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El libro de la fiebre (Libros del tiempo (Madrid, Spain) #329)
Par Carmen Martín Gaite. 2016
"In 1949, Carmen Martín Gaite suffered an episode of very high fevers that introduced her into a labyrinth of delirium…
and dreamlike images. Out of that experience came |The Fever Book|, a poetic, surrealist text, in which she tried to rescue the fleeting visions she had had. Her enthusiasm for publishing what she had written turned into disillusionment when she realized that the people around her did not value her work positively, and the text remained unpublished almost in its entirety, kept in the "writer's workshop," as an example of fantastic writing in its infancy. In 2007, after Martín Gaite's death, this first essay of hers was published, in which we can glimpse many of the themes that the author from Salamanca developed in her later work: the symbolism of objects and places, the blurred boundaries between dream and reality, the construction of the self through memory, the reflection on writing.... All these motifs refer us to her narrative world, and allow the unconditional reader to peek into the beginnings of one of the great authors of the Spanish twentieth century." -- Translation provided by NLS; Spanish LanguageAunque 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 NLSMañana no estás (Jack Reacher novel #13)
Par Lee Child. 2020
"Riding the New York subway late at night, former military policeman Jack Reacher sees a woman exhibiting all eleven signs…
of being a suicide bomber. He approaches her and she kills herself--thrusting Jack into the nightmare she was trying to end." -- Provided by NLSNada que perder (Jack Reacher novel #12)
Par Lee Child. 2019
"Hitchhiking through Colorado, ex-military cop Jack Reacher comes upon the unfriendly town of Despair. After being told to leave, Reacher,…
with the help of a female cop from neighboring Hope, sneaks back in repeatedly to investigate a mysterious factory and missing young men." -- Provided by NLSGanadores
Par Tarik Carson. 1991
"Winners is very much science fiction but in the satirical vein begun by Jonathan Swift with Gulliver and so it…
is a magnificent satire of our societies and our desires, but not so that man appears entirely degraded. The quest for beauty remains." -- Translation provided by NLSStop-time (Libros del Asteroide #201)
Par Frank Conroy. 2018
"First published in 1967, Stop-Time was immediately recognized as a masterpiece of modern American autobiography, a brilliant portrayal of one…
boy's passage from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves; of a father's early death and a son's exhilarating escape into manhood." -- GoodreadsFilosofía de la canción moderna
Par Bob Dylan. 2022
"The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since…
winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan's unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work's transcendence. In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement."--Provided by publisherAlegría y tradición: fiestas populares tradicionales cubanas
Par Virtudes Feliu Herrera. 2018
"Joy and Tradition: Traditional Cuban Folk Festivals, is the first work that offers the reader broad and detailed information related…
to the traditional festivities of our people, an example of popular culture collectively conceived, both material and spiritual. This topic is part of the scientific work Ethnographic Atlas of Cuba, Cuban Traditional Popular Culture, which has allowed for the recovery of peasant festivities, immigrants' festivities, carnivals, parades and brass bands, street dances, belonging to absent citizens, laborers and others, at the Municipal level. The present edition updates the research collected in the text published in 2013 under the title Fiestas y Tradiciones Cubanas and is the first study that focuses on the classification, conceptualization, ethnic origin, the evolutionary process and calendar of all the country's festivals. It also provides a review of each group of them, their geographic location and current manifestation, which represents, perhaps like no other, the characteristics of the Cuban, who by his idiosyncrasy is cheerful, festive, always ready to share in an atmosphere of revelry, hence the quantity and diversity of Cuban festivals." -- 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
Corazones de hielo
Par James Oliver Curwood. 1925
Set in a desolate, frigid region of Canada, this western follows the life of a powerful and valiant officer of…
the Royal Mounted Police. A love interest takes hold of his innermost sentiments and an emotional conflict emerges which becomes challenging in a land of solitude and endless snow. Spanish languageLa apuesta del cielo (Canción del mártir #01)
Par Ted Dekker. 2010
"It was an absolutely perfect day . . . until everything went absolutely perfectly wrong. Kent Anthony is a brilliant…
