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Lo demás es aire (Biblioteca breve (Barcelona, Spain))
Par Juan Gómez Bárcena. 2022
"Toñanes is the small village in Cantabria where Emilio and Mercedes have just bought a second home. They have savings,…
two girls, and a baby on the way, and a little house near the sea seems like a good idea. They do not yet know that the pregnancy will be so complicated that they will have to decide whether they want to go ahead with the pregnancy; that they will doubt until the last moment whether or not their child will be able to run through that garden. It is spring 1984 and there are six months to go before the due date. But it is also 1633 and it is winter and Juan and Juliana have just lost their third baby, and it is 1946 and Luis and Teresa are dancing at the procession, and it is 1753 and Francisca is learning to write in secret and it is 1937 and the whole town is hiding in the same cave and it is the Cretaceous and an ammonite has to die so that in 1995 a child can find it. It all happens in the same place at the same time, in that village that has only thirty-four houses, one church, and no bar." -- Translation provided by NLSDía cero (John Puller novel. Spanish #01)
Par David Baldacci. 2014
"When a colonel and his family are murdered in their remote West Virginia home, the army sends investigator John Puller…
to the crime scene. Puller arrives to find yet another body, and joins forces with the local detective investigating the case, sergeant Samantha Cole." -- Provided by NLSComo los pájaros aman el aire (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) #352)
Par Martín Casariego. 2016
"Fernando leads a solitary existence. Fleeing from his former life, he has moved to a small apartment in the neighborhood…
of Lavapiés, Madrid. Lost, he wanders the streets with a camera and glasses that belonged to his recently deceased father, searching for him in the faces of the people he portrays. His wandering will lead him to meet Irina, a young Lithuanian woman recently arrived in Madrid. From then on, without abandoning the ghostly puzzle of a dead man, he will see how his existence takes a turn as he tries to complete another even more complicated one: that of the mysterious woman he has just met. In the background is a dark world, but Fernando cannot give up the light that has begun to illuminate his life..." -- Translation provided by NLSLa expansión del universo
Par Ramiro Sanchiz. 2018
"One summer afternoon in Pinamar, Argentina, Federico decides to venture beyond the limit that his grandparents have imposed for his…
bike rides. This is how he discovers, among the trees, a dead man. It is the eighties, and the signs of the past violence are still there. Settled in the present, an adult Federico living in Barcelona will try to go back to that foundational event to understand what happened afterwards; why life unfolded the way it did and what was the meaning of it all: his grandfather's obsession, his mother's silence, his father's reticence and his uncle's mysterious behavior. Hovering over those targets in his story (and in History), Federico confronts a mystery that reappears in his photos and his memories." -- Translation provided by NLSAunque nada perdure (Biblioteca breve (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par José Adiak Montoya. 2020
"While a generation of dictators remain in power and armed conflicts are the national hallmark, one of Nicaragua's most important…
plastic artists increases her presence within and outside of the borders. The eldest daughter of a Danish family settled in the country in the 1920s, Edith Gron developed a wonderful life at the stroke of a chisel; she took whatever material she had in front of her and shaped it into something resembling true life, firm and grounded. She was able to assimilate the entire Central American identity and pour her passion into a series of busts and sculptures that crossed borders that were once thought impassable. Touching and rich in images, Although Nothing Lasts is the story of an exodus that seemed almost impossible: from the icy sea of northern Europe to the American tropics, Edith's entire existence will be a struggle to survive. As a metaphor for earthquakes, she and her family will find the means to rebuild after landslides, accidents and illnesses, in a country in full effervescence and in search of their identity. José Adiak Montoya freezes a nation's dreams with those of an artist of universal transcendence, who in the stone found the support to make life last just a little longer." -- Translation provided by NLSEl clima de Los Ángeles
Par María Amparo Escandón. 2022
"Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts…
him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage." -- Provided by NLSUn apartamento en París
Par Lucy Foley. 2022
"In need of a fresh start, Jess heads to Paris to stay with her half brother Ben. Except Ben isn't…
home and his apartment is a lot nicer than she expected. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess digs into his life. To Jess, all of Ben's neighbors are suspects." -- Provided by NLSLa tragedia de la selva
Par James Oliver Curwood. 1981
Malaluna (Trilogía del Malamor #0.5)
Par José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"They say that all legends have a beginning. And the fateful legend of Malaluna is about Rose and Rayén, two…
sisters who long ago unknowingly started a story filled with passion and death.... The prequel to the Malamor Trilogy has arrived: a novel of fantasy and hope. With totally opposite personalities, each one of these sisters journeys down paths and rabbit holes to the ends of the earth in search of a place to live, a place they only arrive at after a journey that takes them centuries to complete. They also say that all myths are like a tree of life, because their branches and fruit indelibly transform those who dare to come close. Will Rose and Rayén change the path of their own destiny? Will they be able to survive in that world where the sun and moon are the root of the evil that afflicts them?" -- GoodreadsSeñales que precederán al fin del mundo
