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Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (946 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Experience every breathless, jaw-dropping moment as Olivia Pope and her team of "gladiators in suits" turn up the heat and raise the stakes in Scandal: The Complete Second Season. For Olivia Pope and Associates, cleaning up other people's messes takes a shattering personal toll. Season Two blows the lid off Quinn's identity, exposes Huck's dark past, and uncovers Olivia's darkest secret something so shocking and enormous that it threatens the entire...
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (676 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Season one of the Netflix original series House of Cards. Frank Underwood is a cunning career politician. Zoe Barnes is an ambitious young journalist. Together they forge a partnership that trades powerful secrets for political access, and so much more.
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.
4) Rendition
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is practiced and the CIA gives approval. Anwar's pregnant American-born...
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (268 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Former Senator Selina Meyer was a charismatic leader and a rising star in her party with her eye on the White House, then she became Vice President. VEEP follows the whirlwind day-to day existence of Vice President Meyer as she puts out political fires, juggles a busy public schedule and demanding private life, and defends the President's interests, even as she tries to improve her dysfunctional relationship with the Chief Executive.
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Language
Español
Description
En plena Guerra Civil espąola, el joven ̌mdico ̕Vctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un na̕vo fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que lle̤v a ̀ms de dos mil espąoles rumbo a Valpar̕aso, embarcàrn en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su p̕as. Recibidos como ȟroes en Chile--se {28}largo ̌ptalo de...
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (approximately 840 minutes) : sound, color with black & white segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edición: noviembre de 2019.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
±Quiero que actúen como si nuestra casa estuviera ardiendo. Porque así es.¬ Con estas palabras cerraba Greta Thunberg su discurso en el foro de Davos el 25 de enero de 2019, cinco meses después de iniciar su huelga por el clima. Desde entonces, la activista ha sumado a millones de personas a su lucha para salvar el planeta. Pero ¿qué llevó a una adolescente de quince años a tomar la decisión de plantarse en solitario ante el Parlamento...
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (955 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A wife and mother boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal. In Season 3, Alicia continues balancing her professional and personal lives as she strives to provide a stable home for her children in the midst of separating from her husband and contemplating finally giving in to her feelings for fellow lawyer Will Gardner.
11) Adulterio
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Quiero cambiar. Necesito cambiar. Estoy perdiendo el contacto conmigo misma. Adulterio... explora el verdadero significado de cómo llevar una vida plena y feliz, y de cómo podemos equilibrar la rutina diaria con el deseo de algo nuevo." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the shari'a - the law of the traditional Islamic state - in the modern Muslim world." "Western powers call it a threat to democracy. Islamist movements are winning elections on it. Terrorists use it to justify their crimes. What, then, is the shari'a? Given the severity of some of its provisions, why is it popular among Muslims? Can the Islamic state succeed...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
Castro, nacido con un hermano gemelo Joaquín de padres solteros, cuenta una historia de su sueño hecho realidad en Estados Unidos sobre su aumento de la pobreza para convertirse en alcalde de San Antonio, orador principal en la Convención Demócrata de 2012 y Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano en la administración de el presidente Barack Obama.
In the spirit of a young Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father, comes a candid and compelling...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (997 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Alicia Florrick is a wife and mother who boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and political corruption scandal lands him in jail. In Season Two, even with her husband back home and planning to run for office again, Alicia continues redefining herself and her role in her family's life. Features all 23 dramatic episodes, plus featurettes, deleted scenes, music videos, and more....
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (956 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A gripping blend of courtroom drama, politics and steamy personal relationships that stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who reclaims control of her personal and professional lives after her husband, Peter, is embroiled in a sex and political corruption scandal. As Alicia adapts to changes at home and at work as a defense attorney, she continues to redefine and rediscover the woman she...
16) Scoop
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While inside of a magician's magic cabinet, aspiring journalist Sondra Pransky is visited by the ghost of a dead reporter who has received a very hot tip in the afterlife. He tells Sondra about a rising young politician named Lord Peter Lyman who may be the notorious tarot card serial killer. With the magician in tow, Sondra sneaks her way into Lyman's life. Sondra finds increasing evidence that the tip from the ghost is true, but finds herself falling...
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Because of the moral stand taken by her father, a newspaper editor who has persistently attacked the military dictator ruling their Latin American country, Marta and her family find themselves prisoners of the government.
19) The conspirator
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Behind the story you've always heard about Abraham Lincoln's assassination, comes the thrilling true story about the people accused of conspiring to take down a government. In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, planned the simultaneous...