software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. He's finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and murder and other kinds of horrible criminal behavior. He's left his past far behind . . . or so he thinks. Ted Dekker delivers a fascinating story of the almost perfect crime, interwoven with a tale of bittersweet love that is almost enough to save a soul. A story that will bring you face-to-face with a hidden world more real than most people ever realize; a world where the unseen is more powerful than anything seen." -- GoodreadsCuando llora el cielo (Canción del mártir #02)
Par Ted Dekker. 2010
"At the close of World War II, a shell-shocked soldier, Jan Jovic, was forced to inflict a game of life…
and death on a peaceful Bosnian community. In a few short hours, this young man was confronted by more love-and hate-than most experience in a lifetime. Years later, Jan has become a world-renowned writer with widespread influence in the United States, his past buried deep in his memory. Until, at the most inopportune time, the game Jan witnessed comes back to haunt him . . . and unwittingly leads him to a beautiful broken woman caught in an underworld of crime. Jan must now defeat an evil rarely seen. But there is a price. One that even this war-scarred soldier can't imagine." -- Amazon.comTrueno del cielo (Canción del Mártir #03)
Par Ted Dekker. 2010
"Deep in the Amazon jungle a young American woman and the son of plantation owners fall madly in love. For…
Tanya and Shannon, life is a paradise most only dream about. But today paradise ends. The jungle has hatched more than idyllic love. It has also spawned insidious evil. An evil shrouded in a plot so diabolically brilliant that all of America will be brought to its knees at the hands of a few terrorists. The plan is executed to perfection. There is no way out . . . save an ancient woman whose dark past has led her to a life of prayer in preparation for the unspeakable terror coming unleashed." -- GoodreadsLa raíz del mal (Trilogía del Malamor #02)
Par José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"Angela has decided to listen to her heart. She has decided to stay in Almahue to love Fabian without fear,…
without the curse of Malamor on her shoulders. Fabian will no longer have to resort to those concoctions that only momentarily relieved the terrible pains that the spell (now just a bad memory) provoked in the lovers. A miraculous recovery of the tree, that tree that every day dried up a little more, seems to announce that Almahue will finally be able to continue his story in peace and tranquility. However, a mysterious stranger appears in the picture and there is something about her that is tremendously disturbing. Perhaps the time has come for Rayen to take revenge. She is eager to take action.... Will she be able to destroy Almahue to keep the promise she made many, many years ago in front of the church where Ernesto betrayed his promise to love her until the end of time? Will she also end the love story between Angela and Fabian?" -- Translation provided by NLSEl árbol de la vida (Trilogía del Malamor #03)
Par José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"The third book of the Malamor Trilogy concludes the stories of Angela, Rayen and the peculiar village of Almahue and…
its hapless inhabitants, condemned to suffer from the curse of Malamor. With the village destroyed by a devastating earthquake and Fabián at the bottom of the earth, Ángela will go underground because she has decided that, although her life will be spent trying to rescue her lover from the bottom of the earth, she will never again allow disgrace or misfortune to separate them. Perhaps times have changed and that tree in the center of Almahue's square, a symbol of bad love, now lies as a corpse of branches and roots as dry as the sands of a desert. That can only herald a transformation, the end of an era. The time has also come for explanations, and Rosa will reveal something of that past that she jealously guards: a new legend. And Angela will have to find the strength to confront Rayén and the Decapitator in a journey through time and Chilean geography." -- Translation provided by NLSAguas de estuario
Par Velia Vidal. 2020
"In these letters, Velia Vidal recounts her wanderings since she returned to the Chocó region of Colombia, to the Pacific…
Ocean, and devoted herself to the promotion of reading and culture. Incorporating elements from her surroundings, she elaborates metaphors that account for her internal tide and the tensions between the center and the periphery. Through writing, the author constructs a personal history and geography." -- Translation provided by NLSMalaluna (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?" -- GoodreadsHacia el fin del mundo (Trilogía del Malamor #01)
Par José Ignacio Valenzuela. 2022
"A captivating story bound to leave you breathless from internationally acclaimed author Jose Ignacio Valenzuela. When Angela receives an eerie…
text message from her estranged, best-friend Patricia, her heart stops. Something is off and Angela knows it. She quickly embarks on a biting quest to Almahue, a small town in the Chilean Patagonia, which, according to the Malamor Legend, is cursed to live without love or face death. Deception and mystery unfold, as true love leaves Angela defying the legend she once brushed off and fighting alongside the entire town for their own lives." -- Goodreads