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La 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 NLSObras reunidas: II, Narrativa (Colección obras reunidas)
Par Margo Glantz. 2014
"This second volume of Margo Glantz's |Collected Works| offers her reconstructed chronicle |The Genealogies|, her story-essays |The Day of Your…
Wedding|, |Two Hundred Blue Whales|, |Shipwreck Syndrome|, and |On the Loving Inclination to Get Tangled Up in One's Hair|, plus her novel |Appearances|." -- Translation provided by NLSLennon bajo el sol (Colección Andanzas)
Par José Adiak Montoya. 2017
"On Monday, December 8, 1980, John Lennon, the famous Nicaraguan musician and activist and former member of the pop/rock band…
known as The Beatles, died outside his home in the city of Managua after being shot five times by an unbalanced fanatic. Three months earlier the dictator Anastasio Somoza, exiled in Paraguay, had been ambushed and assassinated by an Argentine guerrilla commando. The one was an oppressor. The other was a pacifist. According to the official History there is no relation between the two facts--which perhaps are not even entirely true--, but according to the other History, the literary one, the one that narrates the man not as he was, but as he could have been, there was more than one crossing between both characters. Written with great intelligence by one of the most brilliant authors of his generation, |Lennon under the Sun| is a delightful uchronia that starts from the idea that the famous quartet emerged from Central America and not from Liverpool. The geography changes, the fame remains; the causes change but not the commitment, and in this and all universes the struggle for peace is best accompanied by Lennon's music." -- Translation provided by NLSBelleza en lugar de cenizas: cómo recibir sanidad emocional
Par Joyce Meyer. 2012
"Many people seem to have it all together outwardly, but inside they are a wreck. Their past has broken, crushed,…
and wounded them inwardly. They can be healed. God has a plan, and Isaiah 61 reveals that the Lord came to heal the brokenhearted. He wants to heal victims of abuse and emotional wounding. Joyce Meyer is a victim of the physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Yet today she has a nationwide ministry of emotional healing to others like herself. In |Beauty for Ashes| she outlines major truths that brought healing in her life and describes how other victims of abuse can also experience God's healing in their lives. Joyce Meyer suffered for thirty-three years the devastating effects of abuse. Now God has exchanged her ashes for beauty and called her to help others allow Him to do the same for them." -- GoodreadsPuño y letra (Biblioteca breve (Santiago, Chile))
Par Diamela Eltit. 2014
"In Handwriting, Eltit offers her reading of the Argentine trial of Enrique Arancibia Clavel for his participation in the assassination…
of General Prats and his wife, Sofía Cuthbert. The work's main concept is the literal transcription of documents generated by third parties, but also considers three brief texts, written in her own handwriting, that explain the book's motives and allow two reflections. The first, linked to her narrative staging of the book, to the use of third-party documents, and their function in the literary act; the second focuses on the documents' content that reveals the motives of one of so many political crimes executed during the Pinochet dictatorship." -- Translation provided by NLSTiempos revueltos
Par Vionette G Negretti. 2010
"This bestseller in Puerto Rico is the complete story of the only revolution against the United States, told from the…
perspective of Comandante Elio Torresola, who led the rebel forces to victory during El Grito de Jayuya. In 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists stunned the world when they succeeded in destroying the international image of the United States as the 'Champion of Democracy' by declaring the Republic of Puerto Rico and extending the reach of the rebellion into the heartland of the United States through a direct attack on President Truman. |Times of Upheaval| is the product of a three-year investigation by a journalist who delved into personal and official documents, including the FBI's so-called Secret Files on Puerto Rico, newspapers, books and theses at the University of Puerto Rico, and interviews with witnesses to the events, as well as with the revolutionaries and their families." -- 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." -- GoodreadsÉl escogió los clavos: lo que Dios hizo para ganarse tu corazón
Par Max Lucado. 2001
There were no accidents on the days surrounding Jesus' death. Jesus' last moments were not left up to chance. God…
chose the path; he selected the nails. Our Lord planted the trio of crosses and painted the sign. God was never more sovereign than in the details of the death of his Son. God didn't have to do all these things, you know. The only required act for our salvation was the shedding of blood, yet he did much more. So much more. In |He Chose the Nails|, New York Times bestselling author and pastor Max Lucado will help you: Learn just how much God loves and cares for you; Take comfort that Jesus understands everything you face in this life; Remember that there's nothing you can do to earn God's gift; Stand firm in the promise that you are forgiven, and you are welcome in God's presence; Search the scene of the cross and listen for God's gentle whisper, 'I did it just for you.'" -- Amazon.comTiempo 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 NLSA causa de Belén: el amor es nacido, la esperanza está aquí
Par Max Lucado. 2016
"For some, Christmas is a time of excitement, celebration, and family, while for others it is a time of loneliness,…
