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"Hailey MacIntyre seems conjured from the depths of Samuel Fiddes's loneliness. Caring for his young sister in the tenements of Glasgow, Scotland, Samuel has known only hunger, while Hailey has never known want. When Samuel saves Hailey's brother from a runaway carriage, a friendship begins. Through secret meetings and stolen moments, they learn the topography of one another's innermost thoughts. Then the City of Glasgow Bank fails in 1878, destroying...

"In the 1950s, 9-year-old Andrea Rodriguez and her brother leave Woronoco, Massachusetts, for the mountain villages of Puerto Rico and then, months later, are brought back to the tiny factory town where everything has changed and must navigate the rifts between their family's values and all-American culture as they journey into adulthood."--

The adorable Little Foot embarks on a whole new adventure to find his big brother Big Foot. Will Pinocchio, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White come to the rescue?

"No hay nada mas tierno y tranquilizador que un nino dormido, y nada mas dificil que conseguir que un hermano «movido» permanezca tranquilito durante ese precioso momento de calma. «¡Shhh! Mi hermano esta durmiendo», pero siempre hay cazuelas que golpear y todo tipo de cosas divertidas que hacer. Y es que es tan dificil no hacer ruido!"-- "Shhh! My brother's napping. He really needs his sleep," admonishes our adorable narrator at the outset...

Diego and his half-sister, Julia, who do not get along, and Perrock, their dog, who understands human emotions and can communicate with the two of them, investigate when someone finds what may--or may not--be a plea for help in a bag of candy.

"The mining town of Xenotime has seen better days. Once renowned for its skilled goldsmiths, it now lies forgotten in a sea of sand, its mines empty and its fields barren. The townsfolk's only hope lies with the talented state alchemist Edward Elric and his brother, Alphonse. But who is the real Edward Elric? When the Fullmetal Alchemist and his brother arrive in Xenotime searching for the Philosopher's Stone, they discover that two strangers have...

"The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, and the making of a comedic film classic that helped shape our popular culture. "They're not going to catch us," Dan Aykroyd, as Elwood Blues, tells his brother Jake, played by John Belushi. "We're on a mission from God." So opens the musical action comedy The Blues Brothers, which hit theaters on June 20, 1980. Their scripted mission was to save a local...

"Siblings Cory and Crystal Pratt are still trying to get their lives together after a tragic accident which killed their parents years ago. The only thing that distracts them now is their jobs. With Crystal working as a newly minted detective at the Chicago Police Department and Cory owning a dog training academy with two human remains detection dogs of his own, their professional paths cross every now and then. Crime, and especially murder, in Chicago...

Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower, but occasionally he escapes and causes havoc around town.

"A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined...