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Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for...
Author
Series
Oxford murders volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Mathematics student G is trying to resurrect his studies, which is proving difficult as he finds himself - and not for the first time - drawn into investigating a series of mysterious crimes. After meeting with a member of the Lewis Carroll Brotherhood, a startling new discovery by Carroll's great niece rocks Oxford, leading to deadly plots, salacious pictures and murder. G must stretch his mathematical mind to its limits to solve the mystery and...
83) Pepita Jiménez
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Series
Publisher
Disonex
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
La historia del seminarista enamorado de la prometida de su padre viudo y los conflictos que crea esa rivalidad, están acertadamente descritos en esa novela donde se mezcla la ironía con un desarrollo argumental original y con un inesperado desenlace.
The story of a seminary student in love with his widower father's fiancée and the conflicts that this rivalry creates are accurately described in this novel where irony is mixed with original plot...
84) La casa verde
Author
Series
Narrativa actual volume 49
Publisher
RBA Editores
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
Español
85) Aura
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
A young scholar falls passionately in love with the niece of an aged widow and discovers the true relationship between the two women.
87) Vivo o muerto
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Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
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Cuando la CIA no puede responder a la amenaza del terrorismo internacional entra en juego el Campus, una organizacion secreta creada por el ex presidente Jack Ryan, que cuenta con sus propios fondos. Su principal objetivo es el Emir, el cerebro del 11-S, que se dispone a realizar nuevos atentados en territorio norteamericano. Mientras los agentes del Campus intentan descubrir su paradero, Jack Ryan decide abandonar su retiro para luchar por la presidencia...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Roberto Bolaño's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In "Cowboy Graves," Arturo Belano--Bolaño's alter ego--returns to Chile after the coup to fight with his comrades for socialism. "French Comedy of Horrors," takes the reader to French Guiana on the night after an eclipse where a seventeen year old answers a pay phone...
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get. But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killed her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing,...
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"An enchanting collection of twelve evocative and macabre stories delving into the magical, ordinary, and darker aspects of love in all its powerful forms. A young girl receives letters from her lost doll; a cat madly in love with her human neighbor; a bored office worker escapes his monotonous life by traveling on his grandfather's model train; a man gives all of himself to the woman he loves, piece by piece."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"San Cristobal was an unremarkable city--small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete collapse,...
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys' parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt's care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Vélodrome d'Hiver--a massive,...
Author
Publisher
Gables Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tochtli lives in a palace. He loves hats, samurai, guillotines, and more. But Tochtli is a child whose father is a drug baron on the verge of taking over a powerful cartel, and Tochtli is growing up in a luxury hideout. Long-listed for "The Guardian" First Book Award, a masterful and darkly comic first novel chronicling a delirious journey to grant a child's wish.
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Dos amigas se acercan a la treintena en ciudades distintas y tras mucho tiempo sin verse. Alice, novelista, conoce a Felix, que trabaja en un almacén, y le pide que la acompañe a Roma para promocionar su último libro. En Dublín, su mejor amiga, Eileen, está superando una ruptura y empieza a flirtear con Simon, un chico al que conoce desde que eran niños. Mientras el verano se acerca, las dos chicas se envían correos electrónicos en los que...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside the Bible, making its author, Miguel de Cervantes,...
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