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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
They are "the disappeared," twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the Guatemalan village of Chupan Ya two decades ago. Leading a team of experts on a meticulous, heartbreaking dig, Tempe Brennan pieces together the violence of the past. But a fresh wave of terror begins when the horrific sounds of a fatal attack on two colleagues come in on a blood-chilling satellite call. Teaming up with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolomé Galiano...
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo Mexico
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
"Para mí, eres divina narra la historia de Olivia, una chica cualquiera que vive en un plantío de café en medio de las verdes y frondosas montañas de Guatemala. Al igual que su madre y muchas otras mujeres en las mismas condiciones, parece destinada a convertirse en un ser desechable: golpeada y abusada por aquellos que ostentan el poder. Su suerte cambia el día en que se topa con la hermana Carina, una monja que se encarga de que pueda asistir...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Davico lives with his family on the second floor of La Casita -- the Little House -- in Guatemala City in the 1950s. But it's not just a little house -- it's also a restaurant! Davico and his brother Felipe love to spend time playing in the restaurant kitchen watching the lobster they've named Genghis Khan crawl around its glass tank. But one day, Davico hears shooting in the streets. There are blackouts every evening, and people stop coming to the...
Author
Publisher
Owl Canyon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A Christian missionary with a troubled past tracks his wayward, alcoholic father to the lawless wilds of present-day Guatemala, a land beset by violent gangs, political corruption, and crushing poverty. It is also an easy place to get killed. The sudden interest of a rogue's gallery of local gangsters will make the father-son reunion more dangerous than either could have imagined. A gritty thriller about family and solitude, travel and home, cynicism...
10) Trout, belly up
Author
Publisher
Charco Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In seven interconnected short stories, the Guatemalan countryside is ever-present: a place of timeless peace, and the site of sudden violence. Don Henrik, a good man struck time and again by misfortune, confronts the crude realities of farming life, family obligation, and the intrusions of merciless entrepreneurs, hitmen, drug dealers, and fallen angels, all wanting their piece of the pie. Told with precision and a stark beauty, Trout, Belly Up is...
12) Los sordos
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
Español
Description
It begins with two disappearances: that of a deaf boy from a small town in Guatemala, and of Clara, the daughter of a rich banker and kindly tyrant. Is there a connection between the disappearances? What roles do Clara's lover and family lawyer, her bodyguards, and the doctors in a shady hospital play in it? Can any form of love and justice exist amidst violence? Los sordos is a absorbing thriller and a ruthless portrait of today's Guatemala.
"Los...
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno...
14) Blood moon
Author
Series
Rising volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Alex Chin and Samantha Dixon may have managed to win a major battle against the powerful enemy determined to destroy civilization as we know it. But the war continues, with Alex and Sam embarking on a desperate journey to save mankind, even as their friendship blossoms into something much more. The roadmap for their journey lies in a mysterious book, the language of which has never been deciphered, until Alex finds himself able to translate the words...
15) No somos de aquí
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"La travesía llena de peligros, resiliencia, dolor y esperanza de tres adolescentes guatemaltecos que cruzan la frontera entre México y Estado Unidos. En este impresionante retrato de tres vidas injustamente destrozadas, basado en hechos reales, Jenny Torres Sanchez resalta el sacrificio de los migrantes en la frontera sur a través de una narración vívida y conmovedora."--
Pulga has his dreams. Chico has his grief. Pequeña has her pride. And...
16) Mr. President
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nobel Prize-winning Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias's masterpiece-the original Latin American dictator novel and pioneering work of magical realism-in its first new English translation in more than half a century, featuring a foreword by Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. A Penguin Classic. In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone...
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