Par Yuri Herrera. 2020
"Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, Makina is smuggled across the border into the USA…
carrying a pair of secret messages--one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld." -- Provided by NLSHermanas
Par Daisy Johnson. 2022
"Born just ten months apart, July and September never needed anyone but each other. Now, following a case of school…
bullying, the teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore. There, the bond between the sisters starts to shift." -- Provided by NLSLo que hay
Par Sara Torres. 2022
"While her mother dies of cancer in a northern city, the protagonist is making love with a woman in a…
hotel in Barcelona. She will catch a flight to visit her mother the next morning, but she is already late. Shortly after, her lover abruptly and definitively disappears. Her partner returns from London to live with her in a small apartment by the sea, trying to calm and sustain her, while she cries for a mother and longs for a lover." -- Provided by publisherEl verano en que mi madre tuvo los ojos verdes
Par Tatiana Țîbuleac. 2019
"Aleksy still remembers the last summer he spent with his mother. Many years have passed since then, but when his…
psychiatrist recommends him to relive that time as a possible remedy for his painter's block, Aleksy soon dives into his memory and is again shaken by the emotions that plagued him when they arrived in that little French holiday village: resentment, sadness, anger. How to overcome the disappearance of his sister? How to forgive the mother who rejected him? How to face the disease that is consuming her? This is the tale of a summer of reconciliation, of three months in which mother and son finally lay down their arms, spurred on by the arrival of the inevitable and by the need to make peace with each other and with themselves." -- Translation provided by NLSLo que no aprendí
Par Margarita García Robayo. 2014
|What I Didn't Learn| can be read as a novel of initiation in which eleven-year-old Caty is dazzled by the…
figure of two men: her father, who hides a secret that only seems to reveal itself to her, and Aníbal, the neighbor's hippie son whom she meets in an abandoned house. But also, this moving and disturbing tale speaks of how individual and family memory is constructed; when faced with the imminent extinction of memories, one reflects on the winding territory of childhood, on the ambiguity of the common past." -- Translation provided by NLSLa última revelación (Aventuras de Ulises Vidal #03)
Par Fernando Gamboa. 2021
"After their return from the Amazon, things have not gone well for Ulysses, Cassie and Professor Castillo. Their account of…
what they experienced in Black City turns out to be so extraordinary that they are branded as fakers and publicly reviled. What should have been a great triumph becomes a dramatic setback. To prove they are telling the truth and get their lives back, they will have no choice but to once again venture into the unknown in search of the irrefutable proof they need. This time, the trail of bread crumbs will lead them to one of the most dangerous, desolate and inhospitable places on the planet...but that will only be the beginning. The starting point of an incredible journey full of action, suspense and incredible discoveries, risking everything to unravel the greatest mystery in history." -- Translation provided by NLSOlinka
Par Antonio Ortuño. 2019
"|Olinka| deals with the crisis of a business clan in Guadalajara, capital and money laundering paradise. There, the Flores built…
their housing development with inspiration from an old idea of Dr. Atl, who dreamed of building a city for scientists and artists. But Mexican reality turns utopias into bloody mockeries and the multiplication of real estate projects is one of the clear signs of the prevailing corruption." -- Translation provided by NLSPechos y huevos (Biblioteca Formentor)
Par Mieko Kawakami. 2021
"On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister…
Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in search of breast enhancement surgery. She's accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently stopped speaking, finding herself unable to deal with her own changing body and her mother's self-obsession. Her silence dominates Natsuko's rundown apartment, providing a catalyst for each woman to grapple with their own anxieties and their relationships with one another. Eight years later, we meet Natsuko again. She is now a writer and finds herself on a journey back to her native city, returning to memories of that summer and her family's past as she faces her own uncertain future." -- GoodreadsTiempo de bailar (Serie amor eterno #01)
Par Karen Kingsbury. 2011
"John and Abby Reynolds are about to inform their children their twenty-one year marriage is over when their daughter announces…
her engagement. They decide to remain silent until after Nicole's wedding. Yet neither can ignore God's voice encouraging them to rekindle their love." -- Provided by NLSEncrucijadas
Par Jonathan Franzen. 2021
"December 23, 1971, Chicago. Each member of the Hildebrandt family seeks a freedom that the others threaten to complicate. Russ…
Hildebrandt, the associate church pastor and father of three, is on the brink of breaking free of a joyless marriage unless his wife beats him to it." -- Provided by NLSObedeciendo tus reglas (Tus reglas, mi juego #02)
Par Violeta Boyd. 2018
"Astrid Fissher is a quiet girl who dreams of going unnoticed in her second year of school after her older…
brother, Patrick, suffered at the hands of Mika McFly, a self-centered, deranged, manipulative boy who, along with his two inseparable friends, controls the halls of Jackson thanks to three drastic rules: 1. Don't touch them. 2. Don't look at them. 3. No talking to them. Astrid tries to follow those rules discreetly, because she knows the danger she is in if Mika discovers that she is the sister of the man who dared to confront him. However, one small mistake will uncover their secret and, with it, truths neither of them imagines." -- Translation provided by NLS