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1601) El olvido que seremos
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Description
Este libro es la reconstruccion amorosa, paciente y detallada de un pesonaje. a traves de este, es tambien el recuerdo de la barbarie de una epoca, de una ciudad, de unos rituales familiars, ademas de la evocacion melancolica de la ninez y la iniciacion en el mundo del propio narrador. Esta lleno de sonrisas y de amargura, canta el placer de vivir pero tambien muestra el rictus de tristeza y rabiaque provoca el vil asesinato de este hermoso personaje,...
Author
Series
Select editions large type volume 202
Publisher
Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Large print edition].
Physical Desc
509 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bloodline: When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and it's the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
In upstate New York, Stephanie and Patrick are adjusting to life with their colicky twin babies. When Erica, a woman from Patrick's past, drops in on them unexpectedly, raising questions about his late first wife, Stephanie supports her husband wholeheartedly. But Erica is persistent, and now she's threatening to go to the police. And when the police start digging, Stephanie's trust in her husband begins to falter and Patrick is primed to lose everything...
1605) Killer riff
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (approximately 74 min. each) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Newly promoted to full time feature writer Molly Forrester's first assignment is to cover the death by overdose of rock manager/producer Russell Elliott.
Author
Series
Select editions large type volume 209
Publisher
Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
[Large print edition].
Physical Desc
541 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The dollhouse: When she arrives at the famed Barbizon Hotel in 1952, secretarial school enrollment in hand, Darby McLaughlin is everything her modeling agency hall mates aren't: plain, self-conscious, homesick, and utterly convinced she doesn't belong--a notion the models do nothing to disabuse. Yet when Darby befriends Esme, a Barbizon maid, she's introduced to an entirely new side of New York City: seedy downtown jazz clubs where the music is as...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
"She was know to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by almost eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in bookbag.
Language
English
Description
Back home after serving in World War I, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge returns to work and must solve the murder of a retired military officer, a crime in which the main suspect is a highly decorated war hero.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
8 books (223 pages ; 22 cm), 1 reading guide ; in canvas bag (45 x 36 cm)
Language
English
Description
"Can three scrappy, single women of varied ages find happiness in a new travel business specializing in casino junkets? Or are all bets off when a murder is discovered after the tour bus arrives at the casino hotel? At fifty years of age Betty Chance found herself unemployed, divorced and penniless. Her husband of twenty-seven years had left her for an older, fatter woman (the one who covered his gambling debts). With her pretty niece Lori she opens...
1610) Book Club Discussion Kit: Killers of the Flower Moon : The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 kit in a cloth bag ; (40 x 49 cm) + 1 folder
Language
English
Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.