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Let it be volume 1
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English
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"Nineteen-year-old Leah Jones is struggling to cope after she and her twenty-nine-year-old brother Oliver lose their parents in a horrific car accident. Leah was in the car and is plagued by nightmares, intense grief and numbness-her life as she knew it is over. Oliver hates leaving Leah at a time like this, but the only way he can support them both is if he transfers to Sydney for work. He implores his best friend Axel Nguyen to let her move in with...
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English
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In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime -- write a book unlike anything that has ever existed -- a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins...
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Series
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
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"Iris está destrozada desde la muerte de sus padres en un accidente. Una tarde fría y gris en que el mundo parece no tener sentido, empieza a caminar sin rumbo por el barrio para evitar volver, sola, a su casa. Justo cuando empieza a pensar en cometer una locura, descubre un pequeño café en el que nunca antes se había fijado. Su extraño nombre, 'EL MEJOR LUGAR DEL MUNDO ES AQUÍ MISMO,' le intriga tanto que decide entrar a curiosear. Allí conoce...
6) Monastery
Author
Series
Polish boxer novels volume 2
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Monastery, the nomadic narrator of Eduardo Halfon's critically-acclaimed The Polish Boxer returns to travel from Guatemalan cities, villages, coffee plantations, and border towns to a private jazz concert in New York's Harlem, a former German U-Boat base on the French Breton coast, and Israel, where he escapes from his sister's Orthodox Jewish wedding into an erotic adventure with the enigmatic Tamara.
Author
Publisher
Pukiyari Editores
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
La odisea de niños cruzando la frontera, la tragedia del 9/11, el sacrificio de jóvenes soldados durante la Guerra del Pacífico. Pasión, locura, traición, muerte y reencarnación, son entre otros los temas de esta antología de relatos dramáticos con los que Alfredo M. del Arroyo engancha a los lectores de principio a fin. Con destreza, el autor crea personajes familiares que poco a poco se van entregando a rutas desconocidas para llevarnos,...
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Publisher
Coach House Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Living Things follows four recent graduates -- Munir, G, Ernesto, and Álex -- who travel from Madrid to the south of France to work the grape harvest. Except things don't go as planned: they end up working on an industrial chicken farm and living in a campground, where a general sense of menace takes hold. What follows is a compelling and incisive examination of precarious employment, capitalism, immigration, and the mass production of living things,...
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Series
Publisher
Plaza y Janés
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Rebeca es una mujer soltera de casi cuarenta años, con un trabajo de éxito y una situación económica desahogada. En un recital de danza, en París, conoce a un hombre con el que inicia una relación amorosa rápida e intensa. Cuando, un tiempo después, se casa con él y se queda embarazada, comienza un calvario en el que el marido intachable se transforma en un abusador que pasa a vejarla y minarle la seguridad en sí misma. Rebeca deberá enfrentarse...
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New Directions paperbook volume 1081
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Jamie Deza uses his rare gift of unusual perception after he is drawn into the world of British intelligence, helping Her Majesty's secret service in interviews and studying business people, terrorists, and suspicious characters, and is soon thrown into a dangerous web of intrigue that threatens his future and his life.
Publisher
Pukiyari Editores
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Es un honor presentar Lo que tenemos en común - Antología de narradores peruanos en Estados Unidos.Lo que tenemos en común es una colección de treinta y dos narraciones escritas por doce autores de origen peruano con residencia estadounidense. Compilada por Alfredo M. Del Arroyo y Ricardo Vacca-Rodríguez, esta antología busca resaltar las letras de cada uno de sus participantes: Alberto Caballero, Alfredo M. Del Arroyo, Ani Palacios, Fernando...
13) Los sordos
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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.
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14) Patria
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Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
A small Basque village is irreparably changed and broken by political fanaticism. Childhood friends, Bittori and Mirren, wounded by their craters of grief find it impossible to forget and forgive.
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