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A true classic with a timeless message, The Story of Ferdinand has enchanted readers since it was first published in 1936. All the other bulls would run and jump and butt their heads together. But Ferdinand would rather sit and smell the flowers. And he does just that, until the day a bumblebee and some men from the Madrid bullfights give gentle Ferdinand a chance to be the most ferocious star of the corrida--and the most unexpected comic hero. This...
2) Matador
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English
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The story of the comeback of a famous matador who has announced his retirement due to lack of courage.
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English
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Texan art student Kathleen Boyd has been dreaming about becoming a matador since her beloved father took her to the bullfighting ring when she was just a child. Now a young woman, her disapproving fiancé and her practical-minded mother see her dream only as a foolish flight of fancy. Nevertheless, Kathleen relocates to Mexico and finds herself under the instruction of Fermin, a retired matador who is intent on asserting his dominance in their partnership....
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English
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"An accomplished debut mystery set in the high-stakes and decidedly murky world of bullfighting in Valencia, Spain "Either you kill the bull, or the bull kills you." Chief Inspector Max Cámara thinks in proverbs,and he hates one thing above all: bullfighting. One hot afternoon in Valencia, however, he has to stand in for his boss, judging a festival corrida starring Spain's most famous young matador. That night, he is back in the bullring, and what...
5) Luke's ride
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Cameron's pride ; 1
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English
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He's spent fifteen years at the rodeo, protecting riders when they hit the dirt. But what exactly is a bullfighter after a bull takes him down in the arena and lands him in a wheelchair? That's what Luke Cameron's still struggling to figure out. And if Katie Garrison, in the middle of a controversial divorce, can help him find a new kind of life, well, he's not one to turn her down! But she's still a married woman and her husband isn't going to let...
10) El Chino
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1990.
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English
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A biography of Bill Wong, a Chinese American who became a famous bullfighter in Spain.
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Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
©1968.
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English
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"El Cordobés, orphaned son of a field hand who fought for the Loyalists, is the most flamboyant, controversial, adored and richly rewarded matador in the long history of the bullring. In Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre bring to life a stunning page from the history of our times as, against the political and social flux of modern Spain, they trace the rise of Manuel Benítez from his desperately poor beginnings...
14) Bull fighter
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Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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"In this modern western, a shiftless drifter fascinated with bullfighting, is implicated in the accidental goring death of a crime boss' daughter and finds himself the unwitting target of a vicious manhunt." --
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Criterion collection ; 595
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Italiano
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"[A] visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelin. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus on the bloody business at hand, the film is at once gritty and operatic, placing the viewer right in the thick of the ring's action, as close to death as possible. ... [T]his is a not just an electrifying drama but also a profound and moving inquiry into a violent world...
17) Blancanieves
Publisher
Entertainment One USA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time there was a little girl named Carmen, who never knew her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend. A re-telling of the classic 'Snow White'"--Container.
18) Blood and sand
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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Juan is the naïve son of a once-famous bullfighter who tries to recapture the glory of his family's name. Though he is branded fifth rate, he soon becomes Spain's greatest matador and returns home to marry his childhood sweetheart. But when a beautiful, passionate aristocrat seduces him, Juan succumbs to her temptations, only to see his own happiness and success crumble.
20) Blancanieves
Publisher
Cameo Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In Seville in the 1920s, the daughter of a famed matador flees her wicked stepmother to join a band of bullfighting dwarfs. A Spanish adaptation of the Snow White tale.
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