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Atardecer mediterráneo (Atardecer mediterráneo #01)
Par Yvette Canoura. 2019
"When Fatima was growing up in the affluent neighborhood of Kalorama in Washington, D.C., she never imagined that her father,…
an ambassador, would force her into an arranged marriage that would take her across the world. After graduating from college, Fatima is thrust into the bed of a ruthless military man with revenge on his mind. Away from family and friends in a foreign country, she gradually accepts her fate...until an encounter with a handsome doctor ignites feelings and desires that jeopardize her life as she is torn between an unrelenting husband and a forbidden liaison. Her choices will uncover secrets that will unravel a chain of events that will change her life forever." -- GoodreadsLo que trajo el mar: crónicas
Par Frank Báez. 2020
"This collection of texts navigates between autobiography and chronicle. With cultural references such as Bob Dylan, Wilfrido Vargas, Karate Kid…
and Dylan Thomas, Frank Báez narrates episodes that go from his childhood to the present and reconstructs, with the fresh look that characterizes him, the paths along which literature has taken him." -- Translation provided by NLSEmpezar de nuevo
Par Danielle Steel. 2011
"At the Paris couture shows forty-two-year-old Fiona Monaghan, editor-in-chief of a chic New York fashion magazine, falls for conservative advertising…
executive John Anderson, a widowed father. Their whirlwind romance leads to marriage, divorce, then a passionate rekindling--and deciding to try again." -- Provided by NLSLa sangre de Medusa: y otros cuentos marginales
Par José Emilio Pacheco. 2020
"The Blood of Medusa gathers stories written by José Emilio Pacheco from 1956 to 1984, scattered until now in magazines,…
newspapers and pamphlets that are no longer available. Works of precocious solidity the oldest and of persistent strength the most recent, these stories have pursued their author, like stubborn ghosts, until they obtained from him their final version and escaped from the limbo of ephemeral reading publications. The result is the difficult re-reading that the mature writer makes of the pages that marked the stages of his development as a storyteller (and also that of Latin American narrative in its manners and concerns of the last forty years): "although I have modified them completely, their primitive structure remains intact. We can change everything except our vision of the world and our syntax." The stories that make up The Blood of Medusa constitute a series of extremely varied texts, an exhibition of mastery and registers: from the Borgesian precision of the juvenile tales or the brilliant satires in the manner of the Latins or Swift, to the avant-garde "horror" toys, the acidic two-line mini-stories, the conjectural monologues inspired by political-politicians' events. Like everything written by Pacheco, these texts speak directly to the reader, with a radical intelligibility, to think, to feel, to know with him and also, most especially in this volume, to invite him to enjoyment, the pleasure of inventing, the festive complicity that is literature." -- Translation provided by NLSZoya
Par Danielle Steel. 2011
"Orphaned as a result of the Russian Revolution, the aristocratic Zoya escapes to Paris in l9l7. There she meets and…
marries American major Andrews, and they move to America. Left a widow with two small children during the 1929 stock market crash, Zoya struggles to cope with economic changes, World War II, and the l970s." -- Provided by NLSLa casa: la única manera de salir está dentro
Par Frank E Peretti. 2010
"Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker -- two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers -- have joined forces for…
the first time to craft a story unlike any you've ever read. Enter House -- where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose...and the only way out is in. The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman-or worse-could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn." -- GoodreadsEl coleccionista de flechas (Laura Badía, criminalista #01)
Par Cristian Perfumo. 2018
"The calm of a sleepy Patagonian fishing port has been broken by murder. It's the case of a lifetime for…
brilliant and headstrong forensic detective Laura Badía. The crime is brutal and baffling. The victim is Julio Ortega, a local heartthrob and an old flame of Laura's. The apparent motive is the theft of a collection of ancient and mysterious iridescent arrowheads that Ortega had recently acquired. Carved nearly six thousand years ago out of Amazon opal, they are now missing from Ortega's home, vanishing once again into legend. With the help of a Buenos Aires archeologist, Laura begins to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle. It starts in Puerto Deseado with the secrets of Ortega's friends, enemies, and lovers. Where it leads is the panoramic reach of the Perito Moreno Glacier and far beyond, to the most remote corners of Patagonia. Can they uncover the dark history of the most infamous lithic art collection in the world? Generations have killed and died trying to solve its mystery, and now Laura will risk her career, her life-and her own secrets-to be the one to do it." -- GoodreadsLo 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 NLS"Illegal, inhuman, and impervious to recession, there is one trade that continues to thrive, just out of sight. The international…
sex trade criss-crosses the entire globe, a sinister network made up of criminal masterminds, local handlers, corrupt policemen, willfully blind politicians, eager consumers, and countless hapless women and children. In this ground-breaking work of investigative reporting, the celebrated journalist Lydia Cacho follows the trail of the traffickers and their victims from Mexico to Turkey, Thailand to Iraq, Georgia to the UK, to expose the trade's hidden links with the tourist industry, internet pornography, drugs and arms smuggling, the selling of body organs, money laundering, and even terrorism. This is an underground economy in which a sex slave can be bought for the price of a gun, but Cacho's powerful first-person interviews with mafiosi, pimps, prostitutes, and those who managed to escape from captivity makes it impossible to ignore the terrible human cost of this lucrative exchange." -- GoodreadsDía 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 NLSLa montaña de las mariposas
