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Matar 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 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." -- GoodreadsLa mujer de la escalera (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Policiaca #398)
Par Pedro A González Moreno. 2018
"A suicide and a mysterious murder serve as the starting point for this story in which two recent university graduates…
face a mission that will change their lives forever: to locate some ancient medieval theater books. Thus begins a thrilling search in which the characters will end up finding themselves and their own destiny, outlining at the same time the portrait of a bridge generation that struggled to find its own space in the Spain of the late seventies and early eighties. A gripping story of intrigue, of ambitions and grudges, of love and heartbreak, of frustrations and desires, where the murkiest and the noblest feelings intermingle and clash dramatically, always against the backdrop of the theatrical world, that metaliterary space in which, as in a game of mirrors, not everything is what it seems...." Translation provided by NLSLa librería del Señor Livingstone
Par Mónica Gutiérrez. 2020
"Agnes Martí is a young archaeologist from Barcelona who decides to move to London in search of a job opportunity.…
After several weeks without success, a sudden rainfall surprises her while she is taking a walk and she enters Moonlight Book. By chance, its owner, Edward Livingstone, is looking for an assistant and offers her the job. The young woman accepts and little by little she discovers the charm of this small bookstore. Until one day, when one of her most precious and oldest books disappears and police inspector John Lockewood enters the scene to take charge of the investigation and turn Agnes's life upside down." -- 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 NLSSudor
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2016
"Wildly piercing and corrosively funny, Sudor (Sweat) is an editor's raw look at the absurd and oftentimes dysfunctional inner workings…
of the literary world. When his run-of-the-mill existence is suddenly turned upside down by the arrival of a famous author and his spoiled, defiant son, Alf, a junior editor at a large publishing house, embarks on a whirlwind three days that will change his life forever. Taking a page from Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Sweat is a piercing look at the mad circus that are author book tours-lavish parties, larger-than-life expectations, explosive egos and a whole industry that subsists on catering to the intellectual elite. The author of Bad Vibes, a novel that pulverized every boundary of the post-Pinochet era, plunges readers head first into the gay underworld where feelings are relegated to a second tier in favor of a series of ephemeral and extreme sexual encounters courtesy of Grindr, the popular app that Alf, the novel's protagonist, uses just as often as his authors use him. Meanwhile Santiago, the city where it all unfolds, emerges as a rare and alluring presence. A masterfully crafted and electrifying novel, Sudor confirms Fuguet as one of the most relevant voices in Latin America today." -- Provided by the publisherSangre de Emanuel
Par Ted Dekker. 2011
"This story is for everyone--but not everyone is for this story. It is a dangerous tale of times past. A…
love story full of deep seduction. A story of terrible longing and bold sacrifice. Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what it should flee. Forgetting it once had a truer lover. With a kiss, evil will ravage body, soul, and mind. Yet there remains hope, because the heart knows no bounds. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow. Because the battle for the heart is always violently opposed. For those desperate to drink deep from this fountain of life, enter. But remember, not everyone is for this story." -- Goodreads¿En quién piensas cuando haces el amor? (Vintage español)
Par Homero Aridjis. 2011
"In these pages the author places himself after the end of the millennium and, with an apocalyptic tone, prophesies the…
evils that will befall a mythical Moctezuma city, a future metaphor for today's Mexico City, scene of frequent ecological disasters and capital of the end of the era of the Fifth Sun. Above the catastrophes and the difficulty of living in a city of such magnitude, the characters wander with their own burden of love and heartbreak, as happens to Luis Antonio with his sister-in-law María, identical twin of Rosalba, his deceased wife. Yo Sánchez uses theater as a lighting technique and is linked to the family of the protagonists. This is a dizzying play, loaded with irony and black humor, that carries the questioning of the human being in the megalopolis." -- Translation provided by NLSDestinos errantes
Par Danielle Steel. 2011
Orphaned at a young age, Audrey Driscoll grows up bound to the caring of her eccentric millionaire grandfather and her…
demanding younger sister. At the age of twenty-six she finally attains the freedom to indulge her passion for travel, and on the eve of World War II she encounters adventure and romance in Europe, China, and Africa. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 1987La educación de Margot Sánchez
Par Lilliam Rivera. 2019
"After 'borrowing' her father's credit card to finance a more stylish wardrobe, Margot Sánchez suddenly finds herself grounded. And by…
grounded, she means working as an indentured servant in her family's struggling grocery store to pay off her debts. With each order of deli meat she slices, Margot can feel her carefully cultivated prep school reputation slipping through her fingers, and she's willing to do anything to get out of this punishment. Lie, cheat, and maybe even steal... Margot's invitation to the ultimate beach party is within reach and she has no intention of letting her family's drama or Moisés-the admittedly good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood-keep her from her goal." -- GoodreadsTaína: una novela
Par Ernesto Quiñonez. 2019
"When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to…
be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the conception of Taina's baby as a revolution in nature). After meeting Taína's uncle, "El Vejigante", an ex-con with a dark past, he accepts his proposal to support her during her pregnancy and becomes entangled in a web of crime that, while taking him closer to Taína, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed." -- GoodreadsBeso: Ella Te Roba Más Que El Corazón
Par Ted Dekker. 2010
"Austin, Texas. Six weeks after a car accident leaves her in a coma, twenty-eight-year-old Shauna wakes up with amnesia. Her…
father, Senator Landon McAllister, blames her for the accident, which also severely injured her beloved brother Rudy. But Shauna begins to doubt she can trust what she's being told." -- Provided by NLSEl espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia
Par Patricio Pron. 2011
"A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say good-bye to his dying father. In his…
parents' house, he finds a cache of documents--articles, maps, photographs--and unwittingly begins to unearth his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man. Suddenly he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of Argentina's dark political past and with the long-hidden memories of his family's underground resistance against an oppressive military regime. As the fragments of the narrator's investigation fall into place--revealing not only a part of his father's life he had tried to forget but also the legacy of an entire generation--|My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain| tells a completely original story of family and remembrance. It is an audacious accomplishment by an internationally acclaimed voice poised to garner equal acclaim in America." -- GoodreadsElena sabe
Par Claudia Piñeiro. 2015
"After Rita is found dead in the bell tower of the church she used to attend, the official investigation into…
the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society." -- Goodreads