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"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky." Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."
Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. The Alchemist is such a book. With over a million and a half
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Beacon Press
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"Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying to kill a husband who never leaves her. The three form a quirky triangle on the white-washed island"--
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2017.
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Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
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Espasa
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[1997]
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Español
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Luc�ia y Ram�on llevan juntos diez a�nos, unidos m�as por la costumbre que por el amor. Deciden pasar el Fin de A�no en Viena, pero en el aeropuerto, minutos antes de que salga el vuelo, Ram�on desaparece. Tras denunciar el caso a la polic�ia, Luc�ia emprende la b�usqueda por su cuenta, acompa�nada de dos personajes singulares: Adri�an, un turbador muchacho de veinti�un a�nos, y Fortuna, un viejo anarquista de ochenta, antiguo...
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Annika Bengtzon novels volume 8
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Emily Bestler Books/Washington Squre Press
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2014.
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English
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A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there was a third child u a teenage daughter u who is unaccounted for. Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she'd envisioned, as she begins to piece together...
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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
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2012.
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Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado más de dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le arrastra...
10) Cut and run
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Sisterhood series volume 30
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English
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"It's been three months since Countess Annie de Silva slipped away from her home before dawn, leaving a cryptic note and no clue as to her destination. That's an eternity for friends as devoted as the Sisterhood. They've honored Annie's request for privacy long enough. Now they're desperate to ensure that their founding member is alive and well, and that means tracking her down--wherever in the world she might be. Myra Rutledge, Annie's closest confidante...
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Other Press
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[2021]
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English
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"Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinked stories follow ordinary people whose lives will be changed forever. Like Robert Altman's film Short Cuts, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three interconnected stories that are bound by time and place, and by the way characters weave in and out of them. A crime that remains unreported in one story has light shed on it in another. Exploring addiction,...
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Alfaguara
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enero de 2019.
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Español
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"Decía Luis Bunuel que, en su pueblo de Teruel, la edad media había durado hasta bien entrado el siglo xx. Algo así sucede en el escenario de esta novela, un lugar que puede ser casi cualquiera en la Espana interior. Allí nace, al mismo tiempo que la segunda república, un nino llamado Blas. Y en el mismo legar muere, ochenta anos después, sin ser consciente de que se lleva a la tumba una forma de vida milenaria. Él es el último. Nadie más...
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Mirror realm cycle volume 1
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Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She can write with both hands at once, in different languages, but she keeps her talents hidden at her grandparents' behest. Naftaly Cresques sees things that aren't real, and dreams things that are. Always the family disappointment, Naftaly would still risk his life to honor his father's last wishes. After the Queen demands every Jew convert or face banishment, Toba and Naftaly are among...
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Roca Editorial
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2018.
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Español
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Serial Killers is the name of the blog of three young people who live in Madrid. They dream of creating their great international success, a series such as Lost. One day they receive a call from a television production company to interview them. In reality, it's a police sub-inspector, Hector Salaberri.
"Asesinos de series es el nombre del blog de tres jovenes (Andres, Marta y Ruben) que viven juntos en Madrid. Adictos a las series, suenan con crear...
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Life of elves volume 2
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
©2020.
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English
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Alejandro de Yepes and Jesus Rocamora, young officers in the Spanish regular army, are stationed alone at Castillo when, out of nowhere, a friendly redhead appears to them in the cellar. There is something magnetic and deeply mysterious about this Petrus. Alejandro and Jesus are bewitched, and, in the middle of the sixth year of the longest war humankind has ever endured, they abandon their post to follow him across a bridge only he can see. Petrus...
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