Par Homero Aridjis. 2011
"The discovery of the poetic vocation joins the astonishment of a child before the spectacle of the arrival of the…
Monarch butterflies to his village, in Michoacán. An autobiographical memoir of childhood and youth, where Aridjis narrates his progressive awakening to nature, poetry, and eroticism, symbolized in the beauty and fragility of the butterfly." -- Translation provided by NLSLa ciudad de los libros prohibidos
Par Maribel Carvajal. 2016
"The City of Forbidden Books immerses the reader in an agile and entertaining reading through dizzying plots and an exquisite…
historical setting. A surprising literary debut that is hard to put down. Year 68 of our era: the peaceful Hispanic colony of Augusta Emerita is involved in surprising events that will test the faith and courage of its inhabitants. The City of Forbidden Books weaves a labyrinth of intrigues in which the characters will lose their souls in order to be reborn free and recover their ideals. In the pages of this book we witness the virulence of some deaths that will eventually bring to light some prophetic books that pursue powerful imperial groups willing to do anything to prevent their dissemination. The plot serves the author to show us the portrait of a fascinating society with its cults, its laws, its gods, its leisure or its image. A great love story, which runs through the novel, makes us reflect on the value of friendship, loyalty and duty." -- Translation provided by NLSKentucky Club
Par Benjamin Alire Sáenz. 2014
"Collection of seven short stories exploring the concept of boundaries. In 'He Has Gone to Be with the Women,' Javier…
and Juan Carlos meet and develop a relationship neither is sure he wants." -- 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 NLSSentada en su verde limón (Archipiélago Caribe #08)
Par Marcial Gala. 2019
"True love stories usually end badly (at least in literature). Sitting in a Lime Tree takes place in a Cuba…
that is trying to emerge from the so-called special period, which could be why it is like an incantation, an attempt to exorcise the ghosts that haunt contemporary men and women. One must have chaos inside to give birth to a dancing star, Nietzsche once said. Kirenia, Harris and Ricardo, the three main characters of the novel, try to stay on the edge as the only way to avoid falling into the abyss. Music, sex and drugs are the three apparent themes of Sitting in a Lime Tree, but in reality death, in its most bare-bones aspect, is the true axis around which this story revolves." -- 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 NLSEl viento distante (Biblioteca Era. Narrativa #44/14)
Par José Emilio Pacheco. 2011
"It has been said that a poem never stops being written. Neither does a short story, as confirmed by this…
new edition of José Emilio Pacheco's The Distant Wind. Originally published in 1963, corrected and augmented in 1969 and subject, since then, to the work and refinement that the prose of this meticulous writer imprints on his stories, this book continues its patient maturation even though it has been an essential part of our modern literary canon for more than thirty years. The reader of these fourteen stories will find, in addition to the loving inventory of the distant years of a country, the lively evocation of its protagonists: children capable of embodying the deepest sufferings, the most icy terrors; adolescents on fire whose light is that of everyday passions, the light that falls on all of us; characters that history does not record but whose steps along these pages leave an imprint of inevitability in the great events. All of them more prone to the small textures of pain than to the shadowless plainness of joy." -- Translation provided by NLSLa última torre (Diamante rojo #02)
Par Angy Skay. 2018
"We undergo a constant test in life. A struggle that never ends. After the events of the past, Micaela and…
Jack's lives are torn apart again. After the most dangerous murderer in the world is unmasked, their enemies flourish and victims become executioners, hunting down the one responsible for their misfortunes. Memories of the past return with a vengeance, leaving as many doubts as surprises, and the new discoveries leading towards the truth will fill the protagonists with doubt. Without being aware, they will continue to be puppets moved by the leaders who win the chess game. What would you do if you met your enemy face to face, if you discovered that the people around you have betrayed you, and if the one you love the most abandons you?" -- Translation provided by NLSLa playa de los ahogados (Leo Caldas #02)
Par Domingo Villar. 2010
"One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in…
the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in the nearby city of Vigo to sign off on what appears to be a suicide. But details soon come to light that turn this routine matter into a complex murder investigation. Finding out the truth is not easy when the villagers are so suspicious of outsiders. As Caldas delves into the maritime life of the village, he uncovers a disturbing decade-old case of a shipwreck and two mysterious disappearances." -- GoodreadsEl rostro de la traición (Triple amenaza #01)
Par Lis W Wiehl. 2010
"While home on Christmas break, a seventeen-year-old Senate page takes her dog out for a walk and never returns. Reporter…
Cassidy Shaw is the first to break the story. The resulting media firestorm quickly ensnares Federal Prosecutor Allison Pierce and FBI Special Agent Nicole Hedges. These three unique women, life-long friends, call themselves The Triple Threat--a nickname derived from both their favorite dessert and their uncanny ability to crack cases using their three positions of power. At first, the authorities think Katie might have been kidnapped or run away, but those theories shatter when Nicole uncovers Katie's blog. Posts reveal a girl troubled by a mysterious relationship with an older man . . . possibly a U. S. Senator. There are many faces of betrayal, but they must find one face in a crowd of growing suspects before they become the next victims." -- Goodreads