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Tierra contrafuturo
Par Luis Carlos Barragán. 2021
"The first extraterrestrial contact occurs in the jungles of Latin America. Two Colombians with nothing to lose flee in a…
spaceship. A couple of years later, one of them returns to found an interplanetary embassy, which promises to bring alien technology and labor to Earth. Now humanity has the opportunity to become a type I society and become part of the Interstellar Directorate. But the usual economic and political powers will try to prevent this future. The diplomatic crisis with the Earth powers is serious, but now there are higher beings who will intervene for good or ill." -- Translation provided by NLSLa razón de los amantes
Par Pablo Simonetti. 2013
"The tranquility of a young married couple is disrupted when Diego Lira, a lawyer and owner of an Internet newspaper,…
enters their life. Anxious to break their normal routine, they throw themselves into extreme situations, destroying in just a few months the conventions that, until then, provided them with a sense of security. When it's all said and done, nothing is left for them to do except ask themselves if lovers are reasonable or if passion itself is reason enough for love." -- Provided by publisherPeregrinas (Colección Andanzas #985)
Par Joaquín Berges. 2021
"Pilgrims tells the story of the journey starring Dorita, Fina and Carmen, three octogenarian women in a nursing home who…
take advantage of the easing of the COVID lockdown to escape with the excuse of making the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In reality, Dorita has unfinished business in Tarragona, and has convinced Carmen, who has a driver's license, and Fina, owner of an old Volvo 850 inherited from her husband, to accompany her. Fina, who suffers from the onset of Alzheimer's, is gradually convinced that everything they see leads them to Santiago." -- Translation provided by NLSMatar a la Reina (Diamante rojo #01)
Par Angy Skay. 2018
"Micaela Bravo's joyful Christmas celebrations cease when, at the age of twelve, someone, whom she believed to be her family,…
rips her childhood away from her and destroys what she loves most. All her loved ones are mercilessly murdered and she is outraged and assaulted to such an extent that her assailants think they have ended her life. In her last breath, her soul is impregnated with a vengeful feeling that will make her take the reins of her life a few years later, through a dark and gloomy world where mafias and danger are constant. In another part of the planet, a contract killer receives a call that will change his existence completely when he discovers a list of six names, having to assassinate each person in order, according to his former instructor, Anker Megalos." -- Translation provided by NLSTrilogía Solo por ti: Libros 1-3 (Solo por ti #01, 02, 03)
Par Angy Skay. 2016
"This collection includes all three books in the Only for You Trilogy: Provoke Me, And Love Me, and Eternally, which…
follows Bryan Summers, a businessman who moves to Marbella to close a deal, where he crosses paths with Annia Moreno, a personal shopper from Malaga. He can't resist her charms, but soon uncovers her thorny past. Will they be together at the end?" -- Provided by NLSProyecto Silverview
Par John Le Carré. 2022
"Julian Lawndsley has left a high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small…
English seaside town. A few months later, he is approached by a Polish émigré with dangerous knowledge of Julian's family. Julian is soon approached by a spy chief." -- Provided by NLSAusencio (Narrativa (Almadía Ediciones))
Par Antonio Vásquez. 2018
"The death of Ausencio, a drunken and irresponsible father, unleashes the demons that dwell inside Arturo, his eldest son, who…
as a result of this loss will fall into a spiral of sadness, remorse, and despair, which will lead him to face the same vice that overshadowed the possibilities of happiness in his childhood and youth. Mourning becomes a shadow that looms over all his actions and thoughts, and his present becomes a continuous wandering through bad memories and black omens. The abandonment and humiliation to which alcohol leads him cause him to fall out with the town and his loved ones. Ausencio is the story of a descent into hell, of a son who fears repeating his father's mistakes, of a young man who seems to be followed by three ghostly women to announce a fateful destiny, of a man who flees and exposes himself in the open to the face of his death." -- Translation provided by NLSLa canción del ángel: una novela
Par Sheila Walsh. 2011
"Ann Fletcher has returned to Charleston to see her younger sister Sarah receive her master's degree. But she soon finds…
herself riding in the back of an ambulance, watching helplessly as Sarah fights for her life. As they race to the hospital, Sarah talks to someone who is not there...and hums a melody Ann has never heard before. That unfamiliar, unearthly beautiful melody keeps finding Ann--first in the hospital chapel, then in her dreams, and finally in Sarah's empty house. Two neighbors have a profound effect on Ann. Ethan McKinney lends her a shoulder to lean on. And as a carpenter, he volunteers to help Ann get the Fletcher family home into shape for selling. His strong presence is a pleasing distraction. Ann's twelve-year-old neighbor, Keith, has Down Syndrome and the guile to believe he can actually see and hear angels. In fact, he insists they are looking out for her in ways she's never imagined. God begins to reveal himself to Ann--both in her newfound friends and through supernatural events. As she discovers the very real presence of angels around her, will she finally open her heart to receive God's healing love?" -- GoodreadsEcos
Par Danielle Steel. 2011
"In 1915 Beata Wittgenstein, eldest daughter of an affluent German Jewish family, runs off to Switzerland to marry Antoine de…
Vallerand, a young French Catholic officer. But her newfound happiness and the future of her children are threatened by war." -- Provided by NLSCasas vacías (Narrativa Sexto Piso)
Par Brenda Navarro. 2020
"|Empty Houses| unfolds in the aftermath of a child's disappearance. His mother is distraught. As her life begins to unravel,…
