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Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Details the story of a group of engaging and courageous young people known as Los Intocables and their fight for justice, in an account of the murder of Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi, the country's leading human rights activist.
Author
Language
English
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Best Recent Latinx Fiction
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022
Short Stories
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Hispanic Heritage Month 2022
Short Stories
Formats
Description
"Winner of a 2020 MacArthur "genius" award for fiction that "interrogates culturally constructed notions of language, memory, and gender from a transnational perspective," Cristina Rivera Garza is a singular voice in contemporary letters, one who American readers are still discovering. New and Selected Stories brings together in English translation stories from across her career, including new writing not yet published in Spanish. It is a unique and...
7) Apollo 13
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
A true story. Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time, and the odds, to bring them home.
8) Body heat
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A lawyer has a love affair with a woman and gets involved in a plot to kill her husband.
10) Unsane
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear, but is it real or a product of her delusion?
11) Pan's labyrinth
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
Español
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Description
Following a bloody civil war, young Ofelia enters a world of unimaginable cruelty. She is uprooted to her new stepfather's military outpost. He is a tyrannical military officer. Armed with only her imagination, Ofelia discovers a mysterious labyrinth and meets a faun who sets her on a path to saving herself and her ailing mother. It does not take long before the thin line between fantasy and reality begins to blur, and before Ofelia can turn back,...
13) Tightrope
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Clint Eastwood is Wes Block, a lawman teetering on a tightrope separating him from the man he strives to be and the man he fears he is. When Block investigates some brutal sex murders, he discovers a chilling link between himself and the suspect.
Series
Controversial classics volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
True story of the Watergate break-in that led to the political scandal of the decade.
17) Wait until dark
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A photographer unwittingly smuggles a doll stuffed with heroin into New York City. His recently blinded wife, alone in their apartment, is first terrorized by hired crooks, and then by the psychopathic Roat, in search of the doll.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Based on a supposedly true story, hard-luck milkman Melvin Dummar picks up a bum in the Nevada desert. The old man claims to be Howard Hughes and eight years later, Dummar finds himself a beneficiary in the Hughes will. Dummar becomes an instant celebrity while trying to cash in on the fortune.
19) Beetle Juice
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
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Description
After Barbara and Adam Maitland are killed in a car crash, they find themselves trapped as ghosts in their beautiful New England farmhouse. Their peaceful 'existence' is disrupted when a yuppie family, the Deetz's, buy their house. The Maitlands are too nice and harmless as ghosts and all their efforts to scare the Deetz's away are unsuccessful. They decide to call to Beetlejuice, a people-exorcizing ghost, for help.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Takes place in the 1950's America, during the early days of broadcast journalism. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow, and his dedicated staff - headed by his producer Fred Friendly and Joe Wershba in the CBS newsroom - defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to...
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