted love triangle full of deception and forbidden passions, which ultimately give rise to tragic repercussions.
10) Benedetta
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Français
Description
Based on a true story, a 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Explore whether lost islands and mysterious, Eden-like paradises were actually earthly homes for aliens, and find out why the Greeks, Macedonians, and other ancients believed the world's mountains to be sacred homes to all-powerful gods. Experience American history via rock carvings from an 8,000 BC man-made cave filled with ancient objects and mummies. Is there a link between this cave and the Native American legend of the "star beings"?
Pub. Date
[2009], c1994
Language
English
Description
The mere name, Clarin, the notorious novelist and Spanish literary critic, was enough to turn a 19th-century writer's blood cold. His biting and often bellicose articles made him the nation's most feared critical voice. This program, produced by RTVE, is a dramatization of Clarin's most famous work, La Regenta (The Professor's Wife), generally considered the greatest Spanish naturalistic novel of that period. Brimming with political irony and stinging...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A young brontosaurus and his friends go into the mysterious beyond and find themselves in big trouble when they find an egg that turns out to be a Sharptooth.
Littlefoot, a young brontosaurus, and his friends Cera, Spike, Ducky and Petrie travel to the forbidden "Mysterious Beyond", where they soon find themselves in big trouble!
14) Madame Bovary
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape the dullness of provincial life, a young married woman pursues forbidden fantasies through a series of indiscreet seductions and adulterous affairs. Based on the acclaimed novel that transformed the Romantic era.
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English
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The triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba,...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She's math-tutoring her skater-boy crush, who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she's prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective supermom has forbidden Ruby from ever getting in the water. But when she breaks her mom's #1 rule, Ruby will discover that she is a direct descendant...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Una mujer fantástica es la historia de Marina, una mesera y cantante, y Orlando, un hombre mayor, que están enamorados y planean un futuro juntos. Después de que Orlando enferma repentinamente y muere, Marina se ve obligada a enfrentar a su familia y a la sociedad, y luchar para demostrarles quién es: una mujer fuerte, pasional...fantástica.
Marina and Orlando are in love and planning their future, when one night Orlando suddenly falls ill and...
Series
History Detectives volume Season 9
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
How is a suspiciously ornate document connected to the earliest settlers of New York City - and a potential multimillion dollar land dispute? How did a Civil War-era tintype help reignite a fiery debate about African-Americans bearing arms for the Confederacy? And what does a 1915 accounts ledger for a movie company have to do with the changing world of the Lakota Sioux? History Detectives investigates.
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Cameron falls for the most beautiful girl in school. However, she is forbidden to date until the most hated girl in school, her ill-tempered older sister, goes out too. Cameron singles out the only guy who could possibly be a match for Kat: a mysterious bad-boy with a nasty reputation of his own.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
April 1453. The Ottomans, led by Sultan Mehmed II, lay siege to the city of Constantinople. They intend to seize the city and unify their Sultanate, which was cut into two by the Byzantine Empire. In the defense of his capital, Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI can count upon his citizens, and also upon Genoese and Venetian soldiers. The reinforcements expected by the Byzantines are late in arriving, but the besieged city holds firm under the command...
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