she is haunted by his absence but also by her own ambivalence: did she even want him in the first place? In a working-class neighbourhood on the other side of Mexico City another woman protects her stolen child. After longing desperately to be a mother, her life is violently altered by its reality. Alternating between these two contrasting voices, |Empty Houses| confronts the desires, regrets and social pressures of motherhood faced by both the mother who lost her child and the new one who risked everything to take him." -- GoodreadsTiempo de abrazar (Serie amor eterno #02)
Par Karen Kingsbury. 2011
"In this sequel to |A Time to Dance|, John and Abby Reynolds are back together and believe they can handle…
anything. However, their faith will be greatly tested as John struggles in his coaching job, Nicole and Matt have family problems, and tragedy strikes." -- Provided by NLSTodos se van
Par Wendy Guerra. 2014
"Written in the form of a diary that tells Nieve Guerra's story from age eight to twenty, this novel tells…
the life of a young girl with an alcoholic father that blames her for his wife running away with another man and, even worse, a foreigner. This unique experience, written with strength and authenticity, reflects the Cuban reality without ideological castigation." -- GoodreadsYo fumo para olvidar que tú bebes (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Serie policiaca)
Par Martín Casariego. 2020
"It's the late 1980s. Max Lomas, handsome and sentimental, cultured and unbelieving, splits his time between Madrid and San Sebastian,…
where he works as a private escort for a professor threatened by the ETA terrorist group. While in the capital, Max falls in love with Elsa Arroyo at first sight. In the Basque Country his ambitious and temperamental colleague García begins to wonder which side of the line between crime and the law he should be on. And what's worse, he starts to take an interest in Elsa as well..." -- Translation provided by NLSMi precio es ninguno (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Serie policiaca #478)
Par Martín Casariego. 2021
"It is 1996. For years Max Lomas has seemed to only live for decadence. He usually kills time in El…
Gato Azul, a seedy bar in Madrid. He does not lose, however, the hope of settling accounts with the past. And indeed, like a burst of life, it suddenly returns one night when the woman he would like to have forgotten, yet of whom he remembers every detail, reappears in his life: Elsa, his great love and the cause of his ruin six years earlier; Elsa, who now needs help to save her sister from the clutches of her ex-partner in the Basque Country, Garcia. As he decides whether or not he can trust her again, and with the disappearance of three kilos of cocaine as an excuse, Max knows the time has come to take his revenge...." -- Translation provided by NLSPanza de burro (Editor/a por un libro)
Par Andrea Abreu. 2020
"Set far from the coast and the tourists, during a particularly hot summer on the island of Tenerife, this book…
narrates the working class reality and the relationship between two friends, full of all kinds of feelings. Written in an oral, Canarian, generational and contemporary language, this is a disruptive and beautiful book." -- Translation provided by NLSMarinero raso
Par Francisco Goldman. 2017
"Fifteen Nicaraguan men are recruited to crew the damaged cargo ship Urus, moored at a Brooklyn pier. They soon realize…
that they have been abandoned there without money or legal status. One of the men, who ventures into the city seeking help for his comrades, finds both love and tragedy." -- Provided by NLSSupersaurio
Par Meryem El Mehdati. 2022
"Her name is Meryem, but nobody spells her name right. She is twenty-five years old and has just started working…
in the offices of SUPERSAURIO, the most important supermarket chain in the Canary Islands. In her spare time, to escape the sadness, she writes fanfiction starring Harry Potter characters, Twilight characters, and her office mates. She dates terrifying men, drinks too much coffee and never speaks her mind. Every morning before she clocks in, she repeats to herself that she's not going to inherit the company, but every once in a while she forgets." -- Translation provided by NLSLa huida (John Puller novel. Spanish #03)
Par David Baldacci. 2018
"U.S. Army special agent John Puller is the man they call to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. But…
he is unprepared to hunt the most formidable and brilliant prey he has ever tracked--his own brother. Imprisoned for treason and national security crimes, Robert has now inexplicably escaped." -- Provided by NLSLa noche caníbal (Letras mexicanas)
Par Luis Jorge Boone. 2011
"This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by…
their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their lives forcing them to reveal the hidden boundaries of human nature. These stories inhabit the limits between reality and madness, between ordinary occurrences and unexpected coincidences. It is at these crossroads where the world becomes most unsettling and we are forced to evaluate our perceptions. Paranoia, lack of faith, obsession, panic, and psychosis are some of the forces that control the destinies of these protagonists. Luis Jorge Boone's cleanly-architectured prose conjures the great voices of Latin American short fiction and delivers them with a 21st century sensibility. This is a collection full of striking philosophical observations, brilliant twists, and disquieting images." -- Amazon.comEsmirna en llamas
Par Homero Aridjis. 2013
"The narrative takes place in Smyrna, the birthplace of Nicias, a former Greek army captain, where he returns after a…
long period of combat. The sadness in the air is the product of the inevitable Greek defeat and the constant memories from before the war. However, even under the constant threat of the Turks, Nicias undertakes the search for love, embodied in the figure of Eurydice, the beloved young woman he abandoned when he enlisted in the army. It is this quest that restores harmony to the spirit and body of Nicias. The reader of Smyrna in Flames will discover that the brutal and bloodthirsty events typical of a wartime conflict are masterfully cushioned by Aridjis' poetic language." -- Translation provided by NLS