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Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (Voces (Madrid, Spain). Literatura #329)
Par Liliana Colanzi Serrate. 2022
"Liliana Colanzi's stories explore different ways of narrating time, such as the geological journey in a cave, the search for…
the historical roots of rubber extraction in the ruins of an Amazonian village, or the dislocated temporality of a religious colony in which her characters long to get rid of the prohibitions that strand them in the past. In this book, radiation is an invisible agent that affects young people living near an Andean nuclear power plant and scrap collectors in a Brazilian city." -- Translation provided by NLSEl crossover: Crossover (spanish Edition), A Newbery Award Winner (Crossover series #01)
Par Kwame Alexander. 2019
"Twin fourteen-year-old basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court, as their father…
ignores his declining health. Told in hip-hop style verse." -- Provided by NLSGastronomía e imperio: la cocina en la historia del mundo (Sección de obras de historia)
Par Rachel Laudan. 2020
"Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.…
Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement." -- GoodreadsCauterio
Par Lucía Lijtmaer. 2022
"It is the summer of 2014. A young woman who has just been abandoned by her partner flees from Barcelona…
to Madrid with a secret and the conviction that the apocalypse is approaching. Four centuries earlier, another woman, Deborah Moody--who went down in history as "the most dangerous woman in the world"--is forced to emigrate to the North American colonies carrying another, very different secret. What do these two women have in common? Why have they decided to walk away from what they know and start anew?" -- Translation provided by NLSEl secreto de las hormigas
Par Baltasar Magro. 2019
"The day began in absolute chaos. General Ant had received a message about the imminent danger. On the surface, Chloe…
and Jack were having fun poking sticks into the anthill, attacking the colony once again. Will these tiny, fascinating insects be able to defend their territory, and teach the children to respect them?" -- GoodreadsTercer mundo
Par Pedro Cabiya. 2019
"Orishas, saints, luases, demons and angels frolic in a fantastic Puerto Rico that only the fertile imagination of Pedro Cabiya…
could have conceived. Different ministries of the multiverse's administrative bureaucracy compete to recover the valuable extraterrestrial contraband abandoned in Santurce, capital of the Borikwa Republic.... But stealing the loot won't be as easy as they think. Political satire and cosmic parody combine in a web of espionage and action where the great questions of existence share space with the most profane humor, producing a novel that resists classification within the known genres, announcing a new one. Prequel to his immensely popular novel |Trance|, |Third World| promises, like its predecessor, a reading that is impossible to interrupt." -- Translation provided by NLSDemasiado no es suficiente (Max Lomas #03)
Par Martín Casariego. 2022
"After a few years with more shadows than lights between Colombia, Mexico and Iraq, Max returns to Madrid in 2004.…
In a bar, the city and the memory of Elsa come crashing down on him when he discovers, among his bottles, the sculpture of Bastet that adorned El Gato Azul. There he meets Robocop, a former companion from his time as a bodyguard in the Basque Country, and now under the orders of SK, an unscrupulous businessman who will offer him an astronomical sum to risk his life to rescue his daughter Sibila, who has fallen into the hands of the ruthless Bulgarian mafia. But this has only just begun...." -- Translation provided by NLSMemorias de una infamia
Par Lydia Cacho. 2014
"In 2005, after publishing her book The Demons of Eden - where she denounced the very powerful men behind the…
a Mexican child pornography ring - Lydia Cacho became a target. Exactly eight months after the publication of the book, one morning as she was making her way to work, Lydia was apprehended by the police from the neighboring state of Puebla, and taken into custody during a nightmarish 24 hours during which she was tortured, intimidated and abused. In this chilling memoir, comparable to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel, Lydia tells her story and exposes the horrific ways in which women - and young girls in particular - are abused then disposed of, while an oftentimes corrupt government simply sits and watches." -- GoodreadsA sangre y fuego con Pancho Villa (Vida y pensamiento de Mexico)
Par Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola. 1988
El próximo año en la Habana
Par Chanel Cleeton. 2020
"When her grandmother Elisa Perez dies, Marisol Ferrera--who grew up on Elisa's romanticized tales of Cuba--travels to Havana to learn…
more. Meanwhile, in 1958, nineteen-year-old Elisa has lived a sheltered life, but she falls in love with a passionate revolutionary. And as Marisol discovers these family secrets, she, too, falls in love." -- Provided by NLSEl juego sigue sin mí (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) #300)
Par Martín Casariego. 2015
"Ismael remembers the time when, at thirteen years old, his parents hired Rai, a boy five years older than him,…
to tutor him. After an unproductive first session, they made a pact: the student would study on his own and the teacher would talk to him about books, movies, music, life.... Also about Samuel, a young man who wrote to schedule a meeting with his ex-girlfriend, with the threat that if she did not show up he would commit suicide. With this starting point, Martín Casariego has written a novel of initiation, a novel about the passage from adolescence to maturity; about the family and the new forms of relationships between young people; about the intensity of such a decisive stage in life; about the weight of existence and how to alleviate it. A story marked by shadows, doubts and secrets, in which the white whale the narrator has been running from will end up showing up unexpectedly years later, changing everything and prompting him to rethink what happened." -- Translation provided by NLSLa noche en la Zona M (A través del espejo)
Par Alberto Chimal. 2019
"In a futuristic dystopian world, civilization as we know it has fallen, even Mexico City, which has been divided into…
a set of kingdoms that maintain a fragile peace and try to survive by taking advantage of leftover technology from another era. In the kingdom of the Center lives Sita, a teenager who, along with her grandmother Lucina, is in charge of maintaining communications at the Fort, the local chief's base. Both live with Celeste: the consciousness of a woman who knew the ancient times and is now stored in a computer. When Sita learns of their plans for her, she decides to make an escape to a better place, but along the way she will encounter dangerous threats from which no one has ever escaped alive." -- Translation provided by NLSLos dos lados (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Serie policiaca #493)
Par Teresa Cardona. 2022
"The granite floor burns and only the chirping of cicadas disturbs the peaceful and familiar summer of San Lorenzo de…
El Escorial. Its inhabitants, accustomed to the harshness of the mountains, complain about the heat wave, sheltering in the shade of the ancient walls of the monastery. The heat, however, has not accelerated the death of the man who, handcuffed in the cool boiler room of a Herrerian house among the pines of Mount Abantos, appears to have died from dehydration, with his eyes fixed on a bottle of water hanging from the ceiling at eye level. Lieutenant Karen Blecker, recently arrived in Spain after spending most of her career working for Europol, and a certain Master Sergeant Cano will begin to clarify the identity of the victim, whom no one in the area seems to know. But as the investigation progresses, the obvious parallels to a crime committed two decades earlier will also force them to dig into the painful years of terrorism and the sharp edges that the truth always presents when examined from both sides...." -- Translation provided by NLSAtardecer 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." -- Goodreads