grief, and loss. No matter what this season holds for you, the promise of Christmas will bring you a lifetime of hope. Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle becomes the King on the cross. Because of Bethlehem, we have a Savior in heaven. These are the heart shaping promises of Christmas. Long after the guests have left, the carolers have gone home, and the lights have come down, these promises endure. No one expected God to come the way he did. Yet the way he came was every bit as important as the coming itself. The manger is the message. In the midst of your hectic Christmas season, Max will help you: Rekindle your connection to the Christ of Christmas who offers lasting hope; Lay down your endless Christmas to-do list and receive what Jesus has already done; Heal your heartache by embracing the God who is always near you, always for you, and always in you; As you curl up in a comfortable spot and look into the odd, wonderful story of Bethlehem, may you find enduring hope for all seasons of your life." -- GoodreadsH de halcón
Par Helen Macdonald. 2020
"Cambridge lecturer describes the year she spent training a goshawk, a decision she came to after the sudden death of…
her father in 2007. Discusses the field of falconry, which her father avidly practiced, the grieving process, and author T.H. White's book The Goshawk." -- Provided by NLSJulia de Burgos: la creación de un ícono Puertorriqueño
Par Vanessa Pérez Rosario. 2022
"Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her…
legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities." -- GoodreadsCarolina entre líneas (Secretos y papeles #01)
Par Tatiana M Alonzo. 2018
"In addition to being community manager at the bookstore Café y letras, and trying to get out of my routine…
even in my dreams, I have tried to write at least twenty stories in which I find true love in the way I least expect and with whom I least expect; from a millionaire who loves my shyness to an unruly man for whom I represent a challenge. Because come on, let's be frank, in real life that won't happen and fortunately it's not a crime to daydream. Hello, my name is Carolina and I'm addicted to love stories. And everything was going well in my stupid fantasy world until I started exchanging emails with the writer Alexander Donoso, whom I don't know anything about; because that name...is a pseudonym." -- Translation provided by NLSAjuste de cuentas (Jack Reacher novel #07)
Par Lee Child. 2019
"Federal agents recruit ex-military cop Jack Reacher to recover their colleague, who disappeared investigating "rug importer" Zachary Beck. Deep inside…
Beck's fortress-like Maine estate, Jack discovers the illegal trader's real menace--a former intelligence officer: the sadistic killer he thought he eliminated a decade ago." -- Provided by NLSNacida libre: la historia de la leona Elsa (Especiales (Capitán Swing))
Par Joy Adamson. 2019
"The wife of a Kenya game warden recounts the couple's unique relationship with the lioness Elsa. Recalls raising the orphaned…
cub for three years and ingeniously training her to fend for herself. Describes how Elsa recognized her human friends even after she returned to the wild." -- Provided by NLSJulio Verne: una versión (Grandes biografías #1)
Par David Mayor Orguillés. 2007
"The French novelist's life unfolded peacefully, punctuated with small maritime adventures only disturbed by the problems brought on by his…
son. Different mistresses have been attributed to Verne and he has even been accused of being a pedophile, but this does not seem to be based on very evident facts. The last third of the 19th century offered Europe a rapidly advancing industrial society. Verne observed this new panorama that was opening up to the real world and, also, to the literary world. A collector of scientific reviews, Verne patiently noted new technical theories. The success he achieved with his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon would not abandon him in successive publications, making him one of the most popular writers of his time. He was a forerunner of the science fantasy genre and foretold many scientific inventions and adventures." -- Translation provided by NLSManual de supervivencia: Chernobil, una guía para el futuro
Par Kate Brown. 2020
"Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown unveils the full…
breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed. Her findings make clear the irreversible impact of man-made radioactivity on every living thing; and hauntingly, they force us to confront the untold legacy of decades of weapons-testing and other nuclear incidents, and the fact that we are emerging into a future for which the survival manual has yet to be written." -- GoodreadsLa carreta: drama en tres actos
Par René Marqués. 1995
"1940's play follows a family of Puerto Rican "jíbaros" (rural peasants) that, in an effort to find better opportunities, end…
up moving to the United States. The story is divided in three acts, each focusing on a specific location. The first act begins with the family preparing to move from the countryside to San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, in search of a "better life". The second act takes place a year later in the La Perla slum of San Juan, where the family has moved. The final act takes place yet another year apart, in The Bronx, New York, where opportunity turns to tragedy." -- GoodreadsNuevos cuentos de Bustos Domecq
Par Jorge Luis Borges. 2003
"Once again the two writers unites, under the pseudonym through which they had previously published "Six Problems for Don Isidro…
Parodi" and "Chronicles of Bustos Domecq", to produce a series of fantasies with the common denominator of absurd humor. Famously, the short story "The Monster's Party" is a harsh parody of the times when Juan Perón ruled Argentina." -- Goodreads